I'm trying to get my chops up and I'm looking for some exercise to do to build up speed on the vibraphone. I would appreciate any tips or things that you guys do/have done to work on this. Thanks for any help!

-Nathaniel

Any ideas on what to study next? What to study?

I was thinking of spending some time on solo playing. Really working out chord melody stuff, lines, but from the aspect of playing solo.

I really believe that great players can all play solo. They can play something with no accompaniment, even if playing solo is not their forte. That means they know how it all works and how to work it on the instrument.

So that's one idea. Any others??

Greetings,

Just took delivery of a new Musser M55. Very excited!

The assembly went smoothly with the exception of the damper bar. It doesn't hook into the sides of frame firmly/properly. I'm hoping I'm doing nothing wrong, or there is some kind of fix or work-around?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

jazzdad6705

I played with German vibist Florian Poser a couple months ago and had a blast. Florian is a great player!

There's something about these two instruments. Listen carefully can anyone hear anything strange? (Barryk, you should be able to tell... that is if you're a true vibe geek!)

Hi All,

I'm trying to find out information on the exact wheels for the Musser Pro-Vibe M55 as I have had one of the wheels go missing in transit at one of my schools.

Does anyone know if they have a specific model number or name... or better yet where to get them from easily?

Whilst I'm on the topic, I like the M48 Pro traveller wheels much better and would be keen to track down a set of them to replace on my personal instrument....

Any leads?

james

These Days of Wine and Roses, comp. Henry Mancini

Every Tuesday I will post another clip of me playing the head of a tune with chords. I would love feedback and I hope to inspire anyone on the site to do something similar! I'm also trying to be more active on the site and post/check out all the new stuff on here.

-Nathaniel

just a quick application comment...

this line is quartal vocabulary (or fourthy vocabulary hahaha).

it's a quartal chord just in an inversion. If you made C# the bottom note voiced... C#, F#, B, E you would have stacked 4ths.

where to play this? Well it could be...

Emaj giving you scale degrees 13-9-5-1
Amaj (3-13-9-5)
Dmaj (7-3-13-9)
C#minor (1, 11, 7, 3)
F#minor (5-1-11-7)
Bminor (9-5-1-11)
E7 (13-9-5-1)
Bb7alt (#9-b13-b9-#11)

I'm sure I left a few out. But do you guys see how it fits into all of those chords?