This piece, a sarabande from Sonata IV in D minor, is a slow thoughtful piece and a good 4 mallet exercise. Use the 4 mallets for melody lines as well the block chords. For instance, in bar 6 you’ll find it handy to use 4 to play the wide…
I've been off the radar, mainly because it's the end of the semester and things are crazy.
There's a few things I'll get on soon, including a Jamie Aebersold book give away thanks to Toddc, the next vibe hang (will Randy bring his gongs?)…
Just gott his wild Idea.. Imagine a worldwide collective of vibraphonists sharing their frames, and only bringing their own resonators and bars on trips! -Saving money on owerweight, not needing to compromize on the sound, stay in touch…
SO, I threatened to bring my gongs to the last vibe hang, but unfortunately I couldn't make the date because I was out of town. I will certainly make the next one if I am around.
However, since that time, I have spent a few more hours…
NOTA: the live video I had attached has been removed... I'm so sorry about that. So I relink the studio version... beautiful too.
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Oh man...
I had just started discovering Stefon Harris' music last week. And today Joe…
This is a tune I wrote for my school combo.
The tune is loosely based off of rhythm changes. I use the upper structure triad stuff that Mike Pinto talks about but supper impose them over a pedal Bb at the beginning. so the first 4 chords…
I saw the name Jay Messina and thought that sounds familiar. I went to his site, www.jaymessina.com. Anyone into rock will know who Jay is. And he's a heavy cat. He is probably one of the top recording engineers in the world. Man he…
since david posted the sheet of the black page by frank zappa i thought you will also enjoy this more simplified arrangement of the tune. it´s based on the "make a jazz noise" cd-version, which i like a lot.i played this tune way back for…
Thought I'd post this for Tony, this is Jack and he is just getting started, you will notice he is reading and playing sections a piece of music,its not the black page but its a start. I particularly like the gentle stick drop at the end…
Here's the lead sheet. Check out the groups of five an six. Just try going through the piece playing only the rhythms. I think Terry Bozzio played this as a drum solo.
Here's another video of Mr. Gibbs from 2009. He still kills it everyday!! Now that's an inspiration!
My buddy Jay Garrett is in this video "dueling" with him on vibes. Very Cool!
Just restored a couple of instruments.
I think, they turned out pretty well.
One of them is a Deagan 594, once owned by Mike Mainieri. When we got it in, it was painted white.
We did the following:
- cleaned the bars
- replaced the…
