Check out Patty playing the Friedman etude No. 13. What's great is since her right hand is injured, she's using just her left. During her injury that lasted 6 weeks she practiced like a maniac with just her left hand. I BET HER LEFT HAND is pretty happening now! huh?
Another great lesson from Gary Burton! This is Part 1, so more is on the way!
Has anyone seen this up on the site? I couldn't find it but found it over at larrysimprovpage.com
This is the first video I ever did. I got a lot of notice for the washer and dryer in the background. I had no clue as to what I was doing. I was trying to start QDV's! Quick and Dirty Videos!! Where nothing mattered but the content! That's so funny now to me.
This is a difficult chord study etude. It's straight eighth notes and based on 'Blues for Alice' changes. Definitely not a performance piece but it will get you moving around the instrument and working on chord melody ideas.
Here's another great lesson from Joe Locke! This is great! I'm stealing it as you read this!!!! - Tony
Here is my Drop 2 version of "As Time Goes By". All I am doing here is playing the melody harmonized in Drop 2 voicing. When there is no melody, I fill it in a little but I was trying to keep it simple. I have attached the music to what I play in the video below in my comment.
This takes a lot of work to do smoothly on the vibes. It does not work for every melody, nor would you want to play like this all the time but I think it adds a sophisticated vocabulary to the instrument.
Victor Provost is a top notch steel pan player. He's joining vibesworkshop.com to create the pan part, which will be called panworkshop.com and reside along side of the vibe section. Here Victor talks briefly about the history of the pan.
This is a good example of a basic solo arrangement for vibes. Mallet dampening should be used on the first 16 bars of the melody to keep the notes from running together. You won’t be able to use the pedal because it will be down to allow the chord voicings to ring.
Print the head arrangement HERE
OK, for subscribers to the site. Here is your midterm exam. And if you do it, you get a gift. You get my new CD, absolutely free. It features all tunes from the 60's and 70's and features Paul Jost on vocals.
Here are the rules, READ THEM CAREFULLY, pretty please.
1. You have to perform a solo version of a tune. Any tune. I don't care if you're a beginer or advanced.
Here's the Cherokee etude. It's sooo hard, I'm burnt out on it! I give up.
I wanted to play a bass line over a head. You can't do it over a solo really, but over a head I thought it was possible. I think it's a technique that can be interspersed in a tune or solo. I don't think anyone should strive to play a baseline through a whole tune.