I'm listening to George Shearing and I hear this beautiful vibe solo. It was Frank Ricotti. I never heard of him. Does anyone know about him??
This beautiful ballad, written by Johnny Mandell and played so often by Bill Evans, makes a wonderful vehicle for explorative melodic playing. For me, the goal here is sound and simplicity.
I was recently talking with a student about playing in slow motion. I think I've talked about it here before, but I thought I'd do a little reminder on the topic.
I just checked out Tony's myspace page and listened to him playing 4 and 1. That's some mighty fine vibin' there. Could you talk about that piece? If it's not here somewhere I think others would really enjoy it.
Hello ! Me and my bass player have a gig forthcoming(where I'll be playing drums), with the very fine Scottish trumpet-player, Bruce Adams. Bruce sent us his set list, which includes this old Hank Mobley Tune : Funk in Deep Freeze. I thought it would sound good on vibes, so I recorded it this morning at cockcrow. As usual, I'm playing on top of a homemade bass-and-drums track. I attach the score and the rhythm track, if anyone feels like trying it. I'll work on it a bit more. If I can come up with a better take, I'll substitute.
The Bach English Suites make great duets for vibes and marimba, or guitar, or bass, etc. I've attached a pdf of the right hand part and an mp3 of the left hand. Work up the right hand part and play along with the mp3. It's a fun piece to play!
Don't know what to Practice? Grab a few of these licks and just go through the keys. Courtesy of bobland.org!
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I transcribed this a while ago. I haven't played through it in a while but I think I had worked all the kinks out of the notation. Please let me know if you find errors. This solo comes from a Bruce Foreman album "Full Circle w/Bobby Hutcherson".
Dana Sudborough
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Man I've been here practicing for the last few hours. I'm working on stuff I worked on yesterday and I'm realizing once again how important consistency is.
I'm seeing what I did yesterday flow a little better today. It's really exciting and always has been.
That's why I just want to mention about this. Make sure you're setting aside time each day, or most days. You need that consistency to get better.
Just taking a 5 minute break to pass on my 2 cents.
