Marimba

I have set the MalletKat Pro on "marimba" User Kit 28 for SouthOfTheBorder, and on "steel drums" User Kit 29 for Margaritaville. For the rest of the gig it was set on "vibes" User Kit 36, which has sustain and dampen functions. The midi sounds are self-contained in the keyboard, and the speaker box is a little CUBE-20X. It's not much of a speaker, but in an upper register, it doesn't matter. And fidelity, in a room full of folks eating dinner and playing with a 14-piece band, is not a major concern.

The world class vibes continue this Friday in Brooklyn, with an amazing lineup of talent...
If you're in the NYC area this weekend, please join David, Tony, Tom, Tyler, Stefan, me and many more of our musical friends at ShapeShifter Lab!
Here is the info:

BROOKLYN VIBES HANG
Friday, January 15, 2016
8pm
$12
Anthony Smith Quintet hosts:
David Friedman
Tony Miceli
Tyler Blanton
Tom Beckham
Stefan Bauer

and more TBD at the show.

Had some fun yesterday in the home studio playing the classic "On the Sunnyside of the Street" on marimba and hi hats.

Other solo marimba clips are up on my You Tube marimba channel and FB marimba page.

hey,

here´s a song i recorded and did the video for latley.hope you like it!
cok cabuk is turkish and means very fast :)

tarik

Let me know your thoughts!

Hey,
Here´s more from our last gig of the zappa band.this time with extensive vibes solos :)
hope you like it...
tarik

This clip shows some simple examples to get a pseudo-salsa piano comping sound on the vibes. I've included a basic idea and a few variations. The last example is more of an exercise or short etude, and a transcript pdf file of that one is attached.

hey,
not too much vibes in it but i thought i post it anyway.caught from our last gig with the zappa cover band called dangerous kitchen. we recorded the whole gig so if you want there´s more to come :)
it´s so much fun to play in this band.i would love to play mallets there but there´s already a great guy doing this job.

the band is:

Holger Auer – vocals
Martin Lelgemann – keyboards
Jörg Eschrig – guitar, backing vocals
Daniel Neustadt – bass
Michael Koball – vibes & marimba, backing vocals
Guido Montag – trumpet
Ferdinand Rexforth – saxophones
Romel Stoica – trombone