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Vic Firth Video Podcast - Saindon, Liebman, Wilson, Clark
ed saindon
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Hello guys, Vic Firth is presenting an excerpt from the University of New Hampshire concert with Dave Liebman - Soprano, Matt Wilson - Drums, David Clark - Bass and me on vibes in a Video Podcast. Here's the link in case anyone would like…
13 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
May 16, 2010 - Vibe Hang - CANCELLED
tonymiceli
Content type: Event
THE MAY 16TH VIBE HANG IS CANCELLED. I HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY AND HAVE TO GO OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEKEND. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED
13 years 11 months ago - 13 comments
Go practice!!!
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Blog entry
Guys, As you know Tony is out for the week end... But it doesn't mean it's holidays! So what are you doing here reading this stupid message: go and check all the lessons, posts, vids, audios, get back to your mallets and go practice!! The…
13 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Hard Mallets Cut Through
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
I like the sound of hard mallets from the audience. And they totally cut through don't they? That seems like a pretty loud drummer and those vibes are coming right through!
13 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Autumn Leaves - The Ed Saindon Quartet
ed saindon
Content type: Video Embed
Hello everyone, still uploading videoclips from a recent quartet gig that featured Rick DiMuzio on sax, Mark Walker on drums, Bruno Raberg on bass and me on vibes. Here's one that we just uploaded. Ed
13 years 11 months ago - 8 comments
Listen to Stefon Harris. (A Whole Set)
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
13 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Four Note Groupings, Part Two
ed saindon
Content type: Story
Hello Everyone, here's Part Two of the Four Note Groupings article which will be appearing in the upcoming June issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. This article addresses the use of four note groupings on Dom 7…
13 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Take a Break and Watch This Sci-Fi Fans.
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
This is hysterical.
13 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
A Green Etude
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Don't use the pedal if you don't want to. This is just an exercise in some alternate 4 mallet sticking. Not single lines, but 2 note voicings. I was messing around with these ideas this morning. I banged this puppy out before heading out…
13 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
Mike Mainieri Discography
tjaco
Content type: Story
Hey Everyone, I just stumbled upon this Mike Mainieri Discography. It has some pretty good stuff on there. I actually found it looking for info on his cd: Other side of the Blues. And I found out that he also played as a sideman on a…
13 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Mike Mainieri
Patty
Content type: Images
The great Mike Manieri.
13 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
Abendgespräch by Simon Kanzler
Simon Kanzler
Content type: Audio Player
Hi! Marie asked me to post some new suff of mine. This is a recording of a composition of mine called "Abendgespräch". It's a duo with tenor sax. I just played for the second time with this guy. And he is really great! So enjoy...
13 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Swords of Whispers - My Take
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
When I heard Joe's tune Sword of Whispers I fell in love with it. I had heard it on cd, but I must have been doing something else while listening to it. I stopped and watched his video and just fell in love with the tune. So I started…
13 years 11 months ago - 17 comments
More Lessons On the Way
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Well I finished my little series on the melodic minor scale. I think I'm going to do one on the harmonic minor also. Although I need to study that one first a little more. Behn is coming over Wednesday to shoot more lessons and I have some…
13 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Himmel unter Berlin by Simon Kanzler
Simon Kanzler
Content type: Audio Player
Another composition of mine...This time with my Band. This is a recording from our first concert.
13 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Jitterbug Waltz - Ed Saindon at the Sahara Club
James
Content type: Video Embed
Hey everybody, Ed played a great gig with his quartet at the Sahara Club on April 6th. This video is of Jitterbug Waltz by Fats Waller. You can follow the link to youtube and see part 2 of this tune as well as a few of the other tunes…
12 years 5 months ago - 8 comments
Hope by James Whiting
james_whiting
Content type: Audio Player
Hi Guys, Big hello from Australia! This is a recording of me and my friend at uni playing in a chamber music concert. We only played this one tune, walked in straight from work with no warm up, no sound check so there are a few fuzzy bits…
12 years 5 months ago - 7 comments
What if you didn't have a car stereo for 3 months?
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
So my car stereo blew a few months ago. I bought another one a few months ago thinking it replace it myself. I tried but no sound. So I got my son an his Drexel buddies over figuring 30 grand a year, they can get it working. Nothing. So…
13 years 11 months ago - 11 comments
My Name In Lights
tonymiceli
Content type: Images
I always think it's hysterical to see "Vibraphone Workshop' on the Marquis. I bet everybody that reads it is thinking. 'What's a Vibraphone'? And then it's in the Science Center so that must have REALLY confused everybody.
13 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Stella by Starlight Analysis
BarryK
Content type: Blog entry
From the Real Book, the chords are: ___|_Em7b5_______|_A7b9________|_Cm7_________|_F7__________|, etc., with melody: Bb |_A___________|____G__A__Bb_|_F___________|_F___________| When I play it, it sounds like the 1st and 3rd chords are…
13 years 11 months ago - 3 comments
Melodic Minor Scale Pt. 8 - Putting it All Together by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Chinese translation for Chinese students 把melodic 音階當作調式（modes）的方式來練習。 先演奏一個固定低音，從第一級的melodic 開始打，也就是C melodic scale. 試著即興，然後找出一些Pattern, 或是你喜愛的一些Lick（樂句） 接著換打第二級melodic ，也就是Bb melodic scale, 但是固定低音不變。 再來是三級melodic scale, 也就是 A melodic…
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Who is Jay Messina?
Marie-Noëlle
Content type: Blog entry
Tony realized that Jay Messina just joined us as subscriber. Jay has a great career as sound engineer for the greatest musicians all around the world... We'd love to know more, about his past, and his history with the vibraphone too! Jay,…
13 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
Evelyn Glennie and Fred Frith
tonymiceli
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13 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Melodic Minor Scale Pt. 5 - Mixolydian b6 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Chinese translation for Chinese students C為起音的第五級Melodic scale, (C mixolydian b6) 如果把C這個音當作是一個Melodic scale 的第五個音，那往下推（完全五度），可以得到F。 所以你可以把C mixolydian b6音階想成F melodic scale, 但是從C音開始打。 這個音階為，C,D,E,F,G,Ab,Bb,C (跟大調音階相比，降六音，降七音)…
6 years 11 months ago - 1 comments
Sarabande from Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for Violin by Ted Wolff
tedwolff
Content type: Video Upload
This piece, a sarabande from Sonata IV in D minor, is a slow thoughtful piece and a good 4 mallet exercise. Use the 4 mallets for melody lines as well the block chords. For instance, in bar 6 you’ll find it handy to use 4 to play the wide…
12 years 5 months ago - 3 comments
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