Vibraphone

Here's a clip of Jobim's Chega De Saudade. I don't think Lance played this before, so a few loose spots here and there. A little information about the guys in the band. Lance is very active here in town playing with a lot of players. David is on the faculty at Berklee. Jun was visiting from Tokyo. He and I went to Berklee around the same time. We had Joe Hunt down for the gig, but he wasn't feeling well and Jun gladly said he would fill in.

Hi All,
March will be here very soon, and so will another edition of Good Vibes, the vibraphone zone. The show airs on Sunday, March 4 at 8-10p eastern time. Don't forget the rebroadcast on Wednesday, March 7 at 4-6p eastern.

March 8 is International Women's Day. I'm celebrating that little-known holiday with all tunes named for women. So you'll hear Maria, Naima, Sweet Lorraine, Ruby, Emily and many more, all by our favorite vibes players.

Here's the details:

streaming online at www.jazzon2.org
Good Vibes airs on the first Sunday of the month, 8-10 pm eastern time

I made this for a student and thought I'd share it. We did it on the fly.

Practice page one in all the keys. Also page two.

Use the closed and open positions and then go through all the open and closed voicings. Remember the rules are the same as you move to the SAME notes to other voicings. If a note moved in one voicing it WILL move to the same place in all the other voicings.

Page three just analyze.

Remember: you don't need the roots. It's not Emin7 It's Cmaj. UNLESS you see an F# then it will sound more like Emin 9 than Cmaj7.

Here is the full etude. The etude (as written) is monophonic with just lines written out. I added 4 mallet stuff to work on getting it into my vocabulary. It's always funny how long it takes for this stuff to really sink in. I think that's what is interesting about what we do compared to what classical musicians do, having been on both sides of the fence. If I were to learn this as just a classical piece, I would be done with it. I learned it and played it with minimal errors. But as a jazz musician, I am just scratching the surface of getting 4 mallet stuff into my improvising.

After David's lesson Dim had a try and he sounded great.

John

This is a great lesson by David based on structures of the b5 of the dominant chord. It creates that "out" sound played over an F Blues. Thoroughly enjoyable lesson. Enjoy

John

Hey guys,

I was working on something today, and decided to make it into a little video for VW... my first lesson here.
Hope u enjoy.

Steve

Tarik is one of our oldest members on the site. And MAN has he come a long way as a player. He's one of our success stories! He could even be our poster child!

So let's wich Tarik a very happy birthday!

An unofficial question here: I'll be in Romania for a vibes festival March 12th. That night will be me and David Friedman, I'm opening up for him, and we'll play a tune together! That's GREAT!

Then I'm around all day tuesday. And I thought: The festival will be amazing! So why not see if anyone wants to come to the festival and then on the day after my performance do a FREE workshop at the University nearby.

Anyone interested? Any European cats nearby want to come? Friedman might be around Tuesday, maybe I can get him to stop by as well. We'll see.

Hey Guys,

I don't know if you are familiar with the Ralph Peterson Fo'tet. The group has released multiple albums over the last 23 years with very few personnel changes. It featured Don Byron on clarinet and Bryan Carrot on vibes. Ralph has recently reformed his group.