I always wanted to test the material of plastic bottles (PETG) as resonance tubes. I have long searched for suitable material in the appropriate diameter grading.
Unfortunately, it is always the case that you have to buy a certain minimum quantitie per diameter. Since I finance all my handicrafts with my private money, I limited the test to only two diameters, but there are also suitable gradings for the tube-in-tube-concept with better fitting to the bar sizes.
The V5 frame with aluminum tubes weighs 20.3 kg, with PVC pipes 19.5 kg and with the PETG pipes only 15.7 kg.

Hi guys this month I'm talking about sticking related to the jazz phrasing.
It's important to understand when and where playing alternate/double stroke sticking.

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Drums Organ Vibes Ensemble
"Here we Are"
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I was working on this song with my student this past week. We were talking about various techniques that can be applied in order to fill things out with the melody and improv. A few things we covered were counterpoint, comping underneath the melody and two hand lines with left hand jabs. All of these techniques will be covered in depth in the upcoming solo vibraphone playing book. Writing this stuff out is hard though. Ha!Ha!

A simple, elegant, and somewhat underappreciated tune by Cole Porter.

"I'll Remember April" from last Saturday's gig. Always a fun night of playing by the fish tank. (The camera was on top of the tank).

Jobim's "How Insensitive" with Mark and I from our steady gig (over 8 years) at Li's last Saturday. Nice to play in a relaxed atmosphere and hang with friends.

This covers strictly the piston stroke-- the what and how of physically performing it.