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I'm currently undertaking a Research Masters in Composition at the University of Sydney and invite Vibes Workshop members to take part in a short online survey of seven questions below to aid my research into the use of technology…
Hello guys, if anyone is interested in writing an article for the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes, please email me for the details and to discuss possible topics. The article could be on topics associated with the…
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I had the great opportunity to do a Skype lesson with Tony, Dimitris, and Denis today (who knew Babu's real name was Denis...learn something new everyday!). Denis mentioned a lot of the reasons why it was cool in his post,…
This is from a McCoy Tyner record called "A Night of Ballads and Blues." It's an awesome trio recording from 1963 on the Impulse label. He did a few trio records for Impulse, and they're my favorite piano trio recordings!
Imagine this,…
In one of the classes that gave David Friedman, taught us an a very good exercise to improve the tempo. The exercise is record yourself, a simple melody, solo or comping and after trying to play up the recording!! It seems simple, but it's…
Jazz vibraphone workshop in Paris with David Friedman and Philippe Macé. April 5st-7
Program :
April 5th from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm, meeting with students with Philippe Macé,
April 6th from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm with David Friedman and Philippe…
This is another of Chick Corea's great compositions. I'm sure Gary and Chick have recorded it but I don't know which CD it might be on.
The full version of the tune has an interlude section too, but I didn't include that for this…
Skype lessons are great. I learned a lot from the last one we did with Tony. I heard him playing a lick over a a half diminished chord and after I practised it in 12 keys I thought good idea to do free improvisation etude using this lick…
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Here is Hauke (right) from Germany and Tjaco having a lesson with David. Hauke is also one of our new members. It was great having him around! Let's keep in touch!! :o)
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those of you who took a look at my playing along with 'the weeping song' probably read that I was going to try a soloversion of another 'bad seeds' song : the shipsong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4VWKbZkIcM
I already started it…
Hallo everyone, thank you for such great time last week. You filled me up with soul, spirit, music ,... .I met so many wonderful persons and they all play vibes!!!! It was a pleasure to be your host and I hope you had a good time. I want…
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I had this amazing skype lessons with Carolyn and Badu. The great thing about it is that people from all over the world can comunicate and share their interests and questions. Ofcorse Tony is a great teacher since he sees everyone as…
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Some years ago I had in my hands during a couple of hours a study book from the great guitarist Ted Greene. I copied quickly the notes of one of the exercises, and I re-discovered it yesterday when having a look on my old paper…
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It was (I think) more then 5 years ago since I listened to this song, but last week I put it on, and kept thinking : "this vibes score sounds do-able for me". So I listened a couple of times to find out what the vibes exactly do,…
Me jamming with Jimmy Smith playing Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments.
http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Moments/dp/B000V6A5LW
For the head, I was trying to get the same phrasing as the organ and horns.
I'd appreciate critiques/suggestions for my…
Doing this whole lesson took me 30 minutes tops. Doing my version of How Deep took me about 4 minutes to record, well 6, I had a screw up in version 1. Not that this is a great version, but I wanted to quickly make an acceptable version of…
Who doesn't love Dex!? Today is his birthday. What are your favorite Dexter tunes/albums. My favorite album is Doin' Allright. I also really like the blues on that album Society Red. Check out how behind the beat he sounds on the whole…
Hey guys, we just had (Dim, Carolyn and me) a skype lesson with Tony. All went good, sound clear.
That's fascinating to be able to meet people from several countries (USA, France, Greece in this case), as if everybody was in the same music…
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