Vibraphone

My first vibe was an M55 that I played up until I built the first Piper Vibe. Here's the receipt from Manny's from 1974. The instrument was delivered to me at Berklee where I was a second year student. Gary was my teacher and it seems like yesterday. I customized that instrument with pedal spurs, MBraces and bladder-filled damper pad and then sold it around 1994 somewhere in Nebraska. Here's the receipt just for fun. Brand new, $850.00

Yeah, they got my name wrong.

Hi Guys this month i'm going to talk about the jazz phasing and pronunciation.
I'll show you some basic exercises based on triplet jazz feel applied to arpeggios and scales.

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Hey Everybody,
April's show is ready for JAM (Jazz Appreciation Month). But isn't that every month?
I think I'll start backwards this month. I end the show with David Friedman and Chet Baker

It's from back in the day! I actually have someone helping me find bad pages missing files and then I'm trying to fix them. Here's the etude.

Someone should try and play it and post it. It's not easy.

At home today on a semester break working on this classic standard composed by Victor Young in 1931. Such a hip tune for that time period.

Available Soon

Having fun today in the basement of the percussion department at Berklee between classes playing a blues in C. Some of the vibe students and I have been working on this style of left hand accompaniment. It's fun and a challenge trying to keep the left hand going while focusing on the right hand improv using syncopation. It's a pleasure to be able to teach and interact with all of the very talented players here. For me, it's energizing.

Midi and other bells and whistles on the vibraphone are a waste of time and energy (in my opinion). Here's why: Synthesizer keyboards are easier to play, better made and already available in many very sophisticated forms at very low prices. AND, they can express "synthetic music" better than a vibraphone trying to be something it isn’t. If you want to play synthesizer, spend a couple of years (or less) practicing a keyboard. You'll be far ahead at the game of synthetic sounds of music than you'll ever will by doing it on a vibraphone-shaped object emulating something else.

Milt at his musical best!!!