Vibraphone

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Last couple of weeks we have been busy finalizing the new midi system for our instruments.
We have just completed our first LW35 with embedded midi, and have prepared the gigVibe's design to be able to also carry the midi.

The system is a completely new design, a.o. it is smaller, so it fits inside the endblocks.
As it is now, it is only available for our instruments, but in the very near future it will also be available for other brands.

Nico

As you know I "follow" a bit the new members when they arrive. From the day he registered some 9 weeks ago, I always wondered... "For God's sake, but who is Monsieur 405"?!

Can you answer Ben? (please)

- M

PS: in fact, I already know a few very interesting things, but hush... I will let him speak ;-)

Hi Everyone,
Wednesday, September 1st, is the second anniversary of JazzOn2 radio. To celebrate we will be airing some sample editions of our regular programming. A special one-hour edition of "Good Vibes" will be aired at 11:00 am eastern (US) time. I've pulled a couple of tunes from each of the first four "Good Vibes" shows, which began in May of this year. I will be playing Tony's "Nascimento," Joe Locke's "Alone Together" with vocalist Kenny Washington, Jay Hoggard's "Swing 'em Gates," and nine others. Hope you can listen in!

I was writing to Dr. Bob (drbobm55) and he sent me back a great email. I liked one section of the letter especially and asked if I could reproduce it here. Dr. Bob said ok.

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Hi All,

Here's another tune from a gig back in July -- I'll Remember April. In addition to me on vibes, we have Brett Baker on guitar, Mike Caruso on bass and Bruce Hanahan on drums.

Enjoy :-).

Tom P.

Anyone out there have BIAB with the real instruments?

Can you send me an mp3 of My Romance maybe about 6 choruses?

I just need it to sound good. Are the drums swinging? Maybe no piano, just drums and Bass?

If you can, leave a comment here so that everyone doesn't do it.

Thanks!

I really want the TOTM to succeed and for you guys to memorize tunes. I think you'll be happy you did!

I'm trying out yet another web conferencing package. This one looks cool. If it works we could meet once a week or once every 2 weeks and work on the tune, live.

The problem is the audio, as we don't need great video, but we need decent audio. I'm assuming it won't be up to par, but I'm working on it.

We could attempt to do this in ustream, it might be a little clunky but it could work.

Anyway I'm still at it.

I broke down My Romance into sections. Try this approach, take little chunks of the tune and work with them. I have six sections below that cover each little part of the tune. See can understand the harmony of each one of these sections, and be able to move the harmony around in different keys. The idea is that you study one little section and that section makes sense to you, and then he studied the next, and then when you put it all together you you understand the whole tune.

VW is excited that we will be included in the syllabus for the percussion department at the University of Delaware. Harvey Price and all of his students (21) will be subscribers on VW. This is exciting news to us, because one of our goals is to get universities percussion departments involved in the site.

In the two years I have run this site, I've learned that the end of August is a pretty quiet time. I realize people are on vacation, students are getting ready for college, people are just basically chilling and waiting for Labor Day, and then to get back to work, school, etc.

I've also watched the site grow for the past two years, and checked out the community of vibe players that has built around all this. It's not nothing short of spectacular. The fact that we have almost 1500 members from all of the world on this site is truly remarkable.