Mario talks about the Mallet Kat and setting it up for a show. I talked with him via Skype!

If you haven't checked this out, do so. It's really cool what's happened here and what's been talk about.

I learned a lot from it!

Simple Introduction To Chromatic Cell Structures

It should be understood that these techniques cannot function by themselves and that an understanding of traditional harmony is needed to truly make these techniques come to life. If there is no common ground of harmonic knowledge, only chaos will ensue.

How many modes are there on a vibraphone?

Here's an arrangement of Cherokee I made for my bachelor exam at the conservatory. After the post by Tony I thought I'd post this. I hope you like it. I'm not playing vibes, but drums on this one.

i have attached an mp3 of a trax that is basically a looped 8 bar idea. There is really no chord structure, but rather sound shapes. What i do alot in my home studio with REASON 4, is make short loops ideas to play over.. and then i work on the creative process

in the example its based around a C min tonality.. but can also be a Ab major tonality. like i mentioned previous there was no concept of chords.. just a groove....

with that in mind here is a list of step and ideas i mess around with ...

1. sing a line .. and play it. have a conversation with yourself and your instrument.

When I think about improvisation, I think about a way of life, a concept about the "moment", not just something I do in the evening in front of an audience for one or two hours.

There's something VERY wrong with this video. Can you see it?