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deagan 145b vibes
tmackay
Content type: Forum topic
im posting this for ad for my friend in salem, oregon that has a set of deagan 145b vibes he is selling .. picture will be posted asap. not mint condition but restorable and playable .. if interested you can contact Mark Weisgram at 503…
12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
Touring with Vibes: assembled or broken down?
JIm
Content type: Forum topic
Hello all, I'm trying to find out if it is better for vibraphones to travel assembled or to be broken down every night for transportation? For the past 3 1/2 years my vibes have been traveling fully assembled in a custom case, in…
12 years 10 months ago - 13 comments
Solar
ryan mchenry
Content type: Audio Player
I was working on some concepts Tony showed me in a lesson, specificly using the half whole scale in the V chord of a II V I. Recorded a drum track and put the vibes over it, just working on soloing over solar.
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
TOTM - The Art of Solo Vibes - I'm A Rhythm Kat by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I was practicing rhythm changes today and thought my stuff sounded stale. So I put on the mallet kat made a sound I dug and now my stuff sounds hip!!! (at least to me!) Can you hear the form? With no accompaniment you get to stretch things…
12 years 9 months ago - 4 comments
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE MAINIERI!
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
When I first heard the Steps Ahead album back in the eighties I was floored. Mike took the vibes into brand new territory! I'm a huge fan and today is his birthday so why don't all us VW cats wish him happy birthday.
12 years 10 months ago - 15 comments
Making Exercises Into Other Exercises by Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Audio Player
Ideas for getting the most out of one idea!
12 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
M55 - Gig Bags
Randy
Content type: Images
For those interested in gig bags for your vibraphone, here's some info.......In 2007, I had Peter at the Mooradian Co., Boston, MA, make custom bags for the Musser M55. I provided the dimensions. One bag, with a padded divider, carries…
12 years 10 months ago - 19 comments
3 Great Flute Players
tonymiceli
Content type: Images
Look who I had lunch with today!
12 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
Good Vibes radio September update
gloria krolak
Content type: Event
Hi All, Coming up in September's Good Vibes, west coast vibist Charlie Shoemake debuts with a cut from his CD Inside with a tribute to Victor Feldman, "Azul Serape." Here's the rest of the line-up: Gary, David, Mike, Eddie, Terry, Milt,…
12 years 11 months ago - 11 comments
Beast's Last Dance (goodbye to an old friend) by Corey Mwamba
Marie-Noëlle
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Corey is a member here, though he has a slightly different approach on vibes and on music than most of us. I think he's a great vibes player and person, with a true passion for the instrument like all of us. He recently decided to sell…
12 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
New York People!
Jdoubleday
Content type: Event
Hey Guys, I'm playing at Zinc Bar on August 30th with the Ralph Peterson Fo'tet. We play 3 sets. 1 at 8:00pm, 10:00pm, !2:00am. I hope I can see some fellow vibe players there! I'm also playing at Rue 57 on the 31st with the same group at…
12 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Staying Loose
jazzdad6705
Content type: Blog entry
Greetings everyone, I've recently been enjoying working on exercises in "Velocity Warm-Ups: 92 Improvisional Patterns for Jazz Vibraphone and Marimba" by Charles Dowd. Some great ideas for practicing scales, arpeggios, modes... ects. I…
12 years 11 months ago - 7 comments
Fo'tet at Zinc
Jdoubleday
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12 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Cheesecake Exercise by Behn Gillece
behng
Content type: Audio Player
Here's an exercise based on the Dexter Gordon tune, "Cheesecake". Good for developing ideas in minor.
12 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Stan Getz - Gary Burton Concert (full)
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Thanks to Arturo!
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
Five Fans - Spöring Trio Live
vibraman
Content type: Video Embed
hi, this taken from one of my last gigs during this summer (believe it or not that´s the summer in germany!) unfortunatley the vibe is a bit low during comping. hope you like it. tarik
12 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
Tony on a giant screen! - Korea
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Images
| Look at that awesome picture!! Tony is currently spreading the good vibes in Korea! And they do things "in big"! Go Tony!!! :o) ps: special thanks to Sangwon, Tony's Korean student and member here, for making it happen!
12 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Softly As A Morning Sunrise by Ben Thomas & Co
Marie-Noëlle
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Here's a very cool and recent performance of Ben Thomas. Ben is a member here. He lives in Seatle and sometimes pays us a little visit. Enjoy! :o)
12 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Check Out This Marimbaphone!
tonymiceli
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This is how it all started. Thanks for Barryk for spotting this!
12 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
Move Over (Janis Joplin) - By Franck Tortiller Orchestra
Marie-Noëlle
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French vibist Franck Tortiller is to launch in November a tribute album to Janis Joplin. Here is a excerpt... with Monsieur Jacques Mahieux on vocals! Enjoy!
12 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
Solo blues etude (From ed Saindon's lesson) by Dimitris Angelakis
dimitris
Content type: Audio Player
Hello guys, I started to work on the solo lessons yesterday and I was watching some youtube videos from Marie's post on "listen first" (http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/totm-art-solo-vibes-listen-first/mar…) and I accidentally saw this…
12 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Hallelujah by Franck Tortiller
Marie-Noëlle
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Beautiful! This is how started my day... Could have been worth, huh? I only truly recognized the tune around the end, but it's even better I think. I love the "shadowed" intro, the feeling all through the piece, the loneliness and…
12 years 11 months ago - 10 comments
Safe Chord Lesson by Behn Gillece
behng
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12 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Rusty Burge (vb) performing Ida Spoon with Ted Nash (sx)
rbvibe
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This clip is from a gig last January playing Ted's composition Ida Spoons which is based on Stella. The cameraman missed the head and part of Ted's solo which is a shame. Ted is composer/saxophonist with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra…
12 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
TOTM- Bebop- Diatonic Improv etude by Dimitris Angelakis
dimitris
Content type: Audio Player
This is my last etude on the bebop lessons. Ofcorse this is not the end but the beginning. I now really know what to do and what to practise and that's great! Thanks all the guys for these lessons. I was practising a TOny's lesson which is…
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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