Polka Dots and Moonbeams, comp. Jimmy Van Heusen

Here's another solo vibes melody with chord accompaniment I've been working on. The next ones I'm going to do a full tune solo, with soloing and whatever else

Nathaniel

Greetings everyone,
Just took delivery on a new Musser M55. I'm geting back to mallet playing after a long, long hiatus. Very excited!

Could use some advice on a setup question. The highest F on the instrument rings even when the damper pedal is up.

How best to fix this?

Thanks!

jazzdad6705

This tune by Pat Metheny is titled Letter from Home and was featured on a CD of the same name that Pat put out in the 1990s.

The left hand accompaniment is mostly single line arpeggios which provide rhythmic movement and keep the piece flowing. The right hand uses octaves occasionally, which really sound good on vibes.

This is the First time This tune has every been played out and the first run thru for us .. the night was feeling good, so i pulled it out. I think i posted a lead sheet of this on the site back in 2009 ... its only 2 minutes long and was the only video that was taken at the gig .. via a cell phone so the Quality isnt that great .. but hey .. ya all get to see wat TMac does in southern oregon ....

Working up this piece really forced me to re-examine my technique, and improved it a lot. I started playing out of David's "Vibraphone Technique: dampening and pedaling" when it was first published. Still a phenomenal resource!

Note: Example tune is All The Things You Are, I only played part of the melody.