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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 ...

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.