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Six New Pieces for Solo Vibraphone
nadworks
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All vibes players! In time for this year's PASIC we have just released a series of 6 New Pieces for Solo Vibraphone by Joe Locke. The music is fully notated, of medium difficulty and each piece is accompanied by an original audio file,…
12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
Nice Exercise for Major Chords by Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Audio Player
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
Chris Dingman
johndaly
Content type: Forum topic
Was speaking with the great saxophonist Dave Binney (www.davidbinney.com) last night who played at our Jazz Club and we got talking about vibes and vibe players and how the vibes are now being played by some great young cats, and Dave…
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
Chris Dingman
Marie-Noëlle
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12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
All The Things You Are - Ed Saindon Quartet
ed saindon
Content type: Video Embed
Here's a clip for a recent gig here with some old friends. I hadn't played with Charlie and Les for at least 10 years. We had a fun night listening and interacting with each other. Some guys go out for a night of bowling. I look at this as…
12 years 10 months ago - 5 comments
Morning practice with company.
Marcel Pascual
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12 years 10 months ago - 9 comments
TOTM - The Art of Solo Vibes - Playing Ballads by Illya
illya
Content type: Audio Player
Someone to watch over me. Hello guys. One of the great thing you can play alone on the vibe is ballads. I think the instrument has the potential to provide the feeling and the warmness to play slow songs at least as much as a piano. but…
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
Dream Dance - take 5 by MetroWest Jazz Project -- original compositions swap meet
tpvibes
Content type: Audio Player
Here's another composition of mine, "Dream Dance", and a rough mix recording. When I was writing this I thought it'd be easy to perform, but it turned out to be quite difficult. My original idea for the solos was to play once through the…
12 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
1960s-70s M55
Goodvibes
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Greetings, New to the board and looking to start my journey into learning to play the vibraphone. I'm 50 years old and have played various instruments (keyboards mainly) over the years. The vibraphone has always appealed to me and I'm…
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
An Old Musser - Sounds Like a Deagan!
tonymiceli
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12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
An Old Musser Part Two
tonymiceli
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12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
An Old Musser!
tonymiceli
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12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
The power of vibe's sound
Babu
Content type: Blog entry
Something special happened during the gig I just did tonight in a restaurant. The place was half-full - about 25 people. I was playing alone, with play-along-home-recorded CDs, split guitar and vibes. At the middle of the gig I decided to…
12 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
A Short Bio On Christos Rafalides
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
Christos came over and shot some video lessons today. So I asked him to say something about himself.
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
Reposting of KEEPING IT CLOSE. an 8 bar approach to Giant Step changes
tmackay
Content type: Story
This is an exercise that i decided to write down, in order to share with everyone here. The title " Keeping It Close," is a reference to a concept i try to keep in mind when i improvise, especially on fast tunes with many changes. In…
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
Armando's Rhumba - piano/marimba duet by Ted Wolff
tedwolff
Content type: Audio Player
I think this is one of Chick's best tunes. I've got a download file of the piano accompaniment and a pdf leadsheet available at http://tedwolff.net/armandos-rhumba-playalong.html so you can work it up and play along. Enjoy! Ted
12 years 10 months ago - 5 comments
Duke Ellington by Gary Burton (for members)
Gary Burton
Content type: Story
ME AND THE DUKE This is not directly related to the vibraphone so I apologize in advance if some VWers feel this is out of place. In fact, not everyone who joins in here is even a jazz enthusiast, although vibraphone history is solidly in…
12 years 10 months ago - 29 comments
Mike Mainieri & Northern Lights - Nature Boy - Kannada
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Video Embed
Oh man... This is beautiful!! Awesome music... and great close shots on Mike's hands and incredible grip! Now if you watch from 6'50, it seems he crosses on the left hand and doesn't on the right one... And from 8'55 it looks like he…
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
The Best Opening Line Ever Played?
Drew Johnson
Content type: Video Embed
@0:44. 8 bars of swinging in your face bop. damn.
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
TOTM - The Art of Solo Vibes - Step by Step 1 by Dimitris Angelakis
dimitris
Content type: Audio Player
This is a series of performances about Tune of the Month – Solo vibes. You can criticize my performance or you can even use these posts as lessons since I play step by step the development of solo vibes according to what I practiced so far…
12 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
General Vibes 101 Course - Lesson 1 - Closed Voicings
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Study this lesson from vibist Tyler Blanton: VW Lesson-“Developing a Voicing Vocabulary” by Tyler Blanton, Part 1 In addition make sure you can play the following: Scales: Dorian scales (2nd mode of major) in all 12 keys. Listen to these…
12 years 10 months ago - 50 comments
TOTM - The Art of Solo Vibes - Step by Step 2 by Dimitris Angelakis
dimitris
Content type: Audio Player
This is a series of performances about Tune of the Month – Solo vibes. You can criticize my performance or you can even use these posts as lessons since I play step by step the development of solo vibes according to what I practiced so far…
12 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
Carolyn's Transcribing Blog: Days 5 & 6
c.stallard22
Content type: Blog entry
Wooo!!!!!! Tonight was a HUGE breakthrough because I have finished the introduction!!! (well...at least I have the notes...still have to make it sound smoother and work on articulations and stuff...). But anyway.. Day 5: This day...doesn't…
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
My Cherie Amor by the Dana Sudborough Quartet
DanaSud
Content type: Audio Player
Here's another scratch recording from a recent gig at a flight museum. Towards the end you can hear some adults (jeez) playing with a remote control helicopter in the big hall of jets we were playing in. Anyway, band was great! Too…
12 years 10 months ago - 10 comments
Wide bar series from Mike Balter...Do they detune bars?
sandrop
Content type: Forum topic
Hi vibists around the world Does anybody have made experience with the Mike Balter wide bar series mallets? I've bought 2 pairs of the nr.31. They are quite hard, but have a very nice sound. But I've heard that mallets with short handle…
12 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
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