Congratulations to Gary and Chick for another Grammy win the other night. This one was for best instrumental solo for Hot House, a fantastic recording. After 40 years, they're still going strong. Saw a picture of Gary accepting the Grammy and he looked sharp in an all black suit. I hope the music continues for many more years. Ed

Here's me playing David Friedman's Etude #11. Check it out, and please feel free to let me know what you think, thanks!

Hello to all fellow Vibeworkshoppers !

I'm currently undertaking a research masters in composition relating to the vibraphone and technology usage in composition / performance and am looking for participants. This involves answering a short questionnaire via email which will take no more than half an hour to complete. All information about the study and also the exact Questionnaire to answer is attached to this post as a pdf file for you to checkout. If you would like to participate please email me on davekemp@tpg.com.au so I can send you the Microsoft Word version for you to complete.

I wanna share this recording. I'm playing all percussion instruments, including the vibes, for this latin tune

Hey everyone!

I've been working hard on this TOTM, and it'd be really cool now to work on it with a virtual group. Tony wants to put together a FREE Skype lesson on harmony, but we need another two or three of you to make it happen. Who wants to jam with me???

Play your vibes!
Carolyn

I owned a really beautiful vintage Deagan marimba about 10 years ago and recorded a bunch of harpsichord music. The marimba played the right hand part and piano played the left hand part, basically turning solo pieces into duets. Some of them came out sounding pretty good.

This one is by G.F. Handel and is titled, oddly, The Harmonious Blacksmith! It is a theme and variations format, starting with a slow stately melody, and progressively getting a little faster and more difficult with each variation.

I altered my vibraphone in the way that I swapped the bars from C to E from front to back and the bars C# and D# from back to front.

So I get an unique playing surface where every interval has the same distance and every scale and chord follow the same pattern. The green stickers on some bars indicate the "black keys".

Here's a chorus, using different outlines.