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Israel - Lesson 1 - TOTM
tonymiceli
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Like usual, get the melody down. Know it well and play it well. Think about phrasing, rhythm and time! 
2 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
March 27th 12pm East Coast Time - Tune Talk - Israel
tonymiceli
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Come hang with us and talk about the tune Israel. I'll be talking with Behn Gillece and Oliver Mayman   Work on the tune for the next couple weeks. Learn it and play it. Write down questions.    Tony Miceli is inviting you to a…
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Melodic Structures: advanced applications (part 2) -V
giovanniperin
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In this video we apply the melodic structures into a basic Im-bVI-IIm7b5-V7alt minor cadence using the proper cell for each chord: m7: 1-b3-4-5 Maj7: 1-2-3-5  m7b5: 1-b3-4-b5 dom7: 1-b9-3-5 or 1-b9-3-#5 or 1-#9-3-#5   www.…
1 month 3 weeks ago - 0 comments
Melodic Structures: advanced applications (part 1) -V
giovanniperin
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In this video we apply the melodic structures into a basic I-Vim-IIm-V7 cadence using the proper cell for each chord: remember 1-2-3-5 in Major 1-b3-4-5 in minor   www.giovanniperin.com Follow me ★ facebook https: //www.facebook.com/…
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Melodic Structures -V
giovanniperin
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Hi Vibes Lovers in this lesson I talk about a powerful tool that I got from Gerry Bergonzi called melodic structures.  Those are motivic cell used for creating melodies:  1-2-3-5 in Major 1-b3-4-5 in minor   www.giovanniperin.com…
1 month 3 weeks ago - 0 comments
Triadic lines -V
giovanniperin
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In this video I'll cover different strategies and approaches for creating lines using simple triads. The idea is pretty easy and comes from the triadic harmonization of both major and minor scales. Hope you can get something helpful out…
1 month 3 weeks ago - 2 comments
Israel - TOTM
tonymiceli
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Great tune to study! It's a blues, but a little different minor blues.
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Color Code M55G
wyndorps
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Does anyone know the color code for the gold of the resonance tubes on the M55-G ?
2 years 3 months ago - 3 comments
Drums in the vibes mics
Randy_Sutin
Content type: Blog entry
In a recent post, I was asked about how I would keep the drums out of the vibes mics.  It's an age-old problem that nearly all of us have experienced. Obviously, in a recording studio, the answer is to banish the drummer to a booth. …
2 years 2 months ago - 6 comments
Beginners Music Theory Books of fundamentals
Bob_DeMaio
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Scales & lines, chords & changes, phrasing & modes, oh my! I feel a bit like the lion in The Wizard of Oz ;-) I have been sifting through the site for a few days and I have had some success at trying to learn online. I am a…
12 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
Israel - Our Next Tune Of The Month
tonymiceli
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I've been playing the tune Israel. I really like it and discovered some cool things. So I thought I'd do a tune of the month on it!    So start learning it! 
2 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Friedman Etude 8
Ritterpc
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Demonstration of David Friedman Etude number 8 with a focus on mallet muting. 
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Everything I love -V
David Friedman
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Just got a new Malletech marimba I'm totally in love with the sound. It's Padauk, not rosewood, so it has its own sound, which appeals to me after playing rosewood marimbas for so many years. The bar spacing is a little different so that's…
2 months ago - 5 comments
Mike Mainieri with WDR Big Band
tonymiceli
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What else to say, this is amazing! 
2 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
What's Your Perspective On the Vibes? How do you see it?
tonymiceli
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What do you see when you play the vibes. What's your perspective? I always saw it as a guitar or even a violin (after studying Bach). Never really saw it as a piano. But yes it looks like a piano and there are many similar things. I guess…
12 years 6 months ago - 12 comments
Billy Wooten (Anyone know of him?)
tonymiceli
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Randy just sent me this.  I can't imagine playing with this band, it sounds loud. But you can hear Billy! 
2 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
March Newsletter, 2022
tonymiceli
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  Want to Learn More about the Vibraphone? Over 1,500 lessons and over 20,000 posts about the vibraphone.  Join for only $9.99 a month and study with us. Support the largest vibe community in the world! ... and learn!    Did you…
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Canaro en Paris by Martin Ghersa
Babu
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Here is traditional tango very weel played by an authentic argentin player. He is 34 years old, and he plays with a lot of bands in Buenos Aires, some of them new tango (Piazzolla and his musical's sons). Perfect tecnician, and for me the…
12 years 3 months ago - 3 comments
Chord Expansions on Tenderly - Tim Collins
tonymiceli
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3 years 3 months ago - 4 comments
Chord Melody for Fly Me To The Moon
tonymiceli
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This for my student, but it's for all. it's a VERY QUICK and dirty chord version of Fly Me To The Moon. Done in about 15 minutes. Good enough for what Frank needs, but you're welcome to check it out.
2 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Chords and Voicings
tonymiceli
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I was just blown away looking at our Vbooks section. That is Virtual Books.    I was putting something in the chords section and I couldn't believe how many lessons were in there!  The thing about vibesWorkshop is you just look for…
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
You Fill In The missing Voicing
tonymiceli
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Here are three, two five, one progressions.  Good voice leading for the most part is lazy voice leading. That means:  you usually won't move the note if it's in the next chord. you will move whatever voicings have to move but to the…
2 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
"Four to the Bar" Tutorial on Stars Fell On Alabama
ed saindon
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Guys, here's a tutorial on the "four to the bar" style on Stars Fell On Alabama. Had some fun with adding the hats. I use to do this with piano but not vibes, so it needs tweaking. Would have picked a smaller/thinner and quieter set of…
2 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Assembling a Tune - Part 1 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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After you know the chords and the melody what are some ways of assembling tunes? I believe that without a foundation with the tune, it's going to be hard to 'tame' it. Even though I don't always practice what I preach, knowing the melody…
14 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Freddie Green Style - By David Friedman
David Friedman
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6 years 2 months ago - 11 comments
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