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Here’s a version of Philippe and me playing Henry Mancini’s The Days of Wine and Roses. It’s a fun tune to solo on since the changes are so interesting to maneuver through. We play the first part of the tune in F and then modulate in the second half to Ab which gives the tune a lift. The great pianist Bill Evans played it this way. Also, Joe plays it this way on his tribute album to Mancini which by the way is a fantastic recording and one of my favorite recordings of Joe.

So I'm heading out this week to do workshops in Ireland and Holland.

This is great and I'm psyched. In Ireland I'll have a very small group of vibe players, maybe 2 or 3. However I'm also doing an improv workshop which will have about 8 or 9 students after the vibesworkshop. We'll work for a few days and then do a concert. I'm excited and love teaching improv workshops.

Then I head to the Vanderplas factory and we should have about 5 or 6 vibe students there.

Here are a few lessons on Triad Pairs. Pretty cool stuff.

August 1st vibes workshop will be 1 year old. It's been a very hard and fun year. I've mad so many friends from all over the world and we have this instrument in common. That's totally cool.

The site is slowly growing and things are starting to happen. I think next year will be an even better year. It's great that many of you are willing to support the site as you do. I think we're going to build something great.

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Hi guys,

Here's a clip of Philippe Mace on marimba and me on vibes from the Paris performance on May 7th. We're playing one of my tunes titled Hope. You can view or download Hope here: http://www.edsaindon.com/images/pdf/hope.pdf

There's a clip of us playing Invitation, but it's not quite right in terms of the synchronization of the audio and video. Tony graciously said he would try to fix that. If he can, I'll post that as well.

Ed

This is an incredible performance of the tune 'Bebop'. Check out the tempo. Wow!

Bob Levy who is Stan Levy's son is a member of the site. (The late) Stan Levy is the drummer on the site!

I have seen mallets numbered from left to right as 1-2-3-4 and 4-3-2-1.

To me, 1-2-3-4 makes more sense since that is how I read, from left to right.

What is the reason for numbering 4-3-2-1?

Since there seems to be no standard labeling, we should preface anything we write regarding stickings with the mallet numbering system is being used.

Barry

Angelo the 91 year old vibe player (maybe the oldest professional working vibe player) write me now regularly. He always asks me to post the letters for everyone to read!

here's the latest. he's really interesting and his advice is good! He always reminds me to eat from all three food color groups as in this letter.

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Hi Everyone,

As part of the Berklee Percussion Festival, Dave Samuels, Gustavo Agatiello, Victor Mendoza, Nancy Zeltsman and me will be teaching vibes and marimba during June 22nd through the 26th. We have group lessons and ensembles scheduled during the days and various clinics and concerts scheduled throughout the week. Gustavo has a concert featuring a nice band in the Berklee Performance Center on Tuesday. Gustavo and me will be playing vibe duets during the registration period on Monday. All in all, it looks like a fun week.