Here's all the Friedman Dampening and Pedaling vids and audio lessons on the site. This a book all of us should work through and master.
If you play any of the etudes not on the list. Please record yourself and post your performance!…
This is a series of ideas, ways and techniques for you to consider when playing solo.
This is really open to other faculty and other pro players on the site. I'd love to get something from some of these other amazing players and put…
Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.
Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.
Any jazz musician has been…
Here’s my take on ed’s tune “lifes blessing”
In my mind this piece has so many beautiful sections I really ended up mixing up sections to give me what I was going for – which was more of a “church” feeling – looping for example a line…
Here's all the lessons and performances of Ed Saindon's tune 'Life's Blessings.
We spent the month of March studying Ed's tune and we had a blast. Check out all the comments. There's a lot of valuable information here.
Life's Blessing - Ed…
Here's a sample of my current morning warm ups. My warm ups are always comprised of something I'm working on and spend about 30 to 45 minutes on them and then move on to learning tunes, practicing improv or whatever but first, I warm up…
hey everybody,
It's been a while that I posted something here, but Tony asked me to do some content for the site, so I will try to post regularly, probably every week. I'm very excited to get in touch with the vibesworkshop…
"Oblivion" by Astor Piazzolla - It's been nice having some time off from Berklee. It's been so cold here to go outside so the only thing to do has been to practice. Ha!Ha! I'm a huge fan of Astor Piazzolla and his music. This is one of my…
“My Foolish Heart” - Vibraphone Masterclass – Playing the melody while adding color to the harmony via various techniques. The clip features one chorus of the melody on this classic ballad. My favorite version of this song is from the…
Hello all – it's been a long time since I've posted and I'm hoping to visit this website more frequently during 2018 as there's so many great musicians that take the time to criticize and encourage each other to become better artist/human…
Thinking of Oscar Peterson’s song “Hymn To Freedom” today on MLK day. Oscar's composition was written in 1962 and was and still is a very special song for its beauty and message.
Improvising on this classic with a focus on incorporating deadstrokes, ghost notes, accents, dynamics, varied sticking and dampening to enhance the line, phrasing and time feel. The vibraphone can be a difficult instrument in terms of…
Hey Vibes Workshop
So lately I have been going back to the Hanon book to practice scale patterns. (If you never checked out the book I left a link to the entire book). What makes the book great is that you can apply different scales to the…
A little Sunday night practice on John Coltrane’s classic composition “Giant Steps”. Played this last night as a bossa on the gig with Mark. Always a fun night at Li’s playing with Mark and hanging on the breaks.
A lot of guys don't like…
This guy is a character and a real trip, it seems. Watch the video and watch towards the end when the shot pulls out on his vibes.
See the castors? so these just stand up and roll. Also they're electronic.
So this cat is in india trying…
New song titled "Soliloquy" written over the past few days. It can be viewed and downloaded via googledocs. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tJ5txaGNrKGHm4pxncoudi5orIEYTnP/view
