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We are all ambassadors of the vibes by Dimitris Angelakis

Hey guys,

I want to share some thoughts with you. I recently did a gig outside of Thessaloniki with a quintet. Before even the gig start, a guy from the audience comes to me and said:
guy: I have watched you before playing the vibes
me: really, when?
guy: several months ago. I really liked your performance
me: thanks a lot, just trying to play music for you guys
guy: you do a great job. Actually you are the reason that we started to love this instrument!

Beautiful Love - Malletkat & Vibes simultan by Tarik

instead of learning how to play a song nice on 1 instrument, i´m stupid enough to try it on two simultan. this is fu**ing difficult to deal both instruments and the sustains, so i just put the malletkat sustain pedal under the vibes pedal, which makes it a little bit easier, cause if i press the vibes pedal i sustain both but it´s still hard enough for me.

i´m sorry for the many wrong notes and chords but i´m just very slowly getting used it. that was my best try out of many...

tarik

12bar blues 1st attempt

Hey,

I didn't think I would post so soon again. But then again : the more I post, the more I can get feedback, the more I can learn,...

I came a cross a simple excercise for 12bar blues on piano, so I thought, let's take this to the vibraphone.

After some practising I came at this. (I'm not even sure the chords are 100% OK)

P.S. a pitty, you can't hear it, but on the last chord, I even let it vibrate. :-)

greetings,
Stefan.