Vibraphone

www.vibesworkshop.com is an absolutely fantastic resource!

I really love hanging out at www.vibesworkshop.com!

A Great Musical Resource for the Vibes. There's usually someone that knows the answer to your question!

If I had to pick one thing I like about vibesworkshop.com it would have to be the pure amount of STUFF they have on the website!

I've been actually having a lot of fun, playing with metronome and really thinking hard about rhythm and how certain rhythms should sound. Sometimes I'll play a phrase of a tune or something I just played over and over, just listening to it against the metronome on 2 and 4. It's really fascinating to me how certain rhythms lay against the 2 and the 4.

I'm thinking about doing the same things against other things such as a clave (just got a clave app for my iphone) and bossa rhythms etc.

Anyone else thinking along these lines?

Some tips on melodic voicing.

We're having a non internet vibe hang at my house this Saturday. If you're interested in coming let me know. We'll chip in for pizza and I have a bass player coming, so we'll jam and talk about vibes.

Don't laugh guys, this is an old clip. I was recently was going through some old VHS tapes and ran across this footage from 1984. With me on vibes is Greg (Iggy) Mooter on electric bass. We were playing some tunes and doing an interview back then for a local TV station. Actually, I think the facial hair and hair style is very funny. OK, you can laugh.

Here's some minor idea adjustments for our TOTM, If I Were A Bell.

Hello everyone, for anyone in Spain, I'll be there during May. Here are the dates where I'll be. Madrid (11-14), Valencia (15-16) and Barcelona (17-19). It's primarily a vacation for my wife and I, but if there is an interest in getting together for a lesson, contact me via email. Not sure of the specific details yet, but I'll be giving a clinic at the Berklee campus in Valencia on the 16th. Ed