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.

This was from a while ago, but I wanted to share it since we are talking about solo playing. I tried to cop the Miceli style of solo vibes, which is much different than the Burton or Friedman styles. Ed Saindon has a style that is more similar to Tony's, but uses the stride concept more. When I think of the great solo vibes players, those are the four that come to mind. Where Burton and Friedman tend to use more countermelody lines, Tony tends to use more "jabs" like a pianist would. Tony does the whole countermelody thing to, and is great at it...

Just a little advanced notice that we'll have an open house on thursday August 2nd, at the University of Delaware during our vibesworkshop workshop.

So if you're around plan on coming down and meeting everyone and hanging with us. Dave Friedman will be there, as will Bob Becker and some other players. Maybe some guys like Randy Sutin, Or Behn will show. All are welcome!!

(@Bruce Wells - the date i'm pretty sure is correct! I didn't screw this on up)

Greetings everyone,
Is there a way to quickly see a list of "my posts" on this website?

Thanks

jazzdad6705

Hey everyone,
We had a great time in Greece with Harvey and the steel band. These cats can play!!! I also joined them and it was great. Here a pic we had before a gig... more pics and videos are coming!
Thanks
Dimitris

IF anyone remembers the little handheld "20Q" gadgets where you could answer 20 yes or no questions and it would almost ALWAYS accurately tell you what you were thinking of, I just found an old one. It's first guess for me thinking of Vibraphone was Piano (i was impressed), and then it guessed treadmill (much less impressed). More evidence that we are a rare breed!

Greetings everyone,
New to the forum. Can folks recommend a vibes teacher in Rochester, NY?

Thanks!

jazzdad6705

Check out how important dynamics are in separating the melody line from the accompaniment. It's especially noticeable in the first 8 measures of the tune.