I decided to post my first try with the bass/drums play along of Alone Together. This is a first take, so it needs work and 'll post some more end of the week. Also the duet play along.

Hope you guys join in on this!

TJ

Here is a play along version for Alone Together, only bass and drums.

TJ

Hey Guys and Girls!

Here's the play along for recording a version of Alone Together this week. It's a quartet version(vb-bs-drs+You), so I think some of you will find it a little easier to play along then with only vibes duo.
This version has an 8 bar intro before the melody starts!

I'll also post a play along wih only the bass and drums. That one is also good to practice and record trio version.

TJ

I have had some requests since the last lesson to show how to apply the ideas from lesson 1 to different chord sequences. This part of the lesson deals exclusively with taking a single rhythm (the first from lesson 1) and applying it over various tunes with different voicings. Watching it again, I feel like I played these patterns a lit bit on the fast side for cha cha so slow them down ;)

Today I was running an errand at lunch that took me off of my normal beaten path and past Alan Dawson's old neighborhood in Lexington, MA. That started some reminiscing that I thought would be good to share.

Here is a song by Manos Hatzidakis in 10/8. I recorded it as a gift for my mother who recently had a birthday. So that I didn't spend forever making this present, I tried to keep the arrangements really simple.

Dana Sudborough: vibes, marimba, kanjira

Hi all,

I was checking our newbies, and saw this guy from Perugia: Fabrizio Fratepietro. I thought: wow, Perugia, one of the European capitals of jazz!

He had the good idea to put his myspace link. I went there and listened to the first sample...

Wow! I thought we were right in the discussion "Competition Part 2": that's quite modern hip music, groovy, with vibes, trumpet, etc… and that cool vibraphone comping and even solo. And there are lyrics sang as a rap (huh?) and the guy sings in a perfect French (huh?!). And guess what is the subject of this first tune: clones! Haha! :o)

Now that we've added the glockenspiels to our product range, it is time to expand our diversity of ads.

My goal was to get at least some humor in the ad campaign and for the glockenspiel get rid of the dusty image, but keep the ad appealing to the market it is for. Also the eVibe now that it has been upgraded needed an ad.
With the acoustic models we still have the nice Joe Locke ad, so there is no need to change here.

My own version of " my one and only love ".

The arrangement of the chords are inspired of "Chord Study Based one My One And Only Love" by Tony. (thanks a lot for the lessons online!)
I would like to improvise and playing the chords on the same time, but I find it's very difficult for the moment.
Ideally, I would like to play this tune in duet vibes-bass or in trio vibes-bass-drums, (so without guit!) if I can play the chords all the time...

I have to play this tune with a band, in December, for the end of the session at the University. I have to play 4 others tunes
Oléo

I posted some stories about not so great students, recently. So of course I've been remembering things about my teaching and playing career. One aspect of my teaching and performing career was in prison. I was in prison(s) for about 8 years with my vibraphone!