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Here we go!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!! We love you!!!

Some of you will remember, last year was a big one for our dear Tony! And we did a big 'cyber-fiesta' on the site!! Some 28 tunes patiently worked in secret and posted on the D-day in his honor! Plus the wishes and jokes! Man we all had a lot of fun!

I thought you might want to (re)discover those tunes and good vibes. You’ll find them all here (enjoy!): http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/tonys-50th-birthday-all-posts-relatio…

Hi all,

Here's another clip from some gigs I did recently in Chicago. This is one of my tunes called "Little Echo". Hope you like it!

Behn

Just a reminder about our workshop in Ireland, we have one place left for Vibes so if there are any Europeans interested in attending let me or Tony know asap. Its going to be a great week. Here is the schedule

Tue 19th July to Sun 24th July

Class times 10am to 3.30pm Mallet players

6.30 to 9pm General instruments

Will finish on Sun night with a performance in our Jazz Club. There are practice rooms available to work your butts off.

John

The theme of this lesson is to find something that YOU like when you play. Forget about judgement, and just listen. Find patterns that sound good, pick out melodies that sound familiar or make up new ones, experiment with different ways of striking the instrument. Try anything. Record and/or remember the things that you really like, and then later you can learn WHAT it is you played so that you can do it again, or be free to change it however you want.

This tune was written by Bill Dobbins many years ago. I first heard it performed as a piano/vibes duet. I recently recorded it for bass and vibes. But I'm sure it would sound great on vibes and marimba. The audio clip is slightly different than the attached pdf manuscript. Some stuff has been added and some taken out, but you'll get the idea.

We did the tune at a moderately bright tempo, but I've heard it played super fast, as the tune's title suggests.

Hope this is the right topic / place for this question...

I'm new on the vibes and my sight-reading is very very crappy. I'm looking for suggestions for (a) material to use for practice in sight-reading, and (b) approaches to practicing.

Right now for sight-reading I'm just reading Real Book heads and Bach Inventions (one part at a time). I've also just started with Bartok's Mikrokosmos for very very simple two-handed reading (stuff like unison lines, very simple parallel motion, etc).