Vibraphone

Angelo the 91 year old vibe player (maybe the oldest professional working vibe player) write me now regularly. He always asks me to post the letters for everyone to read!

here's the latest. he's really interesting and his advice is good! He always reminds me to eat from all three food color groups as in this letter.

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Here's an interesting study. Print this etude out and learn it. At some point you should realize what tune it is.

Then realize that there are no roots in the chords except at the beginning and at one spot where I added it by mistake. Hopefully this should give you some insight into some of the things we've been talking about. That is playing chords without the roots and using the upper extensions to make the harmony.

Hi Everyone,

As part of the Berklee Percussion Festival, Dave Samuels, Gustavo Agatiello, Victor Mendoza, Nancy Zeltsman and me will be teaching vibes and marimba during June 22nd through the 26th. We have group lessons and ensembles scheduled during the days and various clinics and concerts scheduled throughout the week. Gustavo has a concert featuring a nice band in the Berklee Performance Center on Tuesday. Gustavo and me will be playing vibe duets during the registration period on Monday. All in all, it looks like a fun week.

Ok for subscribers, here's the PAS article.

Here's another etude over the tune 'My One and Only Love'. You put the chords in. It's a chord etude based on quarter notes.

You can see the top note of the chord and the up and down of the melody. You can see where there's a chord and maybe it doesn't have an important note in it, but then on the next beat that chords there. You'll be working on inversions and voice leading.

Tony recently put up a dampening exercise based on the changes for Stella. Ensuing comments on his posting examined the E-7b5 chord at the beginning of the tune. Tony suggested I start a post with a challenge for us to find as many tunes that start with a minor 7 flat 5 chord as possible.

Rules: you cannot use your fake books or browse any lead sheet you may have. Just think through all the tunes you've memorized and find those that fit the description. Here are some to get you started. This is to challenge yourself to see how many tunes you know.

1. Beautiful Love

I have a suggestion: Since this isn't a teenage chat sight, or a lonely hearts,"Hope to meet someone nice" site, why don't we all go by our real names? I find it a bit irritating if I want to say something to a specific member, or answer a post, without having to check, "Am I writing to Vibraman, Vibraphoneman, vibratorman, or whatever. We're all serious musicians, right? What do you all say we drop the "chat" names and start fresh? What does everybody think?

This is just me practicing Blue Monk. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated! Anything that can help me to be better!
I promise I will upload some 4 mallet stuff soon.
Thanks,
-Joe Doubleday

Ok the title looks weird. It's not for Tarik because he's 'My One and only Love', it's just that he posted his version of the tune so I thought I'd crank out a chord study based on the tune! We got that straight right?

What I would do would be fill in chords and then learn the tune and check out the voicings.

I decided not to post an audio version (midi) of the etude because I think it's pretty straight forward and maybe it's better that you solve the puzzle and get the sounds happening by learning the etude.

Hi Folks-

Been awhile since I dropped in... looks like lots of exciting stuff is happening around here! Just wanted to post to let everyone know that I somehow lost my entire M46 crossbar and pedal assembly between the 55 Bar and my house about a month ago. I have an m48 I practice on, so I was using its crossbar to make a frankenphone for awhile... unfortunately I first discovered the situation as I rolled up to a GIG! (Still haven't confirmed it wasn't stolen from my car by a thief who's a bit confused.)