This is an old track that I found in the video library which wasn't released. Nice tune to play with some four to the bar left hand. Some of my favorite pianists in this style would be Art Tatum, Fats Waller, George Shearing, Errol Garner…
My guitarist friend Bernard and I can't wait for April 17th: we are to go and see Gary play in Paris! Today for my b-day, Bernard sent me this youtube link as a gift! I said: that's perfect!!
So I'm sharing it with you: love it! Man they…
This one's in Eb, and there's a few different rhythmic challenges in his etude. Also, there's a couple of subtle tune quotes in here! If anyone can guess both of them, I will send them a free download copy of my Mindset album :)
You must…
Hi Vibeworkshoppers!
With the amount of info on the site at this point, I thought it might be helpful to do a series of lessons talking and demonstrating the process I take when learning a tune. Starting from the very beginning and…
Hi guys This month i'm going to give you my solo version of the unknown standard called "Everything I love".
For the first one who post his own solo version, playing the head as I wrote it down, he will have a FREE skype lesson with me!!…
Hey everyone, My name is Dawson. I'm studying Jazz Performance at Missouri State University and I need some guidance in buying a set of vibes, as I've never done this before. I'd really like to start gigging around town once I get a set.…
This vid cuts in in the beginning. But listen to it and check out the end. This is where we first worked on Freedom Jazz Dance as a blues.
We were winging it. You can hear the first couple choruses where we're getting the form of the…
This semester I have been working with my teacher on playing ballads in the solo style and wanted to share a system/ exercise that I've been using to begin developing orchestration ideas when playing the melody. The following exercise is…
I did a great gig at PASIC. But besides bragging little bit about it, here's the cool thing.
The audience loved what we did. I think there is a REAL interest in the vibraphone happening. Something that hasn't happened in a long time.
I…
After doing the walk down voicing exercise comparing Green Dolphin Street and Triste, I thought it would be good to do a line study. This Triste etude is in A, a typically under played key in jazz. Most of it is built from only a few…
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Nice mallet lab this morning working with the students on Coltrane's Giant Steps using Four Note Groupings. We played through several pages from Volume 2 of The Complete Guide to Improvisation which is now available via www:edsaindon.com.…
Hi all. This is my first post.
My friend Paul and I just came across and bought some nice vintage pieces. Pauly got a 40's? Deegan marimba and I got some '39? Leedy vibes. A friend of ours found someone with these vintage pieces, who…
So, for those of you who don't know me that well, it will suffice to say that after years of pretty much only playing jazz on the vibes (occassionally working with some R&B or latin groups)I began to play music in and around the yoga…
My Buddy, Paul Sottnik, and I are working on a piano vibes duet project. This video Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers by Steve Kuhn was recorded on site at SUNY Fredonia.
I play the marimba, and am new to the vibraphone. I noticed that, over time, a depression develops on the vibraphone damper where the underside of the bars make contact with the felt. Is this a bad thing, and is it necessary to readjust…
At PASIC 2015, Stephon Harris and Clif Swiggert had a great session re: music theory and sort of demonstrating their new software called Harmony Cloud. I am looking forward to it, and yes I know it's not ready yet for release, but does…
