The theme of this lesson is to find something that YOU like when you play. Forget about judgement, and just listen. Find patterns that sound good, pick out melodies that sound familiar or make up new ones, experiment with different ways of striking the instrument. Try anything. Record and/or remember the things that you really like, and then later you can learn WHAT it is you played so that you can do it again, or be free to change it however you want.

This tune was written by Bill Dobbins many years ago. I first heard it performed as a piano/vibes duet. I recently recorded it for bass and vibes. But I'm sure it would sound great on vibes and marimba. The audio clip is slightly different than the attached pdf manuscript. Some stuff has been added and some taken out, but you'll get the idea.

We did the tune at a moderately bright tempo, but I've heard it played super fast, as the tune's title suggests.

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I'm new on the vibes and my sight-reading is very very crappy. I'm looking for suggestions for (a) material to use for practice in sight-reading, and (b) approaches to practicing.

Right now for sight-reading I'm just reading Real Book heads and Bach Inventions (one part at a time). I've also just started with Bartok's Mikrokosmos for very very simple two-handed reading (stuff like unison lines, very simple parallel motion, etc).

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Hi everyone,

Here is a lesson on building a voicing vocabulary. This is a exercise with offers a method for familiarizing yourself with every possible inversion and alteration of any given chord with a 4 note voicing. This first lesson just deals with close position voicings. I plan to expand to include drop 2 and other more spread out voicing in the next lesson. As always, I'd love to hear your feedback and welcome any questions or comments on the material.
-Tyler

There are a few interesting things about this tune. Check out the A section.

Nick Mancini at Vibe Summit XVlll. June 26th 2011. Dave Mackay on keyboard, Richard Simon on Bass and Paul Kreibich on drums. This video had to be compressed quite a bit so the quality suffered (but not the playing!).

here´s another mix i call final. i simply love this song from C. Aguilera. unfortunatley in opposite to the vibes solo of luiza i hate this one and i thought seriously to leave it out in the mix. but my band said i should keep it...what can i say 2vs1...
normally we played the song in Eb but 1 day before the recording the guitar player wanted to play it in E since it fits better for guitar and this is a guitar feature.so another proof tonys holy 12 keys rule is is cool. although the song is simple i think could never done it before the practice of all the TOTM´s. thanks tony!