I'll be performing with 'Meg and the Cliftones'
Meg Clifton - vocals
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Kevin Hanson - Guitar
Jim Stager - Bass
Erik Johnson - Drums
We take old rock tunes and play them in a jazz format.
Joe Locke is not only a great player, but a real spokesman for the instrument. He travels all around the world and and has a great stage presence. Check him out!
Here are comping examples based over the tune 'Quet Nights'. There are 3 examples. Each one varies a little bit. The last 2 especially work well with no accompaniment. For example if you comping in duo with only a flute.
Check out the…
Here are some exercises from my old practice book. I was thinking about accompaniment with lines. I realized that you have to get the left hand sort of automatic and plopping down double stops and that will give the accompaniment feeling.…
An incredibly unmusical but important exercise. Start at the bottom of your instrument and play 1 bar of 16th notes on each note. Go all the way up and then all the way down! See how far you can go. When you can do the whole instrument…
Here's my arrangement of Green Dolphin Street. It's an etude that explores three parts of playing the vibes, chordal playing, chordal playing and soloing and also single line soloing.
I'm glad to see John posting stuff here. Man he's a great player and teacher. I've had such great talks with him and totally dig what he has to say musically and philosophically!
BTW - In his spare time John is a FIRE FIGHTER. Yes he runs…
I dig logging in here and seeing 4 to 8 guys online going around the site. That alone gives me a good feeling.
I took a break this week from putting new video up and I've been experimenting with ways of putting it up quicker and easier,…
Just got the Garritan Jazz & Big Band sounds for Band in a Box and decided to try it out with Blue Bossa. I am getting better an memorizing the changes and trying some improv.
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Check out this part of the forum. If any of you guys dig the school, It would be great for any recommendations you could spare. It's all part of spreading the word so we can get…
Ok, when I say the vibes are more like a guitar than a piano, this is what I mean. Check this cat out and think about this. If that was a set of vibes and the same notes came out, can you see how we could totally do that on the vibes. It…
Here is a duet of Stella by Starlight. I did this one with Tony a few years ago.
I think my part is not that great, but you get an idea of what you can do with these duets.
I also added Tony's part for you to play along. Remember if you…
I talk and think about this all the time. You'll hear me bring it up over and over and over again. I never totally liked the analogy of comparing the vibes to a piano. When every I'm playing solo it hits me like a brick in the head.
Now…
Hello Everybody,
Here are some thoughts I'm struggling with as a drummer who has been playing loads of standards on drums and now trying to get to know all of these on vibes.
I guess there are a lot of guys out here that played drums first…
I didn't know this tne untill I heard Tony play it. It's a beautiful tune, so I'll be studying this tune the coming week. I'll post audio at the end of this week.
Here I will post a list of tunes that I really know by heart. Like Tony says, if you really know a tune you've got to be able to play it through 12 keys. So that's my goal here.
I'll only post tunes that I put to the test of playing…
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