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Moon River on Marimba
ed saindon
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Marimba variations on Henry Mancini's "Moon River". Some spur of the moment improv on this classic song. I enjoy the orchestration potential, expansive range and varied colors of the marimba.
4 years 5 months ago - 0 comments
Rare Double Image Radio Recording
tonymiceli
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Improv using Upper Structure Triads on What Is This Thing Called Love
ed saindon
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Transcription of solo using Upper Structure Triads on "What Is This Thing Called Love". (Thanks to Nico Chara for the transcription) The improv concept explanation and the first chorus analysis is included in The Complete Guide To…
4 years 5 months ago - 0 comments
Jamey Aebersold - something to think about during COVID-19 times
Randy_Sutin
Content type: Blog entry
Jamey is one of the greatest innovators in jazz education. Back in the 1970's he started producing high quality playalong albums of jazz classics as practice aids for emerging young players. At the time, very few colleges had formal jazz…
4 years 5 months ago - 2 comments
Lucky Southern by Keith Jarrett
ed saindon
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“Lucky Southern” by Keith Jarrett. It’s been sort of a Berklee standard through the years. A fun song to play with an AABA form.
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Chien Chien Assignment - milestones (old)
chloe
Content type: Blog entry
single line solo Chien Chien Milestones(old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYHZ0eWq54
4 years 5 months ago - 7 comments
Who Can I Turn To? - Solo Vibes
ed saindon
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“Who Can I Turn To” - inspired by pianist Bill Evans’ version of this classic song. Focusing on some concepts from my upcoming book Solo Vibraphone Playing. The book will include many concepts from my studies with Gary Burton as well as…
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Solitude Pt. 2 - Independence
mwalbridge
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This is the second part of my lessons on my original composition - Solitude. I am talking about how to work on independence and finding balance between the four mallets. If you are interested in downloading the sheet music for Solitude,…
4 years 6 months ago - 0 comments
Solitude Pt. 1 - Open Fifth Voicings
mwalbridge
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This is the first part of my lessons on my original composition - Solitude. I am talking about how to practice playing and moving around open fifths. I use them throughout my piece as accompaniment and think they are a great tool to have…
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Friedman Etude #12
Oliver_M37
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I'm almost done recording the first 20 (doing them in a weird order) and they are all somewhere on this site or on my YouTube channel.
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Stride Vibes "Pick Yourself Up"
Oliver_M37
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Stride popped up on the site the other day, so after practicing Tony's stride stuff a lot and watching all his videos on it, I'm trying it out with a few standards! The first is Jerome Kern's "Pick Yourself Up," loosely inspired by Aaron…
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ChiaHui’s assignment- bye bye black bird
moijeuuno
Content type: Blog entry
Head-2 choruses line solo-Head outhttps://youtu.be/4SevKgiAYRA
4 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
We Talk Recording (And We Play), Randy, Tony, Morgan and Olvier!
tonymiceli
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Recording
tonymiceli
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Our First Pop Up Class!!! Based On Green Dolphin Street
tonymiceli
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Our first Pop Up Class! We studied Green Dolphin Street!!!! I pick a time announce it, which ever subscribers can make it, we study something and then we perform! That is is Pop Up Class! Here is our performance!
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The Things I Miss (By Corona)
wyndorps
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I tried some recordings using my malletkat and my vibe with audacity. Stay healthy! Paul
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Check Out Dave Samuels On Marimba
tonymiceli
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Man, I think he gets it, totally. This is really some amazing marimba playing! IMHO
4 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Everything Happens To Me - Vibes and piano accompaniment
ed saindon
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"Everything Happens To Me" - Exploring on the vibraphone while playing over the piano track. Always a work in progress but also fun at the same time.
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Learning from the Balafon: (Lesson 12: Ted Reed's Syncopation)
Jerry Leake
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Using the first 16 bars of Exercise #1 from Ted Reed's classic book, ideas are adapted to the balafon in a variety of styles to build independence. Download the attached excerpt from Ted's book.
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Albright/Stefon Harris Mallets
drumno5
Content type: Forum topic
Keep an eye out for the new Albright by Malletech Stefon Harris series mallets. Based on original Albright specs with modern refinement and consistency. Three models, soft/medium/hard.
4 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
So What - Play Along with Me
tonymiceli
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Play the head along with me. Then we trade 8s. Remember it's AABA Dmin Dmin Ebmin Dmin I'll start off the 8s. That means you are only soloing in Dmin. However you have to comp for me when it goes to Ebmin7. So work on your chords and solo…
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Infant Eyes
Christos
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'Infant Eyes' through my eyes, incorporating the MalletStation with vibes and adding a groove to the well known piece by Wayne Shorter. This has been a pretty intense creative process: I was surprised to welcome Beethoven in it and it made…
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Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - solo marimba and hats
ed saindon
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"Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - dedicated to the late great pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis. Having fun playing some traditional jazz on the marimba and hats.
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New Release "Pratyahara"
Randy_Sutin
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Tony often talks about the use of vibes outside the context of jazz. Well, here is our newest release. It is probably best categorized as "New-Age Ambient", although I don't really like labels. I prefer to just ignore the box.…
4 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
Million Dollar Lick 2.0
c.stallard22
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This weekend at the first-ever online vibes bootcamp, David Friedman spoke about the importance of following the movement of the bassline and the harmonies when choosing chords for My Funny Valentine (and the same goes for many other tunes…
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