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Hope we get some people!!! Comment here if you are. Come on people! It's easy to do. Just need a web cam or video cam. I can help you set it up.
15 years 8 months ago - 14 comments
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We've been studying Ed Saindons tune 'Life's Blessing' for a few weeks now. Here's a simple chord melody arrangement of the tune to check out. (It's attached below) I've left it very simple, you can add some rhythm where needed as well as…
15 years 8 months ago - 5 comments
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Joe Locke is Crazy! Joe's birthday is this Wed. March 18th. Let's all wish him a happy birthday! I met Joe last August and he quickly became a best friend of mine. What a great player and great person. I've learned so much from him. From…
15 years 8 months ago - 19 comments
Content type: Story
Sorry but I thought the foreigners would love this! Manufacturer Recalls Hollow Point Bullets That Fail To Explode Inside Targets
15 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
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I just had a great talk with Teddy Charles. He's not computer literate at all, but we're trying to figure out how to get him on the site. He has a secretary that comes over, so maybe I can work with her. He's in Long Island, maybe I can…
15 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
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Some Early thoughts on Ed's tune 'Life's Blessing'. Hopefully some of you are working on it and will post your versions. Ed has a video version of it coming he told me! That should be great!
13 years 6 months ago - 13 comments
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Hem ! I had a bit of fun yesterday, trying out my new recording facilities. First I recorded the bass-drum track with Laurent, my hometown bass-player, then I did the vocal, and then I added the vibes (2-mallet playing). Here is the result…
15 years 7 months ago - 25 comments
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I was working on this a bit last week and getting really frustrated because I just could not get a good take on the solo section. I just faded this one out before the solo. I used Joe's drop 2 licks in the intro and Tony's killin'…
12 years 11 months ago - 7 comments
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Here's my second version of Ed's Tune. My plan was to: 1. Work on the head and post it. 2. Work on the head and solo section and post it. 3. Write a mallet arrangement of the head. (with Ed's Permission) 4. Do a video of the tune 1 and 2…
15 years 8 months ago - 5 comments
Mallet Kat Hang
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Content type: Event
Check out the next Mallet Kat hang this Wednesday night! www.alternatemode.tv
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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Here is my attempt at making "Spring Is Here" a waltz. It is originally written in 4/4 but there were parts in it, especially the end, where it sounded to me like it could be a waltz. It reminded me of "Waltz for Debby" by Bill Evans. It…
15 years 8 months ago - 5 comments
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15 years 8 months ago - 11 comments
Who is Dana?
tonymiceli
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Who is Dana?
15 years 7 months ago - 6 comments
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I haven't said anything on here in awhile, but I would hate myself if I didn't take advantage of this opportunity, for me, of a lifetime. With having the legendary Gary Burton here, Tony, you must be beside yourself. All these great…
15 years 8 months ago - 9 comments
Content type: Blog entry
I exchanged a couple nice emails with Gary Burton. He was suprised to see his video of Chega. I would imagine that that would be pretty heavy if you didn't know it existed and saw it after all this years. That's the 60's? I'm a Gary fan…
15 years 8 months ago - 20 comments
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Hello everyone, I have a clinic/concert coming up in April that I wanted to let you know about. It will take place on Monday, April 20th at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. The clinic will be held at 4 and will cover…
15 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
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Chordal Playing
tonymiceli
Content type: Book page
Here's a 4 part lesson on some concepts of chordal playing.
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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Hi Just thought I'd share an arrangement I did for a college percussion major student last year. Its Piazolla's Libertango which many vibes workshop members have expressed a liking of his music so I thought I'd share this. Its for 5…
15 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
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Here are a bunch of lessons on licks. There's also a lot of talk about licks on this site, players have different opinions of them as you'll see if you look around.
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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Thomas James Mackay Born in 1967, in Oakland, Nebraska, Thomas Mackay is a native of the Midwest. He started his musical studies at the early age of five in piano and percussion. Mr. Mackay has mentored under Gordon Stout and Bill Molenhof…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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dear tony, maybe it would be nice if you give us a little bit of information about you. from the site i only know a few things. but i would like to know about your musical background...where did you study, how you came to the vibes,do you…
15 years 7 months ago - 11 comments
Who is Tifoo?
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Who is Tiffoo?
15 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
Who is Tjaco?
tonymiceli
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Who is Tjaco? ----------------------------------------------- Ok here I go: First of all, the drummer in me was very early and I was hitting a tambourine along with musicians in my house when I was only 3 years old. My mother and Father…
15 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
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