"The Folks Who Live on the Hill" - a superb ballad with beautiful lyrics and a great melody. Written in 1937 with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern. Keeping it pretty simple here with two choruses close to the melody. Enjoying playing the melody more in the upper register with this vibraphone.
Here's a chord melody of Up Jumped Spring.
Your job:
1. write the changes in
2. Know the melody by heart
3. Know the chords by heart
4. Add your pedaling
5. Maybe do a bit of Dampening
6. Make this sound good. Listen to the recording. The recording was done with an "Orange Tree" vibe sample on my Malletkat.
"'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk - After 43 straight years of teaching at Berklee, I'm officially on a sabbatical for the upcoming Fall semester. My sabbatical project is the recording of videos that feature solo vibraphone techniques along with the application of improvisational concepts from my 4 volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation. Some of the concepts in this clip include the application of Upper Structure Triads, the Symmetrical Diminished scale and the Pentatonic b2 scale.
Refer to the support file for notation using syllables and symbols.
Looking forward to comments and questions.
This is a duet with myself on Piano and Vibes. The song is "Danzon For My Father" by Oscar Hernandez. The lead sheet is available in "The Latin Real Book: C Edition" https://www.amazon.com/Latin-Real-Book-C/dp/1883217059/.
A little warmup on the marimba this morning playing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade” before putting in a full day of teaching at Berklee in Boston. Using my signature (M39) mallets from Vic Firth.
"Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone. A beautiful theme from the movie "Once Upon A Time In America". This is an arrangement that I wrote for my upcoming book Pedaling and Dampening for the Vibraphone. I loved the theme when I heard it and so many others of the great composer. The piece involves a variety of dampening techniques that will be covered in the book including slide dampening, hand dampening and pivot dampening. Much of the exercises, etudes and pieces are written and I just started to chip away at the text. Fun but challenging stuff.