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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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Modulations and Intervals with Pathways Audio Player
17 Note Dominant Chord Scale Book page
Trivia Story
8. Le sol la ti do Audio Player
Me Mi Re Do Audio Player
6. Te Ti Do flat 7 Audio Player
Vibraphonist Steve Yeager Blog entry
Shapes and Patterns of RHYTHM with MELODY Book page
5. RA b2 of the major scale Audio Player
Lines and Melodies: Is There A Difference Between The Two -V Blog entry
Simple and Practical Ear Training Challenge Story
Bebop Over Blues Story
4. First Chromatic ET: Fi Sol Fa Mi Re Do Audio Player
3. Diatonic Pathways Two-note melodies Audio Player
2. Ear Training CD with Pathways Audio Player
1. Ear Training Introduction Audio Player
John Mark Piper's Ear Training Book page
MBrace Drawings and Vender Numbers (FREE to subscribers) Story
Mind Stretcher for the "advanced player". Story
Shapes and Patterns is now being revised Story
The Pendulous Swing Feel Book page
Theory and Analysis: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?? Blog entry
Anyone on Board With the Sight Reading? Blog entry
Transcribing via Evolution of Jazz Blog entry
Essay on Swinging Story
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