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Infant Eyes
Christos
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'Infant Eyes' through my eyes, incorporating the MalletStation with vibes and adding a groove to the well known piece by Wayne Shorter. This has been a pretty intense creative process: I was surprised to welcome Beethoven in it and it made…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - solo marimba and hats
ed saindon
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"Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - dedicated to the late great pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis. Having fun playing some traditional jazz on the marimba and hats.
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
New Release "Pratyahara"
Randy_Sutin
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Tony often talks about the use of vibes outside the context of jazz. Well, here is our newest release. It is probably best categorized as "New-Age Ambient", although I don't really like labels. I prefer to just ignore the box.…
5 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
Million Dollar Lick 2.0
c.stallard22
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This weekend at the first-ever online vibes bootcamp, David Friedman spoke about the importance of following the movement of the bassline and the harmonies when choosing chords for My Funny Valentine (and the same goes for many other tunes…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
More Gongs!!!
Randy_Sutin
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Pretty self-explanatory. Tony thought there weren't enough gongs on my last post. Well... gong solo this time. Need I say more? My apologies to Juan Tizol. It was a great tune before this happened.
5 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
Creep - Vibraphone Solo - David Kovins
davidkovinsvibe
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5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Who's Funny Valentine! For Our Vibes Bootcamp This Weekend (May 16-17)
tonymiceli
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This weekend is our VW Bootcamp. David is working in his class on the My Funny Valentine. He put up a version and so did Hauke so I wanted to do one as well. I have not played the tune in a long time but I thought I could bang it out. I…
5 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Late Night mallets
Malletcat
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Recently purchased the Late Night mallets which arrived today. The heads are larger than I expected, which makes them a tad unwieldy, but used them for a while and I think I'll get used to them. Its sure nice to play my vibes with the…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Late Night mallets
Malletcat
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Recently purchased the Late Night mallets which arrived today. The heads are larger than I expected, which makes them a tad unwieldy, but used them for a while and I think I'll get used to them. Its sure nice to play my vibes with the…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
This Interests Me -V
tonymiceli
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I'm always looking to see and hear how people play in different situations and whether it holds my attnetion. David Patrios is a great mallet player. Just look how he plays in this duo! He's on a .... is it a Balifon? Or do I just call…
1 year 1 month ago - 1 comments
Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim
ed saindon
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"Send In The Clowns" composed by Stephen Sondheim in 1973 for the play A Little Night Music. A beautiful song with deep lyrics sung by many vocalists including Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Betty Buckley. All great…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Friedman Etude #13
Oliver_M37
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This one's cool. You have to be careful with the pedal so notes don't ring over to the next chord. The rest of the etudes I've recorded (eventually all of them) are on my YouTube channel and on this site!
5 years 1 month ago - 6 comments
Friedman Etude #13
Oliver_M37
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This one's for you, David! More exaggeration of dynamics! Let me know what you think.
4 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
Friedman Etude #8
Oliver_M37
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This one took me three takes because at the end on the Bb chord, I kept hitting a C in my top mallet instead of a high D. That's one of the harder chords for me to reach in this book. I also strayed a little from the Gregorian chant-like…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
assignment: Take the A Train
jackhuang
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in 4 keys
5 years 1 month ago - 8 comments
Have You Seen the Chick Corea Concerts at his Studio?
tonymiceli
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5 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
Smiley Gong
Randy_Sutin
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Tony has been asking me to do something with vibes and gongs. So, I have been working on it, but to be perfectly honest, most of it just isn't ready for prime time yet. Playing solo, as many of us are finding out in quarantine, is very…
5 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Double stopping ??
Phil
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explanation please of Double Stopping . Is it a technique to ease 4 hammer playing > arms crossing? Some other aid to technique ? Or does it just mean hitting the same note one with hammer after the other? I saw a video lesson on here…
5 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
replacement electric vibraphone butterfly valve drives
Phil
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I'm still making these here and there. standard option for most traditional vibraphone pulley belt drives available 12V dc safe Quiet , slim , light weight, discrete variable speed ( all the way up to Lionel Hampton LOL) easy detachable…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Soft mallets Suck
tonymiceli
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I just wanted to make you look. Soft mallets don't suck. Well not all the time. I saw a great student of mine play recently. He's a great up and coming vibe player I think. I was listening to him comp and could hear nothing. I know he…
5 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
For Taiwan Students -V
tonymiceli
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Transcribe my solo. 1st chorus - quarter note solo 2nd chorus - simple solo Play my solo, then do yours. Your first chorus needs to be quarter notes Second chorus, simple and swinging. I've attached a file with only brushes. You can use…
1 year 2 months ago - 0 comments
Bud Powell Study #3: Webb City
Oliver_M37
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This is my last of the three Bud Powell solo arrangements I worked on. I really leaned into the big band vibe for this one -- there's a shout-like intro over a pedal and big hits during the melody (like that one classic jazz rhythmic…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
A Collaboration Between Mexico and Philly :-)
tonymiceli
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Here's a video I made with my buddy down in Chiapas, Mexico. When you enter his town there is a huge (I mean huge) sculpture of a marimba. The cool thing is I think it's made out of metal. Touche! We win! On Marimba is Alexander Cruz a…
5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Thinking, Talking Playing (TTP) - May 2, 2020
tonymiceli
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5 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Thinking, Talking, Playing with Warren Wolf
tonymiceli
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There is lots more here!
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