Berklee Practice Method: Vibraphone. Get Your Band Together

Get Your Band Together. This is the first-ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Leorn what al¡ the great musicians seem to know intuitively-how to listen, interact and respond, improvise, and become part of the groove. The book and play-along CD will help improve your timing, technique, and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band.
Lessons throughout this book guide you through technique that is specific to playing vibraphone in a contemporary ensemble. When you play in a band, your primary concern is chords-how to read and play them, how to progress from one to the next, and how they interact with other instruments, melodically and rhythmically. Daily practice routines are designed for practicing byyourself orwith other musicians. The accompanying CD features outstanding Berklee players and covers a variety of styles including rock, funk, jazz, blues, swing, and bossa nova.
Topics include:
- improvisation
- comping
- stablishing a practice routine
- reading
- learning by Bar
- song form
- theory and technique
- interpreting lead sheets
- rhythmic interpretation

This series coordinates methods for many different instruments, and al¡ are based on the same tunes, in the same keys. If you know a guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist, sax player, etc., have them pick up the Berklee Practice Method for their own instrument, and jam together!

CONTENIDO:

CD Tracks
Foreword
Preface
Basics

1.- Playing Rock ("Sweet")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

2.- Playing Blues ("Do It Now")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

3.- Playing Blues Swing ("I Just Wanna Be With You")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

4.- Playing Funk ("Leave Me Alone")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

5.- Playing Light Funk ("Affordable")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

6.- Playing Hard Rock ("Don't Look Down")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

7.- Playing Bossa Nova ("Take Your Time")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

8.- Playing Stop Time ("Stop It")
Technique/Theory
Learning the Groove
Improvisation
Reading
Daily Practice Routine

Final Remarks