Dampening

Check out the attached PDF!

In this exercise, the line is a little closer to a walking bass line with quarter notes. Keep the notes legato, and shoot for keeping the pedal down as much as possible with clean dampening in between the notes. Check out the attached PDF!

Hi everyone!

I'm doing a short series on dampening. In these etudes, we're using walking bass lines as a way to work on dampening. Most of these exercises are pretty simple, and a lot of fun! Try them out and see how well you can keep a legato feel throughout. And of course, check out the attached PDF! 😀

This is a piece that I wrote for an assignment in Tony Micelli’s private vibraphone lessons on vibesworkshop.com

I called it “He Laid upon the Ground” because I came up with the melody while I was laying in the floor of a practice room at USM.

You’ll have to forgive the hesitation close to the end, but otherwise, enjoy!

I talk about using dampening to help make smooth transitions between chords.

Blue Bossa Tony Transcription: https://youtu.be/p5X--sj07NQ

Donna Lee First 16 bars: https://youtu.be/XwVTTUB4VTY

Blue Bossa 2 chorus solo: https://youtu.be/yPZaXUpdK10

Friedman Etude #9: https://youtu.be/XNTOiMpdEBI

Friedman Etude # 6: https://youtu.be/YttaWr_I6iY

Donna Lee - First 4 bars memorized in F & Ab: https://youtu.be/VRhheJYW15Y

Blue Bossa head in E- and C-: https://youtu.be/Zpnk1Rol4BY

Dampening and Pedaling Friedman Etude #5: https://youtu.be/tnIN1oyfdAU

So what - head, improv, comping: https://youtu.be/9jLtYycwDm8

Gb, Bb, Eb, & F minor open-closed voicings: https://youtu.be/-a6A7F679eI

Bb blues improv: https://youtu.be/nvHan2zgulk

Hello everyone,

This lesson is on how to pedal smoothly, which may seem simple, but I find a lot of people don't know how to actually do it.

Hey everyone,

In this first lesson on pedaling, I explain how I view the pedal, how it's different from the piano, and how to set it up properly. Next we will talk about legato-pedaling, staccato-pedaling, pedaling rhythm, and half-pedaling.