I posted this etude. (See Check this out).
I put a link to it above so if you reply to this page it will keep it in the classroom.
Check out the etude. We talked about this in the workshop.
In other words if you come back to this page and post comments it's just in the classroom and private to us.
Here's the PDF to go along with Dana's Lesson 'Easy Giant Steps Patterns Part 2'.
This is a wonderful video of a very young Gary Burton performing a solo piece. I think it's an original composition of Gary's. I'm sure he'll watch the video and comment here on it.
What was amazing to me is besides the haunting beauty of this piece was his technical facility at performing a rubato flowing piece like this. I think the dampening is incredible. Check it all the dampening he's doing with his palm.
--Tony Miceli
p.s. I forgot to give credit to John Daly who caught the video on tv and quickly recorded it knowing it would be valuable to the site.
Dana talks about a Mexican Marimba, how it's made and how to hold 3 sticks in one hand.
This is to go along with Dana's Video. See above for the link to the video.
I was practicing You and the Night and the Music, tonight and thought I'd whip something up for the site.
So here's a sort of duet. I figured out the vibe part and started messing around and adding some other parts and it turned into a sort of duet.
Also here is a practice take of me playing the vibes! I wasn't happy with the ending as you'll be able to tell by how I drop the sticks. Anyway, check out the etude and play along with the duet. It's lines and comping. You can listen to the midi part to see what it sounds like together and then play along with the 'no vibes' mp3.
Here's an interesting study. Print this etude out and learn it. At some point you should realize what tune it is.
Then realize that there are no roots in the chords except at the beginning and at one spot where I added it by mistake. Hopefully this should give you some insight into some of the things we've been talking about. That is playing chords without the roots and using the upper extensions to make the harmony.