I'm glad to see John posting stuff here. Man he's a great player and teacher. I've had such great talks with him and totally dig what he has to say musically and philosophically!
BTW - In his spare time John is a FIRE FIGHTER. Yes he runs…
I dig logging in here and seeing 4 to 8 guys online going around the site. That alone gives me a good feeling.
I took a break this week from putting new video up and I've been experimenting with ways of putting it up quicker and easier,…
Just got the Garritan Jazz & Big Band sounds for Band in a Box and decided to try it out with Blue Bossa. I am getting better an memorizing the changes and trying some improv.
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Check out this part of the forum. If any of you guys dig the school, It would be great for any recommendations you could spare. It's all part of spreading the word so we can get…
Ok, when I say the vibes are more like a guitar than a piano, this is what I mean. Check this cat out and think about this. If that was a set of vibes and the same notes came out, can you see how we could totally do that on the vibes. It…
Here is a duet of Stella by Starlight. I did this one with Tony a few years ago.
I think my part is not that great, but you get an idea of what you can do with these duets.
I also added Tony's part for you to play along. Remember if you…
I talk and think about this all the time. You'll hear me bring it up over and over and over again. I never totally liked the analogy of comparing the vibes to a piano. When every I'm playing solo it hits me like a brick in the head.
Now…
Hello Everybody,
Here are some thoughts I'm struggling with as a drummer who has been playing loads of standards on drums and now trying to get to know all of these on vibes.
I guess there are a lot of guys out here that played drums first…
I didn't know this tne untill I heard Tony play it. It's a beautiful tune, so I'll be studying this tune the coming week. I'll post audio at the end of this week.
Here I will post a list of tunes that I really know by heart. Like Tony says, if you really know a tune you've got to be able to play it through 12 keys. So that's my goal here.
I'll only post tunes that I put to the test of playing…
I kept looking at the Joy Spring solo and thinking ok, I'll work this up again and post it so you guys can hear what it sounds like. But there's something about pulling out stuff that's old and spending the time to learn it again. I want…
Hello everybody,
I've been thinking of doing some videos of etudes from the Dave Samuels book: Contemporary Vibraphone Technique. It's a great book for developing independence between four mallets.
I talked to Tony about the book, but he…
Just started working on Etude 5. A few mistakes. Need to work on dynamics and get more comfortable with my left hand chords with two mallets.
How do you like my newly polished bars? Found a tip on TheVibe.net to use Mothers Mag &…
Hey Tony,
I tested something out. I recorded this directly to my laptop using Pinnacle studio. It's still the camera mic. Somehow I couldn't figure out how to get an external audiosource. But the sound is a little better because you don't…
This vibe hang we're doing on August 27th.... I talked with Mario over at Mallet Kat. We're old friends and we think alike in many ways. He wants more people to know about his electronic instruments. Not just for the money, Mario BELIEVES…
Two things are on my mind. One is an etude of a tune that I wrote called 'Vince Guaraldi'. It's a waltz and I decided to make a study around it. So i'm writing a simple version of the tune and then we'll talk about it. Then I'll write a…
On the last day of the workshop here in Ireland, we took Donna Lee and Analyzed it over 2 hours. Everybody was really into it and we barely scratched the surface so I'm thinking of doing a weekly lesson when I get back and we can all just…
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