As many of you know, Arturo Serra is a great vibraphone player we fortunately have in Spain. For a great number of new generation jazz vibraphone players in Spain, Arturo has been (and continues being) the person who has had the things clear together with many years of a great experience in order to have been able to guide us and advice us about how to learn jazz vibes step by step in the right way. I am one of these and Arturo has been and is a mentor.

Here's a simple chord melody for our TOTM, Darn That Dream. You will find many voicings that are similar to the chord study we had, and a few modifications. Pdf is attached. Enjoy!

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There's 2 weeks a year, where I just can't keep up. This is them. Between spring gigs, teaching rehearsing, I fall behind on vibesworkhop. But it's over soon and I have a bunch of lessons based on Darn That Dream, so we'll keep it going for a bit. That means Behn has to thinking of stuff! He's been posting a lot.

That's life, huh? Better to be busy then not! I leave a blog like this every spring semester every year and here it is!! But I'm almost done!

Hello everyone,
In this practise I wrote a solo and I tried to approach the chord tones of the chords. Then, I continue creating my own solo based on that.
Hope you like it!

Dimitris

This is a short excerpt from a concert with guitarist Dan Faehnle. Also Bobby Floyd on organ, Tony Franklin on drums and myself on vibes. This was a fun night!

Hope everyone is well in vibe land.
Best,
Rusty

I have a Deagan 4 octave marimba for sale . Model # 40 (Diana) . Rose wood bars. Great cond! Plays and sounds wonderful! Located in New London, Ct.
Asking $ 3400 or best offer. If interested call (860)235-5111 Kirk.

If any of you guys can swing the 100 dollar pledge, i'll also give you a free month on the site and a pair of my mallets.

Today was the first day of the Workshop in the near of Warsaw in Poland. It is unbelievable beatuifull here! (We say its like the shire in lord of the rings)
David, Robert (a student of david) and I, drove this morning with the train from Berlin to warsaw and now we had a great first evening here with elwira and Gabrielle (the marimba duo who organised the workshop).
I'm very exited for the next days, because robert and I are the only studentes here!!!! :D 3 teachers two students.

Here is a picture of the concert hall where we practised this evening.