Greetings everyone,
I've recently been enjoying working on exercises in "Velocity Warm-Ups: 92 Improvisional Patterns for Jazz Vibraphone and Marimba" by Charles Dowd. Some great ideas for practicing scales, arpeggios, modes... ects.

I find that my muscles tend to tighten and cramp up while doing some of the above extended exercises. Any suggestions for how to stay loose and relaxed?

Thanks.

jazzdad6705

hi,
this taken from one of my last gigs during this summer (believe it or not that´s the summer in germany!) unfortunatley the vibe is a bit low during comping.

hope you like it.

tarik

Look who I had lunch with today!

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Look at that awesome picture!! Tony is currently spreading the good vibes in Korea! And they do things "in big"! Go Tony!!! :o) ps: special thanks to Sangwon, Tony's Korean student and member here, for making it happen!

Here's a very cool and recent performance of Ben Thomas. Ben is a member here. He lives in Seatle and sometimes pays us a little visit. Enjoy! :o)

man sometime you just lament about selling any instrument ... years ago i bought my first vibraphone which was in 1987. a new musser m 48 .. serial number was 153.. wow .. when i was on tour with 3 leg torso out of portland in 2004 the bar were stolen. we contacted musser at the time and they could no replace or allow me order a set of bars for that instrument. so we sold the frame and shortly after i moved from portland and took time off from the industry ..

This is how it all started. Thanks for Barryk for spotting this!

Hello guys,