all-levels

This is a performance of Friedman 13.

This is a piece that I wrote for an assignment in Tony Micelli’s private vibraphone lessons on vibesworkshop.com

I called it “He Laid upon the Ground” because I came up with the melody while I was laying in the floor of a practice room at USM.

You’ll have to forgive the hesitation close to the end, but otherwise, enjoy!

Many years ago I heard a recording of Joel M. Ross on Youtube where he had taped his mallets. I found the subtle noise when playing very interesting, but the mallets were always too expensive for me to ruin the winding with tape. 
With my mallet winding machine, I was able to take up the idea from back then again and made my first test mallet with a "striking sound".
The video contains a first quick & dirty test and describes how I made the mallet.

I think these are cool. And handy to warm up with. They are double sticking exercises. 

Change the notes. Also instead of them being in seconds put them in thirds. I.E. the second exercise.

C D E F G F E D

C E G B D B G E

Then try it in the key of F# or B. 

You get the idea.

I was inspired by Tony to practice Stablemates. This is a QDV of a brief practice session. I'm working on playing the head with chords and then playing lines over the changes. I feel pretty good about the former, but it's difficult for me to play one or more choruses without losing the time or otherwise messing up (as you can hear multiple times). Any suggestions on how to improve at this are appreciated!

-Tristan

Here is a "Blues Super Pack". A whole bunch of stuff on the blues. There are two videos, one is embedded here and talks briefly about what this is. The second is attached and looks at the two etudes also attached here. 

Ok this is super challenging. Here’s what I did. I recorded the vibes first with no click track and then I added bass after. This was HARD.

The lesson is

Beginners

• To memorize the melody
• Record the melody then do something over top of it. Snap your fingers on 2 and 4. If you play drums get brushes and play along, or do what I did and that is to play a bass line.

Advanced

This couldn't be easier. Play these with all kinds of patterns. For instance, the exercise with CDEFG make it CDEGB with the same sticking.

I've 'carried' these around with me for years and years.

All keys! Every way you can think of! 

I enjoy practicing single lines, focussing on phrasing and time. In this example I used as a kind of "theme", playing over llm7b5-V7, moving around tonalities.