Hi Gary,
I saw in the Shout Box that you had a tour coming up with the Piazzolla band. I'm a huge fan of Piazzolla and I know you are as well. His music is very deep and emotional. I have his book about his life. It seemed that he had very…
I'll be covering the following topics:
Sound production
Phrasing, with and without dampening
Thoughts on sticking
Practicing concepts
A non-traditional scale approach
Arranging jazz standards for the vibraphone
(I'm glad I'm going! - tm)
Hey everyone,
It has been quite a while since I've posted a post of my own... so here we go. This is another of my original tunes that we played at our latest concert at Berklee. It's inspired by the beautiful Swiss town of Montreux.…
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I was playing around with some open voicings and heard Mood Indigo, so I decided to work on an arrangement. The is a very rough work-in-progress (i.e., the result of just a couple hours of working on it tonight). I spliced the A and B…
This is a recording of me practicing with my piano teacher. We were just working on learning the tune Blue in Green. I am going to go ahead and post this. Any tips are appreciated.
Hey there guys (and dolls) ! About time I posted my attempt at Invitation. I'm not too conspicuous on the site lately. I'm teaching (what little I know) a trumpet player who I hope will be a good playing partner someday. This takes an…
Here's a very impromptu lesson on Woody N You. I haven't played the tune in a while, but I remember really studying it back in the day and I was thinking of some of cool things about the tune after hearing Tjaco bring the tune up.
Here's…
So I'm messing around with Woody n You and I'm having trouble getting ideas. This melody is different from many others I play. So I'm trying to think about 4 mallets and what I'd do. Wasn't making much progress.
But my cat is dying, and I…
Here's another clip from the same concert that my previous post "Pure Spirit" was taken from.
The lineup is Dave Liebman - tenor, Matt Wilson - drums, David Clark - bass and me on vibes. We're performing an original of mine called The…
Oh man… It finally happened: no more need to practice, any technique, in any key. No more pain in wristles, or bleeding fingers. No more white nights in your basement...
You can all sleep in peace: here is the real future of all…
In the book 'This is Your Brain on Music', I'm reading about what it means to be an expert. Many scientists use the 10,000 hour theory. That is generally speaking to become an expert at anything you have to spend 10,000 hours working on it…
Tarik just posted a cool video of Benny Goodman playing with Swedish vibist Lars Erstrand. Here are a few links in his memory:
- Wikipedia bio: I just realised he died this year in March at 72 :o\ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
So I just bought a cool new recorder that plugs right into my iPhone and the quality is really awesome. It is called the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo. It cost me about $70. I thought I would turn it on and play a tune that my lessons teacher has…
I was asked to play a few numbers with one of our big bands at University of the Arts. They said they have one of the school arrangers arrange something for me and I said. Karn Evil 9. And they said, what did you say? But I convinced them…
Amazing. Everyone on this site needs a copy in my opinion.
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Originally scheduled for release next Tuesday, this was apparently release a couple weeks ago. It is Bobby Hutcherson with his regular…
Here is my version of 'My One And Only Love'. I really wanted to play it as a beautiful ballad, and I didn't have a lot of time this week so when I recorded today I really found out that I really need to work on playing ballads. I think…
I spent part of tonight playing Bird's first chorus on the tune Merry Go Round which is a rhythm changes with a Sears and Roebuck Bridge. S and R Bridge is (key of Bb) F-7 Bb7 Eb Eb C7 C7 C-7 F7. That's what Larry Mckenna always calls it…
Spain is one of my all-time favorite Chick Corea tunes. So many of his pieces have this great energy and beautiful melodies. My recording (done about 10 or 12 years ago) had a boring intro that's been removed for this post. Please pardon…