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Tim Collins
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Registrace 9. 08. 2006
I'm a professional jazz musician living in Munich, Germany. I specialize in vibraphone, although I also play drums and piano.
If you're interested, I sell sheet music of original compositions and lessons through my website (linked below).
If you're interested, I sell sheet music of original compositions and lessons through my website (linked below).
The Modern Jazz Language of Mike Mainieri! (BEIRUT Solo excerpt)
Limited time free PDF: www.timcollinsmusic.com/product/freevibespdf
#vibraphone #jazzlessons #modernjazz
Mike Mainieri! He is one of the great voices of jazz vibraphone, and this solo is no doubt one of the most famous. Taken from a 1986 Tokyo concert video of Steps Ahead, this is part of his solo on the tune Beirut....In this video I transcribed, played, and analyzed just two of his incredible lines.
What a ridiculous band! Michael Brecker (sax/ewi), Darryl Jones (bass), Steve Smith (drums), Mike Stern (guitar), and Mike Mainieri (vibes/keyboards)
There is so much information packed into literally 8 measures - it's worth taking the time to check out Mainieri's construction of melodies, using the octatonic scale, the shapes he plays, and of course the incredible groove he plays with.
I hope you enjoy this lesson!
Link to original Steps Ahead video: czcams.com/video/im1pEi5gznc/video.htmlsi=8IbuXTrjuid49jSb
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Instagram: @TimCollinsVibes
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0Rz9Rc1g7xuPD00DI94Xkc
The Killer Jazz Vibes Book: www.timcollinsmusic.com/product/kjvbook/
Killer Jazz Vibes Courses: www.timcollinsmusic.com/courses/
These are affiliate links for equipment I like to use:
Vibraphone Mallets: amzn.to/2AD3Lr6
Zoom H4 Recorder: amzn.to/2AJ858F
Rode M5 Condenser Microphones: amzn.to/3cGKmUp
PreSonus AudioBox 96 USB Studio: amzn.to/2zWdzfp
Fender Squier Precision Bass: amzn.to/3pvr6iu
#vibraphone #jazzlessons #modernjazz
Mike Mainieri! He is one of the great voices of jazz vibraphone, and this solo is no doubt one of the most famous. Taken from a 1986 Tokyo concert video of Steps Ahead, this is part of his solo on the tune Beirut....In this video I transcribed, played, and analyzed just two of his incredible lines.
What a ridiculous band! Michael Brecker (sax/ewi), Darryl Jones (bass), Steve Smith (drums), Mike Stern (guitar), and Mike Mainieri (vibes/keyboards)
There is so much information packed into literally 8 measures - it's worth taking the time to check out Mainieri's construction of melodies, using the octatonic scale, the shapes he plays, and of course the incredible groove he plays with.
I hope you enjoy this lesson!
Link to original Steps Ahead video: czcams.com/video/im1pEi5gznc/video.htmlsi=8IbuXTrjuid49jSb
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Instagram: @TimCollinsVibes
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0Rz9Rc1g7xuPD00DI94Xkc
The Killer Jazz Vibes Book: www.timcollinsmusic.com/product/kjvbook/
Killer Jazz Vibes Courses: www.timcollinsmusic.com/courses/
These are affiliate links for equipment I like to use:
Vibraphone Mallets: amzn.to/2AD3Lr6
Zoom H4 Recorder: amzn.to/2AJ858F
Rode M5 Condenser Microphones: amzn.to/3cGKmUp
PreSonus AudioBox 96 USB Studio: amzn.to/2zWdzfp
Fender Squier Precision Bass: amzn.to/3pvr6iu
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I learned the first half of this for a solo for my final. I got a 99 on it.
MP...good....but not on the same level as Cliff Reynolds
excelente
SUPER GENIAL ET COMPLET MERCI INFINITIVEMENT TIM
❤🎶🎵❤🔝🥇
Yes, sounds like 1936 to me. Great solo.
Yes! It DOES sound like 1936! And there's nothing wrong with that!
Großartig, Tim. Milt Jackson, und natürlich auch Lionel Hampton, waren auch meine ersten Wahrnehmungen des Instruments Vibraphone, zu der Zeit spielte ich noch Drums. Als ich später zum Vibraphon wechselte, da war ich immerhin schon 22 Jahre alt, wurde aber Bobby Hutcherson mein großer Held.^^ Aber natürlich habe ich mich auch sehr viel mit Milt Jackson beschäftigt, mit seiner unglaublichen Phrasierung und seiner Time ... ein Meister. Ach, ich hatte das große Glück und Vergnügen zwei anderen Meistern mein Instrument auszuleihen, Gary Burton (2007) und Stefon Harris (2016) spielten auf meinem Instrument als sie jeweils hier mit der WDR Big Band unterwegs waren und Aufnahmen machten. Ich werde mein Vibraphon wohl mit ins Grab nehmen.^^ :-) Liebe Grüße Tom
Mike paints with the widest brush of any vibraphone players and the coolest grip don't know how he does it very nice video Tim insightful
Sounds like 50s and 60s style
Thankyou for inspiring me to practice this way❤❤❤❤loads of love for you❤
Calzaretta is on it! Some of his solos remind me of Godfrey Hirsch's who both were self-taught. Godfrey played with Louie Prima as well as Pete Fountain.
❤ I've always loved jazz vibraphone! I've really been enjoying listening to this video, and all the others that I've found of you playing vibes/marimba, just now! If only I could be young again, and learn to play ALL the instruments that I love, I'd take up vibraphone, pedal steel guitar, and saxophone, as my next instruments!
I love this! This is so great! Do you still have the sheet music available?
noob here, why does it use B flat melodic minor? Isn't the key F? Wouldn't B flat be lydian?
I don't understand your analysis in the beginning. If it's B Harmonic minor, You don't have an A? You say the A is the Vii. So if it's not harmonic minor, how do you get the G (the bVi)? Is the correct answer that it uses both harmonisations? Great lesson.
Super, i loved it!
Your excellent! Thank you.
Man, Darryl Jones was cooking on that !
It was September 1957, as a GI, Iwas being shipped to Korea, but on a Saturday night in San Francisco, I went to the Blackhawk, where Cal and another group were playing, oh yeah, Brubeck. What a night, Vince Guaraldi was asking if I could get him a Nikon on my way there. Both groups got together for the finale. A very special night, I used to have many of their records...
Hi Tim, nice video. Your relative pitch skills are very impressive to say the least. I have a question I would like to ask you. When you change the C from being the minor third of an A minor chord, to let's say a major 7th of a DbMaj7 chord, do you establish the sound of the major 7th's root (Db) in your mind first and then use it as a reference point to sing the rest of the intervals? Or do you think of going down a major third from the major 7th (C) interval to the perfect 5th (Ab), then down a minor third from the perfect fifth interval to the major 3rd (F), then down a major third from F to the root Db? So simply put, do you establish the root in your mind first and then use it as a reference point to sing the remaining intervals or do you think of one interval after the other without establishing the root of the chord in your mind first? Thank you.
This video is hilarious I appreciate the humor
Im sorry if this is a dumb question but what's a shape?
An amazing piece! I find this one sticks in my head; it's such a joy to hum. The mood is uplifting, almost transcendent. Beautiful. Thank you for your work!!
Thank you!
Phenomenal thinking and phrasing!
mazing classes Tim. thank you. From Brazil
Great!
well done
Great version of Beirut, Darryl Jones has been the rolling stones bassist for 40 years, i think. Also love steps ahead @the queen Mary jazz festival 1986 California has even better vibraphone madness with Chuck loeb on Roland synth guitar and the bassist of weather report, victory bailey.
His phrasing is nuts
thank you for posting, i'm happy to hear this!!
BRAVOOO, BRAVISSIMOO Thankyou Tim!
10 seconds in and instantly recognised that solo from a brilliant ‘Steps Ahead’ vinyl album I bought in the 80s. Breckers playing of ‘In a Sentimental mood’ on that album is sublime. Thanks for the upload 👍
Great analysis Tim. Your are amazing.
Always a double bitchin lesson 🎉 thank you so very much ❤️ love you Tim hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8
thx so much for the lesson, here a guitarist tryng to put on the fretboard all those concepts, thanks bro
my vibes teacher told me Mike Mainieri was his favorite player so i’ve been meaning to start learning some of his work. this is a rlly good place for me to start, thank you so much for making this video.
You have a good vibes teacher!
Thank you very much !!!!
Tim, you are the best... Thank you sooooo soooo much for your effortless work!
I love Tim’s videos: fun, clear, and fascinating. When he implies a dominant chord a tritone up (Ab), is he putting that tension towards the end of four bar phrases to create resolutions back to D7 in rhythmically strong places? Also, doesn’t playing an altered D7 make your ear want to hear a resolution to, say, G or Db?
I am working on this. D7 is part of the diminished chord Eb F# A C, lowering Eb to D. You can also lower one of the other notes to get F7, Ab7, and B7. These chords can be substituted for D7. F7 is b9 #9 sound. Ab7 is b5 b9 sound. B7 is b9 natural 13 sound.
I'm recently getting to play piano and i struggle finding voicings to play and not just jump from root voicing to root voicing. Thanks for the exercise!
Cepeda was adored in San Francisco as the first Giants star not inherited from New York. Perhaps one of the most enduring manifestations of the love San Francisco had for the Baby Bull is song recorded by the legendary Cal Tjader Quintet (Tjader on vibes, Cuba's Mongo Santamaria on congas, Al McKibbon on bass, Vince Guaraldi #CharlieBrownXmas on piano, and Cepeda's compatriot Willie Bobo on timbales) while they were fixtures at SF's Black Hawk jazz night club: "Viva Cepeda" 1:17 czcams.com/video/-TyLPMc9fks/video.htmlsi=GPQIOefui4LO4miB Orlando Cepeda, ibae
Wonderfull 🎉
Dudes if you want to learn jazz rhythm there is only one Source Diz and Bird They were the fountain of this music And still are No metronomes were used Take it from one with experience make an exhaustive study of Mike Longo Rhythmic nature of jazz His 4 CD ( or downloadable now since tech has moved forward ) set It’s a perverse quality of humans. To miss the obvious Eg Bach Had to be rediscovered Study From this course No one else knows rhythm like Mike. dizzy’s close friend and sideman Forget metronome nonsense - which originated with Lenny Tristano. Unless you like Lenny ! Most will ignore this but be wise As Mike taught - there is WHAT you play. And more significantly HOW you play it Pablo Casals indirectly supports this when he says “The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.” Pablo was a giant of his era HOW you play cannot be notated
Muy didáctico! Gracias
1:18 singing Eb instead of D there... How effective is this technique? 😂
Ah. I made a mistake. I guess the whole video is useless now?
Thank you for the video analyzing the solo. And thank you for sharing your knowledge. Cal Tjader and Milt Jackson were my heroes, when as a student I got interested in playing Vibes. I went to see Milt Jackson and Ray Brown at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, a very intimate Jazz club and I was blown away by Milt's playing - great music and great solos coming out effortlessly through his mallets - non stop!!
Sounds very good! You killed it on the Vibes solo. Would've loved to hear a piano solo instead of the timbales.
2:13 commenting so i can learn the melody with my guitar later on. 😊 thanks for this analysis and lesson!!!
The link says it doesn’t seem to exist, could we get a new link?
All of these old etudes are collected in the “Killer Jazz Vibes Book” on my site now.