hey,
here is another track for my vibes duo with sax i just finished mixing.
tell me what you think. in general i think ballads work best in that combination...unisono passages sound to me like there´s missing something...we need to work on that but that piece was composed that way.
tarik
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While Tony is out ‘spreading the good vibes’ down to Patagonia, some of us are much looking forward to the upcoming summer workshops, first July in Limerick – Ireland with our friend John Daly as host, then Delaware US early August.
Lessons this month are a bit out of our usual TOTMs, but still coming frequently… And to end this newsletter, we finally could watch some videos of our winter workshop of last February in Wuppertal – Germany, thanks to our host Matthias Goebel and his team.
Enjoy !
I read with interest Tony's description of what he calls a "One Sheet" and realized that this was something I occasionally (certainly not always) do while studying a tune. I thought I'd post my version and see if others have similar variations on the "One Sheet" theme. I began doing this when I realized that, getting older, I would discover things on the vibes and then forget them by the time I came back for another practice. This was my way to organize my thoughts on a single "guide" page. Sometimes I spend more time figuring this stuff out on paper than actually practicing it....
Hi All
Recently I discovered what was advertised as a mid sixties Musser Century Vibraphone available in Carson City Nevada
(about 300 long miles from my home in the Bay Area) I had to make a hard decision (if I was going to make that long drive just to check out this instrument.) What I remember of these old instruments is that the bars are beautifully rich, loud, smooth and somehow different then newer Musser bars. My instrument has been a mid 70's A440 Provibe that I have always loved the sound of and that has been my sound on the vibraphone for 20 years.
In publicity a one sheet is a sheet that's only one page and has all your info packed on it. Then people extract whatever they need. So....
I always try to find parallels between other things. Since I'm playing chess again, I'm always thinking of the rules of chess and applying it to music. These are exercises I do when sitting around. Make associations between one thing and another.
Here's an etude for our TOTM "Peace". It can be played with 2 or 4 mallets. Can anyone pinpoint the arranging technique I've used for this etude?
I find it very interesting write your own solos to investigate new concepts. In some classes with David Friedman has encouraged me to do it. I think it is very important to grow as a musician.
Check out this podcast interview with Gary Burton:
I discovered this piece, "A Time for Love" by Johnny Mandel, on the radio last night. I didn't catch the name of it but was able to get it by humming it into http://www.midomi.com/
It is such a beautiful tune. I bought a couple of versions to listen to and the "Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long", which you hear here. There were probably a couple hundred versions on Amazon, including Bill Evans.
On thing that is really tough about this tune is getting the articulation of the melody. I was trying to get as smooth as possible.