This last week was a great week for the mallet instruments here in Boston. Gary was in town two Saturdays ago with his quartet and they put on a great show.
Then we had Gustavo and Ed playing vibe duets... Ed and Dave Samuels played a…
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I'm fasinated by lines so today I studied opening licks. I put them down in a Finale doc and thought I'd post them.
I sat and listened to them until I could pretty much play them, then I went over to the hunk of metal and tried to slowly…
So this is an exercise I've done a lot. There's actually 2 exercises going on here.
First I'll take a ballad and play as simply as I possibly can. It's a great way to work on your concentration and even technique. Technique? Yes because…
This is so swinging. I decided to transcribe it tonight and put it through the routine.
Sonny Stitt is a monster. He swings so hard. This one chorus, just kills me!
I quickly put it down in finale. it might not be perfect. Usually I just…
Easy questions, too easy!
- Whose hands are these?
- Where was this photo taken?
- When?
- By who?
Marie
P.S.: technical details should make the first question really too easy... But answer to all the questions is required! :o)
Pivot Chords are a great way to work on key stuff. I got the idea from Bill Evans. I liked the way he modulated different tunes and tried to make my own up. Here's how he changes key at the end of Here's that Rainy Day.
So Instead of…
I decided to try and set up a workshop in August here in Philly.
We'll have a bass player and drummer (at least 1 set, more depending on how many people sign up).
This is the unofficial notice! The dates will be August 15th and 16th. The…
I was chatting with my Dad tonight and he mentioned he heard Skylark on the radio and thought it would be nice to learn.
I couldn't find it in my two fake books, which I am surprised. I thought it was a popular standard.
I started doing…
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I was asked by one of our ex- students(Can Olgun), who's studying at the moment at Manhattan School of music, to be a guest on his new CD. Here's one of his tunes, calles "MS Traumwelt(translated, Dreamworld). The tune is…
We're in our second lesson with 'Take the A Train' in our tune group. I'm psyched and hoping that people stay interested in this. I think it would be pretty cool to have someday 10 or 20 of us working on a tune all together.
That kind of…
I was hanging online with barryk and I found used mussers for 4500 and 4800 dollars over at www.malletshop.com.
I couldn't believe that so I inquired why are they were so high priced. I thought I'd pass along the malletshop's answer:
I…
I'm thinking about how to do a day online in August where maybe different vibe players do concerts all day online. I think we would need about 6 or 7 people, start at noon on a Sunday and go until 6 (Philly time). That should get most of…
I am working on "Somewhere In the Night" by Milton Raskin and Billy May. I first heard it on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album. See "Check This Out" link. I can't find the sheet music so I am trying to figure out the changes. I stopped…
When I practice it takes me a good hour before I can really start to get somewhere. It seems like for me that that first hour doesn't really even count although i have to do it to get past everything else. Get past what? The day, the crap…
this is my arragement of billy joel´s just the way you are in 7/8 (most of the time) with my duo partner jan on guitar.still (like everything i post) far away from perfect.i hope this will change some holy day...
We're starting the new week with a load of work ahead, unfortunatelly hardly any work this week is scheduled for production of the vibrahones themselves.
We're gonna spend a lot of time on finishing our pre-production glockenspiel which we…