Here's an exercise I did recently. Just played a tune and played the offbeats. It's pretty hard.

Add the MalletKat in the mix and working with the pedal (which you have to really think a little differently with when playing lines) and this is a very hard etude.

AND....... metronome on 2 and 4
Try it on the vibes and try to keep the notes smooth and legato and swing the offbeats.

http://youtu.be/amgLychKCMY
I play Delilah a lot with this groove....much fun. Bobby.....ever amazing, original and inspiring. RIP great drummer Eddie Marshall.
Rusty

Hi !
I actually listen to my graduation recital and I'd like to share with you my version of Beautiful Love. It was a big challenge to play a solo piece, find a musical direction who suits me ... I'd never do that before ! I practiced in one direction to another, and here is the consequent.

Hope you enjoy!

Emilie

Based on the tune: Groovin' High. Play this etude fast with a metronome on 2 and four. Feel the rhythms and how they fit around the high hat! I love doing stuff like this.

Hi !
Here is Vince Guaraldi composed by Tony !
It was recorded at my graduation recital in Canada in December.
I particularly love played this tune because it was the way to praise Tony at this important event for me.

So.. Tony.. It's my version, and it's for you ! :)

Emilie

Our daughter Janne (2 years old)

She couldn't sleep, only after a little session she wante to go to bed.

:-)

Margie Hyams, 91, a vibraphonist who played with bandleaders Woody Herman and George Shearing as well as with her own jazz trio in the 1940s, died Thursday of renal failure at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, said her daughter Lisa Ericsson. Born Aug. 9, 1920, in New York, Hyams played the vibes with Herman's First Herd in 1944 and '45, then formed a trio and also appeared with Mary Lou Williams and Charlie Ventura until 1949, when she was invited to join Shearing, the blind piano virtuoso.

Here's a promo video I did for a band I play with in Amsterdam.