For the holiday vibe hang this past Sunday I arranged Pachelbel's Canon in D, Carol of the Bells, and a little bit of Jingle Bells for vibes and MalletKAT. Enjoy!

PS: If you haven't tuned in to the weekly vibe coffeehouse hangs on Zoom yet you should, they're fun! Every Sunday, 12 PM EST. Jan. 3rd will be an exception - instead of 12 PM, there will be a special coffeehouse hang at 5:30 PM EST as an "after-party" for the World Vibes Congress. See you there :)

Today I put a bunch of styrofoam panels on my wall, then covered them with my usual hanging bedsheet setup. There is a noticeable difference in how much sound is resonating back - I was surprised!

If you don't want to spring for fancy noise reduction foam and are able to acquire some free styrofoam panels, I recommend hanging them up.

More tips I learned from vibraphonists: Make your space as non-flat and non-hard as possible. Rugs, blankets, pillows, full bookshelves, etc. all make a difference.

Hey everyone!

I'm gearing up to produce a bunch of lessons in the next couple weeks that'll be posted throughout 2021. I'm going to continue some "How to Play Vibes Like" videos, I'm gonna do some on solo vibraphone arranging, and I'm gonna do some transcription analyses I think, along with some other miscellaneous videos. But is there anything anyone would like to suggest for lesson topics? Or any pianists I should cover in my "How to Play Vibes Like" series? Or any solos I should transcribe and analyze?

Thanks!

This is my arrangement of one of my favorite Christmas songs, Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime". Arrangement is attached.

Enjoy,
Barry

Something we all should be able to do ...

Gave me chills.

Is being a musician inherently selfish? Do we necessarily have to be a somewhat selfish person to be a great musician?

This came up at the coffee house today. I find it a very interesting and fertile aesthetic question to ask. The answer is, as with so many aspects of playing, "it depends". Of course, it can be that this is the case. But, does it have to be?

#Estudio N°5 del libro Dampening and Pedaling de David Friedman.
Utilizo apagadores de una sola mano, tales como slide Dampening, hand Dampening y Pivot Dampenig.

#Friedman´s 5 etude
I use one-handed damper´s, such as Slide Dampening, Hand Dampening and Pivot Dampenig.

Tomás Angeloni