Tony's having me do a solo tune every day, and I'm starting to post them. How I'm doing it is taking a tune I know well, record my first take and play it safe. I upload that one. Then experiment more on other takes and listen back and work on the stuff that I was experimenting with. So here is my first take where I play it safe.

"Once I Loved" by Antonio Carlos Jobim. One of my favorite songs by the great Brazilian composer. But then again, I love them all. :) I might take back the Picardy Third on the ending but it was too late once I played it. Ha!Ha!

Hello Vibes Workshop!!

This is a video of a song of mine called "Puddles".
It was inspired by my kids when they were little.

The group is called "The Neighborhood Trio". The video is circa 2011 and we
recorded it for a Minnesota Public TV show call "MInnesota Original". I hope you
enjoy it. It's a happy sounding piece.

We are still a band so if you're interested you can poke around our website at
https://theneighborhoodtrio.com/

Cheers

steve

The story is so common that it is even in the Wikipedia entry about Bobby Hutcherson; He was so inspired by hearing Milt Jackson play on Miles Davis’ version of Thelonius Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” from the 1954 album “Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants”, that he decided he wanted to learn to play the vibes.

Info is on the poster.

Red the poster for info.

This is the final step of our DIY vibraphone bar project.
http://www.wyndorps.de/E_index.htm

Summary:
At first I was most afraid of fine-tuning and in the end it is a very simple process that follows logical considerations.

We actually only "lost" one bar when trying to tune at all - just by testing different things.