Ok, this is an epic Stella solo. Your job is to write the chords in and study the extensions.
Next play the etude. Put the metronome on 2 and 4 and play. Work bar by bar if you have to. Study the phrasing and the rhythms. Work on swinging…
What a great tune Flamenco Sketches is for working on chords and chord melodies. There is no melody so it's all you! I love practicing this tune.
Here is one of my recordings from my practice session. I record and then listen and see how…
We are trying something different this year in Germany. Instead of the big full blown workshop, we thought to try a two day intense workshop for players who want to quickly gather a lot of information. There will be handouts, and workshop…
"When You Wish Upon A Star" - solo vibraphone performance from concert at the Theatre de la Licorne in Cannes, France - October 8th, 2017. Special thanks to Andres Ramos (Professor and Head of Percussion - Cannes Conservatoire), Bergerault…
Teaching with FaceTime. I gave a lesson yesterday to a vibe student in Guangzhou, China. Technology has certainly increased the possibilities in music education. We covered a lot of ground in the hour including the fulcrum grip, dampening…
Beautiful ballad written in 1940 by Rodgers and Hart. Some chord progression changes from Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett.
Now available on Amazon: Voicing Concepts For The Jazz Vibist. The book addresses a variety of voicing concepts as…
Dear all
I am selling my beautiful Bergerault VPV gold vibraphone. The instrument is about three years old but has been used very little as I travel quite a lot for research and I never seem to be in place to use it. It rests in my office…
I thought this might be of interest to check out. It's a good shot of the instrument and the sticks. So now you can see when I hit a wrong note and how exactly I did that!
so, here is my second post about what I've been up to the last couple of years.
NIDO - this is my other favorite project right now. my duo with the violinist Maria Reich. She is in my opinion one of the most interesting and tasteful…
I use a metronome a lot. You know some people are against using metronomes. And some of those people don't have good time. If a musician with great time is against metronomes, then ok, we disagree. But if you don't have great time and your…
Hello all – I am working on a set of pieces and the first movement is a solo vibraphone piece titled "Meditation" the piece itself will be called "Thoughts" here is a rough sketch of the first movement. I know for the "acoustic…
Dear all,
I'm very happy to present the " Odysseys " trailer with the amazing Alexandra Soumm on violin!
We've been playing together for over 5 years, a lot through our NGO Esperanz'Arts, and now we're so happy to show this work to all of…
A beautiful song my pianist Keith Jarrett. I remember seeing him do this and "Country" live on SNL in the 70s. It was incredible. His album with his European band playing this is also fantastic.
I have a buddy that picks a tune each week and sends out an email with a bunch of curated videos about the tune.
So I thought I'd post them here for everyone to see. And if you're interested you can check out the videos.
The tune is…
There are some great instruments out there. I have been playing different instruments for years and years. There's a good vibraphone down in Argentina. I forget the name, it begins with an F. It's cool and sounds good.
I like the sound of…