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David Friedman Talks About Getting to Know Your Instrument
tonymiceli
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This is an excerpt of a great workshop David gave at our French workshop this year. He talked about getting up and improvising on your instrument or a different one, and playing it in a way where you can get to know it.
6 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
Aesthetic Decisions for a Jazz Vibist #5 (appearance/clothing)
Randy_Sutin
Content type: Blog entry
What about appearance/clothing on gigs??? o What are the factors that go into this decision?  It’s a performance not a recording. Your audience can see you and will be looking at the stage for at least part of the time while you are…
6 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
More Accountability: TOTM Chord Guide for Miss Jones
allyman
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This afternoon I wanted to get into this chord guide you did Tony, posted here: https://www.vibesworkshop.com/story/totm-have-you-met-miss-jones-chord-… I printed and proceeded to try and put it to memory while integrating the melody,…
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
TOTM - Autumn Leaves - A few inspiring versions
tonymiceli
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Our next TOTM is Autumn Leaves. Here is one of my favorite versions. Do you know who Eva Cassidy is? Man check her out, she is pretty heavy. More of a blues singer, but wow, she gives me chills. She died very young and in her prime. I'm a…
6 years 11 months ago - 14 comments
Transcript of a great speech - loaded with simple brilliance...
allyman
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Whether it's music, or business, or sports, or relationships...in the end, success is all the same. This man gets right to the heart of it. Worth a few minutes to read... https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/just-do-it-by-art-williams PS…
6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - Have You Met Miss Jones - Transcribe This
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
If you know the changes to Miss Jones and know the melody, here's a simple melodic solo to transcribe. If you transcribe it, post it here. You can hear the tune in the solo, right? You hear the harmony right? And I'm playing so little to…
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
TOTM - Bebop - Ideas for Swinging On the Vibes by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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6 years 11 months ago - 17 comments
more music for detective novel - 7 Proof´s
vibraman
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here´s some more music i wrote for the detective novel...this time a simple 7/8 bass vamp with various themes played by the malletkat and sax. this will be during a chase in the story...you get the picture?
6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Autumn Leaves Voicings For Stefan
tonymiceli
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Here you go Stefan. Autumn Leaves voicings. You have to do some of the work. I think I got the form and all that right. You need to label the chords and then label the alterations. Finally I think you need to memorize this. Just play it…
6 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
Anyone seen these "spacers" on accidentals before?
mikek
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Great player! I was just watching some of his videos to get inspired to practice, when I noticed these weird spacers on his vibes. Anyone have info on them?
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Jamming with French Vibist David Patrois
tonymiceli
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This was at the Vibesworkshop France workshop.
6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Being Accountable
allyman
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So I said I'd start to be accountable and post video of things I"m working on. This is a start. Starting reading through this yesterday. Harder than it looked! So many nuances with time, phrasing, pedaling, etc. So, a work in progress! I…
6 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
Good Vibes on the Radio, August 2018
gloria krolak
Content type: Event
Hi Everyone, As I always try to do, I've mixed it up for you with some standards (Airegin, Old Devil Moon, Green Dolphin Street) and some contemporary compositions by Nick Mancini, Steve Hobbs, and David Friedman. Change of pace is always…
6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Aesthetic Decisions for a Jazz Vibist #1 (2 vs. 4)
Randy_Sutin
Content type: Blog entry
Now that I have reentered the world of being a musician who is uninterrupted by a day gig, I have been thinking about what I could offer this site. In the recent post about 4 vs. 2 mallet playing, something surfaced. It occurred to me…
6 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Sus Chords
allyman
Content type: Forum topic
Hi all. I hoping for a little advice and suggestions on how to handle sus chords. I have to say, I'm not always sure which tones are the most important, and I find that when I'm reading through pop tunes, sus chords appear a lot. Not sure…
6 years 11 months ago - 3 comments
Aesthetic Decisions for a Jazz Vibist #2 (Mallet choices)
Randy_Sutin
Content type: Blog entry
Hard mallets, soft mallets, different mallets on different tunes??? o What are the factors that go into this decision?  Timbre is an important musical parameter, conveying much of the emotional content we seek to share as artists.  In…
6 years 11 months ago - 7 comments
Scales Part 4
tonymiceli
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Talks about the modes of the Major Scale. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinese translation for Chinese students Ionian 的結構：比如以C因爲起頭音，一路上行，8個音中間半音全音的關係。全全半全全全半。 你可以用這樣的方式，找到七個調式音階，音根音中間的關係…
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
TOTM - All The Things You Are - Chord Melody
tonymiceli
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6 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
Baby Grand by Billy Joel - Vibe Solo by David Kovins
davidkovinsvibe
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6 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
How To Voice Two Triads On The Vibes
behng
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6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
"When I Fall In Love"
ed saindon
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"When I Fall In Love" - My private students and I were working on solo vibe playing concepts last week as applied to ballads. In addition to working on solo playing techniques, we were discussing ways of sounding colors of the chord via…
6 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
You must believe in Spring
David Friedman
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I've always loved this tune but never learned it because I thought it was so difficult, especially after hearing so many gorgeous versions by Bill Evans. It's not only about playing the chords, but moreover about CONNECTING them and…
6 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Frl.Rösler - Music for a detective novel
vibraman
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hey, i´m currently wrinting some music for a detecive novel that a friend has written. here´s just 1 simple theme i wrote and recorded with vibes & malletkat. Frl.Rösler dies as u can imagine... hope you like it!
6 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
TOTM - There Is No Greater Love - MEGA ETUDE
tonymiceli
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Here's a mega etude. Your job is to enter the chords and study each bar by writing all the alterations in. Is it aN F7b9? F713, F713#9. Look carefully at each bar and study the tune. Then play it. Memorize if you dare.
6 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
TOTM - There Is No Greater Love - Simple Chord Melody Video by Behn Gillece
behng
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6 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
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