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Categorizing your practice material - beginners level
tjaco
Content type: Blog entry
Here's some ideas to get started categorizing your material when your just starting out to play vibes: 1. Technique / Theory A: Study the major scales and arpeggios(triads, 6th chords and 7th chords) B: Study the dorian mode and minor 7…
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Me and Joe during our hang
james_whiting
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14 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
Symbiosis by Tony Miceli (read before you listen)
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
This is something completely different. I imagine some or many of you won't like it, but I want to tell you about it and the process. I love it, it's a group called Symbiosis and we just get together with our synths and play free…
12 years 4 months ago - 5 comments
What A Difference A Day Made by Stefan74
Stefan74
Content type: Audio Player
Hi all! I've been working on What A Difference A Day Made for quite a long time already - here is what came out - many flaws of course, but heck it's a practice tape and I am an amateur. Critics welcome, cheers STE
12 years 11 months ago - 4 comments
Last Train Home by Joe Doubleday & the OCU Percussion Ensemble
Jdoubleday
Content type: Audio Player
I think I've told a couple of people that Pat Metheny is one of my favorite musicians/composers of all time. (I know its crazy). I just think his tunes lay really well with a percussion ensemble. I don't really want to sound like him,…
12 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
Newsweek article: "Jazz is Dead. Long Live Jazz"
tpvibes
Content type: Blog entry
Hi All, In Newsweek online, there's an article call "Jazz is Dead. Long Live Jazz" (see http://www.newsweek.com/id/226331). I'm not sure I can decode a coherent message from the article, but one of the comments seems to be about the…
14 years 4 months ago - 5 comments
Me and Tony @ Vibehang
james_whiting
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14 years 4 months ago - 1 comments
A Great Vibe Hang Today!
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Man we had a great vibe hang today! Great players and great music! It seemed like we had the whole world together. I counted France, Netherlands, Germany, USA, China and Australia. Pretty cool huh? It's like we have this growing community…
14 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
Symbiosis Dec 09 by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Ok More Symbiosis. I just thought I'd post it for something different. It's definitely trippy music. All Electronic. The thing to remember is Steve Giordano, John Swana and Bob Meashey are all musicians with huge ears, so this is a cool…
12 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
nice bebop lick
dimitris
Content type: Story
HELLO EVERYBODY. I AM FINISH (FOR NOW) MY PRACTISE ON COMPING IN ALL KEYS AND I START 2-3 WEEKS AGO CHORD SOLO AND SIMPLE BEBOP LINES IN ALL KEYS IN DIFFERENT PROGRESSIONS. SO FOR MY PRACTISE IT CAME THIS LICK. I THINK SOLO IN ALL KEYS IS…
14 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
Beautiful Love Etude 2 Chord Study by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Here's another chord study on Beautiful Love changes. Here are the steps I think you need to do to make this effective. 1. Analyze the chords against the original changes. The roots are the same even if they are not there. So analyze…
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Beautiful Love Etude 1 Chord Study by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
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Here's a chord study based on the tune Beautiful Love. Here are the steps I think you need to do to make this effective. 1. Analyze the chords against the original changes. The roots are the same even if they are not there. So analyze…
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
vibehang 12 12 09 yili john and lucky
jack_reilly
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14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
I hear a Rhapsody by Simon Kanzler
Simon Kanzler
Content type: Audio Player
This is a nice tune to study. I was working on it today and thought I post a version of my practice session. Here it is...
14 years 4 months ago - 9 comments
Terry Gibbs Playing with Buddy Rich
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Check Out Terry Gibbs' Solo! SMOKINNNNNNN
2 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
Lionel Hampton - Flying Home (1957)
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Lionel Swinging!
14 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
Terzani by Holger Denckmann & band
Holger
Content type: Audio Player
Hi everybody! Here goes another Joe Locke piece. Don't worry it is going to be the last one for a while... I totaly love the version of Terzani on "Sticks and Strings" - We tried our own interpretation with two contrasting solo parts...…
12 years 4 months ago - 5 comments
Microphones and/or Pick Ups
tonymiceli
Content type: Forum topic
So Joe Doubleday has been talking about Mics and Pics on Facebook to me. So I thought I'd start a discussion. I think they both have there place and both are useful. For me mics come first, pick-ups second. The sound will dramatically…
14 years 4 months ago - 9 comments
Tulipa by Holger Denckmann & Band
Holger
Content type: Audio Player
(Tune by Geoffrey Keezer) Hi everybody! As most of us I got a crush on the Joe Locke repertoire!!!! Tulipa is my favourite tune from the fantastic "Live in Seattle" record. At the Jazz Baltica festival in 2007 I asked Geoffrey Keezer to…
12 years 4 months ago - 6 comments
My One and Only Love by BarryK
BarryK
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Here is my simple arrangement to "My One and Only Love". At some point I will study Tony's Etudes (links above), but I wanted to start on my own. I played an octave higher than written. Do you think it sounds too high or piercing? What…
14 years 4 months ago - 12 comments
I'll Remember April by Tom Phelan
tpvibes
Content type: Audio Player
Hi All, This was from a gig back in April of this year. In addition to me on vibes, there's Doug Sondak on alto, Steve Conahan on bass and Ed Conley on drums. Bit of a train wreck on the ending, unfortunately. I thought the sax player…
12 years 11 months ago - 6 comments
Begging, Borrowing and Stealing
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Upload
Begging, Borrowing and Stealing. Things vibe players must do to play the instrument!
14 years 4 months ago - 0 comments
Vibe Hang Dec. 12th! Noon until 2! Featuring James from Down Under!
tonymiceli
Content type: Event
One of our members from Australia will be in Philadelphia for a few days, so I thought we should set up a vibe hang! Who's going to play? Come on! How about some new people as well as the veterans! http://www.livestream.com/…
14 years 4 months ago - 4 comments
Blue In Green (@The Prohibition Room) by Joe Doubleday
Jdoubleday
Content type: Audio Player
Some of the heaviest guys in the state came out to the jam session on monday and just totally blew me away. It was a blast being the worst musician on the bandstand. It is great to play with guys that really listen and react and make music…
12 years 4 months ago - 27 comments
Ella!!
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Sounds like her voice is a little tired. But check this out. You talk about ears!!!!
14 years 4 months ago - 2 comments
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