Doxy" composed by the great Sonny Rollins. Had a request from a special friend and great vibist to post this song. I love everything Tim played on this clip. I learned this song many years ago from the great Herb Pomeroy. Herb was a…
Our discussion of cord for vibes started to branch off in soft vs. hard mallets.
So I thought I'd open a discussion on that :-).
I don't want to say too much about it but I'll start off with this.
It's sad to go hear a vibe player and…
This is from wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Palmer_(musician)
John Michael "Poli" Palmer (born 26 May 1943 in Worcester) is an English rock musician who was a key member in the progressive rock band Family. Though he was not…
I LOVED Victor Feldman! He was a pretty busy studio player back in the day but ventured out and recorded some GREAT vibe recordings. I went to his house for lessons a few times and it was a huge treat but like the other masters I studied…
Have any of you experimented with makeshift cases for any of your instruments? I have been trying to find a solution to moving my M75 to a new city. The Beiner Bags are expensive ($1000+) and take a little while to make/ship.
I had the…
I had a gig in April at a local jazz club and the promoter of the club asked for me if I could get a pianist for a vibes/duo concert. He also wanted to know if we could do some Gary and Chick songs which was great. We did Desert Air,…
Vibraphonics: The PiperCussion Damper Pad aka, the gel pad
In mid to late 1980’s I was trying to learn to play solo vibraphone. It was so difficult and so frustrating! For one, I felt that my instrument (Musser M55 Pro Vibe) wasn’t working…
Back in the mid-1980's I started using pencil grips on my mallets. I was obsessed with finding and eliminating every little thing that contributed to extraneous noise on the vibraphone. As I became a little more known for my "Vibraphonics…
Check out this etude. Study the chords and write in the names with the alterations. Then play the etude. It will get you moving around and weaving through the changes. Work up the speed a little bit, and transposing in one other key will…
.... Don't Transcribe, don't play licks.
IMHO
Licks are vocabulary and phrases and words and sentences. I never understood this. Learn the vocabulary and then use what you want.
Just my opinion!
Thanks Tristan!
Thanks Matthew!
For some weird reason I always felt a Cimbalom was in a strange way similar to a vibraphone. The sticks, the strings like bars. It's in a sort of bed.
So it's a little off topic, but check this guy out. He's pretty happening!
Many people probably already know about the "18 Exercises for Flute but I'm currently trying to get my reading to a very proficient level and I ran across the 18 Exercises for Flute by B.T. Berbiguier. What a gold mine! Here's the sight…
One of my favorite Jobim tunes. Actually, I love them all. Ha!Ha! Tim is special to play with. Probably the most in demand pianist in Boston playing with guys like Jerry Bergonzi and every vocalist in Boston. He was also the pianist for…
I'm thinking of all this stuff because the site has become very active. Which is GREAT!
I don't like the musser motor. I don't like disc's inside the bar. But that's not the point I guess.
I've been playing with the Omega wings and using…
Minority was written by Gigi Gryce
Here's one chorus of Minority. Your job is to memorize the changes and then you comp and add the rhythms.
Check out bar 5. Notice I don't have the third (Ab) in the chord. Do you think it matters?…
Recent posts got me interested in experimenting with resonators.https://www.vibesworkshop.com/video-embed/omega-vibraphone-vibrato-syst…https://www.vibesworkshop.com/blog-entry/motor/tonymiceli/051717
This blog is my repository of my…
Check this out. Especially the beginning of the bass solo.
Do you hear the tune? Kurt is just playing a line through the beginning. then he comps 5ths and sparsely but we here the tune.
I often listen to guitar players and imagine what…
Fair two mallet technique/skills, decent understanding of basic theory/harmony/scales, etc. How then to "jump in," to apply that skill/knowledge to getting a line going on the instrument, to get up and running in real time? Thanks in…
I'm about ready to pull the trigger on buying an Omega Vibe. I've seen alot of different videos, recommendations and comments, and of course I've had the chance to play on it at a few PASICs over the past few years. The fact…
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