A colleague of mine is active in a site for Progressive Rock fans. We finally found a link between both our passions: a PR band with mallet percussions!

Don’t expect the vibes to be a star there. It’s first of all Progressive Rock:

- Guitars rule: bass, acoustic and electric guitar, chapman stick, warr guitar, and an instrument unique in the world: The Leode. That very large handled guitar, created by the player himself, after he had lost the use of his left arm in a road accident.

in 2001 i was a member of jupiter hollow. my originally role was playing b3, rhodes, over time we melted in the gigs ... i found this track of a recording session we did.. never was released ... thought you all might enjoy a bit of oregon music

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I was playing the C6, Fdim chords (with the various inversions) in Dana's drop 2 lesson. As I was playing, I heard the song, "Once in a While", and thought it might be a good tune to apply the Drop 2 voicing for chord melody.

I would like a little guidance on the application of the lesson. I understand the example of playing the C Maj Bebop scale with the C6 or the diminished chord underneath, but I am not sure about applying chords to an arbitrary melody.

Hello everyone,

I have a vibraphone clinic coming up that I wanted to mention. The clinic will take place on Saturday, March 28th in Ogden, Utah as part of a PAS Day of Percussion hosted by Don Keipp.

The clinic will focus on mallet technique and address the following topics: pedaling, dampening and the fulcrum grip. Time permitting, I’ll also talk about improvisation, comping and solo vibraphone playing.

Here is the contact information:

Dr. Donald Keipp
WSU Department of Performing Arts
1905 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-1905
dkeipp@weber.edu
801-626-7073

Joe Locke has made available free lead sheets (for a limited time) from his catalogue.
Included is music from:

Force of Four
Rev-elation
Sticks and Stings and others, at the link below:

http://www.joelocke.com/shop/

Hi everybody,

I'm back from my week of holidays in the Alpes, and thought I could send you some post cards!

I think you'll have to be patient with the loading...

Enjoy!

MN

I think I'll stick with vibe playing. That's hard enough. Here we build a green screen in our house and shot some video. I have to get better at this, but you'll get the idea!

Hi everyone!

A.I.R Percussion Quartet (percussion geeks group) just got a MySpace page. Please stop by and check us out! This is the link:

www.myspace.com/airpercussionquartet

Hey Guys,

I've been feeling bad that I'm not around much, especially since there is soo much stuff going up, my recent activity page has a few pages of all new stuff I wanna check out, so I'll try to do that now and then.

Man, Dana, you're really putting stuff up, I love that you're contributing so much. Great stuff. And I love the way this site is evolving. More and more students putting stuff up and putting themselves in the open.

Hi Folks- Since I'm advertising my gig with this band on Feb 27th, I just wanted to put a little sample of the music up. I've posted a few of our more cryptically Celtic arrangements in the past, so I wanted to share this one, which is a little more straight-up-and-down... it's a reel called Bealach an Doirin that I learned from a Chieftains record. This performance (excuse the talking and general roughness) is from the 55 Bar in NYC last September.

JAmes Shipp - vibes
Jo Lawry - voice
Keith Ganz - guitar
Rogerio Boccato - percussion