I talked in another post about the release of Sunset Glow featuring myself and David Friedman.
I thought I would embed the CD here for anyone who wants to check it out.
Sunset Glow by TJazzVibes
Greetings all,I finished recording 5 solo vibraphone pieces in a studio in Florida a couple of weeks ago. Since then we had a mix session and the engineer sent me what he believed to be the final mixes.Before I go on let me say straight…
I've made other lessons here with the same theme. Make it sound like the song. It's our job in a way. Sure the heavy weights do this or that. But a true heavy weight can make it sound like the song. Once you have mastered that then you can…
Many years ago I heard a recording of Joel M. Ross on Youtube where he had taped his mallets. I found the subtle noise when playing very interesting, but the mallets were always too expensive for me to ruin the winding with tape. With my…
David and I have been playing together for over 10 years now. A couple things I know, 1. I'm a good vibe player, 2. David is a master. So I got to play and study with him for over 10 years. Talk about the instrument, talk about what we…
After a lifetime of work trying to become a great improviser, I've come to understand that music can be broken down into basic challenges that venture off into more complex ones as you continue to search for the ultimate YOU in your music…
I am doing a lot of teaching this semester. Probably the most I have ever done. It's really hard for a musician to turn work down. Well for me it is. It's a lot of fun teaching students who practice and work hard. Not as much fun teaching…
I was inspired by Tony to practice Stablemates. This is a QDV of a brief practice session. I'm working on playing the head with chords and then playing lines over the changes. I feel pretty good about the former, but it's difficult for me…
Get to work! I am making some Tik Tok MalletKat videos for Alternate mode. (The Malletkat is the pro model of electronic keyboard percussion). So I decided to play some tunes and then I thought I'll notate them as an etude for all of you. …
When the Covid pandemic started I began a project to create a book of arrangements for solo vibraphone. Although I have a closet full of music books I've never published my own. I'm on the last piece in the collection and starting to…
This is a piece that I wrote for an assignment in Tony Micelli’s private vibraphone lessons on vibesworkshop.comI called it “He Laid upon the Ground” because I came up with the melody while I was laying in the floor of a practice room at…
I've done other etudes with Cherokee, but here's a new one. I like doing certain tunes even if I'm doing another something for that tune. Some tunes have so many progressions in them that when you learn them, you learn many many other…
Ok, so download this file below. Burn all the tracks to a CD or put them on your ipod. Then set to shuffle. Listen and play the note back. Use the pause button if you need to. This should be a daily thing for a bout 5 or 10 minutes most…
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