"Well, that night, I was working over Cherokee, and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive." -Charlie Parker

Do you get it? It's really why bebop is great to play and study. I love listening to it also. Reminds me of Bach.

What do you guys think?

Hello fellow vibist!
Well I recorded this video as it was a live performance so..i told myself no stopping and try to
get a decent performance! I have a concert this July and I want to do a great job-hence this video as playing / posting for vwshop folks help me minimize my nerves, especially when it comes to solo playing fun, but the whole band stops and the audience stares at you. (kindly we hope!)

Playing bebop heads at ANY tempo is really great for your hands. I am getting so much out of playing through all these tunes every day. Making lessons and videoing and just playing the heads and chords is an amazing thing to do for my playing and I assume will be for yours as well.

I hope you guys really put time into all this!

I hadn't played this song in quite a long time but I was working on it last week with Lucas, a wonderful vibist from Brazil studying with Gustavo and I at Berklee. We were discussing various solo vibraphone techniques and ways of approaching it as a solo vibe performance. I just ran through it this morning to see what would happen. There are some loose spots where I almost go over the edge but I guess that's what keeps it interesting. I can blame it on the coffee. Ha!Ha! I think I love every composition that Jobim ever wrote.

Solo vibraphone version of the beautiful composition by the great composer Astor Piazzolla.

Hey Vibesworkshop,
Shameless Plug. After a few long months waiting for the mix I can happily announce the release of my jazz fusion projects debut album. The link below will take you to place where you can listen to the album in full and purchase it if you feel so moved.

https://melagroup.bandcamp.com/releases

Thank you!
Frank Valente

We will do 7 weeks of bebop tunes with assignments. If anyone completes all the assignments they will get a vibes workshop certificate of completion.

July 11 Fried Bananas
July 18 Donna Lee
July 25 Scrapple
August 1 Crazeology
August 8 Groovin' High
August 15 Tricotism
August 22 Au Privave

The sheet music for the 7 weeks is attached to this post.

Ok do you want to really learn and work on stuff during the summer?

Hey guys, this is just a scratch recording I made today. I recently got some very basic recording equipment and Logic, and I have discovered:

1. I know nothing about recording.
2. I know nothing about recording the vibraphone.

BUT, that hasn't stopped me from doing some experimenting, and here's the first product! This is a John Mayer tune, sort of R&B/Blues rather than Jazz, but I decided to spice it up with a few extra chords.