Cool to see some transcriptions of Bobby going up around here. About 10 years ago (!!!) I transcribed a LOT of solos, and I think I probably did more Hutch than any other vibes player... there's just so much IN there.

There are less recordings of him playing standards than with, say, Milt, but the examples you do come across are just gold. This one's from a cool little album called 'Color Schemes' from 1986. I love recordings from all through Bobby's career, but from the mid-80s up through Skyline, his command of his instruments (especially marimba) is frighteningly strong.

I like to tinker with my instruments to get different effects. I used to put tacks on the hammers of my piano to get a honkey tonk sound (not good for your piano, though). John Piper joked about Tony putting spider egg sacs over his resonators to get a buzzing sound like a Gyil (see above reference).

Well, I couldn't find any spider egg sacs for my vibes resonators, so I used a plastic grocery bag (HDPE #2) between the bars and resonators.

General information on Keys, modes and relative keys.

General information on Chords and Chord Scales.

Understanding Tritone Substitutions
by John Mark Piper

To understand the basics of tritone substitutions and how they typically function is an important aspect of music. Having good command of them can help a musician's reading, hearing, performing and memorizing music.

I usually rig something up for Halloween. This year I decided to put an inflatable halloween decoration under a pile of leaves. When the kids come to the door for trick-or-treating, I'll turn on the blower with a remote controlled outlet switch and have it pop up out of the leaves.

Attached is a video of my setup with an overdub of me playing theme music on vibes. I tried doing some dampening. I had trouble with my Piper (43R) mallets as they bounced when I tried dampening so I used Mike Balter 12Rs instead. Any suggestions on controlling the bouncing when dampening.

Here's a suggestion for subscribers using the site and practicing like there is no tomorrow(like you're all doing!).

Say you are working on something, a tune, a progression, a mode or anything like that. The thing to do is to use the search box located to the top left of the page.

Just type in what you are working on (or part of it if you don't get a result) and you'll see posts that relate to what you are working on.

So what if you don't find anything??

I think it is sometimes hard to find a lot of Bobby Hutcherson stuff. He doesn't have loads of cd's with him as a leader, but he did a lot of stuff as a sideman. So there is a guy who put a list on amazon with Bobby Hutcherson on cd's as a sideman! So check it out. I'm gonna post these cd's to the cd library book also.

http://www.amazon.com/Bobby-Hutcherson-as-a-Sideman/lm/1JBE1MRHAUKL5

This is another great solo by Bobby Hutcherson. ENJOY!! :)

Man, we saw 4 people online! John Piper Told me there was a lot of you online. Damn, what happened? I thought wow, no one has questions. Oh man. Piper said there were lots of questions. I ended early because it seemed like no one was there. Something went wrong.