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Something we all should be able to do ...

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

I hosted the vibe coffeehouse hang today and made some games.

Here is a "guess that vibraphonist and tune" game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mJdIlmds4w&feature=youtu.be

And here is a jazz standards puzzle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M4fvMH_6Np30Y30DHw75YeAq2vidBxvD/view?…

If you weren't at the hang, feel free to play and write your guesses here in the comments! :)

Probably one of the best things about our instrument is that, when all hell is breaking loose around us, we can retreat to an instrument that is capable of playing very peaceful and soothing tones. It's one of those nights over here and this is one of my mother in law's favorite Christmas tunes, "Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte.

Thought I'd share it. Been working on some new recording technique for very soft playing as well.

Hi Everyone,

We were talking about this solo in the Vibe Coffee house (meets on Sundays).

Mike Mainieri transcribed this when he was a kid.