Vibraphone

Hey guys,

I want to share some thoughts with you. I recently did a gig outside of Thessaloniki with a quintet. Before even the gig start, a guy from the audience comes to me and said:
guy: I have watched you before playing the vibes
me: really, when?
guy: several months ago. I really liked your performance
me: thanks a lot, just trying to play music for you guys
guy: you do a great job. Actually you are the reason that we started to love this instrument!

i can bring over a malletKat if anyone is interested. you won't get one cheaper than this across the pond there. so if you're interested, let me know! you will save a LOT of money.

Post your versions, your lines here.

instead of learning how to play a song nice on 1 instrument, i´m stupid enough to try it on two simultan. this is fu**ing difficult to deal both instruments and the sustains, so i just put the malletkat sustain pedal under the vibes pedal, which makes it a little bit easier, cause if i press the vibes pedal i sustain both but it´s still hard enough for me.

i´m sorry for the many wrong notes and chords but i´m just very slowly getting used it. that was my best try out of many...

tarik

Hey,

I didn't think I would post so soon again. But then again : the more I post, the more I can get feedback, the more I can learn,...

I came a cross a simple excercise for 12bar blues on piano, so I thought, let's take this to the vibraphone.

After some practising I came at this. (I'm not even sure the chords are 100% OK)

P.S. a pitty, you can't hear it, but on the last chord, I even let it vibrate. :-)

greetings,
Stefan.

Margie Hyams, 91, a vibraphonist who played with bandleaders Woody Herman and George Shearing as well as with her own jazz trio in the 1940s, died Thursday of renal failure at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, said her daughter Lisa Ericsson. Born Aug. 9, 1920, in New York, Hyams played the vibes with Herman's First Herd in 1944 and '45, then formed a trio and also appeared with Mary Lou Williams and Charlie Ventura until 1949, when she was invited to join Shearing, the blind piano virtuoso.