jon,

here's a post. i know you probably get all this. but anyway. here's a post. you can reply below and annotate the lesson, etc etc etc. let me know you got this.

btw what's your skype name?

I talk and think about this all the time. You'll hear me bring it up over and over and over again. I never totally liked the analogy of comparing the vibes to a piano. When every I'm playing solo it hits me like a brick in the head.

Now there is plenty to learn from the piano, after all this is set up like a piano. So cool. Also many other vibe players compare this to a piano. However many of them did not grow up playing classical piano and classical guitar. I did and I can do an interesting comparison between the two.

I did some 'free' flowing vids the other night. More advanced stuff. I need to edit them now and get them up.

The real thing I'm thinking about is getting you guys to post some stuff. Subscribers that is. As the site grows this will happen naturally but I want to encourage some of that now! So I'm thinking of ways. Maybe I'll pick or post a duet and get a few of you guys to download my part, record your part and send it back to me! Then I can edit them together. Might be cool!

Ok, last night was a hard night. I have never had these bandwidth problems, but usually everything I do that is live is on Sunday nights. Maybe I should stick with them for now. I'm going to have to look into the bandwidth problems with streaming live.

I love the idea. That is to create a place where vibe players can get together and play and hang. Show youtube videos, maybe get some interviews going etc. So I'm going to stick with it and figure out what's up here and make the next hopefully better!

Just started working on Etude 5. A few mistakes. Need to work on dynamics and get more comfortable with my left hand chords with two mallets.

How do you like my newly polished bars? Found a tip on TheVibe.net to use Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish. Found it at Walmart in the automotive section.

Does cleaning the bars affect the tone? It may be my imagination but they sound a little brighter.

Mario is the ulitmate electronic percussion geek! He even owns a company that makes electronic percussion instruments! The mallet kat is way cool and Mario not only builds them but he can play them as well. Check him out in this episode of Percussion Geeks.

A virtual masterclass is a clinic or masterclass that takes place from our video studio to your home. I have several cameras a plenty of microphones to bring good video and audio to you.

On your end you don't need a lot if any of this. Laptop cams, home cams and a laptop all will work fine. And if you don't have any of that equipment we can still work together in many ways.

Students can play for us and ask questions. We can demonstrate technique and give different camera angles to help show our hands and instrument.

You don't have to fly me out and put me up in a hotel. I can do workshops and clinics right from my video studio. We can design courses around the Vibes School, have performances, private lessons and more.

Or even do part of the workshop 'virtually' then have any of the faculty members here come out to your site at the end of the workshop.

This is a chance to save a lot of money and have a masterclass or workshop. Young students now adays are totally familiar with this medium.

A subscriber is a paid member of the site. They have access to all the content of the site, that is the lessons, the private workshops, posting of audio and video, and lesson plans.

A subscription is the month to month fee and access to the site. This is done through paypal. You don't have to be all set up to use a credit card with paypal. This is a secure transaction, as you'll in the URL address HTTPS. This is the same secure network that your bank uses for online banking.

And it's easy to cancel, you'll just log into paypal and cancel the subscription.