This etude goes through the same chord changes as Blues for Alice. One thing to keep in mind is that when playing this etude with the additional ii-V-I's, figure out all the other tunes you can use these lines on. Also, try it in different keys!

Here's another dampening etude. We change keys here, Bb, another very common blues key. Some of these lines actually work great not just as bass lines, but solo lines! You can hear players like Hank Mobley occasionally playing these bass type lines.

This is a solo vibe piece Tony Miceli commissioned me to write for him. Let me know what you guys think! These are the program notes I wrote for the piece:

This piece was written in April of 2024 upon commission from Tony Miceli, professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While taking private lessons with him, we began experimenting with timbral effects on the vibraphone, and one of my assignments was to write a solo vibraphone piece surrounding this idea. Thus, this piece was born.

Tim Collins is great! Here he talks about Marjorie Hymes

Behn Gillece sent me this. It's great! 

In this etude, the quarter note remains consistent like an actual walking bass line. The challenge in this exercise is to keep the pedal down and the dampening smooth, making sure no notes ring together. Work on getting a really nice legato sound!

I did this solo for a student today. 

It's quantized so it will sound a little stiff on the recording. 

I wanted to show playing through the changes. using the scales. 

Might be helpful to some of you.

here's a link to the import file for ireal pro. It's an html file, just double click on it. 

(This is Tony) I'm posting this for John Piper - 
I learned so much from watching this. This will benefit so many of you guys I think! Let me know what you think. You want more of these? 

Check out the attached PDF!

Because of the many requests to build an accordion frame that I simply cannot fulfill, I have developed the frame into a kind of kit that requires very little DIY skills.
Since shipping longer frame components is very expensive, I have defined all of them in such a way that they should be procurable worldwide using the digital data available in the download.

With the new alternately arranged bar posts, the bars are held so securely that they can be held upside down. Nevertheless, they can be easily removed and replaced.