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This is very cool. It's amazing to see how people play mallet instruments. Their set ups and their use. 

Demonstration of David Friedman Etude number 8 with a focus on mallet muting. 

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to arrange more lately for my trio/other small groups. Here's my arrangement of Cedar Walton's "Bolivia." Hope you enjoy!

Just got a new Malletech marimba I'm totally in love with the sound. It's Padauk, not rosewood, so it has its own sound, which appeals to me after playing rosewood marimbas for so many years. The bar spacing is a little different so that's why I decided to practice a solo tune which I previously recorded on vibes. It's certainly a challenge on the new marimba!

In a recent post, I was asked about how I would keep the drums out of the vibes mics.  It's an age-old problem that nearly all of us have experienced.

Obviously, in a recording studio, the answer is to banish the drummer to a booth.  Situation resolved. Any bleed beyond that can be removed with software in post production.

I was just blown away looking at our Vbooks section. That is Virtual Books. 

I was putting something in the chords section and I couldn't believe how many lessons were in there! 

The thing about vibesWorkshop is you just look for stuff to practice. I don't think we necessarily need a sequence, we just need to learn and practice. Yes with a teacher it's more about sequence I guess, but here you can just look around.

Here's a simple solo I did for a student.

All the things you are. 

He's doing the following: 

1. Learn the solo (don't write it down)
2. play it along with the recording every day
3. play each chord and then play the part of the solo that goes with it. This will help him associate the chords with the solo.
4. Play the solo on the piano as best he can, in time out of time, whatever. Left hand plays {Pinky:root, middleFinger:3rd, thumb:7th }

Allstar cats here! 

There are some things to talk about here. First My mallets which are hard(er) mallets sound great here. It cuts through and you here the articulation. I'm not saying buy my mallets, but I am saying by mallets like mine. We should all have a set of mallets that cut through and stand out. 

Notice I'm playing accoustically. No microphones up close on the vibes. The band is playing to my volume. That's the way it should be in my world. You play so all can be heard. 

What else to say, this is amazing!