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…
Been using the malletkat for a new project of mine. Here's a short clip from a new tune entitled "Cogs."
This music will be recorded soon and the CD should be out by the end of the year. I'm running the Kat through a Nord Electro rack…
This is just to give you an idea of a concept and way of playing.
It eventually will let you play lines with two mallets while using your outside left mallet to comp.
