“Someday My Prince Will Come” - my students and I have been working on this song the past week. Working on solo playing with the vibe students and improv concepts with the piano students. Fun stuff.

Randy said recently, I'll let the music speak for itself.

It's taken a long time however I'm really getting into Walt Dickerson and his eccentric style.

Sorry but I can be a skeptic of eccentric players, thinking they're just BSing, but Walt is not IMHO. He's trying to use the instrument a little differently. Now I don't necessarily think we have to use the instrument differently, but When I listen to this cd I really like his trying to play it a little differently, if that is what he would say he is doing.

I'm really falling for his playing.

Here's my part of the duet, with yours Tony! For reference, I take the head in and the first chorus, and Tony takes the second chorus and the head out.

Note From Tony: If you want to try the duet the parts are here.

Here's my take of etude #15.
I appreciate how these etudes are really written for this instrument. In a way, Dave Friedman is like the Chopin of the vibraphone. These etudes really make you develop a fluency with the articulation and phrasing that pedaling and dampening can offer. I'm looking forward to getting through this book!

How to play the chromatic scale with out getting your arms crossed.