Hey everyone!

I'm gearing up to produce a bunch of lessons in the next couple weeks that'll be posted throughout 2021. I'm going to continue some "How to Play Vibes Like" videos, I'm gonna do some on solo vibraphone arranging, and I'm gonna do some transcription analyses I think, along with some other miscellaneous videos. But is there anything anyone would like to suggest for lesson topics? Or any pianists I should cover in my "How to Play Vibes Like" series? Or any solos I should transcribe and analyze?

Thanks!

This is my arrangement of one of my favorite Christmas songs, Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime". Arrangement is attached.

Enjoy,
Barry

Something we all should be able to do ...

Gave me chills.

Is being a musician inherently selfish? Do we necessarily have to be a somewhat selfish person to be a great musician?

This came up at the coffee house today. I find it a very interesting and fertile aesthetic question to ask. The answer is, as with so many aspects of playing, "it depends". Of course, it can be that this is the case. But, does it have to be?

#Estudio N°5 del libro Dampening and Pedaling de David Friedman.
Utilizo apagadores de una sola mano, tales como slide Dampening, hand Dampening y Pivot Dampenig.

#Friedman´s 5 etude
I use one-handed damper´s, such as Slide Dampening, Hand Dampening and Pivot Dampenig.

Tomás Angeloni

This is my first version of a usable twistable shaft for vibraphone fans. The concept enables the use on most vibraphones (e.g. Musser M55) for a more or less DIY-self-adaptation as a retrofit kit while continuing to use the existing drive unit.
But it took a rainy November weekend to fit the fans and coupling elements together.

That's what I've been looking for for years.