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Quick Demo by Tony Miceli & Diane Monroe

Had to throw this together for a couple possible cool gigs. So I thought I'd post it.

I love this duo and it's a real challenge as it comes together! I love playing with a bass player and I love playing without a bass player. I love trying to make it all happen without the conventional instruments and setting.

Feel free to make fun of the shirt. Why I wore a shirt like that and videoed it i will never know. I'm not sure if music is my thing, but I KNOW video is not!!!!! However knowing how to get some stuff done is cool and helps get the gigs!

Effect unit for Vibes - anyone has advice on this?

Hey everyone,

I'm about to get pickups from nico for my vibes and I have been looking at some effect units to buy.

Does anyone have experience with this. I recently did some gigs with a borrowed vibe with pickups and a Roland GP 100 effect unit. That is pretty old and I have been looking aroud and thinking about buying something like the line 6 hd300 or te vox tonelab st.

Sarabande (with Van) by Franklao

J.S. Bach Violin Partita No 1. in B Minor BWV 1002: Movement V Sarabande

Filmed outside the UD music dept. buildings. The audio quality is good but low; headphones will be necessary to listen sufficiently. The parenthetical title exists to credit the sonic and visual mixture resulting from the peculiar behavior of a chance motorist.

Please enjoy! Any comments are welcome (but warm welcomes are reserved for constructive comments, of course).

Cold Cold Heart (play along) by Marie

This is a tune from Hank Williams that I discovered through Norah Jones. The other day I was messing around on vibes with the CD. It progressively turned into a true work on rhythm, basses, structure, changes, lyrics and singing experience.

Three chords: that's perfect for me! Ha! But following the structure and keeping the rhythm while singing is obviously another story. Sorry that I couldn't put the metronome in my earphone (technical issue). I hope you find this trake suitable: it took me a certain amount of them to get to it! :o)

A listening week to get over work stress

This week I didn't practice as much as usual.
Work has been a real bitch and I needed some change to improve my perspective.
So I made it a listening week.

Aside from all the great videos posted at VW this last week or so, I kept being reminded of someone on the site saying we need to listen to other instruments and in particular guitar players. So that's what I did this week. A guitar listening marathon.

The guitar players I listened to were:
Jim Hall
Pat Martino
Bill Frisell
Emily Remler
Steve Kahn
Pat Metheny
Larry Carlton
John Scofield
Robben Ford