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In this exercise, as in with all the ones in the style, your job is to fill in the chords right, and all the other partials on the chord page, and then memorize the solo. Next play it over and over and over, make it work for you make a swing, give it your interpretation.

When you get it all down and you understand it, you should try and put it in at least one other key as painful as that may be.

Usually when I do solos, I make them really simple. Here's one where I just tried to play without thinking that this was for a lesson.

I've included the keyboard part and the vibe solo part.

Your job is to try and transcribe the solo and use the sheet music to check yourself, or just transcribe it and don't even use the sheet music.

Shapes are important for vibe players. Moving shapes around can be challenging partly because our instrument set up is a keyboard that is not symmetrical. Click here if you want to see a symmetrical keyboard!

So we need to be able to move around the keyboard with shapes with 2, 3 or 4 mallets. 3 mallet, shapes are interesting with how the mallets will move around. Take the shape A Bb and D and then play Bb B and Eb with mallets 2,3 and 4. 

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Check out the Lumina Electronic Mallet Instrument. It's pretty cool.

Thought I'd post this for many reasons. 1. the music is great. 2. Ken is very talented and 3. HE HAS A LUMINA. 

I don't think they make a lumina any more (not sure). 

It used mallets that sent out signals so each mallet could be it's own sound. 

Ken knows more about it then me obviously, maybe he'll talk about it here. 

Check out all the sections of this piece and how he moves from one section to the next. Great stuff!

Doug WALTER, vibes with Brian Casey, bass   live at U.of Colorado Boulder 2020

From my CD: Vibe from N.Y.

David Kovins: Vibraphone and Drums

Nicki Parrott: Double Bass

What do you guys think? 

It's bizarre to me. They juggle and play bach.... and make a whole bunch of mistakes. 

In case you can't see it here's the link. It's on facebook.