Hey Houston dudes!

I'm looking forward to coming to your school in a couple weeks. Here is a bunch of stuff for you to check out.

Behns beginners 8 part series
Check out Behn's 8 part beginner series. He did this with Tyler Blanter. Behn and Tyler are great players!
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/online-courses/beginners-course/tonym…

Gary's video on technique
Here's a video on Attack on the vibes by the master Gary Burton
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/node/4621

Gary playing Chega
Check out Gary playing Chega
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHR3F7vp1uc

If you are practicing scales and arpeggios, these might be some nice ideas to try.
-Tyler

I love this photo. I know it's wood not metal, but still. it's so heavy to me. this guy probably made the instrument, maintains it and wheels it to his gigs to make some money. this photo really moves me!

Here a first try for this tune. Another milestone for me, since it's the first bossa-nova I really play on vibes. A lot of things need to be polished, but that's what I can actually do.

Check out this great tune written by Christos and performed at the 'Zeltsman Marimba Festival' (ZMF) 2013 in Arcata, CA.
The tune is written for 2 marimbas and one vibraphone and it's called Rodinia.
Enjoy

I got up walked down to the basement. Set up Logic and played the first 4 tunes that came into my head. Kind of like a mini concert however I thought of it more as a practice session. I'm really really working hard on walking up to the instrument and playing it. I think that's a difficult thing, well at least for me!!!

I posted this in the thread with the link to the PBS Tiny Desk concert with Gary and Julian Lage, where this piece is performed. I don't know if anyone caught it though, so I'm reposting it here. This is also recorded on Gary's latest album 'Guided Tour'. It was written for Astor Piazzolla. I really like the harmonic movement.

I recently bought Jim Casella's vibraphone arrangement of Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1, which you can get from Steve Weiss. Aside from being a beautiful piece, I found it to be a great exercise in mallet dampening and independence. In particular, in some places you need to dampen AFTER the following note has been played rather than just before.