Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to get things organized for the workshop in Holland. There are a few things that are important right now for those of you that are (thinking of) coming to Holland in february.

First of all, don't book a hotel just yet. I'm gonna try to get a group discount, so I hope to save you all some bucks.

In order for me to keep things clear I'll need some information from everyone that is coming and also from everyone who is still thinking about coming.

So for all of you guys that are (probably) coming I'll need the following info:

For sale : Deagan Aurora vibraphone. Excellent condition, rare, very nice sound. Localised in Paris, France.
Contact Philippe Macé +33 6 63 76 23 64 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +33 6 63 76 23 64      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +33 6 63 76 23 64      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or +41 78 769 14 59. email adress philmace@free.fr
5 600 €

Randy a subscriber to the site sent me this photo. Pretty interesting and different.

Inspired by Ted Wolff!

After David's presentation of Michael Schiefel, here comes Giulio Carmasi, an amazing multi-instrumentiste, redoing by his own the Brecker Brother's Slick Stuff... with great talent, a little vibes, passion... and humor! :o)
Enjoy!
- M
PS: many more on his Youtube channel!
PPS: thanks to vibist Franck Tortiller for the link! ;-)

I am very thankful that Tony Miceli invited me to join the VW and seeing what a great "tool" that it is for all members to have access to answers for their vibraphone category of instrument problems.

Here's my attempt at Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, arranged by Ted Wolff.

One critique I have is I have a lot of ringing. I can do the two handed mallet dampening, but I made no attempt on the places where I need to do the one-handed dampening. Something I need to work on. There are other obvious mistakes, but it won't get better than this unless I splice in the good parts of all of the takes I did :-(

I'll continue working on it.

Thanks Ted, for turning us onto this piece, and for the arrangement!

Hello there my dear workshoppers.

I have problems with my damperpad bar, and I've noticed there are some real pros here when it comes to the manufacturing and handy-work side of things, so I'll give this a shot.

Tony asked me to write a short solo piece using the harmonic structure of Bluesette, which moves downward, starting in Bb major, moving to G-, then to F, down to Eb, Db, and finally to B before returning to the top. This piece pretty much follows those key areas, although it doesn't use the same chords.

Diane and Tony played this song on both their sets here in Dallas. I used to play it with this piano player years ago. Its a great tune!