In Part 2 of my Upper Structure series I use a Maj Triad built off of the 7th scale degree of a Major 7 chord.
So if we are playing a Cmaj the upper structure would be a Bmaj triad.
I use this mainly to suspend the Maj7th chord. So instead of directly playing C maj I play a Bmaj Triad and then play the C maj chord.

Check out the video and if you have any questions please post them!

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Marco is a great vibes player.

Someone recently commented on something about Terry Gibbs firing musicians that upstaged him. It was not done maliciously at all, but Terry wanted to set the record straight! Here's our phone call rough and unedited.

Some time ago, when this place was still at its genesis, I remember Tony wrote this "Music is a language".

Hungarian member Richard Szaniszlo linked this tune today on his FB, and I thought it was a great way to get back to this little phrase... from the Boss of the place, here so well 'illustrated' by a huge language master...

I love the way he speaks through his guitar, really talking to us...

Enjoy!

- M

This is really cool watching Mario build a tune.

Hope you can come!
Go Here for more info on the workshop. http://www.vibesworkshop.com/node/3066/

Thought I would post this I saw it at the DW stand. This is a reminder of a truly great artist Jim Chapin whom every drummer should know and whom I had the great pleasure of meeting. He was an amazing individual he could play either way leading with right or left hand had incredible independence with all four limbs and led the way for all of the great drummers we hear today and he wrote 2 amazing books first of which was printed in 1949 I think and was called Advanced Techniques For The Modern Drummer.

I just thought this was an interesting shot.

Hey here I am playing the solo form the Astor Piazzolla´s tune "Vibraphonissimo" played by Gary Burton. I hope you like it and expect your comments.