Alright...I said I wouldn't post again until the end of the week, but here I am hogging up the blog newsfeed because...I am excited that I just figured out this third part of the intro!!!
So here's how this has been going:
Day 3:
I'm all…
Over the past month I've been preparing for a John Coltrane tribute in Eugene Oregon. When we chose the music for the gig we selected two tunes, 26 2 and Freight Trane. Both of these tunes have definately seen the woodshed, which in turn,…
My students love this book. In this video, one of my students plays the number 2 and I thought to post it here in order to hear the opinion of the person who wrote it (not just me) and ofcorse from other players. He is a very hard-working…
Let me introduce you to Gabriel "Slam" Nobles. He's a fine vibist from what I call the "Vibe Summit" team. He lives in California and I totally dug this picture of him! He nicely allowed me to post it here... to join the 'Picture of the…
I often practise montuno because I love that music. I used to play them only the melody with the left and right hand. In this montuno I finally manage to work on how the left hand can accompany the montuno played by the right hand.…
Man...I think this blog thing is really helping me. Tonight I wasn't going to spend a ton of time on Afro Blue, but then I said "No, I've got to work on that transcription so I can post!!!".
So here I am at Day 2. Spent another hour and…
Here is Gary France, our Australian member on his mallet kat playing life his composition "Repercussion".
Gary commented for us this picture from his Face Book album: "Repercussions was a film that I composed, a 42 min sound track. We…
Alright...I need some motivation. Many times I have said to myself "Carolyn, you should transcribe more, it's great for your ear!" so I'll start working on something...AND NEVER FINISH IT.
Now I'm trying a new method. I've chosen a tune,…
I am continuing to build a repertoire for my upcoming accordion/guitar jam. I am working on Cute, one of my first up-tempo tunes.
In this arrangement, I decided to try chord melody. I threw in some of Behn's sequential ideas on a couple…
Had the chance to see Chick Corea and Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet in Burlington VT last night. What a show. Great tunes, beautiful arrangements and unreal musicianship. The best part of the show, besides Gary Burton's…
thomas Mackay on vibes, John Zalabak on bass and kelvin underwood on drums, this is a tiny wine cellar that we play at twice a month. the place is so tiny the one nighter vibraphone barely fits in the place .. this is a tune by tmackay…
my wife and i are going to be in manhattan this weekend - anybody got anything cooking? it would be cool to hear and meet a vibesworkshop player.
best - r
I'm looking into buying my first set of vibes around Christmas this year and I have narrowed my options down to these two. I've played on the m-55, but I'm curious as to how the Yamaha sounds (I've heard great things from other people.) I…
Tonight at 6pm pacific time the debut gig of The Mackay Project will be live streamed over www.lostforestrecordings.com copy and paste it to your browser. Mostly originals by tmackay, along with some tunes by sting, elliot smith, and…
Tony suggested me this book by Jon Metzger.
'The art and language of Jazz vibes'.
It arived today. What a beautiful book. I never saw such a nice published musicbook. This one is going to be treated with respect over here.
I think I'm…
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