Hi !
Here is a first version of "vince Guaraldi" composed by Tony...
After few (hurmmMMM) hour of practice...
I find it a very difficult.. theme is not easy and it's very difficult for me to improvise and comp at the same time too...
Actually, It's the challenge not raised...
But perhaps I'm going to find some advice here, to help me there..

Tony, some advice for the comping&soloing at the same time in this tune ? and perhaps for the fluidity of the theme ( soft baguettes would help me I think..)

Thanks :)
MIS

Hey guys, I jus ran across a post by Tony called Think Like a Drummer. Great post that I think has varying views and open for discussion. I entered Berklee way back as a drummer (was a Buddy Rich fanatic) and was lucky enough to study with the great Alan Dawson. I saw Gary play with the Mike Gibbs big band at a school concert. Had never seen the vibes before. Gary did a short solo on Keith Jarrett's Grow Your Own and that was one of those "wow" moments for me. Took up vibes starting with a beginning mallet class with Gary. Talk about being fortunate.

Sorry to get all cheezy, but there are some players on this site doing cool stuff.
There are some really talented players here!

I'm amazed because I've seen some of these guys for almost 5 years now. I've seen the progress and what can happen if you just pick up the sticks and practice on the instrument.

I'm truly inspired tonight. Right on guys!

Great lesson for beginning vibe players as well!

Crazy gig today. The picture says it all. First words when I walked into the party was hearing one guy ask the other guy "Do you surf the internet?" Actually there were a few musicians there and it was an ok party to play at. We played all our arrangements of rock tunes and split!

Hi, I'm currently studying the jazz vibes at the University of Sherbrooke and I'm selling my vibraphone YAMAHA 2700G. This is my very first vibraphone and I've been playing on it for 2 years. It comes with the YAHAMA cover for this model and a mallets bag. With his gold finish, this vibes sounds really good and has an impressive projection. It features a really good silent motor for the vibrato. It perfectly works. I'm selling it because I want to try another model. I can send more picture if you ask, for serious buyer only.

Cool few days. I play duo with this alto player Aaron Irwin and we have a lot of fun playing tunes. Well we've started to do a study of Parker tunes. We took Blues for Alice, Donna Lee and Anthropology and soloed on them through the keys. It was hard and fun!

I was looking at some things today on the site. I found out a couple things. We have over 6,000 individual posts on the site and over 24,000 comments.

Those are very rough figures but they give an idea of what's here. There is a LOT of information now on this site.

Just remember to also check out the vbooks (http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book). Things in there will stay there in the order they are in. While not everything is in there yet, a lot of the early lessons are there.

Just thought I'd pass that on. 6,000 posts and 24,000 comments is a lot of talking about the vibraphone!!!