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Friedman Etude 8
Ritterpc
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Demonstration of David Friedman Etude number 8 with a focus on mallet muting. 
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Everything I love -V
David Friedman
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Just got a new Malletech marimba I'm totally in love with the sound. It's Padauk, not rosewood, so it has its own sound, which appeals to me after playing rosewood marimbas for so many years. The bar spacing is a little different so that's…
1 year 1 month ago - 5 comments
Mike Mainieri with WDR Big Band
tonymiceli
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What else to say, this is amazing! 
3 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
What's Your Perspective On the Vibes? How do you see it?
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
What do you see when you play the vibes. What's your perspective? I always saw it as a guitar or even a violin (after studying Bach). Never really saw it as a piano. But yes it looks like a piano and there are many similar things. I guess…
13 years 5 months ago - 12 comments
Billy Wooten (Anyone know of him?)
tonymiceli
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Randy just sent me this.  I can't imagine playing with this band, it sounds loud. But you can hear Billy! 
3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
March Newsletter, 2022
tonymiceli
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  Want to Learn More about the Vibraphone? Over 1,500 lessons and over 20,000 posts about the vibraphone.  Join for only $9.99 a month and study with us. Support the largest vibe community in the world! ... and learn!    Did you…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Canaro en Paris by Martin Ghersa
Babu
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Here is traditional tango very weel played by an authentic argentin player. He is 34 years old, and he plays with a lot of bands in Buenos Aires, some of them new tango (Piazzolla and his musical's sons). Perfect tecnician, and for me the…
13 years 2 months ago - 3 comments
Chord Expansions on Tenderly - Tim Collins
tonymiceli
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4 years 2 months ago - 4 comments
Chord Melody for Fly Me To The Moon
tonymiceli
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This for my student, but it's for all. it's a VERY QUICK and dirty chord version of Fly Me To The Moon. Done in about 15 minutes. Good enough for what Frank needs, but you're welcome to check it out.
3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Chords and Voicings
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I was just blown away looking at our Vbooks section. That is Virtual Books.    I was putting something in the chords section and I couldn't believe how many lessons were in there!  The thing about vibesWorkshop is you just look for…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
You Fill In The missing Voicing
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Here are three, two five, one progressions.  Good voice leading for the most part is lazy voice leading. That means:  you usually won't move the note if it's in the next chord. you will move whatever voicings have to move but to the…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
"Four to the Bar" Tutorial on Stars Fell On Alabama
ed saindon
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Guys, here's a tutorial on the "four to the bar" style on Stars Fell On Alabama. Had some fun with adding the hats. I use to do this with piano but not vibes, so it needs tweaking. Would have picked a smaller/thinner and quieter set of…
3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Assembling a Tune - Part 1 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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After you know the chords and the melody what are some ways of assembling tunes? I believe that without a foundation with the tune, it's going to be hard to 'tame' it. Even though I don't always practice what I preach, knowing the melody…
15 years ago - 2 comments
Freddie Green Style - By David Friedman
David Friedman
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7 years 2 months ago - 11 comments
Voicings Print Out
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
I made this for a student and thought I'd share it. We did it on the fly. Practice page one in all the keys. Also page two. Use the closed and open positions and then go through all the open and closed voicings. Remember the rules are the…
7 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
Playing The Melodies To Tunes -V
behng
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Behn came over today to pick up some mallets we started talking about melodies and playing lines. So I asked Behn to play a tune with only melodies and lines, no chords and then talk about it. Here's what came out.
11 months 2 weeks ago - 20 comments
Remember the V Chord! by Behn Gillece -V
behng
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Remember the V Chord!
1 year 1 month ago - 3 comments
All The Things You Are Simple Solo To Transcribe
tonymiceli
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Here's a simple solo I did for a student. All the things you are.  He's doing the following:  Learn the solo (don't write it down) play it along with the recording every day play each chord and then play the part of the solo that goes…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Blues to Transcribe - Easy and Hard
tonymiceli
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Don't write it down until you can play it.  Can you play it in another key?    I tried to make the easy one easy. The other has two choruses, one easier than the other.  I also tried to focus on some things like a scale or a target…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
MILT JACKSON Mean to Me
patriciopinero
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3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Good Chords to End a Ballad With
Oliver_M37
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Hello all, Just a quick lesson on ending ballads (or any tune, really). I demonstrate a few different options for the final chords on a ballad so you don't always have to end on 1 or the b2. Let me know if there are any questions!
3 years 2 months ago - 7 comments
Settlement Music School Faculty/Alumni Band
tonymiceli
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Allstar cats here!    There are some things to talk about here. First My mallets which are hard(er) mallets sound great here. It cuts through and you here the articulation. I'm not saying buy my mallets, but I am saying by mallets like…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Video Tips
tpvibes
Content type: Forum topic
Hi Tony, This isn't quite directly vibes, but is there any chance we can get a lesson on the equipment/software you use to produce videos? You've really upgraded your capabilities since the "quick and dirty" days, so I'm looking for how…
15 years 5 months ago - 6 comments
Wichita Lineman
tonymiceli
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I did this a while ago. I probably hated it when I listened back. But time has a way of making us more objective about our past.    But I think this is cool. I like how I keep time even though it's slow and spacey.    Rubato and…
3 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Contrapuntal Dampening Lesson
Oliver_M37
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A crazy mental exercise in improvisation! This will help your dampening skills as well as your ears and your overall understanding of the instrument.
3 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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