Starting the day off right, I recorded this 1st thing in the morning. My puppy Steve joins in toward the end.
I'm going to start posting solo vibraphone videos much more now that the semester is over and I have mics and an audio interface. "This is I Remember Clifford." On my mind are modulation, dynamics, dampening, and maintaining a big picture arc to the arrangement.
This is an original tune I wrote the other day. I bought my daughter this little pentatonic glockenspiel thing that so far she has very little interest in. But it inspired me to write a tune using the pentatonic scale! I'm sure you will recognize the chords changes.
In C - https://youtu.be/C3_CCwqE7sg
In D - https://youtu.be/pK4KUEmGmbg
In Bd - https://youtu.be/EloTH8rDQd8
Of course what's happening now with the virus is terrible, however I am having so much fun at home working and practicing. Feels weird to say, as I know many people are suffering. I think my rough times are coming but they are not here yet. Meanwhile I prepare 3 tunes each week to play on Saturday on our Vibesworkshop FB page. And I love.
I made a run through of my mini concert for today.
Hey everyone,
Long story short, I will now be writing about cultures of virtual music learning communities for my ethnomusicology PhD (ethnomusicology = the study of music and culture). I have always considered VW a goldmine in many ways, and my professors agree that this space could be part of my research. They are even okay if my ENTIRE dissertation centers around vibesworkshop.com and its influence on the greater vibes community, although more likely I will focus on comparing a few digital spaces centered around music learning. Details TBD.
A short interactive program you can use to rearrange voices in a chord so they follow Tony's Open/Closed Voicings exercise.
David wrote this piece back in 2017 and we recorded this in the late october of 2018. Since then it was resting on my harddrive waiting to be edit. Now its finally done.
This piece is so much fun to play! 14 min that go by so quickly, because we enter so many different musical worlds that are constantly interesting, humorous and exciting.
The score is available at malletmuserecords.
composed by
DAVID FRIEDMAN
performed by
AYAMI OKAMURA
MARIA SCHNEIDER
TAIKO SAITO
JULIUS HEISE
HAUKE RENKEN
recording and mix
JONI SAKSALA
a gradual approach
Tony has been asking me to do something with vibes and gongs. So, I have been working on it, but to be perfectly honest, most of it just isn't ready for prime time yet. Playing solo, as many of us are finding out in quarantine, is very tough. 35+ years of quartet playing with pianists and guitarists didn't really prepare me for this moment.
So, I'm not ready to do a whole hour of this stuff live yet, but here is a few minutes of what I am up to. I'm learning every day, especially now that I am getting to hear so many accomplished solo players do their thing.