here is another version of my tune hade allasmaladic this time with guitar...
this is my arragement of billy joel´s just the way you are in 7/8 (most of the time) with my duo partner jan on guitar.still (like everything i post) far away from perfect.i hope this will change some holy day...
I was hanging online with barryk and I found used mussers for 4500 and 4800 dollars over at www.malletshop.com.
I couldn't believe that so I inquired why are they were so high priced. I thought I'd pass along the malletshop's answer:
I wonder what Nico thinks about all this.
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When I practice it takes me a good hour before I can really start to get somewhere. It seems like for me that that first hour doesn't really even count although i have to do it to get past everything else. Get past what? The day, the crap, the business, the other side of the brain stuff.
I think of that and I want to pass it on. I can't imagine I'm unique, most of us must have this buffer that we have to get past. It's probably important to find out where your buffer ends and make a note of it.
barryk found this video. Here's an example of the traditional grip and a great rendition of a Piazzolla piece 'Nightclub'.
I thought about one thing about Piazzolla and his success. First of all the music is beautiful. I also thought that maybe for classical musicians it was a rare opportunity to play around with 'jazz' harmony. I can't think of better word, but you guys get the idea. The Tango and the Bossa Nova and Samba all use jazz harmonies and I know classical players like to play arrangements of them.
What do you guys think?
We're starting the new week with a load of work ahead, unfortunatelly hardly any work this week is scheduled for production of the vibrahones themselves.
We're gonna spend a lot of time on finishing our pre-production glockenspiel which we made in conjunction with Fall Creek Marimbas. About 95% of the instrument is done, just a few things still to be produced.
I've designed the instrument such that all parts are machined in our magical CNC-machine in which we also produce the vibraphone bars. This reduces the labour to just assembling the glocks.
This cat can play! Who is he?
I'm thinking about how to do a day online in August where maybe different vibe players do concerts all day online. I think we would need about 6 or 7 people, start at noon on a Sunday and go until 6 (Philly time). That should get most of us in there. Each of us would play about 45 mintutes.
Any ideas or takers? It would be the first online Day of Vibraphone!
I try to take walks every day, partly to listen to music and mostly because I'm out of shape and overweight!
I think I posted once before about this and I think posted about a Friedman CD. Hmmm, I came home today and wanted to post about listening to Rios on my walk.
Great walking music first of all. Sonically the sounds of the instruments are beautiful together. This made the walk fun.
So August 1st we are one year old here at www.vibesworkshop.com. I've been looking around the site thinking about how far it's gone and all the friends here that I've made.
The friend part is incredible to me. I just can't believe how many buddies I have now. And friends from all over the world which is great.