"Alice In Wonderland" - The classic song that I listened to so many times from the great Bill Evans recording Live at the Village Vanguard. I remember Gary talking to me in the lessons way back about Bill and his various recordings. He was…
Nasty Virus Blues - a tribute to all of my musician friends out there. Please keep on playing and sharing your music. I’ve been really enjoying all of the beautiful posts and clips.
Hey everyone,
Long story short, I will now be writing about cultures of virtual music learning communities for my ethnomusicology PhD (ethnomusicology = the study of music and culture). I have always considered VW a goldmine in many ways,…
This is an original tune I wrote the other day. I bought my daughter this little pentatonic glockenspiel thing that so far she has very little interest in. But it inspired me to write a tune using the pentatonic scale! I'm sure you will…
Just got off the phone with a few vibesworkshop members and we had a great time studying Green Dolphin Street!
Our goals are to make a solo version in C and then Eb and then we will do a facebook concert where we each play a version of…
Don't always look for reasons and explanations as to why to do something.
But I can take most of the tunes I know and play 3rds and 7ths only. Can you?
I used to really check out anything a great player could do and then I would do it. I…
Malletech LN2R Mallet review - you should get some!
Since my wife and I first moved into the same Brooklyn loft apartment in 1993 I have either been blissfully ignorant or hyper-aware of the sound of my vibraphone practicing and how it…
Since the semester at Temple's over, and I finally have a good audio setup, and I have a lot of time on my hands, I'm going to try to record David Friedman's whole book. I've already finished more than half of the etudes -- I just need to…
I'm going to start posting solo vibraphone videos much more now that the semester is over and I have mics and an audio interface. "This is I Remember Clifford." On my mind are modulation, dynamics, dampening, and maintaining a big picture…