Accompanying my lessons about solo playing here a version of this standard ballad.
Using "Like someone in love" (Eb) to study solo-vibe playing. Having started with creating a counter line to the melody with the root notes of the accompanying chords we are now starting to incorporate chords. See the previous installments (a path to solo playing 1 and 2) for the lead sheet. More detailed and in-depth study? Contact me for a Skype or Zoom lesson.
A Duke Ellington Solo Vibraphone Medley: In A Mellotone, Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Just Squeeze Me and I Got It Bad.
It is the best instrument in the world.
I think so, Stefan Harris thinks so, Warren Wolfe thinks so, David Friedman thinks so, Joe Locke thinks so and I think so.
Just sayin'.
07-01-20 is our next pop up class. We will study Bluessette.
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I discovered this several weeks ago and was reluctant to post this because it is so foreign to what we tend to talk about here. But I watched it again today and it's just too good to dismiss. Now I don't and never have played or studied marimba, so this might be the usual fare for marimba players but I've never heard anyone work these techniques into a vibes improvisation.
Here is the video I made for today's coffeehouse.
(not sure why the video distorts)
It's an edited, video version of this lesson: https://www.vibesworkshop.com/audio-player/lbglw-2-part-1-little-bit-go…
With a few less glitches and a 10 piece band backing behind it, an audience that was late-night drunk, and sympathetic to depression-era blues,,,,it could work.
2'nd of my private 'Corona-Works' is a Vibraphone-Solo Arrangement of 'Somewhere over the Rainbow'.
New clip recorded today with the iPhone and new mic (Shure MV88 stereo condenser mic). Reading through some songs and revisited this one that I use to play quite along time ago. The mic comes with a neat audio and video app and records with a wide stereo image and nice clarity.