I'll be covering the following topics:
Sound production
Phrasing, with and without dampening
Thoughts on sticking
Practicing concepts
A non-traditional scale approach
Arranging jazz standards for the vibraphone
(I'm glad I'm going! - tm)
Here is another of my tunes that we ran a trial run of at our last concert. It's called Waltz for Dasha...
Enjoy!
James
Here's the next tune for the Tune of the week series.
I saw Barry's post and thought it would be nice to do Mood Indigo this week.
Try to do a version like Barry did, so playing block chords. Voice the melody with four voices. If I have time, I'll make a video lesson on block chords. I think Tony has a lot of video's where he talks about this and also the drop 2 lessons by Dana are also a study in block chords.
I'm pretty busy this week, but I'm still gonna try to do as much as I can.
CU
TJ
For my (Tony Miceli) part of the workshop I'll cover many of the things that I cover here.
Stride Vibes
Lines (clarity)
Learning Tunes
Playing Tunes in 12 keys (How easy it really is)
I'm always interesting in talking about getting players to break down there playing and see where they are at. This is great for practicing, that is learning how to find where you're at with something and then build on it. Too many players jump right in and build on confusion. To me that's no good.
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
Guys, here’s another one. We’re playing my composition Hope. The intro featured a drone which was Lieb’s idea. I like the mood that it set up for the tune. The lead sheet can be downloaded from my website here: http://www.edsaindon.com/originalcompositions.htm
Part Two can be checked out on my YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/edsaindon
I found this also. I think this is piece I heard a while back. I think it sounds great!
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