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John Piper - Vibes In Antarctica

Someone several years back sent me a photo of there vibes. They were in the middle of the jungle of Ghana. The nearest anything was 50 miles. OMG! I couldn't believe that.

I imagine there are vibes in some pretty strange places.

Well, I've known John Piper for a while now. And he's a real character who does crazy things. He learned firefighting a while back is probably the only firefighting vibe player in the world. Hmm, I wonder.

5 notes voicings (G.Perin)

Hi vibes lover in this lesson I'll talk about some new technique I developed while writing my new book called AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone
In this lesson I'll talk about the intro of AFORISMA #6 - CALYPSO where i'm playing 5 notes voicings preceding or postponing the root to a 4 notes open voicing.
Here you can listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcVr3hZJR8&t=3s

John Piper

Check this out. Since John is hanging around on the site I thought I'd post this.

John is a musical master technician on the instrument. He really does a good job of using technique in a musical way.

I don't know if he thinks this way, but I always thought of him as a concert vibraphonist.

I like listening to him a lot.

Good Vibes Radio Update May '17

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Hi Everyone,
Good Vibes enters its 8th year with the May show. And I was told it probably wouldn't last six months. Thank you, musicians! Thank you, listeners! Thank you, WWFM and NPR!
As I typically do with every anniversary show, I play favorites from the past year. Since I can only pick 18-20 tunes out of approximately 110 from the previous 11 months, it's not easy. And this year it came out to only 18 because of song lengths.

Walt Dickerson - Salina's Fantasy

Something cool and interesting about Walt. I'm having an email discussion with VW member John Keene and we are talking about a few different vibe players.

I listen to there lines and listen to how clear they are. Right? What's the sound? Are they playing the sound. I listen for that. Probably because I'm worried about it when I play. Am I listening to the band? Am I capturing the sound.

For Heaven's Sake, Solo Vibes

This is my solo vibraphone attempt on the well known standard For Heaven's Sake, by Don Meyer (I love this piece). 1 chorus for the theme, 1 chorus for improvising, 1 A section to wrap up the tune. I played in the changes, and tried to play around the theme for my solo.

If you have the time to listen to it, please give me feedback, whatever it is, beacause I don't have a lot of occasions to play the vibraphone publicly!

Thank you!

Victor B.

P.S: recorded past midnight, with few hours of sleep last night... finals rush!