Alright, here's 10 more lessons on stride playing and chordal playing. I am fried but I wanted to crank these out. My buddy Barryk is my unofficial proof reader, so hopefully these will be acceptable to him!
So I had fun experimenting with a new camera angle. I hung a cam from above and played Blue Bossa. Hopefully you guys find it of use. Maybe it will give you some ideas. Let me know what you think.
The more I teach and the older I get I feel that it's all about being simple and getting your point across.
Blue Bossa is a great tune to make a study of. Here are some things to do from easy to difficult. You should work on some of these ideas and then post them online here.
1. Memorize whatever you do.
2. Learn the melody
3. Learn the chords
4. Play a chord tone solo
5. Do all the above in all keys
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1. Make an arrangement of the tune. NOT a strict arrangement just work out ways to play the melody and accompany yourself.
2. Do this in all keys.
Here's me playing Blue Bossa for jl12 here at the online school. I thought I would post it for everybody. I tried to play very simple, and i shot the camera from above to see if that would be helpful.
I did some 'free' flowing vids the other night. More advanced stuff. I need to edit them now and get them up.
The real thing I'm thinking about is getting you guys to post some stuff. Subscribers that is. As the site grows this will happen naturally but I want to encourage some of that now! So I'm thinking of ways. Maybe I'll pick or post a duet and get a few of you guys to download my part, record your part and send it back to me! Then I can edit them together. Might be cool!
Ok, last night was a hard night. I have never had these bandwidth problems, but usually everything I do that is live is on Sunday nights. Maybe I should stick with them for now. I'm going to have to look into the bandwidth problems with streaming live.
I love the idea. That is to create a place where vibe players can get together and play and hang. Show youtube videos, maybe get some interviews going etc. So I'm going to stick with it and figure out what's up here and make the next hopefully better!
Just started working on Etude 5. A few mistakes. Need to work on dynamics and get more comfortable with my left hand chords with two mallets.
How do you like my newly polished bars? Found a tip on TheVibe.net to use Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish. Found it at Walmart in the automotive section.
Does cleaning the bars affect the tone? It may be my imagination but they sound a little brighter.
You don't have to fly me out and put me up in a hotel. I can do workshops and clinics right from my video studio. We can design courses around the Vibes School, have performances, private lessons and more.
Or even do part of the workshop 'virtually' then have any of the faculty members here come out to your site at the end of the workshop.
This is a chance to save a lot of money and have a masterclass or workshop. Young students now adays are totally familiar with this medium.
Check out the Mallet Channel!