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Hello to all the users here at Vibesworkshop. This is my first post here and I´m a bit ashamed to say that I´m asking for help instead of offering sage advice on all things VIBES. I have a bit of a problem with my mallets. I use an older pair of Good Vibes M 235 Medium Hard Mallets (the old Gary Burton signature model)which I love and give me a great tone and response from my vibraphone. The beaters are ragged and dirty but still completely intact, but the handles are twisted and bent and under normal use maybe don´t have so much time left.

I struggle daily with issues involving music and many of them are just typical mid-life things but one of them is that I realized late into my musical life that the vibraphone has a "falsetto-sounding" voice to me. Not only the physical range of the instrument but it's sound seems "falsetto" to me. If I were to choose another instrument, I'd pick one that has a range in the natural male voice range. Anyone else ever thought of that? Yeah... I know.. I think too much. But the vibe just sounds so...falsetto.

Hey everybody,
I am going to play Red Norvo's "How's Your Mother-In-Law" in my March show (March 6 and 9). Does anyone have any anecdotes about this tune, how it was named, for instance?
Feb is all set to go on Feb 6 and 9. We'll "visit" some warm and sunny places. Come with me!
gloria

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Hi Vibesworkshopers!

I`m in nyc until 22nd of december and I`m looking for a vibraphone or a practice room with a vibraphone to rent.

does anybody know anything?

raphael meinhart

I really want to work on my ear. but, i'm not sure exactly where to start, i've been transcribing some tunes, but does anybodyhave any suggestions on working on my ear. excersises, ect.? i just want to use the time efficiently..
thanks

Players,
As a dedicated music lover, but a non-musician, I have always had these questions and here is a great opportunity to ask them. If these topics have been covered before, I apologize.

How much, if at all, do lyrics affect your playing a tune? Is it important to you to read the lyrics when learning a song, if you don't already know them? How important is it to know the history of the song; if it was written for a movie or play, what the movie/play was about? Or is the emotional content of the tune relayed to you through the notes sufficient?

Hi there,
I´m often on tour and I try to view vibesworkshop on my iphone, but I can´t see any videos.
Is there a possibility to view them?
Thanks,
Altfrid

Today I was trying to commit Girl from Ipanema to memory and realized that, for vibes, the key of Bb is much better than the key of F.

I am looking for an open minded mallet percussionist in the Minneapolis area
There are two central concepts
1- My experimental project called "PyroPlasticFlow"
2- A lounge band with the mallet percussionist as the lead instrument
Both would be electronically based with a complete multi-media package including video projection
The first would satisfy the artistic need
The second would earn us enough money for me to buy you a Mallet Kat (if you don't already have one)

I thought I'd try recording a video of stride playing Ive been working on. But I cannot get any audio on the iMovie.

I use the iSight camera in the iMac and iMovie.

I can see the input level working fine. But it does not record.
Any help would be appreciated.

thanks