Ethnic

Hi Tony, hi all,

quite some time a go John McLaughlin was in town playing a concert tour called "Remember Shakti". One of the songs was a piece of classical Indian music. I wonder is some of you dear VWers have some receommendation where to start with this kind of stuff? Cd's? artists?

Any thoughts? thanks!

Cheers Stefan

I posted a few songs from the 2009 Mountain View concert series my group did on Thursday. We had played the same college 2 years ago resulting in the video of us playing Tin Tin Deo that up on YouTube.

I have had some requests since the last lesson to show how to apply the ideas from lesson 1 to different chord sequences. This part of the lesson deals exclusively with taking a single rhythm (the first from lesson 1) and applying it over various tunes with different voicings. Watching it again, I feel like I played these patterns a lit bit on the fast side for cha cha so slow them down ;)

I just happened across this and I thought it was too cool! Needless to say, I want one :)

He's got a few other videos up too if you like it.

Another bablafon player. I love listening to this and hearing the kids in the background. Folk music is really cool. Ultimately it's what music is really about right?

The lesson demonstrates some comping patterns and ideas to get you started on playing in a ChaCha groove. All the patterns are over a ii-V7 vamp (Amin7-D7). You could use these patterns over songs like Oye Como Va and Soul Sauce.

Check out this young guy Alexander Cruz. I met him at PASIC this year. He was playing with an excellent marimba group from Chiapas Mexico called Narimbo:
http://www.narimbo.com/

An excerpt from a concert we did at a local community college.

For more info on Trio Montuno visit:
http://www.triomontuno.com

A quick video of a way to practice getting your Brazilian comping together.

Here's an etude I wrote out for a student a while back. We were exploring Latin Rhythms on the vibes. It's a little tricky.