I'm thinking of all this stuff because the site has become very active. Which is GREAT!
I don't like the musser motor. I don't like disc's inside the bar. But that's not the point I guess.
I've been playing with the Omega wings and using…
Minority was written by Gigi Gryce
Here's one chorus of Minority. Your job is to memorize the changes and then you comp and add the rhythms.
Check out bar 5. Notice I don't have the third (Ab) in the chord. Do you think it matters?…
Recent posts got me interested in experimenting with resonators.
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/video-embed/omega-vibraphone-vibrato-syst…
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/blog-entry/motor/tonymiceli/051717
This blog is my repository of my…
Check this out. Especially the beginning of the bass solo.
Do you hear the tune? Kurt is just playing a line through the beginning. then he comps 5ths and sparsely but we here the tune.
I often listen to guitar players and imagine what…
Fair two mallet technique/skills, decent understanding of basic theory/harmony/scales, etc. How then to "jump in," to apply that skill/knowledge to getting a line going on the instrument, to get up and running in real time? Thanks in…
I'm about ready to pull the trigger on buying an Omega Vibe. I've seen alot of different videos, recommendations and comments, and of course I've had the chance to play on it at a few PASICs over the past few years. The fact…
Here's a whole section on scales. Very complete! Between Behn and myself it has lots of ideas and explanations to you help with chords and scales and improvising!
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/scales-and-modes/tonymiceli/050316
I think back now as an old man - as many do. I still have the flame burning strong inside of me that is as vibrant as the flame I kindled when I was a young man in search of music and all the important things in life. But it's more…
Dan here's the etude I promised you.
It would be great if you recorded a version for the site.
Everyone else, maybe we should do this as our next TOTM. It's a GREAT tune.
Write the chords in. Learn the tune. Check out the etude. Check…
Do people like us still make CD's? Is there a point to doing that? I'm curious because things have changed so much since I was active in it full time. What is the standard media product for artists like us? Recordings have pretty much…
Great standard written in 1947 with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jule Styne. Many great versions of this song by vocalists and instrumentalists. Two of my favorite are from Chet Baker and Keith Jarrett.
One of the aspects that I was…
