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
QDV stands for quick and dirty video. That usually means I'm swamped but I'm trying to get a lesson up!!!
Here it is and it's on dampening. Just some general ideas. As I mention I don't even think about dampening at all. So I must have it tied in with some part of my playing, most likely the lines. But you'll see as you watch. The main screen is the pedal and my feet.
Hello Everyone,
The tune for this week will be Woody n You. Maybe it would be nice if we would try to do a version in a latin feel.
For those of you who are able to, try to make a duet yourself. So record one part and then add a second part all on your own.
I can also make a play along version, but let's first all study the tune a little and if someone needs help or wants a play along, I can make one during the week, ok?
Hope you guys will join in!
TJ
P.S. At the moment I'm doing these