I think it's ok for every young musician to rebel against those who came before if they choose. The discussion about lines and then John's post about challenges of the instrument got me thinking.
Hi everyone, I was going wait until the album was available on itunes and amazon until I announced this but I have no clue when thats going to happen BUT the CD and MP3 CAN be purchased through the label website right now!
My new (first) album "Prologue" is now available!
I'm going to provide an MP3 of one of the tracks plus the pdf of the chart only for vibesworkshoppers!
Check it out, let me know what you think!
If you want to purchase the CD or MP3s you can get them from:
Not much, until you get lost in YouTube.
Part of my vibes study routine is to see what's posted on YouTube.
Someone post "Wii Music - Legend of Zelda (Vibraphone)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZLKQm6YWE
Which led to someone playing it on Theremin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYho56INKU
Hi!
I just bought a vinyl copy of the album "We get requests" by the Oskar Peterson Trio. I know this record since I was a teenager and for me the solo OP plays here is one of the finest jazz solos ever recorded. OP uses rather few notes, has a perfect phrasing and creates an tremendous "dramatic arc" over the solo and takes it to almost "reliefing" climax. And yet another aspect is the bass by Ray Brown and the drums by Ed Thigpen that faciliate and support the solo so well.
I was playing a I vi ii V I progression and starting playing a familar melody. There are two melodies in the enclosed mp3. Are they the same or different tunes? What are they?
Thanks,
Barry
I'm just sitting here listening to the 'Procrastinator' and I realized that most of the cd's I've bought recently have come from the cd library here. I don't do much in the library, it's mostly Tjaco and Patty I think.
They have turned me on to great stuff that I didn't have. I can't believe that I never bought the Procrasinator! Also the Jackie Mclean cd's with Bobby H.
Really cool. Any of you other guys that want to put your recommendations in I can set you up. Especially Paps. You've seen him around and he's a walking musical encyclopedia.
Well as I'm watching all my gigs slow up in this awful economy, I'm wondering how I'm going to handle this and hang on until things pick back up.
Then I was reading 'Pet Owners' Quarterly and I saw an article that's about to change my life I think. There's a demand for turtle models and actors. Apparently the Ninja turtles are going to make a comeback.
So I began training my new pets that my wife brought home to make a few bucks and help out around the house.
Tonight, our local jazz station played Henry Mancini's Love Theme From "Romeo And Juliet" (A Time For Us). I thought I would give it a try on vibes. It's in Gm, so I got to work in a different key.
Suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Barry
My practice time is inversely proportional to the number of posts per day on this site. So keep it down ;-). I had a nice practice tonight. Some scales, some tunes.
One thing led to another and I started playing Norwegian Wood in 6ths. I think I might add this one to my office's Christmas party cocktail hour gig. Enclosed is an arrangement I came up with. I later heard the original and found I played it in the wrong key (C vs. original E). I think I might keep it in C since it lays nicely.
I have only been playing vibes for about a year. Before I started playing the vibes, I thought you just hit the vibes with the mallets and use the pedal to let it ring out or stop the sound. Since then I have learned about so many different playing techniques that I would never have imagined. For one thing, I never realized you could actually play the vibes with the pedal up.
Other techniques that I learned about are:
Mallet Dampening
Pitchbending
Hand Tremolo
Bowing
Echo emulation (ala Piper)
Spider Egg Sacks (or plastic bags) over resonators