Here's my new vibraphone frame, designed especially for maximum weight reduction with maximum setup comfort. Because I cannot imagine that many women (or men with back problems) like to transport vibraphones to sessions or concerts, I have named this frame as "Ladies Vibe".
The entire frame weighs 11.4 kg (26 lb) and the resonance tubes made of plastic together weigh another 7.1 kg (15.7 lb).
Maybe I should still create a bag in Gucci- design? :)

If you know the changes to Miss Jones and know the melody, here's a simple melodic solo to transcribe.

If you transcribe it, post it here.

You can hear the tune in the solo, right? You hear the harmony right? And I'm playing so little to make this work. Can you do a version of this?

So here's the deal:

I'm always trying to find ways for people to learn stuff. Handing someone all the information works, however, I think giving some and making someone look and search is the best way to learn.

With this pdf, I have my voicings I play with the melody. I left the melody out. Your job is to figure the phrasing of the melody with these chords. Some of the chords have the melody note in the chord, a couple don't.

I believe if you know the melody well and you study these simple voicings you will get something out of this.

I've been up in the mountains this week. Brought my gear up. Lots of time to think and practice. Here is a stream of consciousness about the tune Peace.

Do you guys get stuff out of posts like these? This is pretty advanced stuff I think and you do have to know the tune well to follow me. But this is how me and my buddies teach each other stuff, we play stuff and talk about it. I do this on this tune, he does this over here, copped this off a record of Chick playing this over this tune, and on.

David said and I agree, I have so much fun playing on the Omega! It's really an incredibly fun instrument to play on!!!!

This is an arrangement of My Foolish Heart that I put together from various Bill Evans recordings of this tune. The bassist is Blake Bonde.

Have you guys seen this site?
https://doublemalletgrips.wordpress.com

All the grips are on there! It's pretty cool.

What is your favorite grip and most importantly if you didn't use the grip you use, what grip would you use next (can't be the same one :-).

My grip is on there and credited to Gordon Stout. I think Gordon uses one grip in his left hand and one in his right hand?

After I did a lesson (Click here for the lesson) on playing solo I tried it fast and came up with what I think is a decent performance of the piece.

Sorry about the metal ding, this is a five year old frame and I have to change a pad on the posts.

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