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TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Moving Harmony
tonymiceli
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This is a pretty tune. I talk about the harmony and moving it around.
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Blues for Gilbert
Oliver_M37
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I'm slowly getting into the classical vibraphone rep, and I started with this one.
3 years 1 month ago - 8 comments
Chord Melody - I Hear A Rhapsody by Behn Gillece
behng
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3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Dominant Exercise for Pop Up Class - Just In Time
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Try this with the dominant chords and then use it over just in time. I also added a very scalular solo. So you could write the scales in here for next weeks class. It's all below.
3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Basic Voicing Construction Lesson
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone! This is a lesson geared towards beginners, but useful for everyone! I explain my method for going through all possible standard extensions and voicings for a dominant chord (there are 32 in total for any dominant chord!).…
3 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Lessons with Teddy
David Friedman
Content type: Story
Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg,…
3 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
3 Interesting Chord Voicings that Shouldn't Work but do!
Oliver_M37
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OK, a bit of a clickbait title, yes, but it's true! All three voicings I'll show you in this video have no third, which is usually the one note we absolutely need! We shall explore why that's the case.
3 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Let's Discuss Gary's Autobiography - Spoiler Alert
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Questions? Thoughts? What did you think? Let's talk about his book, here. I have some things to say but I'll wait. How about some of you start. Gary will check in to answer questions and comment (I'm pretty sure).
3 years 1 month ago - 50 comments
Line Building Blocks Exercise Pt. 2 by Behn Gillece -V
behng
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Line Building Blocks Exercise
10 months ago - 3 comments
Who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?"
Oliver_M37
Content type: Blog entry
For all the vibes history nerds out there, who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?" My guess is Victor Feldman, as he's worked with Ella and Frank DeVol (the conductor/arranger) on other occasions, I…
3 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
DIY fans for vibes (Download - Link)
wyndorps
Content type: Blog entry
Here is the link to download my DIY vibration unit for vibraphones. I chose this forum for the download because all the information about 3D printing is available there. After this cathastrophic year of 2021, things can really only get…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Henry Wilson (my student at NEC) playing a vibes solo of Papirosyn
Jerry Leake
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The solo piece played by Henry Wilson is called Papirosn. It is an old Yiddish Theater song about a little boy trying to get by in the ghetto selling cigarettes and other things. Henry changed the harmony and melody quite bit for this…
3 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
New Late Night Mallets Designed by Myself and Leigh Stevens!
tonymiceli
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Click here for more infoSoft, quiet, but articulate Super soft, nearly silent, slurring articulation
3 years 1 month ago - 18 comments
Solo Playing Vibe Techniques, Thoughts and Approaches as applied to "Yesterday"
ed saindon
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Here are some solo techniques, thoughts and approaches related to my solo vibraphone clip of Paul McCartney’s "Yesterday" on my YouTube channel. Execute runs allowing some notes to ring while dampening others for a better sense of…
3 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Solo Playing - How Deep Is The Ocean - Pt. 5b by Behn Gillece -V
behng
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The last 4 measures!
11 months 3 weeks ago - 0 comments
Introducing my NEC student, Henry Wilson, playing Prelude to a Kiss
Jerry Leake
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Henry Wilson is an up-and-coming vibes player who studies with me at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He came to me with lots of excellent skills and we've been diving into solo jazz repertoire as well as some groove ideas…
3 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Just in Time Vibes duet
Zeric138
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I've been taking lessons from another local vibes player around here and, and in lieu of Tony's TOTM, asked if we could do a duet on Just In Time - here it is! Thought it'd be good to share as we're all working on the tune. Any critique or…
3 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
Amazing Grace arr. by Franz Bauer
Franz Bauer
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It was time for a new Vibes-Solo Video and i always liked this melody. It's seems so simple, but...
3 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Shady Lady - Original Composition - Vibraphone Solo by David Kovins
davidkovinsvibe
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3 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
TOTM - All The Things You Are - Chord Etude
tonymiceli
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Click on the brackets on the bottom right of the video box and you can watch in full screen mode. Also print out the etude which is attached to this lesson.
3 years 2 months ago - 4 comments
What happened to December's Good Vibes
gloria krolak
Content type: Event
Hey, For those of you who've asked what happened to December's Good Vibes, we've had a router failure at JazzOn2 and, like many things these days, a replacement couldn't be found in time to air much of this month's programming. We're…
3 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Behns Just In Time Pop Up Class Will Be 12/15
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I'll give behn this link. he can post his zoom creds here.
3 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
The 2 Methods of Moving Chords Around (AKA "planing")
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone, Here's another lesson about voicings. The common theme of all these recent lessons is trying to extrapolate as many different possible voicings as we can out of a sing idea. You take any four notes, and you can do all these…
3 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Chord Scales for Major Chords - Ionian, Lydian, Harmonic Major, Double Harmonic Major
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone, As with the previous lesson on dominant chord scales, I want to stress that just playing scales correctly won't necessarily produce the best improvisational content, and I think learning scales has a limited value. But…
3 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
Getting started with Comping Technique (G. Perin) -V
giovanniperin
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In this video I'll cover the basic of comping technique. It's a refined art that takes years to be developed. It's almost impossible to learn how to comp alone in your practice room: play with other people is the key for learning how to…
10 months 3 weeks ago - 2 comments
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