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Playing with your eyes?
Piper
Content type: Forum topic
Todd C. brought up a very interesting point in another post that read and I think it might make good conversation on its own. His point was that it's easier, faster and therefore closer to instant gratification to learn music and…
14 years 4 months ago - 20 comments
Keltic Tales by Jean-Baptiste Boclé (Malletkat madness!)
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Video Embed
Jean-Baptiste (mallets/organ) and Gildas (bass) Boclé are two french great brothers! Here is a vid from their last album "Keltic Tales", a clever encounter between celtic and modern music. J.-Baptiste plays the organ, but on this sample…
13 years 6 months ago - 10 comments
TOTM - Bluesette - Chords - Comping by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
A little concept exercise.
14 years 4 months ago - 5 comments
Making blues/jazz changes
drslg
Content type: Forum topic
I recently discovered a pattern in the jazz/ blue changes. Take the simple change of Bflat major 7 to e flat major 7 and back to b flat 7. Then you would go to f major 7 and down to eflat 7 and bflat 7, right? Thats just a simple thing…
14 years 4 months ago - 11 comments
French Song (comp. Franz Bauer)
Franz Bauer
Content type: Video Upload
Hi everybody...I thought it's time to post a video here, since i'm always watching inspiring videos of the great colleagues here!... It's a composition of mine called 'French Song'. Although there is nothing like a french character to it…
14 years 4 months ago - 7 comments
TOTM - Bluesette - Lines Part 1 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Get your lines going!
14 years 4 months ago - 10 comments
Caravan by Francesco Pinetti
Babu
Content type: Video Embed
For me, the best caravan vibes solo on youtube till now.
14 years 4 months ago - 4 comments
Bluesette by John Daly
johndaly
Content type: Audio Player
This is a rough recording I have done on Bluesette, it has taken me ages to get to this point, chords melody solo and chords with melody again to finish but trying to be more rhythmic at the outro using left hand to comp with melody, Rip…
13 years 7 months ago - 14 comments
I Sat On A Stool Last Night
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
We've talked a lot about sitting and playing. I've done it before. Last night I sat for the whole gig. I was using my old M-55 which is my lowest instrument. This bar stool was a little high but ok. I felt great playing like that. It was…
14 years 4 months ago - 20 comments
Days of Wine and Roses
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Keep up the great work everyone
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Common Tone Exercise
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Behn walks us through some cool common tone exercises
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
How to find all the forms of a chord
Babu
Content type: FAQ
First of all, your chord has to be complete with no repetitive notes. Let's take a CM7, in that form (for instance) : C G B E, called N°1. How to find ALL others forms of this chord (it's babies) ? Then, write down the normal sequence of a…
8 years 9 months ago - 9 comments
This is what you're really playing with.
DrBobM55
Content type: Images
John Mark Piper started an interesting discussion about "Playing with you eyes." I thought I would complicate things by posting this diagram. This a diagram showing the various areas involved with hearing, sound memory, sound production,…
14 years 4 months ago - 8 comments
Just A Heads Up for the Drummers
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Mario over at alternate mode has developed a MIDI drum head. Pretty cool huh? I'll get him to tell us more about it ASAP. He's really working up some pretty cool things.
14 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
Malletkat - should I or shouldn't I?
Wyld_Thing
Content type: Blog entry
Hey everybody. First post of 2011, so happy new year! Just before Christmas, I had a letter to say I'd been offered a place to study Jazz Vibes at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from September 2011. Needless to say I replied accepting…
14 years 4 months ago - 9 comments
Be Home Sunday!
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
While I've had an incredible time, I'm now anxious to get home and back into my grind. I definitely miss all the work I put into the site, and especially all of you guys. Although, these days I'm certainly checking things out via an Ipad,…
14 years 5 months ago - 3 comments
Polka Dots and Moonbeams by Philippe
Philippe
Content type: Audio Player
Hey, Thanks for posting the file for me, Marie. Last night I tried for an hour, but it wouldn't upload. First of all, Happy New Year everybody. Let 2011 be a swinging year for you (not forgetting myself). Now, this tune will be the last…
13 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
Common Tone Exercise - Part 1
behng
Content type: Audio Player
Here's a new lesson on using common tones.
14 years 5 months ago - 6 comments
How do I buy a Set of Vibes?
tonymiceli
Content type: FAQ
This is a comment that was posted by tpvibes. I thought it was so well done that I'd make a FAQ out of it. If anyone has anything to add, please do in the comment section. You could add links, preferences and why. This way we'll have a…
8 years 9 months ago - 9 comments
Who Is (are) the University of Delaware Students?
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Ok University of Delaware students, tell us about yourselves. What year are you? Who's your favorite vibe player? What's your favortie vibe cd? and anything else cool.
14 years 5 months ago - 17 comments
Delaware 2010 - 19 Vibraphones
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
We have 19 vibraphones in this school for the workshop. Can you believe it! Everyone has a practice room and a set of vibes. Really cool. We're going to get a photo with all the vibes, should be a cool photo!
13 years 2 months ago - 11 comments
For those of us in Europe
Stefan74
Content type: Blog entry
Hi all! A few days ago I received the Vic Firth Gary Burton mallets - 2 pairs for a total of Euro 65,- Including shipping + import sales/purchases tax + handling by the Austrian mail services. Here in Austria, if the price of an item is…
14 years 5 months ago - 2 comments
Chordal Playing - pt. 3 - How to Practice
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
14 years 5 months ago - 2 comments
TOTM - Blue Bossa - Lesson 3 - Lines Pt. 2 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
14 years 5 months ago - 3 comments
VW Etude No. 4 - Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Audio Player
Hi everyone, Here's a new etude for the site. The pdf is attached. Hope you like it. Behn
11 years 4 months ago - 12 comments
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