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TOTM - Fried Bananas - Transcribe This by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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Transcribe this! Here's a simple solo. Transcribe at least the first chorus. Does it sound like the tune? Can you play it and it sounds like the tune? Why does it sound like the tune? What's happening? Can you memorize it? Can you start…
12 years 11 months ago - 10 comments
Something that Joe Lovano said...
Tylerblanton
Content type: Blog entry
I saw a workshop with Joe Lovano in my neighborhood last week and something he said kinda stuck with me. It was a little question and answer session between the sets and someone had asked about this apartment that Kenny Werner had in…
13 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
Beginners (Take Your Time)
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
There's been some talk on the site lately about what should a beginner do around here. First off if you're a beginner, you need one thing on your side. That's time. You have to have a lot of time on your hands. You need to be able to go…
13 years 4 months ago - 9 comments
Studying Pieces
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Looking for some advice on a piece? This is the place
13 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Fried Bananas
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Fried Bananas!
13 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Cop This Lick - Rudimental Lines - Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Images
Hi all, Here's a lick to work on. Sometimes, I like to use double stickings and paradiddle type rudiment patterns in lines to create a different effect. Notice that the left hand stays on the accidentals. Also, another way to practice…
13 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Frank Tortiller with the Vienna Art Orchestra : Moony Paris On The Run
Philippe
Content type: Video Embed
Vibes are booming in France as anywhere else in the world. Classically educated guys like Frank Tortiller are establishing new standards. I really dig this. Do you ?
12 years 3 months ago - 11 comments
Huchedu by David Friedman
David Friedman
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Here's a track from "EARMIX" wih Daniel Humair, Drums. Marvin Stamm, trumpet and Sebastian Boisseau, bass. I kind of forgot about this project, probably because I wasn't crazy about the results. The whole album was more or less free, with…
12 years 10 months ago - 10 comments
Lines and Melodies: Is There A Difference Between The Two -V
Piper
Content type: Blog entry
I believe there is a very interesting fundamental difference between improvising "lines" and improvising "melodies". What do you think? Is there a discussion here?
3 months 1 week ago - 18 comments
RAM percussion studio says thanks!
Joe Locke
Content type: Video Embed
On my last visit to the Royal Academy of Music in London, some of the students had prepared things for me which they'd acquired or learned from Vibes Workshop (2 of the students did a duo arrangement of "Sword of Whispers, including Dana…
13 years 4 months ago - 7 comments
Gary Burton at the Detroit Jazz Fest - WhaHOOOO!
vibraphoneman
Content type: Blog entry
Man am I excited! First Joe Locke then Terry Gibbs, NOW GARY! Detroit doesn't get many big name vibists coming to town so every chance I get to see one of the greats I don't pass it up. I had the opportunity to meet Joe when he played with…
13 years 4 months ago - 4 comments
M-48
tonymiceli
Content type: Forum topic
What's with the m-48. I hung with vibist Tom Beckham last night and I couldn't believe he had the same experience as me. When I play my m-48 I have to move it around my floor to get it into a spot where the dampening will work. He does the…
13 years 4 months ago - 17 comments
College?
ntvito
Content type: Forum topic
I'm a junior in high school and I want to focus on playing jazz vibes in college. But iv heard there are a good amount of vibes players who studied something else in college... percussion, or piano, etc along with vibes. If I could do…
13 years 4 months ago - 31 comments
Moonlight in Vermont by Nick Mancini
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Audio Player
- Nick Mancini: vibes - Matt Clohesy: bass - Take Toryama:drums If you guys don't know yet Nick Mancini, you'd better change this now! My opinion is simple: very few vibists speak soooo clear to me. Word! That's quite amazing! Though he's…
13 years 4 months ago - 13 comments
Texas Hoedown (last attempt) by Tarik Dosdogru
vibraman
Content type: Video Embed
hi, this was the best "one take" of that song i could do before my holidays.still some wrong notes but i would call that my final version.thank god i´m no calssical musician where i have to play always EXACTLY what´s written. it´s tricky…
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
Who is Babu?
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Blog entry
Wouldn't it be cool to get back to our old tradition: the "Who is" posts? If you want to know what a "Who is" is and read some of them, they are all here:http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/who-book/tonymiceli/031309 So my question today is…
13 years 5 months ago - 14 comments
Friedman Talks About Dampening
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
Here's a great clip from the 2010 workshop in Delaware. I thought it would be interesting to some of you guys.
13 years 5 months ago - 2 comments
Joe Locke, Geoffrey Keezer, Tim Garland - Storms/Nocturnes - VIA - Available now!
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Images
| Today is the official release date of Joe Locke's latest album in trio with long time partners and friends pianist Geoffrey Keezer and saxophonist Tim Garland. I've had the chance to listen to it and man this is beautiful! No bass or…
13 years 5 months ago - 6 comments
Music Improvisation
Piper
Content type: Blog entry
I think we might go overboard sometimes by suggesting that there is only one legitimate improvisational language in music and it comes from Bebop/blues/jazz. We tend to require some historical quote from the "jazz language" or it is…
13 years 5 months ago - 15 comments
Fried Bananas (my final take)
Philippe
Content type: Audio Player
I recorded Fried Ban. this morning, did about about ten takes until I got one that sounded OK to me, and when I finished, I realized that all the time my two mics had been above the drum set, where I put them yesterday. So the vibes sound…
13 years 5 months ago - 4 comments
Texas Hoedown (1st attempt) by Tarik Dosdogru
vibraman
Content type: Video Embed
hey everybody, few weeks ago i heard this tune wonderful (and much much better than me) played on youtube. i was blown away by the composition of david and the performance of course too. to me it´s one of the best solo vibes pieces i ever…
12 years 10 months ago - 5 comments
Gary! by Ed Mann
edmann
Content type: Forum topic
Gary Burton was one person of 3 - the other 2 being Dave Samuels and Milt Jackson, who inspired me to start playing vibes at age 17. I listened to all of Gary's records way back then and learned the tunes by ear...recently (thanks to VW) I…
12 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
Van der Plas Workshop 2011 - Moritz Wachter - Germany
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Images
Photo by Jeroen de Rijk
13 years 5 months ago - 3 comments
Bar post insulators
Neil S
Content type: Forum topic
Hello, I've read on another vibraphone forum that silicone is the best material for bar post insulators. One posting suggested the following specs for the tubing. Has anyone on this forum used tubing of this specification for a Musser M75…
13 years 5 months ago - 0 comments
Friedman Etude No. 21 by Joe Veltri
Joe Veltri
Content type: Audio Player
Suggestions are welcome! Joe
12 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
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