Argh!

Well...I have taken an unplanned rest from Afro Blue because...

1) First, I forgot about a recording session I agreed to play marimba on, so I had to spend a weekend staying up too late and getting up too early trying to cram learning the part (luckily I'm an okay music crammer, so the composer was actually satisfied with my playing. Phew!). That was kinda dumb though, so next time someone wants me to record with them, I will make sure to learn the part in advance!

Here is another tune from the coltrane tribute i did a couple weeks ago.. there is a bit of people talking, had the recorder on a table with my girlfriend.. hope ya dig it

Neighbor tones!

Check out the PDF. As you can see, there are many ways to use NT's. They can easily become a vehicle for interesting lines both smooth and angular in your playing.

When looking at the PDF, remember that I left many out.

When you pick a NT pattern, learn it in all 24 keys, then start asking "if I like this, how can I change this slightly to be something else that I like?"
That's when you can apply devices such as...
-starting in a different rhythmic spot
-changing the direction of the line (up vs.down)
-changing the rhythm of the line

This is a series of performances about Tune of the Month – Solo vibes. You can criticize my performance or you can even use these posts as lessons since I play step by step the development of solo vibes according to what I practiced so far.

It’s up to you…

This is my final etude of this series of performances. Hope you enjoy and learn something from all this work I 've done so far. I certainly learned a lot. One more lesson on solo vibes (Friedman's wrap up) and CHOPS HERE I COME. I already started to practise baroque music and I am going to practise also the omnibook.

This is a series of performances about Tune of the Month – Solo vibes. You can criticize my performance or you can even use these posts as lessons since I play step by step the development of solo vibes according to what I practiced so far.

It’s up to you…

This performance is about fill in the chords with arpeggios to make the harmony sound fuller in a rythmic way. Final track is coming

Thanks

DImitris

All vibes players!

In time for this year's PASIC we have just released a series of 6 New Pieces for Solo Vibraphone by Joe Locke. The music is fully notated, of medium difficulty and each piece is accompanied by an original audio file, recorded by Joe.

This was recorded at an informal gig where our regular bass player couldn't make it. We ended up reading some tunes out of the real book so we wouldn't make the bassist sight read some of the more difficult originals. I was reading "Deluge" for the first time (shame on me).

There are a few more videos of the band on the YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GJQJazz

Was speaking with the great saxophonist Dave Binney (www.davidbinney.com) last night who played at our Jazz Club and we got talking about vibes and vibe players and how the vibes are now being played by some great young cats, and Dave commented on how many young players are now appearing on the jazz scene. One such player that David mentioned whom I have never heard of until last night is Chris Dingman, I have never seen him on the site either,Tony/Marie? Anyway I had a listen to some of his stuff and its very interesting, so if anyone can add to this or knows him please share it here.

Someone to watch over me.

Hello guys. One of the great thing you can play alone on the vibe is ballads. I think the instrument has the potential to provide the feeling and the warmness to play slow songs at least as much as a piano. but the challenge is to stay clear with the pedal (lot of dampening) and not to rush.
the key is, I think, to take the time to "breath" between each lines and to "sing" the melody. This will help to have the right direction and emotion.