Way Maker - this song was requested by a friend who asked me to record it. I added my own spin on it with some reharmonization. The lead sheet with reharm can be viewed and downloaded via the link in the video description.
See the attached PDF for notation.
Hello everyone. Here is a gem. This must be why we don't see vibes players in music videos...we gotta take a lesson from this guy!
And just to make sure my ears aren't tricking me...there is no vibraphone in this entire audio? x-D
"My Ship" by Kurt Weill. Working on this classic song for solo vibraphone with a focus on a number of areas including orchestration, dampening, reharm, voicings and counterpoint. A beautiful song with so many wonderful versions from many of the jazz greats.
hope you like it,
best, Stefan
Hi everyone! Here is a video that I made on some things that I have been learning from John Coltrane's solo on "Take the Coltrane" (Duke Ellington).
I've attached a pdf that includes examples of Coltrane's use of tritone subs and triad shapes that I will talk about in this video. I've also attached the pdf of the full solo in case you'd like to check these out in context!
"In My Life" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Some late night practice sight reading some songs from a Beatles fakebook. Good practice since many of the songs are in most of the sharp keys. This is one of my favorites. A legacy of so many memorable and well crafted tunes.
I have never used the vibration device in the past because I don't like that extreme wah-wah sound. Now a friend really wanted one of my folding frames, but with a vibration device (he plays stylistically like Milt Jackson).
So I did look into it after all.
While testing, I came up with the idea that you don't have to align the fans exactly in a row if they can be removed as easily as with my frame. Therefore, I arranged them in a rotationally offset manner.
Because I wanted a realistic statement for myself about the resulting sound, I recorded the test.
Out Of Nowhere - lot of fun yesterday playing with Mark and Gustavo in the basement studio. Nice playing and then a hang with Napoli pizza and meat pie capped off with blueberry and apple pie from Mann's.
