BANDSTAND: The area furthest away from an electrical outlet.
BIG BAND: Nowadays, an aggregation consisting of two musicians.
BROADWAY PIT JOB: A prison sentence disguised as a gig.
CABARET: A venue where singers do songs from shows that…
The assignment here is to use altered sounds on the dominant chords that are applicable.
Also the assignment is to post one typical altered lick here.
This is an important sound and vocabulary, and licks are a great way to learn about…
Dear all,
This day is a very special day for me. After nearly 23 years and a few long weeks of expectation, this morning I finally came to that incredible thing of getting myself… a vibraphone!!
I still can't believe this Premier 751 is…
Another excerpt from the recent online concert with Diane Monroe Quartet
Diane Monroe - violin
Tony Miceli - vibes
Madison Rast - bass
James Shipp - percussion
Check out my buddy Dan Monaghan on drums. I just think he's such an incredibly swinging and musical musician!!! Also Larry Mckenna a Philly Icon and Kevin Macconnell on base an incredibly versatile bass player.
Series Explanation:
When I was getting my masters in music education, one of the projects I came up with to do was a transcription series on the tune Body and Soul. The idea was to transcribe as many different soloists as possible on the…
Barry asked me to talk about the tune invitation. So I whipped up a quick video, just talking about what makes that tune unique and why it's a great tune to study.
I'm going to do an etude and then I think if some of you guys are…
Here's another track we did for an agent that's trying to line up a few gigs for myself and Diane Monroe.
This is a ballad and notice since it's a demo, we just played the head down. No point in doing any more, they won't listen to it. It'…
Ok, so I just checked my gig calendar and untill halfway through november I counted a total of 66 gigs!! Oh man this is crazy! But guess what, I'm playing vibes in almost al of those gigs!
I really feel bad not being on the site that much…
This is a top 30 list derived from the tune list PDF Tony posted.
I was so overwhelmed by 200 tunes I needed to add some focus.
One step at a time :)
-Todd
So the TOTM I think has proven to be a little difficult for some of you guys. Seems like a couple people are keeping up, but not more than that.
That's ok, even if this gets you to really learn the melodies or the chords, it's a good thing…
My buddy Bryan who is a GREAT bass player came over late last night with Chris Ashman a great tumpet player, whom I taught at U Arts.
Bryan insisted on keep the metronome on while we played. I thought I would post this.
You guys have me…
Hey Guys I was just in Italy and played on this Bergerault Vibraphone. I believe its a french company. Anyone heard of them?
The vibraphone was REALLY quiet and had a very dull sound. Although I bet alot of that had to do with my mallets…
The play along is too long so I just did the head twice and a couple of choruses. Sorry for the abrupt ending. New to Logic.
Instead of dropping mallets I added applause at the end. Its very encouraging and uplifting:)
Did a duet with myself today for fun.
You guys should try it! It's fun and it's a challenge.
sometimes I use a click track and sometimes I don't. On this version I had a simple samba beat playing in the background.
I broke down My Romance into sections. Try this approach, take little chunks of the tune and work with them. I have six sections below that cover each little part of the tune. See can understand the harmony of each one of these sections,…