Hi Gang,

Since we all seem to know the birthdays of our esteemed pros (both living and deceased) and we take a moment to recognize them, we, at the same time, do not have in our profiles the birthdates of our ever growing membership. Thought I would kick that off today with this announcement:

I am 75 years of age as of yesterday, Feb 11, and am proud to be able to announce that and very happy that I am physically here to experience it.

If you want to register early (last year we turned people away) email Harvey price at hprice@UDel.Edu. He'll take a small deposit and hold your place.

We're starting to get ready for the Delaware workshop again. This will be from July 31st until August 5th.

Between the instruments we get and ones people bring we will have an instrument for everyone, also a practice room. I think you'll also each have your own piano in the room.

Hi everybody who are going to come at Nico's in Sassenheim for the workshop.

Concerning my workshop I'm planning to do some work starting from classical music (JS Bach) and show some different approachs to practice this music on the vibraphone (transposition, chords, improvisation) than just only reading the part.

About this, and to be more efficient, would it be possible for you to check out a couple of pieces ?
I am thinking about :
- the "Courante" from the suite n°1 for cello in G,
- the "Sarabande" and/or the "Double" (just after) from the partita n°1 for violin in Bm,

I don't know a lot of these songs but it's still interesting.

So I say in the lesson you figure out the scales (you'll hear) but I made an etude up with them in it for you to study.

I have a set of Friedman 30Ls to give away.

If you want them, all you have to do is put up 4 Friedman CDs via the Amazon Review under POST.

The first one to put 4 cds up gets the mallets.

I love brushes!

I was playing the piano, and thumbing through the Real Book today. I found "Look to the Sky" and since I had my recording stuff set up at the piano, I decided to create a backing track, with BIAB. I then put back my recording stuff back with my vibes and did an overdub.

I really dig the sound of unisons.

(110206)

I messed up the tag at the end, but hope you enjoy it anyway.

Piano - Barry
Vibes - Barry
Drums - BIAB
Bass - BIAB

Barry