Vibraphone

Here is a pretty good first video. Probably the most famous solo vibe performance of all time. Thank you, Gary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9q3s2Nesw

Hey guys!!

Any ideas on what to study next? What to study?

I was thinking of spending some time on solo playing. Really working out chord melody stuff, lines, but from the aspect of playing solo.

I really believe that great players can all play solo. They can play something with no accompaniment, even if playing solo is not their forte. That means they know how it all works and how to work it on the instrument.

So that's one idea. Any others??

I played with German vibist Florian Poser a couple months ago and had a blast. Florian is a great player!

There's something about these two instruments. Listen carefully can anyone hear anything strange? (Barryk, you should be able to tell... that is if you're a true vibe geek!)

just a quick application comment...

this line is quartal vocabulary (or fourthy vocabulary hahaha).

it's a quartal chord just in an inversion. If you made C# the bottom note voiced... C#, F#, B, E you would have stacked 4ths.

where to play this? Well it could be...

Emaj giving you scale degrees 13-9-5-1
Amaj (3-13-9-5)
Dmaj (7-3-13-9)
C#minor (1, 11, 7, 3)
F#minor (5-1-11-7)
Bminor (9-5-1-11)
E7 (13-9-5-1)
Bb7alt (#9-b13-b9-#11)

I'm sure I left a few out. But do you guys see how it fits into all of those chords?

Hi All,
The August Good Vibes is coming up soon, August 5th. The Behn/Ken duo is featured with "The Dog Days"; a poetic inspiration from Joe Locke, "This Is Just To Say"; a track from David Friedman's new CD, "Silent Water/Before the Rain"; and a Steve Allen original played by Terry Gibbs, "I Used To Think I Was Crazy." And much more.
Hope you can listen in!
gloria

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