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Hi All, Fourth of July is coming up fast, and that means the July show is just before, on July 2. I'll play two different versions of "America," Mike Mainieri's from CD Crescent and Bob Masteller's recorded live at the Jazz Corner. I'm…
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Here's a play along I made for a student. We are working on moving 2 5's through the keys. So the Progression is: C | C | Gmin7 | C7 | Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Cmin7 | F7 | Bbmaj7 etc. get it? i wrote out voicings and i played a solo where I…
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20% Off of Beiner Bag Cases for the Next 30 days. Grant Beiner makes great cases! He's a percussionist so he knows what we need! I asked Grant for a very good discount for Vibeworkshop members and he offered 20%. Here's the thing: Go to…
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Aimee Nolte has some great stuff on Youtube. I came across this lesson on Bill Evans' playing on Blue in Green. The "minimalist" piano style is really well-suited to the vibes for obvious reasons. I've attached a clip of me playing the…
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Sunday June 25th there will be a Wine Tasting - House Concert featuring myself and Violinist Diane Monroe. It will take place at 3pm in the Germantown area of Philadelphia in a nice (environmentally green) house (my house). Come if you…
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So last summer I posted a lesson entitled "Incorporating Brubeck Ideas into your Solo Vibe Practice and Performance" where I discussed different solo vibraphone techniques I learned from practicing a reduction of Dave Brubeck's performance…
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I haven't been an active member for a long time, but I'm hoping to change that. I thought I would start with a recent video of my quartet playing "footprints" at a local club. Please also check out my website and leave me some feedback. I'…
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Thanks for Steve Shapiro for posting on Facebook!
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I learn and I learn and I learn. I thought Jenco's totally sucked. Well I thought they were for students. Randy Suttin is the kind of guy who is way more open to instruments and sounds than me. So I checked out Peter Schlamb's new CD…
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We team up for our German workshop with Matthias from the Mallet Institute. It's a great workshop!
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"Sophisticated Lady" by the great Duke Ellington. I've been working on this song this past week. Such a deep and beautiful composition. Some of my favorite versions are from Duke of course as well as from great pianists like Art Tatum,…
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Putting the Scales in the Chords This is an old lesson, but I think it's good. The audio is down at the bottom of the text. So think of the scales this way. The chord tones and the notes between the chord tones are the scales. For…
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If you are into the Exotica genre, I think you will dig this group. Found them on Amazon Music where they have one of their albums available for free streaming. MUSICIANS: Brian O’Neill (Artistic Director) vibraphone, percussion, artistic…
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Nice surprise today having Steve Nelson come to the mallet class which Gustavo and I ran. The class was part of the Berklee Percussion Weekend. Steve played two beautiful solo pieces. Sweet and Lovely and Ellington's Sophisticated Lady.…
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Hi vibes lover in this lesson I'll talk about my idea of composing. I will explain how I wrote the Aforisma n#2 from my new book called AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone Here you can listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
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Hi Everyone, Boy, did May ever get away from me. Two events kept me crazy busy, the first the graduation of my son Nick from Temple University's graduate program in music in mid-May. The second, hosting the Jost Project at our house as a…
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Any recommendations for bar cord for a Omega vibe? Had one snap on me the other night and had to use some musser cord which left several bars with a metallic buzz (also just tried some paracord with the same results! The reason for asking…
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