Vibraphone

What do you think? It's early Gary! I love to hear him and know he was so young.

As promised, I am trying to provide information on how we created our first DIY bar set.
Since I don't really understand how blogging works here, I put all the content on my private website (I can handle it more easily) and link to it.

Please discuss and comment here!

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This is a project I've been working on for a long time. I'm offering it up as new practice material while isolated due to Coronavirus Lockdown. It's about 1/3 complete but it's a LOT of practice work.

I came up with the idea about 35 years ago, then put it out in a very rough form with intentions of someday making it more user friendly. In the past few years, I add to it it when I feel like messing with it. It's great practice material and is very challenging. I thought I'd add it to the mix here at VW for folks looking for something different to work on while held up at home.

Let's play and post on here. Do mini concerts, do whatever. Let's be active and work on stuff and post our growth here! Make videos and post them.

I'm also thinking about doing some group Skype or Zoom calls. Anyone interested in hanging and talking about vibes? Asking questions, playing, whatever.

How are you guys getting through all this?

I hope you got some money for food and living. The idea of fellow vibe players struggling for simple things kills me.

I am definitely going nuts. Fear, unknown, WTF! All that.

I do know this, we need to be active and have goals. That's how I'm handling it. I'm playing and recording myself constantly. I think I'll try and put up a tune a day. I did two today, one had a little glitch in it. Not sure how big of a deal it is.

I'll post the other one.

“Tea For Two” - an impromptu run through tonight of this classic that I haven’t played for years. Helps maybe a little bit playing music for a brief respite of thinking what’s going on in the world right now. Thoughts and hope for everyone out there. It is affecting us all. :(

Thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak, cancelled gigs, and lots of time on my hands, I settled into transcribing another Walt Dickerson solo. This one, like Bacon and Eggs, is over a very simple short form. It is all a waltz romp on C major.