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Playing Rudiments on Vibes: Exercises to Keep Your 4-Mallet Chops Up
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone! I wanted to make a more technique-oriented lesson to give a look inside how I think everyone should practice four mallets. We’ll look at permutations, interval work, and one-handed rudiments in this lesson. By doing these…
4 years 8 months ago - 8 comments
All By Myself - Vibes Trio
Oliver_M37
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I've been working a lot on vibes trio playing lately due to gigs, and it's fun trying to adapt pianist techniques to the instrument and make the trio sound full. In here, I use some dampening (check out the very end specifically), some…
4 years 8 months ago - 6 comments
How to Pitch Bend Using Dampening: Monk "bent" notes, blues inflection, and chordal pitch bending
Oliver_M37
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Hey everyone, I think this is pretty cool. "Pitch bending" is something I've been messing around with on the vibes, especially in a blues context, but also in ballads and really any setting you want. Let me know what you think!
4 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
Skylark - Vibes Trio
Oliver_M37
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My trio arrangement of the great Hoagy Carmichael tune "Skylark."
4 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
Martina Bárta/David Friedman "I'm Glad There Is You"
David Friedman
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4 years 8 months ago - 8 comments
Check Out This Xylo Player
tonymiceli
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They say he's 14, but I think he's a midget and looks older. He's pretty good.
4 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
The Three Types of Dominant Chords, Part 2: Why does lydian dominant exist?
Oliver_M37
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Hey everyone, Here's part two in this mini-series. In this one, I focus on dominant 13 (#11) chords, explain where to play them, why they exist, and how to solo over them. And, most importantly, why you have to treat every dominant chord…
4 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
NEW from PIPERvibe - Springless Bar String for Vibraphone and Marimba
Piper
Content type: Blog entry
Wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of those archaic springs used to hold tension on the vibe and marimba bar string? PIPERvibe now offers a new device that is simple to install (less than 5 seconds) and requires no tools. Once installed, all…
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
Benny Green Tritone Lesson/Etude
Oliver_M37
Content type: Images
Some Benny Green piano vocabulary adapted to the vibraphone.
4 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
Larry Blackshere Video (Great Video)
tonymiceli
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Here's a great video about a vibe player I knew nothing about. However he plays great and is a great guy. But I'll let John Keene tell the story, it's a bit tragic. John turned me onto the video.
4 years 8 months ago - 13 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Use Your Ears
tonymiceli
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Let your ears tell you what is happening. Train them to give you information.
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Playing the Tune Solo
tonymiceli
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Trying to find ways to play tunes solo. By that I mean concepts and ways to simply play tunes on the vibes and improvise your accompaniment.
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Performance
tonymiceli
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My Take!
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
I'll Be Seeing You
tonymiceli
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4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
TOTM - I'll Be Seeing You - Moving Harmony
tonymiceli
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This is a pretty tune. I talk about the harmony and moving it around.
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
Blues for Gilbert
Oliver_M37
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I'm slowly getting into the classical vibraphone rep, and I started with this one.
4 years 8 months ago - 8 comments
Chord Melody - I Hear A Rhapsody by Behn Gillece
behng
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4 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
Dominant Exercise for Pop Up Class - Just In Time
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Try this with the dominant chords and then use it over just in time. I also added a very scalular solo. So you could write the scales in here for next weeks class. It's all below.
4 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
Basic Voicing Construction Lesson
Oliver_M37
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Hello everyone! This is a lesson geared towards beginners, but useful for everyone! I explain my method for going through all possible standard extensions and voicings for a dominant chord (there are 32 in total for any dominant chord!).…
4 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
Lessons with Teddy
David Friedman
Content type: Story
Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg,…
4 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
3 Interesting Chord Voicings that Shouldn't Work but do!
Oliver_M37
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OK, a bit of a clickbait title, yes, but it's true! All three voicings I'll show you in this video have no third, which is usually the one note we absolutely need! We shall explore why that's the case.
4 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
Let's Discuss Gary's Autobiography - Spoiler Alert
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Questions? Thoughts? What did you think? Let's talk about his book, here. I have some things to say but I'll wait. How about some of you start. Gary will check in to answer questions and comment (I'm pretty sure).
4 years 8 months ago - 50 comments
Line Building Blocks Exercise Pt. 2 by Behn Gillece -V
behng
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Line Building Blocks Exercise
2 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
Who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?"
Oliver_M37
Content type: Blog entry
For all the vibes history nerds out there, who played vibes on Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas?" My guess is Victor Feldman, as he's worked with Ella and Frank DeVol (the conductor/arranger) on other occasions, I…
4 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
DIY fans for vibes (Download - Link)
wyndorps
Content type: Blog entry
Here is the link to download my DIY vibration unit for vibraphones. I chose this forum for the download because all the information about 3D printing is available there. After this cathastrophic year of 2021, things can really only get…
4 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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