Hey Tony,

I feel good about the time and the head. I feel good about some of my lines in the soloing but I'd definitely like to work more on the solo accompaniement techniques next time we meet up. I recorded it a number of different times at different speeds and I think this is the tempo that it was the most "comfortable" at while listening back. I'd love to hear some suggestions to make it better!

Jon

READ THIS BEFORE PLAYING THE AUDIO:

I dedicate this to Tony because I think this is probably what Christmas Music sounds like inside his head after hundreds of gigs playing it (static); I dedicate it to Nico because he's a cool guy and it goes along with his recent post on resonators and Barry because he's an experimenter, and like me, he can't help it.

Hey Tony,

I have a few of different version of Green Dolphin Street ready to go. I might try to record it one more time tomorrow and then post it. Talk to you soon!

Jon

Bars, resonators and their tuning.

Base of the vibes' sound ofcourse are the bars, and in a huge amount the (tuning of) the resonators.
I'll try to explain in the next article how to tune the bars, how to tune the resonators, and how to get the best benefit from the resonators.

Bars.

It is widely know that vibe bars have their fundamental tuned, and the first overtone to a double octave.

All about the bars

Ok, guys after all you guys harrassing me about this here it finally is, my blog about Mike Mainieri...

Ok, so the first views of the master where at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. A very nice jazzclub in Amsterdam. He was playing with a dutch trio led by Marnix Busstra(on Guitar) together with Eric van der Westen on Bass and Pieter Bast on Drums. A very good trio, which I had never seen before.
The concert was also the release of the cd they just recorded. They have recorded before in a more electrical setting, but this cd is just acoustic trio with Mike on Vibes.

Malletech announced a new vibraphone that allows manual tremolo using your foot (is manual the right word?).

http://thevibe.net/smf/index.php?topic=1120.0

Looks interesting.

Gavin has a great write-up on it:
http://gavinmcgraw.blogspot.com/

Barry

Here's another song I was thinking of adding for my Xmas gig.

I was working on a solo version and also with accompaniment. Enclosed is a version with Band-in-a-Box background

For some reason my setup is real noisy. Gotta track that down.

Barry

Hey Everybody,

Marie has been hagging me to blog about the two times a have seen Mike Mainieri play in the last week. But I've been fed up with some really complicated personal stuff... Well actually that has been going on for a year now, but it's really complicated, but anyway the bottom line is I have to move soon and have to put a lot of time into our new house and also I have a pretty good gig coming up in a theater show that I'm preparing fo, some pretty advanced classical stuff(I'll post about that too in a while...)....

Real simple. Pick something. Play it and record it listen back and do it over and over for an hour or so.

Record then listen to it. Just keep the cycle going and don't interrupt the cycle.

Real simple real easy. Maybe a head to a tune? maybe a solo? Maybe a written out piece.

Play and record it. Sit and listen to it back immediately and then play and record it again and do this over and over.