Vibraphone

Here is Morten Grønvad from Danemark... smooooking!! :o)
Morten is a member here as "Mogreen". I hope he comes around more often and share with us!
If you take a lot at his hands, you might notice he's using the Mainieri Pinky grip... Never saw anyone except the master himself being at ease with it!! Wow!!

Listen to this Romanian vibist, in a beautiful rendition of Richard Galliano's Laurita. Great clear sound and technique (tasty bended notes in the first head). Enjoy !

This piece is the 1st movement from Bach's violin sonata # 1. There's lots of opportunity for mallet dampening. The goal is to get it to sound full and resonant, but very clean. As you move from chord to chord use good dampening and/or pedaling to make sure no notes from the previous chord ring into the current chord; making it sound sloppy.

The tempo is really slow, with an 8th note set to about 50 on the metronome. A pdf of the manuscript is included HERE

Hey guys and gals! This is an audio clip from a recital I did recently. Whaddya think? Hope you dig it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIprhA_qaAs

-Drew

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Presenting music from their upcoming release Blue November.

Manhattan Vibes

Christos Rafalides; vibraphone
Sergio Salvatore: piano
Ricardo Rodriguez: bass
Vince Cherico: drums

sets at 8pm and 10pm

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