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I never heard about a technique that I just thought of and tried out.

I was playing a line and let the last note ring out. I took my open palm over that note and fluttered it up and down to get a tremolo. This is analogous to what a harmonica player does with his hands. Sounds cool.

I couldn't find any references to this technique on the web. Tony mentioned that he knows about others that have done this and used their mouths going whaa whaa whaa over the note after you hit it.

I'd be interested about hearing more about this technique (using hand or mouth).

My 7 year old daughter sometimes watches me practice and saw me creating a tremolo by moving my hand up and down over a vibrating bar (like a harmonica player would do to create tremolo). She wanted to experiment with a technique that she came up with by creating tremolo with the damper pedal. She agreed to letting me video tape her demonstration.

Does anyone actually use this technique?

Barry

I'm glad to see John posting stuff here. Man he's a great player and teacher. I've had such great talks with him and totally dig what he has to say musically and philosophically!

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Christos is one of the most talented young vibes players in NY nowadays. This video is a performance that he gave at a famous Greek TV show. His playing is amazing!! Check him out!!

(You will also see/hear him speak greek!!) ;)

This group is a MUST see/MUST hear!! This is one of my favorites compositions of their CD. ("Live in Seattle").

This is an amazing performance, full of energy, magic and soul!!!!
Enjoy!

The first time I saw this Duo was at a marimba Festival. I had my mouth open the entire concert. I was just totally blown away by them!!
Since that day I hear and feel music in a totally different way. Joe and Christos are two amazing musicians that put their hearts in every note they play.
Check out their CD as a duo: "Van Gogh by Numbers". Incredible!!

Tony,
You're the absolute greatest! You've figured out how to do it all. I enjoy checking in with www.vibesworkshop.com every day now to see what's new and old in the vibe world. I get a lot of great new practice ideas and teaching ideas from your site.

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Here is a step by step video series showing how to build the MBrace.

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Definitely a lesson and something to think about! Watch and learn.

I dig logging in here and seeing 4 to 8 guys online going around the site. That alone gives me a good feeling.

I took a break this week from putting new video up and I've been experimenting with ways of putting it up quicker and easier, but still decent quality. I'll get a decent system down.

But I know there's a ton up here now and plenty to work on. Some of you guys are commenting on stuff, I'm getting Skyped, and IM'd, getting questions. It makes it all worthwhile.