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Requiem Pour Un Con - Vibes / Balafon - Awesome adaptation

WARNING: this is no jazz, no lovely and wise vibes melody. :o)

I got this from Emilie. Vibist David Neerman is a friend of Illya Amar. For those who followed, you will find back something of the Nguen Le's style. David explores the vibes in a special way, a bit like Norbert Lucarain (all three being to me 'French bad boys'! ha!), using distortion among other tools. But he's also working in an original duet with balafonist Lansiné Kouyaté (awesome huh?).

Udel Lesson No. 1 by Tony Miceli

Udel students. Here's your first assignment. Choose one of the lessons under check this out and do the assignment.

If you do the lesson 'getting to the four chord' give a few examples of getting there.
If you do the blues scale lesson make sure you do a couple choruses and make sure we can here each change.

Any questions post them here, and we will reply. (VW community feel free to help out)

Vibe Diary - Sept. 19, 2011 - The Power of the Comment

Thanks to Nicofarr for posting his video of his new VanderPlas Baelio. I posted a comment with his audio jam and that comment has helped me a ton. I told him to use the pedal more and get more ringing. So I put my stuff out there and kept thinking about it. I started listening to Gary Burton last night and checking him out playing solo. I thought man, that's why he's the cat. Look at how he blends the ringing with the melody. He's got control of that instrument. Ed's another cat who has tamed the vibraphone!

Vibe Diary - Sept. 14, 2011

Didn't do SH** today. And that pisses me off big time. Any other pros get pissed at how much BS we have to do. I'm a struggling musician that still has to do 1-3 hours of office work every frickin' day. Add to it, running the site, teaching and buying my son dinner because he's broke and some days I want to kick and punch something or preferably someone... anyone.

So today I hate being a vibes player.