Vibraphone

Ok, so trying to run a site and practice can cause marital problems.

My wife was on my case big time about not doing enough around the house. I don't have time, I said. But she kept the verbal abuse coming. So I bought a Roomba.

As I write this I'm actually cleaning my upstairs. You see I told her I'd take over the vacuuming and she agreed. So I went out and bought a Roomba which is a robot vacuum cleaner. So now I can practice and clean at the same time.

Now she's saying that that doesn't count, but she's not going to win that one!

Hi Workshoppers,

Just stopping by to say Happy Holidays to all!

Here is a live performance of an arrangement of My Funny Valentine. This was the first tune we played at this gig and we were having all sorts of issues with sound and monitoring levels ...... basically we couldn't hear each other so its pretty loose at first, but thought I'd share it anywyay to give you an idea of the sound of the group and concept of my latin jazz project Latin Vibe. Plus my piano player kept comping all the time even though we worked out to take it in turns !!!

Dave Kemp's arrangement of Milestones for his Latin Jazz project - Latin Vibe. Live performance at the Valley Jazz Festival 2009 at the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane Australia.

Hello Vibes Workshop,

Here is one video performance of "Beautiful Love" with my former band "Light Motif" in Grenoble (city in France in the Alps).

Sorry for the bad sound, the talking audience and the "dancing" girl !! :)

Actually I'm new here, and I can't wait until having some "new" video or audio material to post here. This video is one year old...

My recording / filming setup at home is not yet fully operational, but I'm working on it and looking forward to post some new stuff.

Anyway, feedback and critiques are welcome!

Thanks,

Phew, it doesn't end. The semester is over which is great and I should be chilling for a few days, but Sharon's grandfather is 101 years old and we have to head to Texas and clean out his house which is sold monday. So I thought I'd get a few days to practice and to post some more stuff on the site. But nope, not until next Wednesday!

I think Dana has something up his sleeve though and will be posting something soon. Dana's lessons are cool, I always learn something from them and am sure you guys do also.

This is pretty cool.

They were a little shy, but check out the Curtis Students! I did you my end of semester workshops with them and they rocked!

They have such a great attitude, and are great musicians. Today they were reading down the tune summertime and soloing over it. Before that they were creating improv pieces out of modes. These are students who have done little or no improvising so far. They did a great job! I'll ask them if I can post a couple versions of there Summertimes.

Here is my Drop 2 version of "As Time Goes By". All I am doing here is playing the melody harmonized in Drop 2 voicing. When there is no melody, I fill it in a little but I was trying to keep it simple. I have attached the music to what I play in the video below in my comment.

This takes a lot of work to do smoothly on the vibes. It does not work for every melody, nor would you want to play like this all the time but I think it adds a sophisticated vocabulary to the instrument.