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Benny Green Tritone Lesson/Etude
Oliver_M37
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Some Benny Green piano vocabulary adapted to the vibraphone.
3 years 5 months ago - 1 comments
Larry Blackshere Video (Great Video)
tonymiceli
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Here's a great video about a vibe player I knew nothing about. However he plays great and is a great guy. But I'll let John Keene tell the story, it's a bit tragic. John turned me onto the video.
3 years 5 months ago - 13 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Use Your Ears
tonymiceli
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Let your ears tell you what is happening. Train them to give you information.
3 years 5 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Playing the Tune Solo
tonymiceli
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Trying to find ways to play tunes solo. By that I mean concepts and ways to simply play tunes on the vibes and improvise your accompaniment.
3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Performance
tonymiceli
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My Take!
3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
I'll Be Seeing You
tonymiceli
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3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Moving Harmony
tonymiceli
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This is a pretty tune. I talk about the harmony and moving it around.
3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Blues for Gilbert
Oliver_M37
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I'm slowly getting into the classical vibraphone rep, and I started with this one.
3 years 6 months ago - 8 comments
Chord Melody - I Hear A Rhapsody by Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Audio Player
3 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Dominant Exercise for Pop Up Class - Just In Time
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Try this with the dominant chords and then use it over just in time. I also added a very scalular solo. So you could write the scales in here for next weeks class. It's all below.
3 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Basic Voicing Construction Lesson
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone! This is a lesson geared towards beginners, but useful for everyone! I explain my method for going through all possible standard extensions and voicings for a dominant chord (there are 32 in total for any dominant chord!).…
3 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
Lessons with Teddy
David Friedman
Content type: Story
Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg,…
3 years 6 months ago - 4 comments
3 Interesting Chord Voicings that Shouldn't Work but do!
Oliver_M37
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OK, a bit of a clickbait title, yes, but it's true! All three voicings I'll show you in this video have no third, which is usually the one note we absolutely need! We shall explore why that's the case.
3 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
Let's Discuss Gary's Autobiography - Spoiler Alert
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Questions? Thoughts? What did you think? Let's talk about his book, here. I have some things to say but I'll wait. How about some of you start. Gary will check in to answer questions and comment (I'm pretty sure).
3 years 6 months ago - 50 comments
Line Building Blocks Exercise Pt. 2 by Behn Gillece -V
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Line Building Blocks Exercise
1 year 2 months ago - 3 comments
Who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?"
Oliver_M37
Content type: Blog entry
For all the vibes history nerds out there, who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?" My guess is Victor Feldman, as he's worked with Ella and Frank DeVol (the conductor/arranger) on other occasions, I…
3 years 6 months ago - 4 comments
DIY fans for vibes (Download - Link)
wyndorps
Content type: Blog entry
Here is the link to download my DIY vibration unit for vibraphones. I chose this forum for the download because all the information about 3D printing is available there. After this cathastrophic year of 2021, things can really only get…
3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Henry Wilson (my student at NEC) playing a vibes solo of Papirosyn
Jerry Leake
Content type: Audio Player
The solo piece played by Henry Wilson is called Papirosn. It is an old Yiddish Theater song about a little boy trying to get by in the ghetto selling cigarettes and other things. Henry changed the harmony and melody quite bit for this…
3 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
New Late Night Mallets Designed by Myself and Leigh Stevens!
tonymiceli
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Click here for more info Soft, quiet, but articulate Super soft, nearly silent, slurring articulation
3 years 6 months ago - 18 comments
Solo Playing Vibe Techniques, Thoughts and Approaches as applied to "Yesterday"
ed saindon
Content type: Story
Here are some solo techniques, thoughts and approaches related to my solo vibraphone clip of Paul McCartney’s "Yesterday" on my YouTube channel. Execute runs allowing some notes to ring while dampening others for a better sense of…
3 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
Solo Playing - How Deep Is The Ocean - Pt. 5b by Behn Gillece -V
behng
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The last 4 measures!
1 year 4 months ago - 0 comments
Introducing my NEC student, Henry Wilson, playing Prelude to a Kiss
Jerry Leake
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Henry Wilson is an up-and-coming vibes player who studies with me at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He came to me with lots of excellent skills and we've been diving into solo jazz repertoire as well as some groove ideas…
3 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Just in Time Vibes duet
Zeric138
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I've been taking lessons from another local vibes player around here and, and in lieu of Tony's TOTM, asked if we could do a duet on Just In Time - here it is! Thought it'd be good to share as we're all working on the tune. Any critique or…
3 years 6 months ago - 4 comments
Amazing Grace arr. by Franz Bauer
Franz Bauer
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It was time for a new Vibes-Solo Video and i always liked this melody. It's seems so simple, but...
3 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Shady Lady - Original Composition - Vibraphone Solo by David Kovins
davidkovinsvibe
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3 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
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