Hi!

I've been chatting whith Marie recently and I had to promise her to put some pics of my little son playing vibes on the site. He and his mother are using my vibes in two ways: as table for baby clothing and other (leightweight) stuff and also just as a big fine sounding toy. Yea and the vibes' frame helps my son with learing to stand up and walk.
So if you ever consider acquiring a set of vibes have the manyfold purposes for kids in mind!

Cheers Stefan

P.S. Tony can you telle me how to add the pics to the post please?

Man Danny Gottlieb was playing the DrumKat today! It sounds just like a drum set!!

I'm curious about other people's experience with mallet break in. I have a set of mallets that sounded really harsh (i.e. too hard) when I first played them and now they sound really great.

Interesting sounds and nice playing ! Enjoy !

Thank you Mike Balter for making this years workshop a big success!!!

I thought you guys might like to see this. I've been using these mallets for about 3 or 4 months and they are great! Much lighter than the old ones and I'm able to play 4 mallets way easier. They last a really long time as well. Stefon also shows some interesting techniques.

This etude has a similarity to Etude No. 7, but focuses more on mallet dampening with ringing chords underneath. PDF is attached.

Behn

Here's a lesson I recorded for the trumpet site and thought some of you might be interested in it. Keep in mind that all of the examples I play will sound a step lower than what they are (because trumpet is a Bb instrument). So if I talk about G7(#9#5), it's really F7(#9#5).