Hello all!

My name is Victor Burton (unfortunately, no affiliation with Master Gary!). My initial musical formation is classical trumpet in high school. I started classical percussion when I was 16 years old (with 2 professionnal orchestra players as teacher). I'm now 17 years old, and I'm currently studying Latin Percussion at college. I started playing the vibraphone more seriously last summer, when my High School lent me their vibes.

Last month at the Vibes Bootcamp, Tony taught me this lick to use in Green Dolphin Street, and it's great in a bunch of other tunes too. I've been practicing it in all 12 keys in a couple styles, so here's all twelve swinging! Next step: Improvise.

Hi Guys this month i'm going to do a really basic lesson for those of you who wants to practice quartal voicings and applied them in modal jazz.

As usual feel free to contact me through my website: www.giovanniperin.com and to follow me on FB and Youtube!

ATTENTION MALLET PLAYERS:
Kicking off the New Year with a solo vibraphone piece that requires your audience to put their seat belts on! Fast-paced, technically challenging and fun to play, make this piece part of your repertoire or play it as an encore.

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Sponsored by Mike Balter Mallets & Ludwig-Musser Percussion

I had the privilege to play in my university's top jazz ensemble this semester. Here's an informal recording we did at the end of the semester of Milt Jackson's "The Prophet Speaks". It's a rather unusual 20 bar blues. Fun to blow on! I'm hoping to do some more recording in the New Year.

-Tristan

Piper Flyer Vibraphone is in its new practice/performance room in the Chapel of the Snows - Antarctica. The instrument plays great but setting it up leaves a lot to be desired. So, there's a more work yet to be done to make this instrument the perfect professional touring vibraphone. It is also the first vibraphone to make it onto the continent of Antarctica. I'm so glad I have it with me.

Day 5: We've combined the top note passing tones with the inner voice passing tones. It's a little tricky to complete all this dampening in tempo, so be sure to pick a nice, relaxed pace to work at!

Hi guys,
wish you a happy new year filled with good vibrations!

Best,
Stefan

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuhxj5oRhQpaeRCXB5oBqA

Day 4: Rather than having the top notes of the chords as the passing tones, we've changed the passing tones to inner voicings. These passing tones have the b9, which creates a different tension.

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