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Example sound of the "Simple Glockenspiel" - a super easy and inexpensive metalophone that you can make yourself - plans available at www.makeamarimba.com

Sound of a DIY P3 marimba with generic timber bars - durian - building guide available at www.makeamarimba.com

Example of Commercial padauk bar marimba sound

An example of a P2 - DIY 2 octave marimba made with bars from a very generic and non-tone-wood called durian

Scale played on a DIY made 11-note Orff Xylophone with meranti bars - Soprano

Scale played on a commercially made 11-note Orff Xylophone - Soprano

A quick recording of "When the Saints" on 2 DIY Orff xylophones using meranti bars. Get the plans at www.makeamarimba.com

My Wife's sister was in town for a week with her 15 month old boy... who evidently really is tuned into sound and music... so what else could I do but create a belated 1st birthday present both suitable and easily transported in carry on luggage! Pretty tiny instrument - 1 octave of G maj. Purpleheart bars and even tiny custom bar posts! More info on facebook - Custom Marimbas Canada

I made a quick video today to help explain the salt testing process to people who often ask - why we do it - why we need to do it TWICE... and how the nodes will actually move out as you rough tune the bar - have a sneak peek at the process of tuning a B2 bar!

Yesterday during the open house, Bryan Allen dropped in and had a quick noddle around on my new vibraphone project. It's great to get a different perspective on my creation purely as a listener. Great also to get a little feedback. As a result there are a few refinements I'll make a little later. Many thanks Bryan! Feel free to check out my latest instrument builds or get your own custom instru...

Here is a sneak preview of the new - no compromise - vibraphone project from me - Jim McCarthy - at makeamarimba.com . This will be released as a building guide later, but i still have some tweaks to finish off with first, then to write up the guide! For now though it is my new personal instrument and so far I've never played a better one! It's everything I always wanted in a vibraphone. It kee...

I truly believe this simple drumstick innovation will revolutionize drumming. It's like training wheels for your fulcrum that produces automatic great technique. There is no faster way to get improvement to your drumming technique. I'm a passionate believer in this idea and think it can be a benefit for every drummer in the world!

This is a simplified and cheap to build version of the P524 marimba. You can build this one for less than $900 easy! The modifications make it easier to build and assemble and this one is just four octaves rather than the whole five... so it is significantly cheaper and takes less time also!

Build your Own Marimba

How to Set up a Drum Kit - Pt 3

How to Set up a Drum Kit - Pt 2

How to Set up a Drum Kit - Pt 1

Drum Rudiments - Live Lesson Bit 5 - Single stroke 4 - four stroke ruff

Drum Technique Lesson - Fulcrum hints and Wrist & Finger motion

Drum Rudiments - diddle-eggs - Live lesson

Drum Rudiments - Paradiddlediddles - Live lesson

Drumming Finger Technique - Developing the Fulcrum

Tuning Marimbas - Finding the Nodes

Build your own Vibraphone - comparing the PV with a Musser

Drum Stick Twirling & Spinning whilst playing Blog 07

Online Video Drum Lessons 8 - open hi hats

Online Video Drum Lessons 7 - 16ths on snare

Online Video Drum Lessons 6 - Drum Roll Rudiments