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March 27th 12pm East Coast Time - Tune Talk - Israel

Come hang with us and talk about the tune Israel.

I'll be talking with Behn Gillece and Oliver Mayman

 

Work on the tune for the next couple weeks. Learn it and play it. Write down questions. 

 

Tony Miceli is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Good Vibes
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Everything I love -V

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 why I decided to practice a solo tune which I previously recorded on vibes. It's certainly a challenge on the new marimba!

Drums in the vibes mics

In a recent post, I was asked about how I would keep the drums out of the vibes mics.  It's an age-old problem that nearly all of us have experienced.

Obviously, in a recording studio, the answer is to banish the drummer to a booth.  Situation resolved. Any bleed beyond that can be removed with software in post production.

Chords and Voicings

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 stuff to practice. I don't think we necessarily need a sequence, we just need to learn and practice. Yes with a teacher it's more about sequence I guess, but here you can just look around.

Click here to go to the chords section of the V-books

All The Things You Are Simple Solo To Transcribe

Here's a simple solo I did for a student.

All the things you are. 

He's doing the following: 

  1. Learn the solo (don't write it down)
  2. play it along with the recording every day
  3. play each chord and then play the part of the solo that goes with it. This will help him associate the chords with the solo.
  4. Play the solo on the piano as best he can, in time out of time, whatever. Left hand plays {Pinky:root, middleFinger:3rd, thumb:7th }