I've been actually having a lot of fun, playing with metronome and really thinking hard about rhythm and how certain rhythms should sound. Sometimes I'll play a phrase of a tune or something I just played over and over, just listening to it against the metronome on 2 and 4. It's really fascinating to me how certain rhythms lay against the 2 and the 4.

I'm thinking about doing the same things against other things such as a clave (just got a clave app for my iphone) and bossa rhythms etc.

Anyone else thinking along these lines?

Some tips on melodic voicing.

Dear Mr. Baileo,

I'm interested in buying a vibraphone in configuration of the Musser one nighter (3 octaves, no motor - and with a Pro instrument sound) Can you please tell me how much a Gigvibe in that configuration would cost?

Thank you,
Emre

Hey,
I think it's a great thing One great thing I learned from the Sassenheim workshop was a bossa pattern played by vid (a great vibraphone player from Slovenia). So, I practised it and I thought it's cool to post it on the site. I hope you enjoy it. Any of you latin guys feel that can be played in a better way please feel free to comment.

PDF attached

Thanks
Dimitris

Hello Everyone,

I'm new here.. I'm a professional drummer wanting to be a complete musician, and would like to seriously get into studying the vibes. I don't know if I'll ever gig on the vibes every night, but I would like to get a Pro instrument. Is there a difference in Sound between the musser brands: M55, M48 or the M46? (I'm aware that M46 does not come with a motor)

If it all sounds the same, and feels similar to play, and the only difference is the cosmetics...than I would like to purchase the M46..

Good decision??

Thank you all!

Emre

We're having a non internet vibe hang at my house this Saturday. If you're interested in coming let me know. We'll chip in for pizza and I have a bass player coming, so we'll jam and talk about vibes.

Don't laugh guys, this is an old clip. I was recently was going through some old VHS tapes and ran across this footage from 1984. With me on vibes is Greg (Iggy) Mooter on electric bass. We were playing some tunes and doing an interview back then for a local TV station. Actually, I think the facial hair and hair style is very funny. OK, you can laugh.

Here's some minor idea adjustments for our TOTM, If I Were A Bell.

About building the skill of approach notes:
I do exercises for MAJOR and DOMINANT chords playing from
-below chromatically
-above diatonically
-above-below & vice versa
-above-below-below-above & vice versa

I wonder, if in the variant of minor chords in Jazz we tend to use rather the aeolian or dorian scale. I guess dorian, but aeolian is easier to hear in the first place.

Thanks for any remarks & comments,

Norbert