This covers strictly the piston stroke-- the what and how of physically performing it.
The start of an ongoing project! After parsing the physical skills, philosophical issues will get teased out, and then I'll create segments particular to drum corps problems. Hopefully a contribution of something new to Vibes Workshop!
Shawn
This is a solo on Joe Henderson's "Recordame" that Dave recorded for me in a lesson when I was studying with him at Berklee most likely in '73. He played this in the lesson unaccompanied and I had taped the lesson and transcribed it after. It's probably on a cassette somewhere but I can't locate it. Anyways, it's a great display of Dave's playing at that time and shows a high level command of language, nice improv concepts and his strong time feel.
Fast tempos are hard, slow tempos are hard. I think tempos are hard period.
I spend so much time playing and recording and checking the feel and the tempo. Sometimes it's 3 hours later and I'm on the same tune looking for a take that I think is acceptable. Where the time seems to be ok.
I love playing by myself and trying to make a piece of music. Check out Peter Bernstein's solo guitar album. Well and check out my solo vibes album. Both are on Itunes. I think for some musicians it's really something to work towards; playing alone and playing well. And playing time.
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