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10,000 Hours
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
In the book 'This is Your Brain on Music', I'm reading about what it means to be an expert. Many scientists use the 10,000 hour theory. That is generally speaking to become an expert at anything you have to spend 10,000 hours working on it…
14 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Images
Tarik just posted a cool video of Benny Goodman playing with Swedish vibist Lars Erstrand. Here are a few links in his memory: - Wikipedia bio: I just realised he died this year in March at 72 :o\ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
14 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Blog entry
I spent the night playing through the first chorus of his solo. This is a very serious etude that would challenge most of us on the site, I think!
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Content type: Audio Player
So I just bought a cool new recorder that plugs right into my iPhone and the quality is really awesome. It is called the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo. It cost me about $70. I thought I would turn it on and play a tune that my lessons teacher has…
14 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Content type: Video Upload
I was asked to play a few numbers with one of our big bands at University of the Arts. They said they have one of the school arrangers arrange something for me and I said. Karn Evil 9. And they said, what did you say? But I convinced them…
12 years 9 months ago - 14 comments
Content type: Blog entry
Amazing. Everyone on this site needs a copy in my opinion. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002K0WC1S Originally scheduled for release next Tuesday, this was apparently release a couple weeks ago. It is Bobby Hutcherson with his regular…
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Here is my version of 'My One And Only Love'. I really wanted to play it as a beautiful ballad, and I didn't have a lot of time this week so when I recorded today I really found out that I really need to work on playing ballads. I think…
12 years 10 months ago - 16 comments
Bird is the Word
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I spent part of tonight playing Bird's first chorus on the tune Merry Go Round which is a rhythm changes with a Sears and Roebuck Bridge. S and R Bridge is (key of Bb) F-7 Bb7 Eb Eb C7 C7 C-7 F7. That's what Larry Mckenna always calls it…
14 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Spain is one of my all-time favorite Chick Corea tunes. So many of his pieces have this great energy and beautiful melodies. My recording (done about 10 or 12 years ago) had a boring intro that's been removed for this post. Please pardon…
12 years 9 months ago - 1 comments
Content type: Video Upload
Joe's Performance and lesson on 'She's Always a Woman to Me'.
11 years 9 months ago - 9 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Here is my new recording of etude number 5 with more emphasis on dynamics. Please excuse the room noise towards the end but I think my roommate was making food haha. Thanks again for the suggestions and please let me know what else I can…
12 years 11 months ago - 11 comments
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Here's an old version of Beautiful Love. I remember working and studying this tune. It's really fun to play.
12 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
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Here's a short audio lesson on practicing basic II-V-I voicings in open position. Any questions? Post them here! TJ
13 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Event
Hello fellow vibists, I’ll be in Chicago on Friday, October 23rd for a clinic at DePaul University at 10 A.M. If anyone is in the Chicago area and would like more information, please email me at esaindon@berklee.edu Best, Ed
14 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Story
Here's a pdf and accompanying audio with some short 'etudes' on comping. I have a ton of stuff stored up over the years from teaching online. These are some short examples of comping I made for somebody somewhere! I have audio with and…
14 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Audio Player
hi there this is just my first post. a simple folk tune with me on vibes and a friend on guitar...hope u like it
14 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Here's lesson 4.
13 years 4 months ago - 28 comments
Hip Irish Music
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Finding time to listen to cds is pretty rough any more. Tonight though I'm trying to get in a couple cuts of some buddies cds. One of which is James Shipps cd. I think you guys would dig it. I guess it's all or mostly Irish tunes? Jim's a…
14 years 11 months ago - 7 comments
Content type: Blog entry
Every once in a while I blog about what's happening deep inside of the site. I know there are a lot of members out there that are working hard, some don't live near teachers, or other players. I want them to know how much is going on here…
14 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Here's our first comping party. Just pick a tune that you know, comp only and upload it. This might turn out to be a phenomenal way to study comping. I thought about all picking the same tune, but maybe do that next time? For the first…
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Sight Reading
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I spent the last 2 weeks and will the next 2 weeks, learning a ton of tunes for gigs. But these gigs are big bands or really written out originals. This has been hard. Reading is not my forte. I can read a lead sheet, but following a big…
14 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
Content type: Audio Player
So I didn't have much time this weekend I thought I would put myself in the open a little, just to see what would happen. Tonight I decided I had to record something I know I wouldn't be confident about... So I decided to do a solo version…
14 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Audio Player
Sooo.... I was hanging out practicing and began thinking about Tony's great stride vibes recording of Cheek to Cheek. I've never really worked on that kind of thing, so I started wondering what I could do with that "signature style" of…
14 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
Content type: Lesson Plans
Here's a lesson plan for Invitation. A great way to study this tune in pieces. Each lesson in the beginning will focus on one part of the tune. Later we put it all together and focus on the tune as a whole and work on improvising on it.…
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Content type: Video Embed
i listned to ricky lee jones pop pop cd recently.it was one of my favorite cd long time ago and i didn´t hear it since 15 years.my one and only love is one of my favorite songs of it. so i tried to make my solo vibes version of it.as…
14 years 11 months ago - 18 comments
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