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Play A Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 2 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a…
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Simple blues solo
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This is an exercise of blues solo. One chorus written using chord tones on the beats, and (mostly) blues scale and bebop dominant scale tones as passing notes.
2 months 3 weeks ago - 5 comments
Circle of Fourths w/ Maj 7 Min 7 and Dom 7 Chords
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Circle of 4ths with various chord types. 
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Friedman Dampening Etude 4
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Friedman 4
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Friedman Dampening Etude 3
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Friedman 3 slow
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Friedman Dampening Etude 2
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Friedman 2 slow
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Friedman Dampening Etude 1
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Friedman 1 slow tempo
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The VW Discord Server Is Growing Fast - Come Join!
tonymiceli
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Discord is a cool way to build a community. Come check it out. We have a couple days left on our first giveaway which happens to be a free lesson with me. Join our server and enter the giveaway! There will be more! https://…
1 week ago - 1 comments
Cleaning grime off old bars
DB354
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Hi all, First post here, though I've been aware of the site for a while. I'm looking for some advice on what I might use to (safely) clean the bars on an old Jenco I recently acquired as my secondary, at-home practice rig. It…
3 weeks ago - 2 comments
Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 1 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 New Series Alert – Play A Great Standard In One Month!We've spent the last two series taking a deep dive into two of the most important forms in jazz:• Play A Great Blues In 3 Months• Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 MonthsThose 14-week…
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Blues for Diahann - Art Farmer solo
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Still working on the blues... This is a transcription of the beautiful solo of Art Farmer on Blues for Diahann (Milt Jackson -Bag's opus). Lot of space in it.I've a question about transcriptions : when do you consider you're done with a…
3 weeks 2 days ago - 4 comments
What mallets is Emil Richards holding in this classic photo?
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Does anyone know what brand/model of mallets Emil Richards is holding in this classic photo of him? Possibly original Albright's? Or Yamaha?
2 weeks 1 day ago - 0 comments
Play a Great Blues in 3 Months - Week 4 by Behn Gillece
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🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 4Up to this point, we’ve stayed in F and focused on building a strong foundation:• Clear guide tone movement• Controlled upper voice motion• Consistent Charleston rhythmThis week, we take a big step…
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Play a Great Rhythm Changes in 3 Months - Week 14 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 14We've made it to Week 14 and the final lesson in our Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months series!Over the course of this series, we've worked through rhythm changes from a number of…
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How much music does everyone here listen to?
Randy_Sutin
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When I was younger, I would spend hours with my sisters and my friends sitting around listening to records, sometimes the same record repeatedly for hours.   Sure, I would also spend a lot of time in a transcription mode, trying to…
1 month 1 week ago - 7 comments
Beginner questions
wolfereeno
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Hi - I'm a drummer (non professional) but can read drum music and have good technique. I'm really interested in learning vibraphone. Looks like I joined here as a free member 7 years ago. But lately I actually have time to…
2 years 3 months ago - 3 comments
Play a Great Rhythm Changes in 3 Months - Week 12 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 12Over the past seven weeks, we've built a strong vocabulary for rhythm changes through guide tones, chord outlinings, scale motion, substitutions, and bebop language.This week, we introduce…
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Play a Great Rhythm Changes in 3 Months - Week 13 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 13Last week, we moved rhythm changes from B♭ into F, beginning our work on taking the concepts from this series into different keys.This week, we're staying in F, but we're shifting our…
3 weeks 3 days ago - 0 comments
Benny Goodman and Terry Gibbs 1950
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I didn't know that Terry Gibbs played with Benny Goodman. He's playing a Deagan Imperial, which was known for a great warm tone. I had one in high school that I bought for $290. The guy I bought it from was convinced it had only 2 1/2…
2 months 3 weeks ago - 1 comments
Is anyone home at Malletech?
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I was interested in purchasing an OmegaVibe and had a couple questions that the dealers couldn't answer. I've called Malletech 12 times, tried all available extensions, left VM and email. No answers, no response. Makes me think…
4 weeks 1 day ago - 0 comments
Yet another mic to consider for recording the vibes well... the sE7
Randy_Sutin
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If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that I don't know all the options out there.  I continue to learn.   Here's a good one...I just did a live recording session for Imani Records here in Philly.  When I was…
1 month ago - 0 comments
malletkat midi sound source software
dustingetz
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Hello, I am looking to upgrade my malletkat sound and am looking into laptop midi setups so that I can use proprietary samples instead of the gigkat sound modules endorsed by Alternate Mode.Q1: What samples do you use? (Some appear to…
2 months 4 weeks ago - 7 comments
15 Week Vibe Course - Lesson 2
superorganic
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OK, so I'm getting a weekly lesson done every three weeks - what can I say, I'm old.  I move slowly.  :)Here's the Lesson 2 material:Friedman 1 and Friedman 2. Need to do more with dynamics on Friedman 1, but wanted to post what…
1 month ago - 0 comments
Play a Great Rhythm Changes in 3 Months - Week 11 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 11Over the past six weeks, we've steadily expanded our rhythm changes vocabulary.We've explored:Guide-tone linesEmbellished 3rds and 7thsChromatic approachesDiminished and bebop scale…
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Vibesworkshop is on Discord
tonymiceli
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I started a discord server for Vibes workshop. I think it's gonna be very cool. It's gonna have stages in it where we can play and have the coffee hang we can have impromptu talks we can have impromptu playing together, etc.. I'm building…
1 month 1 week ago - 1 comments
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