So we had our monthly Uarts workshop for the vibe department. I have 4 GREAT players and hard workers.

I said I have plenty of stuff to talk about but if you guys have a topic we can do that. Andrew Nitolli said let's play free. Ok, that's something I don't do a lot. Here are some recordings playing totally free.

The one up here is Dimitri and I. We agreed to stay away from tonality altogether.
Check them all out, they're great!

Hey guys help me, which tracks are yours? I can't remember.

This is my practise in the tune sophisticated lady. Simple but my goal was to to play the melody and the chords.

I am on this Exotica kick, thanks to Carolyn. ;-)
I am working on Duke's Sophisticated Lady and decided to crank up the motor speed. Here's my Exotica version (without the bird sounds).

Barry

John Keene mentioned in another post about Vince Hyman's Exotica group, Exotik-a-GoGo.

Above is one of their YouTube videos.

Check out the others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q37d-Bh8efw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3bcQmAgJIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV0P8PjgFA0

http://exotikagogo.com/

I dig it.

Enjoy,
Barry

I had my friend come over yesterday to do some work on my Rhodes. He's a great pianist and organist in the NJ area, Chris Simonini. Anyway, the Rhodes sounds great now, and we did a little playing afterwards. Some people say that vibes and Rhodes sound too similar and that they don't work well together, but I disagree. I think if done the right way, they sound amazing together! Anyway, here is an original composition of mine we played together called "Lazy September." I wrote it in the beginning of the month when things were slow! Hope you enjoy it.

Harmony

Hey guys.

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/audio/totm-summertime-etude-no-1-behn-gill…

Go to this lesson and do the etude.

JUST REMEMBER TO POST YOUR PERFORMANCE OF THE ETUDE ON THIS PAGE. NOT THE ORIGINAL LESSON PAGE. BOOK MARK THIS PAGE AND POST IN THE COMMENTS HERE.

This weekend, I went to a ukulele festival with my dad. He's pretty cool, check him out: http://www.youtube.com/user/grassshk/videos (I recommend The Werewolves of London).

And here's one we did together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhw1t9lCQw

Anyway, he bought what we thought was a Hawaiian ukulele CD, but when we listened to it, almost every track had vibes. In fact, there was more vibraphone on the CD than ukulele!