Here's a great Friedman Vid. Dave wrote the book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. He's one of the major players on the scene and has a very very unique sound on the instrument. I have always totally admired his lines, his comping, geez (to use a palin term) his playing!!!
What's extra great about this vid is there's no drums, you can really here him clearly and hear him comp rhythmically. Really cool stuff!
how's this?
Yikes!
Joe practicing at home. Wow!
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Joe's Performance and lesson on 'She's Always a Woman to Me'.
I believe there is a very interesting fundamental difference between improvising "lines" and improvising "melodies". What do you think? Is there a discussion here?
Ear Training
I always have this thing. When I see vibe players play something that I think is really great, I want to try it myself. Some of the pieces up here that I've played were inspired that way. I don't do this as a competitive thing. At least not totally, mostly I do it to learn, to compare. What did I do and what did they do. What can I learn from them and do better. I guess that's how you study right? Your teacher plays something and you try to do your version and sound as good if not better.
So I'm hanging online with Patty via google talk and we were talking about Mike Pinto, so i figured I'd post the vid here. I think he sounds great, and his approach is a little different. He uses those Milt mallets but holds 3 I think most of the time. [I think.] He'll probably see this and maybe he can comment on it. Just goes to show you when it comes to grips. I like his lines so who cares about the rest.