okay, so when I first started studying in Berlin, David told me to write an etude every week. which was super challenging a couple of years ago. but seeing the progress I made through this - not only with my technical skills but also…
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Here's the lowdown on February's Good Vibes. I'll be playing tracks by Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, Milt Jackson and Terry Gibbs in this edition to salute these early adapters. We, players and listeners, are indebted to them…
Hello all – I am working on a set of pieces and the first movement is a solo vibraphone piece titled "meditation" the piece itself will be called "thoughts" here is a rough sketch of the first movement. Take care and I hope all of your…
I just want to share a couple of projects with you, that I'm working with in Berlin right now and during the time I wasn't activ here.
this first band - CHAT NOIR - is the band Giovanni Perin used to play in! When he left Berlin to go…
This is one of my typical morning improvs. I decided beforehand it would be a linear improvisation IN TEMPO. That means that of utmost importance was the time.
The second important element was SMOOTH PHRASING and TONAL FREEDOM. The latter…
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So lately I have been going back to the Hanon book to practice scale patterns. (If you never checked out the book I left a link to the entire book). What makes the book great is that you can apply different scales to the…
Very sad news. Mike Balter sold his company to Zildjian. I saw it in an article in a newspaper online. I kind of wish I would have known in advance, as it was a bit of a shock.
I love Mike Balter. Like Steve Weiss he is an icon in this…
(This is a piece I wrote and have named it after the great composer Vince Guaraldi. The lead sheet is here, as well as an etude where you can work on different aspects of solo playing.)
This will be a multi part lesson. The actually…
Here's all the Friedman Dampening and Pedaling vids and audio lessons on the site. This a book all of us should work through and master.
If you play any of the etudes not on the list. Please record yourself and post your performance!…
This is a series of ideas, ways and techniques for you to consider when playing solo.
This is really open to other faculty and other pro players on the site. I'd love to get something from some of these other amazing players and put…
Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.
Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.
Any jazz musician has been…
Here’s my take on ed’s tune “lifes blessing”
In my mind this piece has so many beautiful sections I really ended up mixing up sections to give me what I was going for – which was more of a “church” feeling – looping for example a line…
Here's all the lessons and performances of Ed Saindon's tune 'Life's Blessings.
We spent the month of March studying Ed's tune and we had a blast. Check out all the comments. There's a lot of valuable information here.
Life's Blessing - Ed…
Here's a sample of my current morning warm ups. My warm ups are always comprised of something I'm working on and spend about 30 to 45 minutes on them and then move on to learning tunes, practicing improv or whatever but first, I warm up…
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It's been a while that I posted something here, but Tony asked me to do some content for the site, so I will try to post regularly, probably every week. I'm very excited to get in touch with the vibesworkshop…
"Oblivion" by Astor Piazzolla - It's been nice having some time off from Berklee. It's been so cold here to go outside so the only thing to do has been to practice. Ha!Ha! I'm a huge fan of Astor Piazzolla and his music. This is one of my…
“My Foolish Heart” - Vibraphone Masterclass – Playing the melody while adding color to the harmony via various techniques. The clip features one chorus of the melody on this classic ballad. My favorite version of this song is from the…