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TOTM - Alone Together - Focusing on Dampening Video by Behn Gillece
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11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
African "hole in the ground" marimba. You have to see this!
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Bela Fleck traveled to Africa to make a film and perform with local musicians. This excerpt features a giant marimba. The resonating chamber is a hole dug in the ground. The enormous hand carved bars a placed over the hole. I've never seen…
9 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
Like Someone in Love. Chops practicing ;o ) Patrice
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9 years 7 months ago - 4 comments
The 2014 Vibraphone Congress Announcement
tonymiceli
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Professional players, college percussion teachers, students: (if you are a pro and you're coming, let me know) There will be a jam session Saturday Night Free table display space for the first 10 professional players to confirm their…
11 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
Simply the best (recorded) solo I ever played on "Alone Together" (TOTM)
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I am proud to present here one of the best solos I ever played on the actual TOTM "Alone Together". It was a live concert which has been - thank goodness - accidentally recorded by the sound engineer. In the meantime I listened to it again…
11 years 7 months ago - 9 comments
Motor woes
jamesshipp
Content type: Forum topic
Hi All- I'm having some new problems with my motor, wonder if anyone's ever encountered anything similar. I suspect that the trouble's originating with the specialized parts I had made to allow me to control vibrato speed with a volume-…
11 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
TOTM - Summertime - Can You Hear the Tune?
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11 years 7 months ago - 4 comments
Help on buying a camera to record my live by Dimitrios Angelakis
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Hello I want to buy a camera that has a descent audio and video quality in order to record my gigs. I know that zoom Q3 HD and zoom Q2 HD are pretty good models. I also want to be able to connect the zoom with the mixer and also plug in an…
11 years 7 months ago - 5 comments
TOTM - Alone Together - The Bridge by Tony Miceli
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Also do you see that bridge is just a cycle of 4ths up to the F maj. A | D | G | G | G | C | F
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Marie's Newsletter - December 2013
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Blog entry
| This month, we have no less than seven players proposing lessons, on our current TOTM 'Alone together', and on other subjects! Now don’t miss the announcement of the first vibe congres: we’re trying to come together and give a better…
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - Alone Together - Independence Exercise No. 3 by Behn Gillece
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Here is the final independence exercise. This one deals with a little mallet independence of breaking up and arpeggiating chords. This one is great for learning how the break up voicings and use guide tone leading lines in between melody…
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
The Summer Knows - A pretty piece for solo vibes (+pdf) by Ted Wolff
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This tune, titled "The Summer Knows" was written by Michele LeGrande and featured in the movie "Summer of '42" way back in the 1970s. It's a lovely ballad with a beautiful melody and a great lyric. A pdf of the arrangement is attached.
11 years 7 months ago - 8 comments
Watching Fall by Rusty Burge
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9 years 7 months ago - 7 comments
Brand New Musser Piper For Sale
tonymiceli
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If you're interested let me know. The price will be incredible. Only inquire if you're very serious about it. I want to get this in the hands of a player.
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
2014 Vibe Congress
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If you are planning on coming to the 2014 Vibes Congress, please fill out the following form.
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - Alone Together - Independence Etude No. 2 by Behn Gillece
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This etude deals with more block chords, along with dampening within this independence exercise. You should start to notice how all the techniques we've discussed are starting to come together.
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Alone Together
Marie-Noëlle
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11 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
Review of Gary Burton's Jazz Improvisation Course
c.stallard22
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Gary Burton's Jazz Improvisation Course Over the past five weeks, I've been enrolled in Gary Burton's online jazz improvisation course at https://www.coursera.org/. Coursera is a website that offers free online courses in a variety of…
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
Christos' Lessons, Loro and Making the Tune Your own
tonymiceli
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I'm editing Christos' lesson getting them ready to go online. I hate editing video, btw. It's not fun for me, I'm not a video guy and am not dying to make money at shooting video and editing it and making it into a work of art! It's funny…
11 years 7 months ago - 8 comments
Sophisticated lady practise by dimitris angelakis
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This is my practise in the tune sophisticated lady. Simple but my goal was to to play the melody and the chords.
11 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
Bud Powell Voicing by Giovanni Perin
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9 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
More Pentatonics by Giovani Perin
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Did I post this already?
9 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
Why We Choose - by Drew Johnson
Drew Johnson
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Today was the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK. I wrote this piece as a tribute to a great man and a great president.
9 years 7 months ago - 2 comments
TOTM - Alone Together - Independence Etude No. 1 by Behn Gillece
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Here's a simple etude on independence. It works out half note bass notes and guide tones against the melody. It has a few tricky spots, but overall, it's a good start for working out independence. This can be played with 2 mallets.
11 years 7 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - Alone Together - Learn the Melody! by Tony Miceli
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11 years 7 months ago - 10 comments
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