Hey guys, this is a clip that was just featured on the Vic Firth YT channel. The footage is from a concert that took place in Boston this past July as part of the Berklee Percussion Festival. The channel will be adding more clips from the concert over the next few weeks. This clip features my composition "The Healing" (which can be downloaded from my website). The band includes: Matt Marvuglio on flute, Marco Pignataro on tenor, David Clark on bass and Ron Savage on drums.

I was playing with Celine Bonacina (the sax player) Sextet: "Réunion"
I had some great fun using the Kat as Fender Rhodes and Balafon...

Hey vibes peoples:

Here's a little trio jam I did a while back on my Malletkat Rig. Tune is entitled "Baby Smacker"

-Tyler

since very very few people posted something on ornithology i decided to post this practice session from today. not very structured, few mistakes in the head but anyway...i post it.

i want to hear you guys on that tune please post what you have so far no matter what it is...

i think it´s not easy to play a good solo over it because i tend to fall into scales and licks i always use if it´s that fast...not easy to get rid of that :(

tarik

I'm pleased to announce the release of my new book and DVD "Six-Mallet Technique Diversified: A Comprehensive Book and DVD to Learn Six-Mallet Marimba Technique"

Check out the link to watch the sample.
To purchase: http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00BIA3Z7&pp=1
For information: http://www.joeporteronline.comI'm pleased to announce the release of my new book and DVD "Six-Mallet Technique Diversified: A Comprehensive Book and DVD to Learn Six-Mallet Marimba Technique"

Check out the link to watch the sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2C7W2iKB3o

Sample of the book:

I've uploaded the Livestream video of the OGD Vibe Quartet from last Friday to YouTube. Enjoy!

Steve Esposito is the 'O' (organ).
Mike Caruso is the 'G' (guitar).
Joe Lis is the 'D' (drums).
And I'm the vibe :-).

Tom P.

Before a new school year, I did some work on my M55 to improve it.
I was unhappy with the silly W brace system, always getting loose at the worst time (when rolling the vibe to my van at 2AM for example...), and being a nonsense mechanical feature, as explained here by John Piper and Nico.
I had noticed too that the gear wasn't sturdy around his vertical axis. Just one bolt on each side to maintain all is not enough after some years of use and the horizontal pieces making the "T" part of the horizontal pedal brace were already bended, meaning a shaky vibes in a few time.