Which one are you and why?
I'm a 2 and 4 guy, but today I was messing around with 1 and 3 and digging it and seeing the possibilities.
There's been some talk on the site lately about what should a beginner do around here. First off if you're a beginner, you need one thing on your side. That's time. You have to have a lot of time on your hands. You need to be able to go slow.
I think just tackling the mechanics of the the instrument will take at the very least a year. Scales, arpeggios, dampening and pedaling. That's a year of hard work. Add to that learning some simple tunes, the blues scale, chord inversions and a few other things and you are one busy cat!
Just a heads up. If you're planning on coming to the Delaware workshop, it's starting to fill up. There was a lot of advertising outside of Vibesworkshop so between that and VW members it's inching it's way up there. If you're a VW member and want to attend, let me know and I'll hold a few spots for a couple weeks while you're getting your application in.
A guy calls the local musicians' union to get a quote on a six piece band for a wedding.
The rep says: "Off the top of my head, I'd say about two thousand dollars."
The guy says: "ARE YOU KIDDING? —— FOR MUSIC?!?"
The rep responds…
"Let me suggest that you call the plumbers' union and ask for six plumbers to work from six to midnight on a Saturday night. Whatever they charge you, we'll work for half!"
I found this clip on youtube introducing a new vibe design called a tri-chromatic vibraphone. The keyboard layout is radically different from anything I've ever seen. Check it out.
Ted
When I first encountered modes I felt a little overwhelmed. I had been working hard to really learn all the major and minor scales and thought that would be all the scales I'd need to learn. But no! I discover there are lots of other scales that are important, if not vital, to playing jazz.
Any ideas for beginners lessons. Tjaco has offered to crank some out and I can do some. I'm also checking out a couple guys that specialize in beginning mallets for some lessons.
If you are a beginner, what would you like to see? I know we need more beginners lessons up here, and so we might as well customize them to you!
Ideas??
Made you look.
The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?
What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?
Have I brought this up already?
I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.
A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.
I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.
I'm toying around with the idea of doing a TOTM Skype workshop this Saturday. Maybe around noon U.S. EDT?
This would be an experiment. I could handle 3 or 4 people on skype. We could spend an hour working on the tune. Anyone interested?
Just putting feelers out there. Nothing is definite yet. You'd need skype. I'll do video and audio, you don't have to do video on your end.