Vibraphone

When Love Prevails by David Burge

My father composed this four movement work for vibraphone in 2003. The premier (video above) was done with dance (SanDiego Ballet) but the piece works very well as a solo offering. Each movement has its own character and draws from a variety of musical styles....avant garde, odd meter, lyrical, etc. The music is published by CF Peters. I have a better audio version and am happy to send the files if anyone is interested.

Hi Folks:

My band, Nós Novo, is doing our 2nd Annual Very Special Xmas Special tonight at Cornelia Street Cafe at 9pm. One long set of jigs, reels, old songs, and a few carols, woven into our repertoire and sounding like us. $10 cover for one long set... should be great fun.

It's that time of year again; a time for the endlessly curious combination of ancient ritual and online shopping; cloves and cinnamon wafting through Walmart, trees brought inside and dressed up, Lady Gaga singing about the infant christ on tv.

Let's focus on the TOTM's we've covered so far.

Let's also work on ways of building technique, solo playing, studying chords and all other topics you guys might have.

We'll start the day at about 10am and go till noon.
Then have lunch. Get back together at about 1:30 or 2. We'll go until about 4. Break for dinner. Come back for percussion ensemble at about 5:30. After percussion ensemble we'll hang and have a concert, or jam together.

David Friedman, Tony Miceli Behn Gillece, Anthony Smith, Matthias Goebel and Paschal Schumacher are doing an international vibesworkshop in Wuppertal..
The workshop will take place from March 5 until the 9th 2014 at the Hochschule für Musik, Bewegung und Tanz in Wuppertal. That's 5 days of mallets from morning until night!!.

The Workshop Includes:

• Classes Each Day
• Ensembles
• Bass Player
• Vibraphones
• Marimbas
• Pianos
• Practice Rooms
• Concert Hall

Rules:

1. ONE key per day.
2. you MUST run the board ascending/ descending >or< descending/ ascending at least 2 times per sequence. Lowest point o the instrument in that key to the highest point on that instrument in that key.
3. you MUST use a metronome, preferably set to 2 & 4. Slow to medium tempo.

the RHYTHMIC PROGRESSION
1st time = 8th notes
2nd time = 8th note triplets
3rd time = 16th notes

the STICKING APPLICATION
8th notes using alternate sticking, doubles, paradiddles (that’s 3 times up & down!)

finally a video of my mug and trio for everyone here .. been a while .. hope you all enjoy. this is a tune of mine called afterthought. this trio will be hitting the recording studio in janruary and has just been accepted to be on hammondbeat records out of portland oregon .. gonna be a great 2013

Steve Weiss is an old friend of mine. And I've bought quite a few sets of vibes from him over the years. I think he's done a lot for the percussion world by creating the largest percussion store in the world. He's a great, crazy guy that many of us percussionists, vibe players, marimba players around the world really appreciate. So I wrote a percussion piece and named it after him! He definitely is Weiss Guy!

Hey guys. Saturday, December 8th, 12pm I'm doing a vibe hang at my house for a couple of my U Arts Students. Behn Gillece is coming by as well. If any of you are around and want to come hang, then come over. Email me for more info.

I'm going to set up the instruments and we're going to do some duo playing. Probably from 12-2

I just wanted to make you look. Soft mallets don't suck. Well not all the time.

I saw a great student of mine play recently. He's a great up and coming vibe player I think. I was listening to him comp and could hear nothing. I know he could hear the instrument, I get that. If HE couldn't hear the instrument and he was comping (with soft mallets) then that's not cool. But I'm sure he could.

Let me know what you think. This is my final for lessons with Tony @ UArts