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Cal Tjader live at Playboy 1959
John Keene
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Video footage of Cal is pretty rare, and I found this the other day on YouTube. This is the longer clip with three tunes on it - Cubana Chant, Poinciana, and Doxy. The instrument is a Deagan 1000, and it's nice to see Hefner keepin' it…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Assignment - Jack Huang
chloe
Content type: Blog entry
Stella by starlight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfFNmVaYWU8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwA…
4 years 6 months ago - 7 comments
TOTM - Fine and Dandy
tonymiceli
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Check out the etude. Does it help you?
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
I like these voicings
tonymiceli
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You hear them? You like them? I think they are cool. I got the tip from my student Oliver who is a piano player and moves voicings from the piano to the vibes. Oliver rocks!
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
"America" - Solo Vibraphone
ed saindon
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Some Sunday night musical reflection on “America” with some reharmonization, modulation and constant structure chords. If anyone would like the lead sheet just let me know.
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Morgan's Mini Concert No. 2
mwalbridge
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Tony is challenging me to do a 3 tune mini concert every week for the next few weeks. This week I am working on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, Alice in Wonderland, and All of You. I have been thinking about how to widen my range when…
4 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
First Attempt by Christos Rafalides
Christos
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Preparing for my masterclass at Boston Conservatory at Berklee called ‘e-Vibes & Vibes’, showing how I combine a Musser vibraphone with the Pearl malletstation.
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Check out what's happening on our Facebook Vibesworkshop page
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Scroll through the wall on this page. There are some great solo performances on this page of great players. https://www.facebook.com/vibesworkshopcom-123410837691577/
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Solar Exercises I just Gave A Student
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Here are some exercises and info I gave a student on Solar. WANDERING SCALES - I think it's a good exercise to be able to move from scale to scale from wherever you are. Here's one chorus of that. SOLO TO TRANSCRIBE - Transcribe it!…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Vibes/Strings
ed saindon
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"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Vibes and Strings. Recorded the string track and then played vibes over that. The strings switched from left to right half way past the clip which was not intentional. I wish I had real live strings but I can…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Little Jam
c.stallard22
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I've been working on the first four chords of "Fine and Dandy" and tonight I decided to jam on them in Bb. I've also been learning about improving my audio quality for recordings and learning how to pair audio and video with iMovie. So...…
4 years 6 months ago - 17 comments
Great Story About a Vibraphone Being Repaired - Kinda Cool
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18404783.repair-shop-bbc-brighton-man-t…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Stereo Mic'ing
BarryK
Content type: Blog entry
I am curious how many players put bass in the right channel vs. the left channel. How many don't care either way. Having played keyboard forever, I feel bass should go on the left, but I hear many (most) other vibes panned the other way…
4 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
Learning from the Balafon (Lesson 11: Sambinary)
Jerry Leake
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Sambinary This video examines an original samba pattern for drum set (and mallet instruments) that explores four metric perspectives and two approaches for the beat (bass drum). “Sambinary” (samba+binary) began as an exercise for a class…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
All Of Me - Vibes and Bass
ed saindon
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"All Of Me" - a slightly demented version of this classic from last night's gig with Mark and I. Ha!Ha!
4 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
Paul Simon's America
tonymiceli
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I had a lot of fun doing this. Sometimes I think I like real corny stuff and it doesn't appeal to anyone. But F it, that's the way it is. This is one of my all time favorite songs and I loved playing it and making this video.
4 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
waterdrops
wyndorps
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After 6 hours of lecturing, because of Corona only into a computer, I just had to do something else. Since I don't have a looper, I recorded all tracks live to audacity. Later I realized that you could have copied, but ... It's not precise…
4 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
April 24th Concerts on Facebook VW Page
tonymiceli
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http://bit.ly/vibesonfb This is the link of the page.
4 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Effective 5 mallets playing by ALEXEY CHIZHIK
Babu
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Alexey just posted this quarantine video. Exeptional playing and beautiful music. It's the first time i see a vibraphonist really playing 5 mallets, that is, doing something really musical. Enjoy !
4 years 7 months ago - 4 comments
Facebook Mini Concert
tonymiceli
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We've been doing mini concerts on Facebook. Here is mine from April 18th, 2002
4 years 7 months ago - 3 comments
John Zorn @ 60 w. vibes by Kenny Wollesen
John Keene
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This is one song from the full concert that can be accessed on YouTube. I didn't know that Kenny Wolleson played vibes, but I like the way that he places the vibes into the ensemble. The singer is from Argentina and her name is Sofia Rei…
4 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Bonk Bonk
cochranm
Content type: Blog entry
My wife and I like to watch British murder mysteries. In many of these, the preferred form of dispatch seems to be blunt objects to the head, hence "Bonk Bonk".
4 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
Friedman etude 10
JHspecial
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Friedman etude 9
JHspecial
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Very Quick and Dirty Lesson for Chia Hui
tonymiceli
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Chia Hui If there's problems with the lesson let me know. I don't have time to check it!
4 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
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