Vibraphone

I saw the name Jay Messina and thought that sounds familiar. I went to his site, www.jaymessina.com. Anyone into rock will know who Jay is. And he's a heavy cat. He is probably one of the top recording engineers in the world. Man he recorded Aerosmith. You know he has had an incredible life!!

Well he still has is Hampton model pro-vibes and has been playing around with them again. Jay said Mainieri gave him some mallets and he's been hitting a different kind of heavy metal!

I've been off the radar, mainly because it's the end of the semester and things are crazy.

There's a few things I'll get on soon, including a Jamie Aebersold book give away thanks to Toddc, the next vibe hang (will Randy bring his gongs?) and more lessons.

This is a tune I wrote for my school combo.

The tune is loosely based off of rhythm changes. I use the upper structure triad stuff that Mike Pinto talks about but supper impose them over a pedal Bb at the beginning. so the first 4 chords are Cmaj/Bb, Emaj/Bb, Bbmaj, Dmaj/Bb. These all have the same function as the chords in rhythm changes. Kind of.

Thought I'd post this for Tony, this is Jack and he is just getting started, you will notice he is reading and playing sections a piece of music,its not the black page but its a start. I particularly like the gentle stick drop at the end

John

since david posted the sheet of the black page by frank zappa i thought you will also enjoy this more simplified arrangement of the tune. it´s based on the "make a jazz noise" cd-version, which i like a lot.i played this tune way back for my classic examen (2001) i found also a poor recording i did with my friend on marimba and me on vibes. i would play it different today but who cares...

Chick Corea and Gary Burton's duet of "Monks Dream" recorded at the Blue Note, NYC.
I Found this on YouTube,..not sure if it has been posted on this site before.....
Nice rendition. :)
Carla Jenkins

Check out one of the late greats

Just restored a couple of instruments.
I think, they turned out pretty well.

One of them is a Deagan 594, once owned by Mike Mainieri. When we got it in, it was painted white.
We did the following:
- cleaned the bars
- replaced the terrible casters by new, bigger, and better ones
- removed the experimental midi-electronics (didn't work anymore, impossible to repair)
- filled up the space in the endblocks where the midi was placed.
- coated the keybed
- powdercoated the supporting frame and the coverplates for the rails in black

From the Real Book, the chords are:

___|_Em7b5_______|_A7b9________|_Cm7_________|_F7__________|, etc., with melody:
Bb |_A___________|____G__A__Bb_|_F___________|_F___________|


When I play it, it sounds like the 1st and 3rd chords are suspended versions of the subsequent chords. I play the Em7b5 as Bb D E A, then dampen the D (the sus 4 of the subsequent chord) and hit a C#, to turn it into the A7b9. Similarly, I play the Cm7 as Bb C Eb F, then dampen the Bb (the sus 4 of the subsequent chord) and hit an A, to turn it into an F7 (no root).