Here's a series I'd like to run on connecting the dots, that is making lines with chord tones and scales. I think this could be very useful for some of you guys and this would get more complex as time went on. Let me know what you think. Try doing the excercise and posting it.
Hi Tony,hi all!
Inspired by Tony's blog on practising here in VW, I got a copy of "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner. Werner describes how to achive a special kind of consciousness he calls "to be in space" each time he plays his instrument. He uses some kind of meditation and exercises to create this relaxed but focussed state of mind. It must be fairly similar to auogenous training.
I haven't really worked hard on this and so I wonder if one of you did so and manages to "enter the space" when ever he wants??
So where are the space men? Do pro's also use this kind of techniques?
OK, this post was prompted by Ed's great version of Black Orpheus, and his thoughts about mallets...
This video was done a while ago, and I don't think I ever posted it on VW. Reason was, that I wasn't that crazy about the playing. It started out as just a personal comparison, to see how much I could feel the difference between mallets if I ran some video. A friend wanted to see it, so I edited a little movie and put it up on YouTube. But I was kind of farting around - wish the time and feel were a little better. Whatever, the subject is actually mallets.
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Use good voicings to help you make up lines.
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 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
So I'm messing around with Woody n You and I'm having trouble getting ideas. This melody is different from many others I play. So I'm trying to think about 4 mallets and what I'd do. Wasn't making much progress.
But my cat is dying, and I've taught her to talk to me. So she started talking to me and I brought her down (basement) (feeling sad) and sat there with her and was petting her and talking to her, and she was replying. Then I gave her my good chair and went and worked on Elio Villafranca's music for a bit, and then I came back to Woody n You and everything was different.
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