Vibraphone

Hi all,

Remember this video I recently posted about vibist Les Blachut and his "adventures" on stage?

If not, you can find it back here:
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/vibist-les-blachut-%E2%80%93-show-mu…

Well I got another one from him on Facebook!

Sorry for the poor sound. Just keep an eye up to 1'02, and then 3'10! He just cracked me up! :o)

HELLO EVERYBODY. I AM FINISH (FOR NOW) MY PRACTISE ON COMPING IN ALL KEYS AND I START 2-3 WEEKS AGO CHORD SOLO AND SIMPLE BEBOP LINES IN ALL KEYS IN DIFFERENT PROGRESSIONS. SO FOR MY PRACTISE IT CAME THIS LICK. I THINK SOLO IN ALL KEYS IS VERY IMPORTANT SO I WILL CONTINUES PRACTISING FOR 2 MORE MONTHS, UNTIL MY BRAIN IS DESTROYED...
I WILL POST AUDIO OF MY WORK UNTIL KNOW.FOR NOW I AM STUCK ON CHORD SOLO IN (ALL POSIBLE) PROGRESSIONS...

THANKS
DIM

Andrew is a freshman at the University of the Arts. And he's a hard working freshman! He came to the vibe hang today and played minority. Check it out!

Man we had a great vibe hang today! Great players and great music! It seemed like we had the whole world together. I counted France, Netherlands, Germany, USA, China and Australia. Pretty cool huh?

It's like we have this growing community now of vibe players who love the instrument and want to play it well. That's really cool to me.

David Friedman said something great about the site. He said, the site was built around my hard work, and also vibe players with passion and desire. (Something like that). That floored me and it was the truth.

Mike Pinto is a 3 mallet player. He was doing some really cool things today on Blue Bossa with the 3 mallets. A sort of parallel 5th thing that was totally cool.

Check it out here.

I spent a few days with James Whiting, definitely an up and coming vibe player. James is a hard worker and picks up things fast! We had 2 great lessons here in Philadelphia, and he was at the vibe hang today also.

I asked James to play something so I could introduce him on the site.

So check him out!

Yili is from China and plays in the Ganzouh Symphony. She's a great percussionist and the orchestra sent her here to widen her skills, which is totally cool! She's a great percussionist already and one that is very open minded!

She's studying with Don Liuzzi (timp), Marc Dicciani and myself and has been here for almost 3 months.

Check her out playing the Friedman Dampening and Pedaling Etude No. 10.

The cool thing about this etude is that the pedal is down the whole time.

Begging, Borrowing and Stealing. Things vibe players must do to play the instrument!

Ella is the best! Check her solos and her intro here. The band is happening also.

Sounds like her voice is a little tired. But check this out. You talk about ears!!!!