Cool few days. I play duo with this alto player Aaron Irwin and we have a lot of fun playing tunes. Well we've started to do a study of Parker tunes. We took Blues for Alice, Donna Lee and Anthropology and soloed on them through the keys. It was hard and fun!
I was looking at some things today on the site. I found out a couple things. We have over 6,000 individual posts on the site and over 24,000 comments.
Those are very rough figures but they give an idea of what's here. There is a LOT of information now on this site.
Just remember to also check out the vbooks (http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book). Things in there will stay there in the order they are in. While not everything is in there yet, a lot of the early lessons are there.
Just thought I'd pass that on. 6,000 posts and 24,000 comments is a lot of talking about the vibraphone!!!
I was playing F blues and some interval or chord I played reminded my of this tune. I didn't know the name of it so I went to http://www.musipedia.org/flash_piano.html and played the partial melody on the piano in the web page and it found what I was looking for.
I then downloaded a piano arrangement (http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/01057) and started working on a vibraphone arrangement. Turned out the Pastorale is also in F.
This is what I have so far.
I really don't post too much in this blog, so here is a shorty on what we're doing at this moment at vanderPlas Baileo.
We started to have montly clinics at our facility in Sassenheim, generally every first Saturday of the month. This basically is a smaller version of the one and only annual vibesworkshop.com workshop week in Februari. Our first one was held October 1st, and about 12 percussionists showed up. Lots of fun.
As you may have noticed, we have come up with the DIYframe, a highly affordable solution for those who need a second frame for their bars and resonators.
I have a lead sheet from an old song book but I don't think it has the right changes.
I found this online. Are these correct?
Key of Eb 4/4
Pickup | G7 |
[ Cm Fm7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb Gm7b5 | C7 |
| Fm7b5 | Bb7 | Eb | Eb G7 / / |
I've just finished reading British Jazzer Ronnie Scott's book, Lets Join Hands And Contact The Living, its a great read, all about his life and his famous Jazz Club and some of the great musicians who played there. Well worth reading. I have also added a link of him playing with The Victor Feldman Trio, two amazing musicians, Scott was an immensely talented player and played with some of the greatest jazz musicians on the planet, so enjoy.
Maybe you guys already saw this before (Marciac 2007). Dana sent it to me yesterday: love it!! :o)
Gary? Are you both still sharing that kind of fun moment on stage? ;-)