I've been a subscriber to Vibes Workshop for some time now and just wanted to tell Tony and everyone involved with the site how much I've enjoyed it! The video is a piece by Ney Rosauro (Brazilian composer) that I've been working on. For those of you that aren't familiar with Ney's music - I think he's a wonderful composer who captures the flavor and atmosphere of Brazil so well. Hope you enjoy.

K. David (Dave) Johnson

This morning I was reading through Steve Kahn's analysis of a Michael Becker solo and became so ill from anxiety that I almost lost my cookies.

Do I have enough time to learn such a vast subject matter?
It's scary to think that even practicing to a sweat in a cold room may never get me there.
I hope there is such a thing as divine intervention and that He's willing to help out.

Here is the analysis:
http://www.stevekhan.com/rojoa.htm

YES, RIGHT NOW Wednesday on www.smallsjazzclub.com you can see

BRYAN CARROT playing with the Ed Cherry Trio

GO THERE NOW and see one of the superb vibraphonists now until 12:30 EST tonight

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BruceW

A quick little podcast to accompany my new etude 'holyhell937'.

The etude can be found under check this out.

I'm digging the idea of making a vibe collective book. I posted something in reply to barry's Ktude (i love it).

The ultimate book for vibe players. A book where we all contribute, or rather whoever would want to contribute. You know if lots of subscribers contributed, I bet we could beg some of the pros here for a little something to put in the book.

I've even thought about the money:

the site makes a percentage
managers make a percentage
contributors make a percentage based on pages they've contributed.

Here's another arrangement for vibes, this time of a tune titled "Minha Saudaude". I've not seen it in any fake book. I got it from Mike Metheny after hearing his group perform it a few times. The melody is somewhat syncopated and fits well with a simple 2 feel accompaniment. The melody has some wide intervals, and is easier to play if you use both mallets in your right hand.

You'll need to "flutter" the pedal a lot to keep the numerous half steps in the melody from ringing together. Try to get the melody to sound as clean as possible.

this is not vibes related but more for drummers on the site. I am in the process of restoring an old Premier shell set 12x8 16x16 20x14 which I acquired at no cost. They had a white covering on them which I managed to remove without damaging the wood and then I had the laborious task of removing the glue underneath which took 4 days there are some parts missing which I will have to try and replace which might be difficult as they are old so anyone out there who might have some knowledge of where to source them I would greatly appreciate it.

I was supposed to be practicing, but was fooling around instead, and came up with this little pattern. I decided to make an Etude out of it. There is some rhythm permutations (is that the word?), inspired by Behn's VW Etude No. 1, and some arpeggiated open voicings to practice.

I posted a short version of me playing a couple variations of the pattern. The .pdf and .mid files are also attached. Note that the intent is to play it in all keys. I only wrote out a few keys.

Have fun,
Barry

Here's a track from a recent gig I did with Elio Villafranca.

This vid cuts in in the beginning. But listen to it and check out the end. This is where we first worked on Freedom Jazz Dance as a blues.

We were winging it. You can hear the first couple choruses where we're getting the form of the blues straightened out! Funny huh? That's cool to me, figuring something out between us without words.