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Unconventional Vibraphone Techniques

I have only been playing vibes for about a year. Before I started playing the vibes, I thought you just hit the vibes with the mallets and use the pedal to let it ring out or stop the sound. Since then I have learned about so many different playing techniques that I would never have imagined. For one thing, I never realized you could actually play the vibes with the pedal up.

Other techniques that I learned about are:

Mallet Dampening
Pitchbending
Hand Tremolo
Bowing
Echo emulation (ala Piper)
Spider Egg Sacks (or plastic bags) over resonators

The Modes in Detail - Mixolydian

The mixolydian scale is the major scale with a flat 7. It's a very distinct sound, you've heard it all over the place.

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Chinese Translation for Chinese students

All Blues 這首曲子都是用到Mixolydian 的聲音。

Latin music 中也很常用到Mixolydian 的聲音。

在爵士樂中,遇到屬和弦(Dominant)會演奏Diminished音階,或是Altered音階,或是不同的音階。

但是也有時候會用到Mixolydian音階。

如果和弦記號有降九音,也不能用到Mixolydian音階。要是九音(Natural 9th)才適用Mixolydian音階。

One by Gary Burton & Ahmad Jamal (1981)

Ahmad Jamal and Gary Burton play a tune called "One", not the one from "A Chorus Line."
This is from the early eighties at a foreign jazz festival. I'm not sure if it's Montreux. This tune has an African flavor to it. I have the LP from which this performance is taken. Jamal and Burton have never worked together before and, to my knowledge hadn't worked together since.