HEY GUYS, I think it's great to include you all in some way. So I'll post questions and hopefully you guys will answer. I'll provide links to this stuff for the attendees when it gets close to the workshop.

What is a specific exercise someone can do to work on improvising. Be specific and short. You can link to something here that helped you of course.

Any Ideas?

If you're not familiar with the collection of Bach's violin sonatas and partitas you should pick up a copy. They sound beautiful on vibes and marimba and have been studied and performed by numerous students and professional mallet players. David Friedman recorded one movement on "April Joy". He improvises on it too, in the Baroque style! It's amazing!

The manuscript PDF file I'm including seems to have an extra repeat of the "B" section....don't know why. The piece has just 2 sections, each repeated once. Bar 34 in the PDF file should be the final bar. Ignore the rest.

https://soundcloud.com/frankvalente/my-foolish-heart-solo-vibraphone9-2…

The link above is of a recording of the first ballad I learned to play in the Solo Vibraphone Style. I'm quite new to the solo vibraphone style and took many ideas from the soloist approaches of pianist such as Bill Evans, Fred Hersch, and Brad Mehldau, as well as the guidance of my teacher. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

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I envision this site as a platform for discussion, i.e. an exchange of opinions, sharing ideas verbal and musical and being open for giving and receiving suggestions and constructive criticism. After submitting my version of "You don't know what love is" I asked for comments about what I changed harmonically. I was really looking forward to some interesting feedback. I wanted, as I mentioned to Tarik, to go beyond personal taste, "I like this", I don't like this", etc. (Although sometimes I could handle a bit more of "I don't like this", in a constructive way, of course).

Hi guys here's my new solo version of the TOTM. In jam session people play it in Eb or C and I was unsure about the key I wanted to play it so I decided to divide the head in C for the first half and Eb for the second half.
As always there's the pdf with the transcription of Head in, solo form head out and coda.

Hope you enjoy it.

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I was using "APInstrument" Mallets: www.apinstrument.com

So I'm giving the Mallet Improv workshop this year at PASIC. And so I thought!!!

I would like to get you guys to chip in. Open source the talk!

So give me some tips you found valuable for learning improv. Some commentary? Advice? What should young mallet players work on? Think about? etc.

I will also refer to this post in the notes and make this available for everyone at PASIC