Some Sunday night musical reflection on “America” with some reharmonization, modulation and constant structure chords. If anyone would like the lead sheet just let me know.
I'm trying to get organized here, but it's not easy for me. Since the quarantine I have been busier than I've ever been. Being online is more work than being offline!
But I would like to see which subscribers want to meet up once or twice a month and play and talk about stuff.
Here's the thing, you have to have good bandwidth, decent audio and decent video.
There are ways to do it. And I will help any subscriber that has questions.
Post your question on the site here as a blog. I will try and answer and make a book in the vbooks sectdion.
Preparing for my masterclass at Boston Conservatory at Berklee called ‘e-Vibes & Vibes’, showing how I combine a Musser vibraphone with the Pearl malletstation.
Scroll through the wall on this page. There are some great solo performances on this page of great players.
Can you post the lesson link and tell me how it helped you?
Here are some exercises and info I gave a student on Solar.
WANDERING SCALES - I think it's a good exercise to be able to move from scale to scale from wherever you are. Here's one chorus of that.
SOLO TO TRANSCRIBE - Transcribe it!
(look out - hardcore vibe geek post ahead)
Today at the vibes coffeehouse someone asked "Where are all the other vibes players? Why aren't they here?"
There were 27 of us on the Zoom call today, but there are around 5000 vibesworkshop members on this site. Only 25-40 of us are the hardcore bunch tuning in each week.
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Vibes and Strings. Recorded the string track and then played vibes over that. The strings switched from left to right half way past the clip which was not intentional. I wish I had real live strings but I can't afford it. :) An appropriate song I think for the time. Best wishes for everyone out there. Ed
Tony is challenging me to do a 3 tune mini concert every week for the next few weeks. This week I am working on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, Alice in Wonderland, and All of You. I have been thinking about how to widen my range when playing solo and separating the ranges of the accompaniment and melody. I tend to shy away from the very top register of the instrument but I think it would be beneficial for me to start using it more.