Happy New Year everyone! I became aware of the beautiful composition Alfonsina y el Mar just before the holidays. Here's an alternate version that I had recorded when practicing the song. (I was also testing out an external mic versus the internal mic with the iPhone. This version used the internal mic which wasn't as good.)

For vibists in Italy: I'll be in Italy (Florence, Venice, Verona, Milan) during May 8-16. If anyone would like to set up a lesson/clinic, please send me an email or FB message.

We might have between 60 and 100 people for this weekends vibe congress. Is that amazing or what?

Have you read that Malcom Gladwell books? All about people doing amazing things in impossible situations. When I think about it, why can't the vibes be a more popular instrument? We just have to get people to like the instrument...... NO..... rather to know the instrument. Most people don't even know the name of the instrument. If everyone knew the name of the instrument wouldn't that make a huge difference. I think it would.

A great Mainieri Solo!

Here is a video clip that I scored for an intro to music tech class. I used iMovie, Logic and a malletkat.

I just have discovered this guy.... Who knows where he's from ?

Here's a solo chorus of lines for the changes to Scrapple From The Apple. Have fun!

My curiosity led me to the Harmonic scale. I found it a more interesting scale then the natural one.
I immediatly started improvising on it.
"Wait, turn the mic on and do it again!" I thought.

Thought I post it. I hope it can be of some interest.

Greetings,
Stefan.

hey,

my friend and me had the chance to do three short little commercials for german television. we played with 2 hand puppets (named Ramos & Claire) and wrote and recorded the music jingles. so everything was selfmade from the background to creating the puppets and the script which was really hard work. an impression of what they look like is here (sorry german only):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LaKK9yJoQ

More wood.

Isn't this what we all play? After all everyone always says to me "Nice Xylophone Playing".