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Practice Tapes: Days of Wine and Roses by BarryK 110122
BarryK
Content type: Audio Player
To help me learn Days of Wine and Roses, I have been practicing on piano, as well as vibes. This weekend I was hoping to create a piano backing track and did some recording. Kept getting interrupted, as you will hear. LOL. I am not…
14 years 7 months ago - 6 comments
Giant Steps by David Friedman
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Check out the lines!
13 years 9 months ago - 10 comments
Practice Tapes: Autumn Leaves by Tony Miceli - Post Your Practice Tape Week
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I'll kick it off. I'm hoping all you guys record when you practice. So this week is Practice Tapes Week (tapes, ha ha). So take the pledge and post something from your personal practice tapes this week.
14 years 7 months ago - 7 comments
Chris Anderson on Crowd Accelerated Innovatioin
tpvibes
Content type: Blog entry
Fair warning -- this is a major geek-out. I'll forgive anyone who doesn't want to slog through it, and I don't expect many comments. But, I'll go ahead. As often comes up in comments to posts here, this is a freakin' fantastic site.…
14 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
New Year's Resolution!
Wyld_Thing
Content type: Blog entry
Hi everybody, So I know it's a bit late, but the new TOTM (Days of Wine and Roses) has really inspired me to build up a wider repertoire of tunes, so I've come up with a new year's resolution. From today, I'm going to try and learn a new…
14 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
Separating Chords and Melody by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
A little bit of a Spacey lesson here. But might be of interest for some!
14 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
Frame for a M55
mzellers
Content type: Forum topic
Does anybody have any leads on a used frame for an Musser M55? I have a set of bars and resonators. Just need the frame. Let me know if you have any options. Michael Zellers
14 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
Pimp My Tune - Giant Steps by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I analyze Giant Steps. Go slow and play everything. Then work on the tune in 12 keys. This is for advanced players. I move fast.
14 years 3 months ago - 5 comments
Happy Birthday Gary Burton and John Daly!
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
John! You're birthday is the same as Gary Burton I think. Two great people! One GREAT vibe player and one up and coming great vibe player! You guys are both great friends of mine and great supporters of the site. You both have many…
14 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
Bass Lines On the Vibes by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
14 years 7 months ago - 7 comments
C Dorian solo playing by Ethan Fisher
ethanfisher
Content type: Video Embed
i watched tony's video on left handed technique and started playing in C dorian like the video with those ideas
13 years 9 months ago - 14 comments
Workshop/explanation
David Friedman
Content type: Event
Hi to everybody coming to the workshop at Niko's in Sassenheim. I'm afraid my "suggestion" to prepare Coltrane's "Giant Steps" sounded a bit too harsh. I shouldn't have said "prepare" these two tunes, but rather check them out. I know "…
14 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Workshop Sassenheim
David Friedman
Content type: Event
I would like to ask the participants to prepare the following two tunes, which I want to concentrate on in depth. In terms of voicings, please prepare "Darn That Dream" in G major. For lines and linear improvisation, please prepare "Giant…
14 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
Playing with your eyes?
Piper
Content type: Forum topic
Todd C. brought up a very interesting point in another post that read and I think it might make good conversation on its own. His point was that it's easier, faster and therefore closer to instant gratification to learn music and…
14 years 7 months ago - 20 comments
Keltic Tales by Jean-Baptiste Boclé (Malletkat madness!)
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Video Embed
Jean-Baptiste (mallets/organ) and Gildas (bass) Boclé are two french great brothers! Here is a vid from their last album "Keltic Tales", a clever encounter between celtic and modern music. J.-Baptiste plays the organ, but on this sample…
13 years 9 months ago - 10 comments
TOTM - Bluesette - Chords - Comping by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
A little concept exercise.
14 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
Making blues/jazz changes
drslg
Content type: Forum topic
I recently discovered a pattern in the jazz/ blue changes. Take the simple change of Bflat major 7 to e flat major 7 and back to b flat 7. Then you would go to f major 7 and down to eflat 7 and bflat 7, right? Thats just a simple thing…
14 years 7 months ago - 11 comments
French Song (comp. Franz Bauer)
Franz Bauer
Content type: Video Upload
Hi everybody...I thought it's time to post a video here, since i'm always watching inspiring videos of the great colleagues here!... It's a composition of mine called 'French Song'. Although there is nothing like a french character to it…
14 years 7 months ago - 7 comments
TOTM - Bluesette - Lines Part 1 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Get your lines going!
14 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
Caravan by Francesco Pinetti
Babu
Content type: Video Embed
For me, the best caravan vibes solo on youtube till now.
14 years 7 months ago - 4 comments
Bluesette by John Daly
johndaly
Content type: Audio Player
This is a rough recording I have done on Bluesette, it has taken me ages to get to this point, chords melody solo and chords with melody again to finish but trying to be more rhythmic at the outro using left hand to comp with melody, Rip…
13 years 9 months ago - 14 comments
I Sat On A Stool Last Night
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
We've talked a lot about sitting and playing. I've done it before. Last night I sat for the whole gig. I was using my old M-55 which is my lowest instrument. This bar stool was a little high but ok. I felt great playing like that. It was…
14 years 7 months ago - 20 comments
Days of Wine and Roses
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Keep up the great work everyone
14 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Common Tone Exercise
jimmiew
Content type: Book page
Behn walks us through some cool common tone exercises
14 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
How to find all the forms of a chord
Babu
Content type: FAQ
First of all, your chord has to be complete with no repetitive notes. Let's take a CM7, in that form (for instance) : C G B E, called N°1. How to find ALL others forms of this chord (it's babies) ? Then, write down the normal sequence of a…
8 years 11 months ago - 9 comments
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