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.

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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.

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The thing about music is it's pretty logical for the most part. Most of the music you're going to play is going to fall in one of a few categories. That's why we have categories of different aspects of music because there's so much music that falls into them.

Take a tune like 'A Train'. That's AABA. Man if i had a nickel for every AABA tune I played, I wouldn't be doing this site, I'd be on some island with tropical girls feeding me grapes!

A lot of you guys are not doing music full time but you really want to get this down. So here are a few tips.

Why don't each of you guys think of a question, and i'll make a vid podcast talking about each question. just attach it onto the comments here. Let's do just one question each, if this works out I'll do it each week.

Here's an etude I wrote out for a student a while back. We were exploring Latin Rhythms on the vibes. It's a little tricky.