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For the love of Brazilian music, Coffee, and Brazilian Coffee

Hope you're all well and in good spirits out there. Just wanted to share this new video of a series of videos I'm producing from home entitled "Choro in My Apartment." I'm joined by my friend and Brazilian bad@ss pianist Helio Alves. It serves to document my love of Brazilian music, Coffee, and Brazilian Coffee

Intro to Set the Mood - Emily Vibes with Piano 200405 by BarryK

At last week's "Vibe Online Coffee House", David Friedman was asked about his approach to introductions.
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/images/march-29th-2020-events/tonymiceli/…

I applied his response to my arrangement of the introduction for this week's tune, Emily, to create a mood. Here is one of my practice takes.

Barry

Vibist Challenge - Improv on All The Things using Syncopation Page 37

Vibist Challenge: Since we all have pretty much a lot of time on our hands, I’m posting a fairly simple challenge to my fellow vibists out there. Here it is: Take an improvised chorus on “All the Things You Are” and use the exact rhythms from the Ted Reed “Syncopation” book on page 37. This is a page that all of the students of Alan Dawson have worked on in various drum set applications with the great legendary educator. The solo should be spontaneously improvised (not worked out ahead of time or written out) and clearly sound the changes.

Mini Concerts.... Who's In?

So next weekend how about...
Let's do mini concert on vibesworkshop.

April 11th. 2 or 3 tunes on video or audio, you just can't stop in between. Meaning the video or audio is not cut up. Makes us work hard on playing two or three tunes without stopping.

Who's in? Put your name in the comment section.

BTW - We are doing cool stuff on our Facebook VW page.
Every Saturday (Probably for a while), we're have online concerts.
Every Sunday (Probably for a while), we're having and online coffee house meeting with vibe players only!