Scroll through the wall on this page. There are some great solo performances on this page of great players.
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Here are some exercises and info I gave a student on Solar.
WANDERING SCALES - I think it's a good exercise to be able to move from scale to scale from wherever you are. Here's one chorus of that.
SOLO TO TRANSCRIBE - Transcribe it!…
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Vibes and Strings. Recorded the string track and then played vibes over that. The strings switched from left to right half way past the clip which was not intentional. I wish I had real live strings but I can…
I've been working on the first four chords of "Fine and Dandy" and tonight I decided to jam on them in Bb. I've also been learning about improving my audio quality for recordings and learning how to pair audio and video with iMovie. So...…
I am curious how many players put bass in the right channel vs. the left channel. How many don't care either way. Having played keyboard forever, I feel bass should go on the left, but I hear many (most) other vibes panned the other way…
Sambinary
This video examines an original samba pattern for drum set (and mallet instruments) that explores four metric perspectives and two approaches for the beat (bass drum).
“Sambinary” (samba+binary) began as an exercise for a class…
I had a lot of fun doing this.
Sometimes I think I like real corny stuff and it doesn't appeal to anyone. But F it, that's the way it is.
This is one of my all time favorite songs and I loved playing it and making this video.
After 6 hours of lecturing, because of Corona only into a computer, I just had to do something else. Since I don't have a looper, I recorded all tracks live to audacity. Later I realized that you could have copied, but ...
It's not precise…
Alexey just posted this quarantine video. Exeptional playing and beautiful music. It's the first time i see a vibraphonist really playing 5 mallets, that is, doing something really musical. Enjoy !
This is one song from the full concert that can be accessed on YouTube. I didn't know that Kenny Wolleson played vibes, but I like the way that he places the vibes into the ensemble. The singer is from Argentina and her name is Sofia Rei…
My wife and I like to watch British murder mysteries. In many of these, the preferred form of dispatch seems to be blunt objects to the head, hence "Bonk Bonk".
“Blue Monk” - it’s been nice having more time to revisit some recordings and transcriptions in the studio library. A few of the greats that I’ve been delving into are Coltrane, McCoy, Chick and Herbie. So much great stuff to learn, grasp…
The books I refer to in the video, if you want to take a deeper look into the mechanics and math of music are:
"Cosmometry, Exploring the HoloFractal Nature of the Cosmos" by Marshall Lefferts.
"Interference - A Grand Musical Scientific…
I was swapping emails with Arvid in Norway until the time he moved back to his homeland Germany. This was under 10 years ago and I remember that he posted his new email address either at this site or at the former Vibe.net site, but I…
Here's another amazing video from Gary Burton. He talks about solo playing using his infamous tune Chega De Saudade!
This is a really great lesson! --Tony Miceli
