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Lengendary vibes
Gary Burton
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I'm sure someone out there has done some research on classic vibraphones, maybe even with some pictures. I kind of know the basic history of the instrument (actually Wikipedia has a surprisingly thorough vibraphone history...I would love…
14 years 11 months ago - 20 comments
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Part B
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
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Part A in Cm then C#m.
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Check out this beautiful restored Deagan 510. Restored by none other than Nico Vanderplas.
14 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
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Joe's video from his Birthday get together with Dana.
14 years 11 months ago - 3 comments
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Some late night thoughs about practicing, and time and not time.
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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General information on Chords and Chord Scales.
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Check out the referenced post listed below. It's an audio file of a chord solo over Green Dolphin Street. It's about as simple as you can get. It will help you learn the chords and move around the instrument.
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Gary Burton
tonymiceli
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Gary Burton Home Page
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I may not be the greatest expert on the biography of Claire Musser, founder of the company that bears his name and that dominates in the mallet instrument field. However, I have played Musser instruments since I was six years old (this is…
12 years 2 months ago - 9 comments
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Here's the Burton grip and the Gary at age 8. What's amazing is if you read his story about how he thought about his grip, well that's cool enough. However, he thought about this all at age 8. Now that's brain power. -Tony Miceli
12 years 3 months ago - 1 comments
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Oh no! Not more Giant Steps! Thought I would test drive the new video system with this link from You Tube. Peace, Steve
14 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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Here's a tour of the site!
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2 Easy steps: Become a member, check out the site and then subscribe!
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It's fairly simple for private students to post lessons for me to review. Check out this video.
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Locrian the crazy scale! The 7th scale degree of the major scale. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinese translation for Chinese students 如果拿Locrian 音階和大調(major)音階來比較,Locrian音階多了降2降3降5降6降7音。 因為沒有完全五度…
6 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
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A tritone splits the octave in half. A very common sound are major triads between the tritone split. In other words, F maj and then B maj. This lesson talks about that relationship.
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
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Joe Locke talkes to Nico about an exciting new development at the Vanderplas Baileo factory. They are designing an all new midi system for the Mvibe as well as for acoustic vibraphones!
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Consistency
tonymiceli
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A little pep talk about consistency. Maybe valuable, maybe not!
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
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Here's a fairly simple etude based on a minor blues. There's no dampening in this etude necessary. Also the pedaling should be straight forward. Pedal slightly on the beat for the single line part and then with the chords for the double…
14 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
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Here's a lesson from a Percussion Geeks Episode on dampening. I think you'll find it pretty helpful.
14 years 11 months ago - 0 comments
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I've posted Diane playing this same tune on the site. However I'm getting some promo vids for us together and I thought I'd post this. More coming.
14 years 11 months ago - 5 comments
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Anyone hanging around the site has seen all the changes and the growth of the site! It's really incredible what's happening. Probably the most exciting thing for us is Gary Burton joining the site and sharing with us thoughts on playing,…
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