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I was talking with Becky a few days ago and our conversation turned to practice technique.   I have talked about my 37 and 38 note practice routine, but never really documented it, so I thought this would be a good opportunity, just in case anyone was interested.

A music teacher friend has a Musser (probably M44) in her band that is making loud noises. Please see the attached video and let me know what the problem is and how to fix.

Thanks,

Barry

Come hang with us and talk about the tune Israel.

I'll be talking with Behn Gillece and Oliver Mayman

Work on the tune for the next couple weeks. Learn it and play it. Write down questions. 

Tony Miceli is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Good Vibes
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime

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.