One of five solo vibraphone recordings made in March, 2017.
One of five solo vibraphone recordings made in March, 2017.
We all new he would become a serious contender in a short time....
It's always fun to groove on baroque music
Let me know what you think please.
It's always very helpful.
Dan here's the etude I promised you.
It would be great if you recorded a version for the site.
Everyone else, maybe we should do this as our next TOTM. It's a GREAT tune.
Write the chords in. Learn the tune. Check out the etude. Check out the bass line. If you have a synth play the bass line on the synth. Do you understand it? See the notes, the upper partials I stick in because of the melody of the bass line?
 Minority was written by Gigi Gryce |
Here's one chorus of Minority. Your job is to memorize the changes and then you comp and add the rhythms. |
This is an articulation exercise in the style of an Indian Raga. I use lots of accents and different stickings for the repeated notes so that the sound constantly changes through varied articulation. There's lots of double stickings, i.a. LLR, LLR, LLR, RRRR, LLLL,
Playing on the tip of the mallet head with the pedal down creates the illusion of long held out tones because you don't hear any attack.
It's also a tremendous (I sound like Trump!) challenge to keep the tempo steady.
Enjoy!