Vibraphone

Hi to everybody coming to the workshop at Niko's in Sassenheim. I'm afraid my "suggestion" to prepare Coltrane's "Giant Steps" sounded a bit too harsh. I shouldn't have said "prepare" these two tunes, but rather check them out. I know "Giant Steps" is a killer and many people feel their not up to it yet. But, hey,no stress. NOBODY is comparing or giving a test. I just thought it might be fun to take this "boogy man" of a jazz tune and demystify him a bit.

I would like to ask the participants to prepare the following two tunes, which I want to concentrate on in depth. In terms of voicings, please prepare "Darn That Dream" in G major.
For lines and linear improvisation, please prepare "Giant Steps".

Thanks. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 18th in Sassenheim!

David Friedman

i watched tony's video on left handed technique and started playing in C dorian like the video with those ideas

For me, the best caravan vibes solo on youtube till now.

this was a hard one for me. i practiced it over 1 week now and here´s the result. the B-part with the octaves was almost impossible when i first tried it. but after one day and the hate of my girlfriend and neighbours repeating the same thing REAL slow and over and over again it worked. on the head i used mostly block chords from the drop 2 book.

i also tried to play around with my 2 cameras (one is a webcam) but i couldn´t make the sound synchron to the webcam...don´t know why(stupid computers)so i just leave it this way.

hope you like it!

tarik

Hi everybody...I thought it's time to post a video here, since i'm always watching inspiring videos of the great colleagues here!...

It's a composition of mine called 'French Song'.
Although there is nothing like a french character to it anymore, since the piece developed into something else, i kept the original title...

It's written in 5/4...hope you like it ;-)

Mario over at alternate mode has developed a MIDI drum head. Pretty cool huh? I'll get him to tell us more about it ASAP. He's really working up some pretty cool things.

We've talked a lot about sitting and playing. I've done it before. Last night I sat for the whole gig. I was using my old M-55 which is my lowest instrument. This bar stool was a little high but ok. I felt great playing like that. It was very comfortable. No problems at all playing. I just sat because the stool was right behind me. It wasn't planned.

Just thought I'd mention it.