Vibraphone

hey,
i was busy during the last weeks to prepare my new music room. thanks to mr.piper i built 5 sound baffles for the walls (thanks mr.piper for that great video!) in addition to my movable studio walls. in the room was a carpet which i took out because there was parquet underneath which i had to clean and make nice again. the room even has a chimney :)

i made a dream come true and bought a stereo set of 2 neumann u87 microphones and a presonus 1818vsl interface.

Hello Vibeworkshoppers. After several years of hard work, I'm very please to announce the release of my second album, "Gotham."

This is the product of the long term development of a group I've been leading here in NYC for the last 3 years with drummer Nate Wood, bassist Matt Clohesy, and saxophonist Donny McCaslin.
The CD is available today on iTunes and CD Baby.

Take a sneak peek at the video trailer for the album:

Make sure to turn up the volume!

-Tyler

This is from a concert I did a few years back with my mridangam teacher. It was an honor to be asked back as a featured soloist with his Carnatic (South Indian) percussion ensemble at UNT.

I am using my effect pedals and a controller to do the pitch bend. Can't do the quarter tone embellishments the way they do in Carnatic music but it gets me a little closer.....

Hello Vw !
here is my third lesson for Ed Saindon's book.

The topic is :
HOW TO CREATE AN ETUDE "à la T.MICELI" ?

We all have seen those great etudes created via Logic+malletkat.

Well, as He did not explain how he does it !!! ;o))
Here is my take at it !

http://youtu.be/QlhHJuuG3aI

I used reaper and finale, a midi keyboard and a midiusb adapter

I hope you will enjoy a lot this demonstration,
and I hope it helps.

The pdf and the mp3 are also attached,

Tifoo

There's a lot to learn from Johnny Smith and apply to the vibes. He's old school and whether you like his style is irrelevant. Just check out his chordal playing. It's pretty cool. For us we'd think 'closed voicings' with him.

This is just a taste. If you dig him, check out his music and think chord melody!

BTW - I love him.

Hi Everyone,
It's four years since I proposed to our program manager this strange show featuring the vibraphone. She didn't think it would last long, maybe six months. But here we are starting the fifth year. This month features favorites from the last year, which is how I celebrate the anniversaries. 20 tunes selected from 240!
Warren, Christos, Onaje, Behn, Dave Shapiro, Walt Dickerson, Bobby, Hendrik, Gary, Arthur, Randy, Mark Johnson, Mike, Karl, Christian, Lionel, Kym, Joe, Dave Samuels, Steve and Teddy. Thank you one and all! Thanks listeners!
gloria

Recently I entered a poetry contest asking what one thing I would change in the world. Here's my entry; I think you'll all appreciate it!

http://www.powerpoetry.org/poems/vibra-what#.U0gJSYnmTF4.facebook

I play the vibraphone.

The xylophone?

The vibraphone.

The vibra-what?

The vibraphone.

Not the xylophone?

The vibraphone!

These are the words I tend to say more than the notes I get to play

Each night while standing on a stage making music by ear or chords on a page

On a page glued into that one big book, between Y and W where we look

Hello Everyone!

POINT TWO - CD release concert
Thursday, April 17th, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, (Lower East Side).
sets @ 9:30 & 11
236 East 3rdStreet, NYC
(btw B and C Avenues)
http://www.nuyorican.org

Christos Rafalides, vibraphone
Petros Klampanis bass, loops and vocals.

We'll present music from our new release - which is available on itunes & CDbaby
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/point-two/id831687889
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/christosrafalidespetrosk

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