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Create Your Masterpiece
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
I think Joe Locke talked about creating your masterpiece or chipping away at it in one of his lessons. I think we should always be creating our masterpieces, that is playing something where we're creating a final product of some sort. If…
15 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Friedman Plays a Ballad!
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
This is beautiful. Listen to David's ballad playing. The way he comps and solos. I love the clarity of the chords, the way he I can hear melodies in his chords. The way his lines move the ballad in his solo. This is great stuff.
15 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
From a Half Step Above
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Man I listened to some Bud a while back and it got me hooked on the sound of going to the one chord from a half step above. Like Db to C. I love that sound and have been pulling it out all over the place. It's pretty cool. It's sort of…
15 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Upgrades and new instruments
nico
Content type: Blog entry
Apart from the regular production, last couple of weeks we spent a lot of time on redesigning the electronics for the motorsystem of the LW-series, and finishing the new 3 octaves vibe model. Both are done now, and the first LW with the…
15 years 7 months ago - 9 comments
Restructuring the online Books
tjaco
Content type: Blog entry
Hey Everyone, We are starting to restructure the Online Books that contain all of the lesson material, performances etc etc. The amount of stuff on the site is really getting so overwhelming that it seemed needed to restructure all the…
15 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
Hi Tech Click by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I practice with loops a lot. Especially percussion loops. Bossa's, Samba's and this swing feel. Kind of feels like the ultimate click track. A lot of times after I do all this I add some drum parts, and a bass and maybe piano or guitar. I…
15 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
Friedman Etude No. 9 by Andrew Nittoli
andrewnittoli
Content type: Audio Player
Here is my recording of Friedman Etude 9
13 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
Yo All you Boston People
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
A friend of my Michael Varner is coming to Boston. He wants to meet up with the following. (He teaches down in Texas I think at University of Arlington.) First, Jazz vibraphone, its teaching and performance skills. Second, world music,…
15 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
Too Many Notes -V
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
Here's a video where I talk about just that, playing too many notes. It's a problem every vibe player has. It's a tough one to solve since we don't have to breath to play! Listen carefully, I mess the time up in this video in one spot. It'…
1 year 1 month ago - 2 comments
Connecting the Dots Part 1 by Tony Miceli - Creating Lines Part 1 -V
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Here's a series I'd like to run on connecting the dots, that is making lines with chord tones and scales. I think this could be very useful for some of you guys and this would get more complex as time went on. Let me know what you think.…
1 year 1 month ago - 4 comments
Short Hair
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Pict is attached. I promised Marie I'd post the bad news.
15 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
Nr. 4 - Tune Of The Week - Woody n You
tjaco
Content type: Story
Hello Everyone, The tune for this week will be Woody n You. Maybe it would be nice if we would try to do a version in a latin feel. For those of you who are able to, try to make a duet yourself. So record one part and then add a second…
15 years 7 months ago - 6 comments
Woody N You by Tjaco Oostdijk (triet version)
tjaco
Content type: Audio Player
Ok, I know I'm too early posting this, but I have a gig tomorrow for which I have to leave somewhere in the afternoon because of traffic, so I thought I'd post this quick version of Woody N You. To Be honest, I didn't really study this…
13 years 6 months ago - 8 comments
What's Most popular
tonymiceli
Content type: Panel
Here's what's getting checked out the most!
15 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Afro Cuban Vibes 2 - Part 1
DanaSud
Content type: Video Upload
I have had some requests since the last lesson to show how to apply the ideas from lesson 1 to different chord sequences. This part of the lesson deals exclusively with taking a single rhythm (the first from lesson 1) and applying it over…
15 years 7 months ago - 3 comments
Transcribing?
Jdoubleday
Content type: Blog entry
So I just finished the first chorus of Bill Evans's solo on Nardis from his Blue in Green Live album. It took me about 3 hours to get it right. I think that is a pretty long time for one chorus, although the solo is pretty challenging and…
15 years 7 months ago - 21 comments
Crowdsourcing
tpvibes
Content type: Blog entry
Hi Tony, I've been thinking about the problem of the amount of labor it takes to run this site, and it occurred to me that we could probably help you out with some of the non-vibes-playing aspects of maintaining things. I don't know where…
15 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
Invitation Lesson 5 by Tony Miceli - Influenced by Basslines
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
This lesson was influenced by working with a great young bass player Dezron Douglas.
15 years 7 months ago - 8 comments
One More Woody by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
One more version of Woody. This is slower. I've been still practicing it and trying to keep the tempo on the slow side and keep from rushing.
15 years 7 months ago - 8 comments
Dear Monk by Tony Miceli & Elio Villafranca Quintet
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
More from Elio's band. We're doing these for promo so I figured I'll post them here as well!
13 years 6 months ago - 4 comments
Guess Who This Person Dressed Up to Be at The Holloween Party
tonymiceli
Content type: Images
Ok that's it, i'm cutting my hair. ME.
15 years 7 months ago - 8 comments
in space?
Stefan74
Content type: Blog entry
Hi Tony,hi all! Inspired by Tony's blog on practising here in VW, I got a copy of "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner. Werner describes how to achive a special kind of consciousness he calls "to be in space" each time he plays his…
15 years 7 months ago - 4 comments
Peace by Raphael Meinhart
rapmein
Content type: Audio Player
by Horace Silver
13 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
Playing vibes in New York
danielphenevibes
Content type: Forum topic
Anyone know about the scene in New York? I'm planning on going there either this summer or fall. I'm not going to be in a university. I was just wondering about the logistics of it. You know, I'm either going to have to get a ground…
15 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
Invitation by Dimitri & Tony
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Dimitri (JIM THE VIBES) is one hard working cat. He blows me away with his work ethic. And he plays great and is getting better and better. I know he works hard with everything on the site and he says it helps him, so he's a testiment for…
13 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
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