Hey guys, I jus ran across a post by Tony called Think Like a Drummer. Great post that I think has varying views and open for discussion. I entered Berklee way back as a drummer (was a Buddy Rich fanatic) and was lucky enough to study with the great Alan Dawson. I saw Gary play with the Mike Gibbs big band at a school concert. Had never seen the vibes before. Gary did a short solo on Keith Jarrett's Grow Your Own and that was one of those "wow" moments for me. Took up vibes starting with a beginning mallet class with Gary. Talk about being fortunate.

Sorry to get all cheezy, but there are some players on this site doing cool stuff.
There are some really talented players here!

I'm amazed because I've seen some of these guys for almost 5 years now. I've seen the progress and what can happen if you just pick up the sticks and practice on the instrument.

I'm truly inspired tonight. Right on guys!

Great lesson for beginning vibe players as well!

Crazy gig today. The picture says it all. First words when I walked into the party was hearing one guy ask the other guy "Do you surf the internet?" Actually there were a few musicians there and it was an ok party to play at. We played all our arrangements of rock tunes and split!

Hi, I'm currently studying the jazz vibes at the University of Sherbrooke and I'm selling my vibraphone YAMAHA 2700G. This is my very first vibraphone and I've been playing on it for 2 years. It comes with the YAHAMA cover for this model and a mallets bag. With his gold finish, this vibes sounds really good and has an impressive projection. It features a really good silent motor for the vibrato. It perfectly works. I'm selling it because I want to try another model. I can send more picture if you ask, for serious buyer only.

Cool few days. I play duo with this alto player Aaron Irwin and we have a lot of fun playing tunes. Well we've started to do a study of Parker tunes. We took Blues for Alice, Donna Lee and Anthropology and soloed on them through the keys. It was hard and fun!

I was looking at some things today on the site. I found out a couple things. We have over 6,000 individual posts on the site and over 24,000 comments.

Those are very rough figures but they give an idea of what's here. There is a LOT of information now on this site.

Just remember to also check out the vbooks (http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book). Things in there will stay there in the order they are in. While not everything is in there yet, a lot of the early lessons are there.

Just thought I'd pass that on. 6,000 posts and 24,000 comments is a lot of talking about the vibraphone!!!

I was playing F blues and some interval or chord I played reminded my of this tune. I didn't know the name of it so I went to http://www.musipedia.org/flash_piano.html and played the partial melody on the piano in the web page and it found what I was looking for.
I then downloaded a piano arrangement (http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/01057) and started working on a vibraphone arrangement. Turned out the Pastorale is also in F.

This is what I have so far.

I really don't post too much in this blog, so here is a shorty on what we're doing at this moment at vanderPlas Baileo.

We started to have montly clinics at our facility in Sassenheim, generally every first Saturday of the month. This basically is a smaller version of the one and only annual vibesworkshop.com workshop week in Februari. Our first one was held October 1st, and about 12 percussionists showed up. Lots of fun.

As you may have noticed, we have come up with the DIYframe, a highly affordable solution for those who need a second frame for their bars and resonators.