Annie is my girlfriend. We live together. she is a very good classical flute player. We sight read together a lot...... and she laughs at me sometimes. My sight reading is not that good.

This post is during the time of the Corona Virus, maybe by the end of this, I'll be a much better sight reader. We will see.

So, I've attached the duet part. Practice it and play along with annie! You can get a chance to be in my shoes!

Here are the informations to step 2 of our DIY bar production.
Please go to
http://wyndorps.de/E_index.htm
and follow Step 2.

In this post I am focussing on the bar macro geometry, because it has a big influence on sound and frame.

What do you think about the idea to create an about 10% lighter bar set using the same width graduation as M55 or Omega instead of keeping the bar width constant on a minimum of 1.5" for youth vibraphones?

Working up a solo version of Horace Silver's Peace. We all need some peace right about now...

Comments welcome - work in progress.

Comment if you want me to write out the chord melody and upload it!

Here's a video of me playing the 14th etude for vibraphone pedaling from David Friedman's technique book. Not the cleanest run but the cleanest video take... Comments and feedback welcome.

Hey guys,

Here's the information for the online workshop.

We're doing it on a program called Zoom. Zoom is a very easy program to use. Just click the link and download the app and you should be able to figure it out.

We'll start at 12:00 EST 16:00 UTC

Here's the information:
Tony Miceli is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Vibesworkshop Presents David Friedman
Time: Mar 22, 2020 12:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) 16:00 UTC

What do you think? It's early Gary! I love to hear him and know he was so young.

As promised, I am trying to provide information on how we created our first DIY bar set.
Since I don't really understand how blogging works here, I put all the content on my private website (I can handle it more easily) and link to it.

Please discuss and comment here!

http://www.wyndorps.de/E_index.htm
Goto: Vibraphone Bar Set
-> 1. Step

This is a project I've been working on for a long time. I'm offering it up as new practice material while isolated due to Coronavirus Lockdown. It's about 1/3 complete but it's a LOT of practice work.

I came up with the idea about 35 years ago, then put it out in a very rough form with intentions of someday making it more user friendly. In the past few years, I add to it it when I feel like messing with it. It's great practice material and is very challenging. I thought I'd add it to the mix here at VW for folks looking for something different to work on while held up at home.