I've got several students and ex-students who knock me out with their original compositions and spectacular playing. I thought it might be of interest to the vibeworkshoppers to hear some of these young, up and coming vibists. I'm going to post two. Here's a piece by my ex-student, Taiko Saito, who won 1st prize at the International Vibraphone competition in Clérmont-Ferrand in France a couple of years ago. She has a wonderful duo with pianist, Niko Meinhold. She's also a fantastic marimbist and has a solo CD which is coming out on a norwegian label in May.

So I was messing with the etude I wrote today. I wasn't digging the audio file which was the quantized part. So I went back to the original performance of the etude and started adding parts thinking this was the way to go. It started with one ding ding ding. Well it's about 2am and I am fried and I just started adding parts to this.

It Got Out of Control and I thought it was pretty funny. Here it is.

Don't use the pedal if you don't want to. This is just an exercise in some alternate 4 mallet sticking. Not single lines, but 2 note voicings.

I was messing around with these ideas this morning. I banged this puppy out before heading out to class. I'll double check it later.

Your job is to figure out what standard it is based on, analyze the voicings and play it.

You can name the tune here. It should be obvious!!!!

I added a track with some percussion. This is an etude that should just give you some independent 4 mallet ideas.

Steve Giordano - Guitar
John Swana - Trumpet
Tony Miceli - Vibes

Track from a recent online concert.

This is a clip from PASIC 07 that I saw a long while back but just ran across again. It is an interesting concept presented in an entertaining way.

James

I did a 30 minute gig with Daphnis. He's an amazing drummer. I hung on for my life! I was pretty nervous to play with him. It's different with the Cuban cats. They come from within deep of the clave! Pretty Intense.

The thing I know about playing swing and then playing with authentic Latinos and playing off the clave is that the lines are different. They end different, it's really a head change for me.

I know some of you play latin music, (Dana). You agree?

I'm glad it wasn't recorded or anything. I don't think I'd want to hear that back.

Oh man I couldn't resist! I was messing around on a site with cool personalised Tee-Shirts. And I came across this special apron with the name of... you know that character in that soap about a cook... What was is name again?

Here's the link... just a little funny. But click on the reading glass, you'll get the detail of the apron... a bit more funny huh?

http://t-s.fr/contents/detail.php4?MotifId=612&ModelId=28