HI:
I am in process of building my own set of 3 8va vibes. I have all the bars cut to the proper length with no node holes drilled as of yet. They are 1/2" thick and come in 2, 1 3/4 and 1 1/2 inch widths.
Who can I send them to for…
Hey all,
For the past 4 years now, I've been regularly playing at Smalls in NYC on Tuesdays. I'm particularly excited about the hit tonight, because we are going on as a sextet for the first time. My normal co-led quintet is now…
Greetings, i found this video of the last gig i did on vibes. after listening to the recording i can definately hear some of the concepts i had been working on. Ive always been influenced by the the live in seattle session of coltrane and…
Intersting article from the Ecomists on the struggle to keep classical music alive. Good or bad, I don't know, but worth some thought.
See http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/03/classical-music.
Tom P.
Guys, this was recorded from a concert we did in Gloucester, MA this past Friday. The band features Matt Marvuglio on flute, Nori Shiota on bass and Jazz Robertson on drums. Nori and Jazz are Berklee students and Matt is the Dean of the…
Here is the registration for Delaware. Flyers are going out this week. Then it becomes first come first serve since all this is done electronically. If you're thinking of coming, now is the time.
Sounds like it's going to be a great week.…
Hey Folks,
It's spring cleaning and I'm thinning the herd- I've got so many sets of mallets accumulated of the years which I'm not using. I was obsessed with trying to find the right vibe mallets at one point. I even went to Steve Weiss…
The ultimate thing for me is a decent vibe sound. I dig this sound and am getting very comfortable with it and playing it.
This is a different instrument and you have to approach things differently, but I know I'll get better at playing…
Help is needed.
Sometimes I read people explaining how to simulate the vibraphones vibrato effect when using a pickup system.
In most of these cases it is explained as a tremolo effect.
I think this is not really the case.
Let's take a…
I always thought that pitch bending the vibraphone was an interesting technique, but I don't really like it. I recently figured out why. It changes the pitch lower. It is a kind of sad sound to me. In contrast, guitarists bend pitch up…
I think this is pretty cool.
The thing about a controller is 'can you control the sound'. So as I'm testing out the MalletKat I'm trying to control different sounds.
I'm getting it. Can you hear a few notes pop out? I'll have to work on…
