I just started the dampening and pedal book, and while practicing dampening the bars, first playing the note with the right hand, and then dampening with the left hand, I get a stramge bounce/buzz. Anyone else have any issues like this when starting out. Should I get heavier mallets? I'm using the standard mallets that came with my Musser M55, the old Gary Burton model.

thanks,

Dan

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Hey guys.

I was trying to set up a vibe hang for this weekend. However our ISP is moving our server and the site will be down for a bit over the weekend. maybe actually friday to sunday!

I know Marie mentioned the vibe hang in her newsletter. I think it's best that I postpone it. I'm going to try for July 3rd. But that's not official yet. Let's see who can make it.

I'm looking for a used (in good condition) m-55 to buy.
Maybe you guys could help me out on a price to be looking at, i'm not really sure what they go for. I think a new one is around $4,800? Maybe I could get sponsored by musser and get a free one?... haha. Thanks for any help!
Hopefully someone's got one out there to sell!
nathaniel

This is a rough mix from an album that I just recorded on a few weeks ago.

Jason Squinobal- Band Leader, Tenor Sax
Joe Doubleday- Vibraphone
Claudio Leone- Guitar
Will Slater- Bass
Angelo Spampinato- Drums

Let me know what you think! It's kind of difficult to come up with new ideas after a while, when you are just sitting on one chord for a long time.

-Joe Doubleday

Same info as before, new price, gotta sell this thing!

info:

http://web.me.com/mnomusic/Site_2/Deagan_Aurora_for_sale.html

Hi,
I'm using a Malletkat Pro attached to a Yamaha Motif Rack XS.
The vibraphone sound has a vibrato I would like to get rid of but I couldn't figure out how to make it.
I messed around with the LFO adjustments a little bit but that showed no results.

Any idea, how to turn the vibrato off?

Thanx,

w.

This piece is suitable for beginning players looking for some ideas on how to use 4 mallets to create accompaniment for a tune. The attached pdf file includes the arrangement and chord symbols.

Here is Part 2 of the Intros lesson series.