Excerpt from Milan clinic that took place this past May. Vibist Andrea Mellace (who came all the way from Calabria) asked me to play Black Orpheus. In this clip, I'm demonstrating various dampening techniques (including slide dampening and hand dampening) using Black Orpheus as a vehicle.

One of my favorite tune.
I play both piano and vibes on this one. ;o )
I have definitively adopted Miceli Stoned Grip ( after going back and forth with Burton Grip ) and i feel much better with alternated sticking for lines, voicings, time feel and melody phrasing ....
Thanks Tony ! LOL

Feel free to change the rhythms and anticipate.

One of my professors is assigning a lot of transcriptions (not just jazz; it's a class on various world musics) and suggested we buy the Transcribe! software program. Has anyone used this? Is it worth spending money on as opposed to using something free like Audacity? Most students in the class don't do much transcribing, so I've got an advantage since I've been transcribing jazz licks. I've always transcribed by ear and been fine with that so I'm hesitant to spend money on a program when I don't even use the free stuff.

I am using the first 4 bars of Mockingbird Hill as an exercise in the arpeggios of a I-IV-V sequence which can extend right around the keys in the circle of 4ths. The V chord is dominant 7, while I and IV are the majors.

My Twin brother Josh Fisher (Bass), and myself, Ethan Fisher (Vibes) playing I Fall in Love to Easily

More to come, ill be posting every week!

I've posted this simple exercise before. I'm reposting for a different reason.

I think doing this scale exercise fast and well means a shift in your thinking. Everyone has trouble doing it at first. At first we look at the bottom note of the double stop and the exercise is difficult to do. After a while you will shift your thinking and you will see this from the top note, which is the goal. I accompany myself in this way. That is playing a line and using mallet one to accompany the line.