1.What are vibraphone bars made of? Type of aluminum?
2.How does Musser make the bars?
3.How do you tune the bars?
4.What is the best alloy for bars?
5.What would be wrong with using 2" wide bars on all bars?

tia,
Todd

Happy Birthday John Daly!!

I'm pretty sure it is John Daly's birthday today! SOOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY John. And forgive me if I'm wrong... ;)

TJ

I happened upon this You Tube clip commemorating Victor Feldman's posthumous induction into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. A fitting tribute to a musical genius and icon who was removed from us too young.

Mainieri's playing gave me the goose bumps and made me want to cry out in joy!

Elias, Erskine and Gomez sound great here too. Why wasn't I listening to this in 1983 instead of the Fat Boyz and Run-DMC? (LOL)!

Hey David!

Someone started a NY Session Musicians group on Facebook, and this photo was posted. Thought I'd share it here. (Hugh McCracken is in like every photo!)

Steve

I have not been playing much lately (which is not really making me happy)...but anyway, I grabbed a few minutes and was thinking about the Stride Blues stuff that Tony & Ed had done. So I propped up my iPhone, and made a little video. The thing works great for these kind of practice videos! Thank you guys, for the inspiration...

Does anyone know where I can obtain a chart to "Tanguedia III" by Astor Piazzolla? The piece is on Tango: Zero Hour and Gary has recorded it on his Libertango CD. I've searched several online sheet music retailers with no luck, so if anyone has a link to where I can buy it, I appreciate it!

It's one of the Piazzolla pieces that I think I could play on a gig - like Oblivion and a few others.

Raphael is going to be posting etudes on the site, one a month for subscribers. Here's the first one! He's putting it in Sibelius and as soon as it's done I'll get it on the site.

But check this etude out. This cat can play!!

A quick lesson on using a modal concept of substitutions. I translate it into a tune. This is for advanced players I would think.