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

Here's another exercise for the bridge of rhythm changes.

Hello everyone, for anyone in Spain, I'll be there during May. Here are the dates where I'll be. Madrid (11-14), Valencia (15-16) and Barcelona (17-19). It's primarily a vacation for my wife and I, but if there is an interest in getting together for a lesson, contact me via email. Not sure of the specific details yet, but I'll be giving a clinic at the Berklee campus in Valencia on the 16th. Ed

Here's a clip of Jobim's Chega De Saudade. I don't think Lance played this before, so a few loose spots here and there. A little information about the guys in the band. Lance is very active here in town playing with a lot of players. David is on the faculty at Berklee. Jun was visiting from Tokyo. He and I went to Berklee around the same time. We had Joe Hunt down for the gig, but he wasn't feeling well and Jun gladly said he would fill in.