This is my arrangement of Dolphin Dance I did for my midterm arranging project. It was cold in the room so the sax is a little out of tune but thats just the way it goes.

Lomar Brown- Alto Sax
Joe Doubleday- Vibes
Tamir Schmerling- Bass
Miles Nasta- Drums

This is a really nice work for solo vibes. Originally written by Hector Villa-Lobos for voice and cellos, this is just one in a series of pieces that were an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music.

The accompaniment is often just arpeggios, so let them ring. You'll need to mallet dampen the melody at several strategic places. The goal, as always, is to have the piece sound as full and clean as possible. Fullness comes from leaving the pedal down a lot, and cleanliness comes from pedaling and dampening in all the right places.

Dana has a GREAT music room!

OH man, this is pretty incredible. Wait until you check this out.

Here's the final lesson for Blue Bossa. Hope a couple of you guys post your versions.

This one is really heavy on solo vibes i think but i like the song and here´s my first attempt that is at least listenable. the problem for me is there are so many chords to comp during the solo and it´s difficult to keep both happening (melody + comping). any tips for that tony?

i also wonder how gary play this octaves at then end of the A sections ALWAYS right :)?

tarik

It's only rare these days that I write anything in this blog, merely because most things that are happening here are just common stuff.

At the moment tho, lots is happening here in the company. We're reorganizing to cope with the huge increased market and specially the demand for the gigVibe model. Reorganizing is in terms of company structure, machinery/workshop structure and simplifying/standardizing the current models, investing in new machines.

It took me a minute to get it, but it's cute.

I have the final lesson coming of our TOTM. The thing is there have been so many heavy videos going up that I thought I should chill on the TOTM and let all this great stuff through. It's been the Burton Lessons, the Friedman lessons, Ed Saindon performing. This is great stuff, and I've been learning a ton from checking out these cats so I assume you guys are as well.

I have the last lesson the 'Putting it all Together' lesson planned and I'll post it soon.

Philippe sent me a version of his "These Foolish Things", without the Piano track, so that I can work on comping. I recorded a version tonight, and had a discussion with Tony about it. His first comment was that I should be voicing the chords with the melody in mind. This is not saying to play the melody, though. The goal is to support the singer. My thought was that I should not play melody notes since the singer is doing that.