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John Mark Piper

 

Birth Name - John Mark Piper / Google Name - PIPERvibe  / Street Name - "PIPER" 

 

Bio

  • Early Music:

    • Berklee College of Music

      • Studied with Gary Burton, Alan Dawson, Gary Chaffee and many other great musicians.

    • Toured playing drum set in Pop Cover Bands

    • Las Vegas

      • Music Director for comedy review

    • Los Angeles

      • Played drum set in top 40 cover bands

      • Street Performer: Solo Vibraphone

    • PIPER Vibraphone:

      • Designed Musser/PIPER M58 Vibraphone

      • Awarded Three World Patents

    • Frame and Fortune:

    •  “Just A Step Away” (solo vibraphone CD)

    • Feature Guest Artist/Clinician/Master Classes at Colleges and Universities in the USA, Mexico, South America and Germany

  • Intermission - Music Hiatus

    • New Adventures  and Balance 

      • Joined the Fire/Rescue Service Dallas Fort Worth Metro

        • Worked as Firefighter/Paramedic Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex

      • Joined the Antarctic Fire/Rescue service.

        • Designed and built “South Pole Vibraphone” for Antarctica. It’s the only vibraphone to reach the South Pole and McMurdo Station Antarctica.

        • Spent 5 years on ice – South Pole, McMurdo Station Antarctica

        • Became a member of JSART (Antarctic Joint Search and Rescue Team consisting of members from USA and New Zealand in Antarctica)

    • Back to Music

      • Started www.PIPERvibe.com “Where Good Vibes Resonate”

        • Working to improve the music arts industry

        • New Products for vibes and marimba

        • Shapes and Patterns of Music Revised Edition

        • Shapes and Patterns of Music Prologue

        • Goal of offering new frames for old bars and resonators

        • Create new audio/video recordings for body of work

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Nickels and Dimes Blog entry 04/02/2019 - 02:44
Shapes and Patterns of Music (revised) Video Embed 03/30/2019 - 21:17
Great Is Thy Faithfulness (computer rendition) Video Embed 01/13/2019 - 11:58
The BrainForest Video Embed 01/12/2019 - 12:22
Chromatics, Accents, Scales, Arpeggios, Stickings, pedaling and Control Blog entry 12/15/2018 - 14:13
Shapes and Patterns of Music - Prologue NOW AVAILABLE! Images 12/01/2018 - 03:14
Vibe players Earn NOT $100.00 but $150.00 practicing and learning! Images 11/10/2018 - 23:05
Voyage Dallas Interview (me) Story 06/09/2018 - 12:01
Live at the Chapel of the Snows, McMurdo Station, Antarctica Images 04/09/2018 - 16:18
Anything interesting going on in your area? Images 04/06/2018 - 02:54
PIPER's Workroom 1 Blog entry 03/30/2018 - 18:32
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Blog entry 03/17/2018 - 00:33
TIME and SPACE Images 02/27/2018 - 15:48
Recipe for Success Blog entry 02/21/2018 - 14:41
Tritones and substitutions Story 02/05/2018 - 22:45
Warm Up Exercise Blog entry 01/18/2018 - 02:33
Merry Christmas and Good Vibes From McMurdo Station, Antarctica Blog entry 12/24/2017 - 15:54
Where's the beef? (Blog) Blog entry 10/01/2017 - 09:38
PIPERvibe Wide Pedal, Silent Hinge Video Embed 09/22/2017 - 10:24
Renovations of the Piper Vibe Images 09/20/2017 - 20:03
Chord Warmup Blog entry 07/07/2017 - 11:36
Lines, phrasing, melody, articulation, expression, feel: Victor Feldman Blog entry 05/29/2017 - 04:56
Vibraphonics: The PiperCussion Damper Pad or "Gel Pad" Blog entry 05/27/2017 - 22:42
More Vibraphonics Trivia: Mallet handle/ Pencil Grips Blog entry 05/27/2017 - 17:31
Vibraphonic Trivia: "Mbrace" Blog entry 05/27/2017 - 16:37
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