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Hi all!

A few days ago I received the Vic Firth Gary Burton mallets - 2 pairs for a total of Euro 65,- Including shipping + import sales/purchases tax + handling by the Austrian mail services. Here in Austria, if the price of an item is less then Euro 150,- there is no duty!

Thats a bargain since a single pair costs about Euro 55,- or more(check out thomann and all the others).

So my recommendation is to order by one of the big shops. I ordered at Steveweissmusic which I can recommend, but there are others.

The only con is that it takes some 4 weeks to get the stuff delivered.

Sometimes, well many times, I listen to music that I want to influence me. I'll do this and then go play the vibes. This really helps me. Listen to Debussy for a while and then start playing your instrument and improvising. What's going to come out? Well, your reflections on what you've just heard.

We're are all influenced musically all the time so use that for your practicing.

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Christian McBride live tonight 9:00 et. at the vangaurd including Warren Wolf -vibes

Apart from the regular production, last couple of weeks we spent a lot of time on redesigning the electronics for the motorsystem of the LW-series, and finishing the new 3 octaves vibe model.

Both are done now, and the first LW with the new motorsystem goes out this week.
The upgrade is huge!!!

With the previous motor system, the software controlling the motor itself was spread over 2 parts/devices, being the touchpanel taking care of the user interface, and the servo controller taking care of everything involving driving the motor system.

Pict is attached. I promised Marie I'd post the bad news.

Here's minor blues tip. I always think this is common knowledge but I find that a lot of new players don't know about this.

Here's a series I'd like to run on connecting the dots, that is making lines with chord tones and scales. I think this could be very useful for some of you guys and this would get more complex as time went on. Let me know what you think. Try doing the excercise and posting it.

Hi Tony,hi all!

Inspired by Tony's blog on practising here in VW, I got a copy of "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner. Werner describes how to achive a special kind of consciousness he calls "to be in space" each time he plays his instrument. He uses some kind of meditation and exercises to create this relaxed but focussed state of mind. It must be fairly similar to auogenous training.

I haven't really worked hard on this and so I wonder if one of you did so and manages to "enter the space" when ever he wants??

So where are the space men? Do pro's also use this kind of techniques?

OK, this post was prompted by Ed's great version of Black Orpheus, and his thoughts about mallets...

This video was done a while ago, and I don't think I ever posted it on VW. Reason was, that I wasn't that crazy about the playing. It started out as just a personal comparison, to see how much I could feel the difference between mallets if I ran some video. A friend wanted to see it, so I edited a little movie and put it up on YouTube. But I was kind of farting around - wish the time and feel were a little better. Whatever, the subject is actually mallets.

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