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…
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Please join Tom Beckham and Brad Shepik for a special evening of vibraphone and guitar music as they both debut at Mezzrow.
Beckham and Shepik dig in and explore original compositions and jazz classics with six strings and four mallets–…
Please join vibraphonist Tom Beckham and guitarist Brad Shepik for a special evening of vibraphone and guitar music as they both debut at Mezzrow.
Beckham and Shepik dig in and explore original compositions and jazz classics with six…
Correction - Think of the D mixlydian phrygian chord as a D triad with an Eb.
Attached is an example of how to play The chord part of Flamenco Sketches on the vibes.
okay, so when I first started studying in Berlin, David told me to write an etude every week. which was super challenging a couple of years ago. but seeing the progress I made through this - not only with my technical skills but also…
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