Vibraphone

Finally an occasion to start blogging.

Tomorrow I think end of the day Tony is arriving here, of who I'm excited to meet in person.

Here's the PDF to go along with Dana's Lesson 'Easy Giant Steps Patterns Part 2'.

I'm actually excited for Thursday and to go to Nico's toy shop. A buddy or mine was in New York recently and was at a studio. He emailed me and said he played this instrument and it was so beautiful. It was a VP. He said he was mesmerized by the bars.

This is a wonderful video of a very young Gary Burton performing a solo piece. I think it's an original composition of Gary's. I'm sure he'll watch the video and comment here on it.

What was amazing to me is besides the haunting beauty of this piece was his technical facility at performing a rubato flowing piece like this. I think the dampening is incredible. Check it all the dampening he's doing with his palm.

--Tony Miceli

p.s. I forgot to give credit to John Daly who caught the video on tv and quickly recorded it knowing it would be valuable to the site.

Students talk about and show their progress in only a 2 day workshop. John Daly and Stefan both made amazing progress.

Here's a little snippet of Lionel Hampton's DVD from the Jazz Icons series that I posted about.

James

Dana talks about a Mexican Marimba, how it's made and how to hold 3 sticks in one hand.