Randy just sent me this.
I can't imagine playing with this band, it sounds loud. But you can hear Billy!
I was just blown away looking at our Vbooks section. That is Virtual Books.
I was putting something in the chords section and I couldn't believe how many lessons were in there!
The thing about vibesWorkshop is you just look for stuff to practice. I don't think we necessarily need a sequence, we just need to learn and practice. Yes with a teacher it's more about sequence I guess, but here you can just look around.
Here are three, two five, one progressions.
Good voice leading for the most part is lazy voice leading. That means:
With that in mind you figure this puzzle out. I'll attach the answers, but don't look until you're tried this out!
Here is the challenge:
These exercises go along with Behns video which is linked here under 'Check this Out'.
Allstar cats here!
There are some things to talk about here. First My mallets which are hard(er) mallets sound great here. It cuts through and you here the articulation. I'm not saying buy my mallets, but I am saying by mallets like mine. We should all have a set of mallets that cut through and stand out.
Notice I'm playing accoustically. No microphones up close on the vibes. The band is playing to my volume. That's the way it should be in my world. You play so all can be heard.
What else to say, this is amazing!
Performance video of Friedman Etude 7, played using Stevens' grip. Introductory practice to muting.
Hello all,
Here's another lesson on dampening, and specifically how it can be used to achieve a certain stride-like feel on vibes. I use this technique when playing solo and with a trio and love its possibilities for different articulations and textures. Watch my lessons on staccato and partial dampening first if you haven't already seen them.
A crazy mental exercise in improvisation! This will help your dampening skills as well as your ears and your overall understanding of the instrument.