Vibraphone

Dimitri playing "Days of Wine and Roses"....
Warning : "F" word inside ! :)

Tjaco performing "In a sentimental mood"

Here is a part of a lesson by Tony, day 1 of the workshop in Sassenheim.

Tony speaks about "embellishing notes" or "surrounding notes" (after a question from Ben "redders" Redman).

Tony asked all of us to get to the vibraphone and just play a melody.

Here is Vid playing "But Beautiful".

Hey everyone,

This was a GREAT workshop. Nothing else to say. And I have buddies from all over the world. Great friends and great players. What can I say. This is some heavy &*it for me.

We had some great support from some great sponsors! And then all you guys. Man. Because of you, I got to hang with David Friedman and play with him. That rocks!

Who worked his butt off running around and helping everyone. THIS would NEVER HAD BEEN RUN SO SMOOTH WITHOUT TJACO.

This is a transcription of Bach's 2 part invention no. 13. The range has been adjusted to 3 octaves so it can be played on vibes and marimba. Both parts are 90% arpeggios, so using 4 mallets will make it easier to execute the lines. You can download the manuscript [HERE]

Note to Tony: How about allowing uploads of pdf files on video posts so I don't have to keep putting in these external links to the manuscript?

I thought we'd quickly post some of what we're working on. We went through this sheet of voicings. David gave a great talk on them and everyone had to learn them and play part of this. The jpg's are attached. We shot them with his camera.