Vibraphone

Hello everyone! I want to take full advantage of this site and everything offered here. To that end, this video was made. I hope this is the first of many posts I make. Give it a watch and I look forward to your thoughts. Have a good one!

I explain in the video why I'm posting but a few things I forgot to mention:

1. I'm also having trouble with getting a tight grip and a strong dampening stroke without tensing up (or feeling like I am, I have struggled with this quite a bit.)

Second video dedicated to the master of vibes and marimba Dave Samuels:
here we will analyse one of his most used technique. take your time to go over those rhythmical superimposition slowly with the metronome, then increase the speed and apply the idea over a repeated sequence of note you like.
Have fun!

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This one took like a million takes. I've been recording it every weekend for the past month and I think I finally have one that sounds okay! Here is #20 of Friedman's book.

please leave comments if you have time. thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I'm putting on another outdoor concert tonight (8/7 @ 7 pm) with my combo (vibes/guitar/bass/drums). This time we'll be streaming it live on YouTube at the link below:

https://youtu.be/vQGk1diUylA

Hope you can check it out!

Playing lines over “Stella By Starlight” with the inside mallets. Using an open spread and “digging in” with an up and down motion via the use of the fulcrum as with a two mallet player or drummer. For more information on the fulcrum grip, there are some YT clips on my channel that illustrate and discuss the concept. There is also a Wikipedia page on the grip.

I've been playing through a bunch of standards improvising solo vibes arrangements everyday recently, and realized I might as well record it. Although lockdown sucked in a lot of ways, it has REALLY gotten my solo playing together. Before it might've taken me a week of shedding to get a solo recording of this quality without any huge hiccups. But now I can just sit down and play. It is so freeing! And now, if I play in a band, I just have so much more confidence since I know I don't really need them. Anyone else notice this?

Susan is a great vibe player from Seattle. I've checked out her music for years now.

Look out for Chien Chien! I think she is coming up fast in the jazz world and the vibe world.

Here is a track with her and her band. It's a killer band;

Vibraphone: Chien Chien Lu
Piano: Shedrick Mitchell
Bass: Richie Goods
Drums: Janathan Barber

Concert sponsored by Taipei Economic and Culture Office in New York
Concert Co-sponsored by New Asia Chamber Music
Video: Yang-Lun Hsiao