Ok, I have what I'll consider my first solo gig coming up. I've done a few before, but I did them because I needed the money and didn't a you know what about them. One was in a clothes store playing Christmas music. I was soooo broke. So I did it and hated every second of it. The others were a couple cocktail parties or worse Barmitzvah's. Sorry to my jewish buddy vibe players, but I HATE Barmitzvah's. A room full of kids high on soda running around like fools is not fun when you're an adult. I know it's fun for them. Ok, I digress.

Hallo everyone, thank you for such great time last week. You filled me up with soul, spirit, music ,... .I met so many wonderful persons and they all play vibes!!!! It was a pleasure to be your host and I hope you had a good time. I want to share video of my trio-concert from frieday with you. Have fun, I had a lot!!! looking forward to meet you all again, Matthias.

http://youtu.be/yI29QyxWzEU

Hey everyone,

I had the great opportunity to do a Skype lesson with Tony, Dimitris, and Denis today (who knew Babu's real name was Denis...learn something new everyday!). Denis mentioned a lot of the reasons why it was cool in his post, but I want to highlight some things:

1) You don't need a camera on your computer to participate. If you only have a microphone on your computer, that's totally okay!

Hey guys, we just had (Dim, Carolyn and me) a skype lesson with Tony. All went good, sound clear.
That's fascinating to be able to meet people from several countries (USA, France, Greece in this case), as if everybody was in the same music room... Technology at it's best.
I think this is the future for music teaching. No one vibist will be let on his own, trying desesperately to learn alone... The vibes's malediction is over !
And all that because of M. Tony Miceli's vision years ago, hard work and generosity. One more time, thanks Tony !

We will stream some of the classes and tonight's concert (Feb 23), as well as tomorrow's classes (Feb 24) and the vibe hang ending the concert.

Keep an eye out, I'll post on the site and in the shout box.

The stream will be from here:

Click here

We will end our winter workshop with a streaming vibe hang featuring, David Friedman, Matias Haus, Matthias Goebel, Tony Miceli and some of the guys from the workshop.

It will take place at 6pm Germany time, Central European Time (CET) +0100 UTC . This should be a lot of fun and we hope you can come support all the members of the workshop!

I will post the link some time soon. Check back here before the hang starts.

hey guys,

tonymiceli@gmail.com is my email
post@matthiasgoebel.com is matthias'

Find me on skype: Tony miceli Philadelphia, PA maybe my name on their is tjazzvibe? but you'll find me.

For our subscribers get together WEDENESDAY: How about we meet at 5pm at the school. We can hang and play for a bit and then get something to eat together.

Ok so something cool happened. I've been working on Paganini's Moto Perpetuo for a long time now. Not to play in public just to work on my chops. I've learned the first 3 pages. Ok....

So I would play it over and over, work on technical stuff. It's a great piece to practice because it's a chops builder. It's better then doing scales for me (not that you should stop practicing scales). But I would play it, lose my concentration, have to start over. start playing it slowly and building up speed. But I never felt great about it.

Hey everyone!

I've been working hard on this TOTM, and it'd be really cool now to work on it with a virtual group. Tony wants to put together a FREE Skype lesson on harmony, but we need another two or three of you to make it happen. Who wants to jam with me???

Play your vibes!
Carolyn

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Another great month went through: working hard and fun on our TOTM 'How Deep Is The Ocean', testing our first online lesson, setting the last details for our upcoming Winter European Working near Dusseldorf. Also read about our first Kickstarter project and be a part of it!

WINTER EUROPEAN WORKSHOP!

Some of us will join Tony and David for lots of fun at the Mallet Institute… only for the vibraphone near Dusseldorf. Be sure to be on the site between 21st -24th of February… and don’t miss the vibe hang on Sunday 24th!