I thought this was interesting and might get some talk going. Schoenberg is a tough one for me. Bartok, Shostakovitch and Stravinski I get, and I can hang with Schoenberg for a bit but not long!
Sometimes, well many times, I listen to music that I want to influence me. I'll do this and then go play the vibes. This really helps me. Listen to Debussy for a while and then start playing your instrument and improvising. What's going to come out? Well, your reflections on what you've just heard.
We're are all influenced musically all the time so use that for your practicing.
Neighbor tones are ways to embellish melodies. A very natural musical thing. This does though take a little practice if you're not already familiar with them.
This is beautiful. Listen to David's ballad playing. The way he comps and solos.
I love the clarity of the chords, the way he I can hear melodies in his chords. The way his lines move the ballad in his solo. This is great stuff.
I"m thinking about all this talk about mallets and sound. So I was wondering how we would classify different peoples sound? I don't mean in a negative way.
I'm listening to Steve Nelson right now, Mike Dirubo's new cd. Ed mentioned glassy, that's definitely glassy.
I dug Ed's duet with Liebman. More round sound right? His new mallets. Who else has a round sound? Samuels right?
We've been studying Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whispers'. We've all learned a ton from Joe and his tune.
Here's a pretty complete reference of what we've done.
If you put your version, please let me know so I can add it to this page!
Check out the comments to see what we were thinking!
Here's the next tune for the Tune of the week series.
I saw Barry's post and thought it would be nice to do Mood Indigo this week.
Try to do a version like Barry did, so playing block chords. Voice the melody with four voices. If I have time, I'll make a video lesson on block chords. I think Tony has a lot of video's where he talks about this and also the drop 2 lessons by Dana are also a study in block chords.
I'm pretty busy this week, but I'm still gonna try to do as much as I can.
CU
TJ
Here is a video I made today just talking about learing tunes.
I guess there are a lot of drummers on the site that already know a lot of tunes on drums, but switching to the vibes is like learning them all over again.
Here I talk about something I'll be experimenting with myself and I hope some of you guys will find this usefull.
TJ
Here is another one from a long time ago. Hope you enjoy it!
TJ
Here is a video I did a long time ago on the Burton Grip.
The sound is awfull and I don't know if anyone thinks this is helpfull, but I thought I'd share it with you guys. And you can see my practice container on this video.
TJ