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Arturo Serra new CD release
arturo serra
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hi all people if anybody are interested thsi is my new cd release called "arturo serra standards session II cd" in newsteprecords label if any are interested in buy it go to or listen some sample: www.newstepsrecords.com you have diferents…
14 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Lionel Hampton by Gary Burton (for members)
Gary Burton
Content type: Story
Lionel Hampton – Father of the Vibes I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told, “You’re almost as good as Lionel Hampton.” And when someone looks at me with a puzzled face and says, “What’s a vibraphone?” I just answer, “What Lionel…
13 years 9 months ago - 10 comments
Just Friends
vprovost
Content type: Video Embed
Video from show at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage earlier this summer.
14 years 1 month ago - 6 comments
Jenco vibes for sale
russell
Content type: Forum topic
Found a very nice M55 about a half hour from home, so I am selling my Jencos. The particulars: 3 octave, non-graduated bars, one speed motor with the three pulleys for three speeds of vibrato. The felt is ok to adequate, all of the bars…
14 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
TOTD (tune of the day) if i were a bell - practice
vibraman
Content type: Audio Player
holidays are over and i got so inspired by david and tonys video of "if i were a bell". i never played it before and practiced it the whole day. instead of doing a solo vibes version i wanted to make a trio version. unfortunatley all my…
14 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Practice Tape 1 by tony miceli
tonymiceli
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------------------------------------ I found this unpublished on the site. I must have put it up and then took it down because I didn't like something on it. It's one of my practice tapes, so it's not meant to be perfect. I couldn't find…
13 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
Resham Firiri
Randy_Sutin
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My rendition of a Nepali folk tune that was taught to me by my friend Manose. The quartet is Justin Sekelewski (bass), Dan Hanrahan (guitar) and Gabe Globus-Hoenich (drums).
14 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Pt. 9 - Stella
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
It's better to play 1 tune for 24 hours than it is to play 24 tunes for 1 hour.
14 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
Vibe Diary - August 22, 2011 - No Gig
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
No gig today (I'm glad in a way). After doing a bunch of BS I got on the instrument. I'm learning the Parker Tune Quasimodo. I love the head and it's a challenge to really get the phrasing! I have 3 recordings, Paul Motian, Parker and…
14 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
European Vibe Makers
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Yo, european cats, There has been some talk about getting vibes in Europe lately. We talk a lot about American manufacturers. For European cats it's expensive to get those instruments over. But there are some great instruments over there…
14 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
Stella By Starlight - by Ed Saindon & Joe Locke
tonymiceli
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Here's Ed Saindon and Joe Locke doing a great rendition of Stella!
13 years 9 months ago - 11 comments
Cop This Laura Lick by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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I left a couple things out, so fill in below. Tell me more about this lick. What about the notes of the lick? What are they over each chord? What are they based on the key we're going to.
14 years 1 month ago - 10 comments
Working Together!
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
This is the power of us all working together. I'm checking out all these videos on the blues. I'm listening to the blues in the car and the blues is coming out all over the place for me! You guys are influencing me big time. This is the…
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Barry's Tune No. 1 - 110819 by BarryK
BarryK
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Here is a tune I started composing. I don't know if I heard it somewhere before, or if it is original. With the descending bass line, it could be a million tunes! Please let me know if it sounds like something familiar, and I'll work on…
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Pt. 1 - Stella By Starlight
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
In this lesson I talk about practicing chord tone solos over stella.
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Pt. 2 - Stella
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
In this lesson we work on quarter note solos over Stella. Quarter note solos are sort of bass lines in a way.
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Chords - Work in Progress
Rogerhdg
Content type: Blog entry
It has been a frustrating ten days of working on chords to use as a left hand accompaniment to a melody line in the right hand. Six weeks till the sing-a-long at the Rehab Hospital. Working with a FAKE book "Ragtime and Early Jazz", I…
14 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Vibe Diary August 19th
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Says panting and out of breath: Drummers dad dies last night. Got him on a bus to NY at 2:40. He's got to get to Cleveland. What about the gig today?? We need someone. Well got Arturo Stable, so that's COOL!! No time to practice anything…
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
TOTM - Blues - Intro by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Just some quick observations about the the blues. You guys have anything to add about da blues!
14 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Life's Blessing Study Series: seven choruses of improvisation
ed saindon
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Here are seven choruses of improvisation on the progression of Life's Blessing. Again, as I mentioned in the other video playing the melody, the left hand is functioning as accompaniment as well as helping out the right hand to execute…
14 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Pt. 10 - Stella
tonymiceli
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14 years 1 month ago - 6 comments
USING THE LEFT HAND IN SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME by JIM THE VIBES
dimitris
Content type: Audio Player
I AM PRACTISING USING THE LEFT HAND. THIS LESSON IS BASED ON A PREVIOUS TOTM SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME. I THINK VIBRAPHONISTS WHEN WE PLAY MELODICALLY WE ARE MORE HORN PLAYERS. I WOULD LIKE TO STUDY HOW THE PIANO PLAYERS COMP WITH THEIR…
14 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Vibe Diary August 17th
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I've been getting up and playing a Parker tune or 2 to get my center. Joe Magnarelli does this and I've been trying to adopt it. Rhythmically Parker is pretty heavy IMHO. Then I'm rehearsing for a string of gigs this week with the same…
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Latin Guys?
ntvito
Content type: Forum topic
I'm listening to Stefon Harris' new album that he did with some guys down in Cuba. It's a cool album, called Ninety Miles. But, I think I need a lot more history behind latin music to appreciate it. Can anybody suggest some guys who…
14 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
2 Mallets
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I need to confess! I bought a pair of those Sefon Harris Mallets. Big balls, short staff (lol). You know what.... I pick up just 2 mallets every now and then and just play and it is SO MUCH FUN. I get why there are 2 mallet players (and 3…
14 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
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