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This year was special... because Tony had told me he would play a tune with me. And this promise alone just gave me wings... to practice, but also have more fun and get a bit less stressed when playing: what a secure situation to play…
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Here is Tjaco from the Netherland with our great bassist for the vibe hang: Andreas!
Tjaco is one of Tony's very first students from abroad... at a time the site would not even exist and when they would exchange lessons and exercices on…
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Here comes Tarik (Germany) with Tony: can I say Tarik is now one our "veterans" at workshops (and on the site)? I know that would make John laugh! ;-) Anyway Tony calls him our "Poster Child". He's one living proof of how much you can…
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Here is Andreu from Spain: one of our 'new guys' of the year! We enjoyed having him join the team! Keep it up Tio (te lo digo!!) and keep us posted about your playing!! :o)
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We also had Mathias Haus who teaches in the school as special 'guest'! (even though he was "at home") :o) All this made a great bunch of teachers for this year!
We had Florian doing a nice course on duo cooperations with his guitarist friend. We also had a great concert in the evening with the two of them. Thanks for the inspiration guys!! :o)
This Week in Wuppertal has been a great experience! Thank you very much to Tony, Friedman, Matthias and all the people that I've met during the workshop. Great job and I hope to repeat many times!
It was great to see Tony and Friedman…
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Here is Alex, an awesome and true marimba geek who shared his passion with us and made us discover the huge possibilities of music on this 5 octave marimba: those bars sounded like heaven under his expert mallets!
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:…
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) +…
Here is the first etude of our TOTM, How Deep Is The Ocean. Pdf is attached.
Feel free to look at it, and even if you don't have time to learn it, I will still take any questions about it on Saturday during our class. Enjoy!
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As usual, I tried to make it 'mine' (mistakes included!). Well the key is surely not mine! Haha! But I couldn't work another one! This tune was awesome to work on! Thanks guys for all the lessons, posts, versions, inspiration! (to be…
Here's another track from one of my most favorite bands. My alter ego.
Wow I bet Tarik posting his band singing Johnny Cash Tunes got me into this. Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Now you might think this is corny, however if one of us got into a smoking…
Hey everyone.
I wanted to report that I just had some Yamaha bars retuned by Bill Youhass at Fall Creek Marimba, and I am very pleased! i think Bob Leatherbarrow had posted about this, so thanks for the tip Bob.
I sent my 442 bars, and…