Hi all,
Did you notice, Tony just posted his first video taken from the music school he teaches in. And you know, he doesn't only teaches vibes... He has entire classes of students of all kinds to deal with, trying to pass them on the 12 "…
I've been working on some bebop heads and just using them to work on my left hand. My thought is, if that gets comfortable with smackin' down double stops, that that will help my four mallet playing and enable me to do some fun things over…
I'm going to be in New York City from Sept 19 thru 23, tagging along with my wife who is traveling for work. I'd love to catch some live jazz while I'm there.
Any VW members gigging in NYC in that timeframe? Barring that, does anyone…
Hello,
I've recieved two expanders(octaves) for my malletkat.
I have 2 questions :
-is it possible to change the octave of the expander: I'd like to have one lower and one higher than the malletkat (specially because the expander cable is…
It's a different thing! There's alway talk amongst vibe player about Steve Nelson. He certainly stirs up some controversy, which is good I think.
He's definitely trying for something different here. If you've followed him then you've…
Maybe not a very good title but I can't help it. I've been starting up my practice routine for 2 days now and started transcribing a steve Nelson solo on 'Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me'. It's Blowing me away!! I posted a part of his…
I decided I would work on Some Day My Prince Will Come. Here is what I've got so far. I know there are some mistakes. But I told myself I'd put one up today no matter what.
Check out Joe talking about Milt and Bobby with Marian Mcpartland. Listen to his description of each one of them. It's right on the money and even Marian thinks so!
I just came across this recording of Triste from a while ago(2006). I was blessed to have one of Holland's best bass players on this recording(Jeroen Vierdag). Check out this Youtube video of him playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
Part 1 of 4 with some ideas for scales.
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Chinese translation for Chinese students
練習音階很重要
第一個,可以加強雙手的技巧,
第二,你要了解每一個音階中的每一個組成音,這樣當你看到一個和弦的時候,你就知道用什麼音階套用在上面。
Here's an in depth study of the tune Stella By Starlight. It's an intermediate/advanced lesson that covers ways to study Stella as well as other tunes.
Hey everyone, I know we have a few philly area vibes players and I thought i'd let you know i'll be playing at Chris' Jazz cafe this thursday at 8pm.
the group will be trio...vibes, bass, drums.
should be a fun philly hang, hope to see…
Check out this player! Wait till you hear this story!
Tell us about yourself wuestentrommler!
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Hi there,
I'm „wuestentrommler“, living in the Sultanate of Oman. I work as „head of percussion…
Hey Everyone,
I posted two more Nelson CD's. The first on was recommended by Arture and I also posted another one. Somehow the Amazon post did not work, so they're not showing up as recent posts so I thought I'd add a link to the library…
Here is a CD by Steve Nelson that was just recommended to us by our good friend Arturo from Spain.
I don't think it is available at amazon, but there is a page there with a link to other sellers of this CD.
Check this page:http://www.…
I love Steve Nelson. He has played a lot(and think he still does) with Dave Holland's band.
Check Nelson on Wikipedia:
check out the Steve Nelson Wikipedia
Check out Justin Faulkner. He's 18 years old and plays like he's 40 and has already played all over the world.
This is Philly to me. His feel is so happening. He swings his ass of and he's so musical.
He's on his way to Berklee, so look…