Hi Folks:

My band, Nós Novo, is doing our 2nd Annual Very Special Xmas Special tonight at Cornelia Street Cafe at 9pm. One long set of jigs, reels, old songs, and a few carols, woven into our repertoire and sounding like us. $10 cover for one long set... should be great fun.

It's that time of year again; a time for the endlessly curious combination of ancient ritual and online shopping; cloves and cinnamon wafting through Walmart, trees brought inside and dressed up, Lady Gaga singing about the infant christ on tv.

Let's focus on the TOTM's we've covered so far.

Let's also work on ways of building technique, solo playing, studying chords and all other topics you guys might have.

We'll start the day at about 10am and go till noon.
Then have lunch. Get back together at about 1:30 or 2. We'll go until about 4. Break for dinner. Come back for percussion ensemble at about 5:30. After percussion ensemble we'll hang and have a concert, or jam together.

David Friedman, Tony Miceli Behn Gillece, Anthony Smith, Matthias Goebel and Paschal Schumacher are doing an international vibesworkshop in Wuppertal..
The workshop will take place from March 5 until the 9th 2014 at the Hochschule für Musik, Bewegung und Tanz in Wuppertal. That's 5 days of mallets from morning until night!!.

The Workshop Includes:

• Classes Each Day
• Ensembles
• Bass Player
• Vibraphones
• Marimbas
• Pianos
• Practice Rooms
• Concert Hall

Rules:

1. ONE key per day.
2. you MUST run the board ascending/ descending >or< descending/ ascending at least 2 times per sequence. Lowest point o the instrument in that key to the highest point on that instrument in that key.
3. you MUST use a metronome, preferably set to 2 & 4. Slow to medium tempo.

the RHYTHMIC PROGRESSION
1st time = 8th notes
2nd time = 8th note triplets
3rd time = 16th notes

the STICKING APPLICATION
8th notes using alternate sticking, doubles, paradiddles (that’s 3 times up & down!)

Hey,
I'm crazy I know. First thing : I feel like a beginning gladiator who just jumped in the arena of a profesional game. I'm going to get killed.

1 take recording-3 pieces
- theme from the nutcrackersuite
- Christos his excercise on independance
- bags groove

I make a lot of mistakes, (notes pedalling, dampening) mistakes I usually don't make when I practise these tunes on there own. But in this situation I make more mistakes.
The main thing I noticed listening to myself :" Oh my god I play fast, that's way to fast for me!!!"

yesterday i wanted to create a simple playback for me to practice vibes...then i couldn´t resist and out came this...don´t take it serious. in the end the vibes didn´t make it on the recording :) malletkat is fun!!!

tarik

Behn and I were hanging out (with Barryk) today. We played and talked about Just In Time today.

Hey David,

(And everyone else of course).
Before I continue on working with this I need some feedback.
Maybe some things to know in advance :
this is the 1th time I did it without metronome.
This is the 1th time I recorded it.
There are wrong notes, some I did wrong for the 1th time, maybe under the stress of recording.
I need to work a lot more on it, but it would be great to receive now some feedback, perhaps I'm not aware of some things I'm doing with it now.

Thanks in advance everyone.