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Hello everyone! I want to take full advantage of this site and everything offered here. To that end, this video was made. I hope this is the first of many posts I make. Give it a watch and I look forward to your thoughts. Have a good one!

I explain in the video why I'm posting but a few things I forgot to mention:

1. I'm also having trouble with getting a tight grip and a strong dampening stroke without tensing up (or feeling like I am, I have struggled with this quite a bit.)

This week's vibe Zoom coffeehouse "lesson of the week" was inspired by the jokesters of yesterday's vibe talk and by Mike Balter.

Yesterday's vibe talk: https://www.facebook.com/vibesworkshopOnFB/videos/328241894857803
Original Mike Balter audio: https://www.vibesworkshop.com/audio-player/mike-balter-joke-week-724j1/…

This one took like a million takes. I've been recording it every weekend for the past month and I think I finally have one that sounds okay! Here is #20 of Friedman's book.

please leave comments if you have time. thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I'm putting on another outdoor concert tonight (8/7 @ 7 pm) with my combo (vibes/guitar/bass/drums). This time we'll be streaming it live on YouTube at the link below:

https://youtu.be/vQGk1diUylA

Hope you can check it out!

I've been playing through a bunch of standards improvising solo vibes arrangements everyday recently, and realized I might as well record it. Although lockdown sucked in a lot of ways, it has REALLY gotten my solo playing together. Before it might've taken me a week of shedding to get a solo recording of this quality without any huge hiccups. But now I can just sit down and play. It is so freeing! And now, if I play in a band, I just have so much more confidence since I know I don't really need them. Anyone else notice this?

Download the attached PDF for notation and general background.

Almost done with the whole book (which I have recorded and put up on this site and YouTube). Here is #22, one of the three jazz etudes.

I'm almost done recording the whole book, so here's one of the peskier ones I've been putting off recording.

'Whisper Magic' is a solo vibraphone piece that was composed a few years back and premiered at a duo concert with pianist Sergio Salvatore at New York's Carnegie Hall. Now I got the opportunity to work on a video for it and hope you enjoy it!
Music available at: http://manhattanvibes.com/sheet/whisper-magic