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Marie's Newsletter - November 2011

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We recently passed the number of 2500 members!! Isn't that great? Let's keep it up!... Our first 'Chords & Harmony - Comping Festival' started early this month: check out 'all tons' of lessons and join the party! And don't miss the 'Lesson of the Month' for all members! We are also updating the V-Books. More below.

EVENTS: - THIS WEEK END!! – DON'T MISS THEM!! -

- VIBE HANG: Saturday November 5th!! - TOMORROW! - 2 to 4 p.m. (GMT-4): www.vibesworkshop.com/node/6265/

What's Your Perspective On the Vibes? How do you see it?

What do you see when you play the vibes. What's your perspective?

I always saw it as a guitar or even a violin (after studying Bach). Never really saw it as a piano. But yes it looks like a piano and there are many similar things. I guess since I great up playing guitar, that that's where that comes from.

Forum Topic: Vibes in Switzerland

Hey guys,
hope everybody is well.
I'm playing in Switzerland with Latin-Jazz Pianist Hector Martignon and his Quartet from November 16th to 19th and I'm looking for an instrument. Please let me know if there is anyone that can lent me or rent me a vibraphone.
Feel free to contact me at
christosraf@mac.com

thank you

/christos
www.manhattanvibes.com

Vibe Diary November 3rd - Is it a drum?

Playing 'All God's Chillin' Got Rhythm'. Practicing my up tempos. As I'm playing I'm thinking wow, this is a drum. I was getting into this whole drum thing on the vibes and it was so cool. To play with just 2 mallets and think of this as a melodic drum was a great experience for me today. Really exciting. I know many of us say it's a piano (which it's not). I think of it as a guitar (which it's not), but today it felt like a drum (which it's not).... Well today it was!