“Da Blues” - warming up today on my favorite set of vibes at Berklee. An old, beat up but great sounding vibe that we bought used many years for $1,500.
“It Might As Well Be Spring” - a great song by Rodgers and Hammerstein written for the 1945 film State Fair. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. I was reminded of the song listening to the superb recording Last Dance by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden. They play a beautiful version of the song. I’m using my signature mallets (M39) from Vic Firth. Very happy with how they sound in terms of clarity, fullness and the ability to extract nuance from the instrument at all dynamic levels.
Links from past posts.
Me playing Bag's Groove.
There are other songs on my youtube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3BdE9H18n59kyeoLZevzg?view_as=subscr…
Enjoy!
Kurt Schleunes
Here's what you do with this.
write in the chord names with the alterations.
memorize the voicings.
play them, add rhythm.
start changing the inversions of some of the voicings.
make a solo based off of the chord tones of the voicings on the sheet.
what notes would you stick in between as passing notes?
I think I have a few posts on this on the site. Here's 1 more.
"How My Heart Sings" composed by Earl Zindars and played by pianist Bill Evans on his 1964 recording titled the same name. Bill and Earl were good friends and Bill played quite a few songs composed by Earl. I first learned this song way back when I was studying with Gary Burton in the 70s. It was played quite a lot around Berklee back then. There's another great version from pianist Mulgrew Miller on the recording Young At Heart from drummer Tony Williams. My fantastic student/vibist Lucas Amorim and I have been working on this song in the past few lessons.