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Friedman Etude No. 8 by stefan vdb

Hey David,

(And everyone else of course).
Before I continue on working with this I need some feedback.
Maybe some things to know in advance :
this is the 1th time I did it without metronome.
This is the 1th time I recorded it.
There are wrong notes, some I did wrong for the 1th time, maybe under the stress of recording.
I need to work a lot more on it, but it would be great to receive now some feedback, perhaps I'm not aware of some things I'm doing with it now.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Weiss Guy

Steve Weiss is an old friend of mine. And I've bought quite a few sets of vibes from him over the years. I think he's done a lot for the percussion world by creating the largest percussion store in the world. He's a great, crazy guy that many of us percussionists, vibe players, marimba players around the world really appreciate. So I wrote a percussion piece and named it after him! He definitely is Weiss Guy!

Soft mallets Suck

I just wanted to make you look. Soft mallets don't suck. Well not all the time.

I saw a great student of mine play recently. He's a great up and coming vibe player I think. I was listening to him comp and could hear nothing. I know he could hear the instrument, I get that. If HE couldn't hear the instrument and he was comping (with soft mallets) then that's not cool. But I'm sure he could.