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Hello ! Me and my bass player have a gig forthcoming(where I'll be playing drums), with the very fine Scottish trumpet-player, Bruce Adams. Bruce sent us his set list, which includes this old Hank Mobley Tune : Funk in Deep Freeze. I…
14 years 9 months ago - 3 comments
Content type: Event
Hi Everyone, As part of the Berklee Percussion Festival, Dave Samuels, Gustavo Agatiello, Victor Mendoza, Nancy Zeltsman and me will be teaching vibes and marimba during June 22nd through the 26th. We have group lessons and ensembles…
14 years 9 months ago - 3 comments
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Here's a short etude that will help you work on your voicings. It's just a turnaround where you can check out 13ths and b and # 9ths. It's definitely an etude the you should at least put parts of it through all the keys. I've included a…
14 years 9 months ago - 1 comments
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I may have some of the terminology wrong, as well as the way the song is to be titled, but please bare with this non-musician, while I try to explain what I am looking for. Recently my 17 yr old son, a junior in high school, played…
14 years 9 months ago - 37 comments
Content type: Blog entry
I have seen mallets numbered from left to right as 1-2-3-4 and 4-3-2-1. To me, 1-2-3-4 makes more sense since that is how I read, from left to right. What is the reason for numbering 4-3-2-1? Since there seems to be no standard labeling,…
12 years 11 months ago - 9 comments
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Hey guys I was recording some quick tracks for this site called indaba music that has different people create tracks and clips and you mix them together to create a song together! anyway I created a sample melody track and a chord track…
12 years 3 months ago - 6 comments
Content type: Story
Ok the title looks weird. It's not for Tarik because he's 'My One and only Love', it's just that he posted his version of the tune so I thought I'd crank out a chord study based on the tune! We got that straight right? What I would do…
14 years 9 months ago - 8 comments
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Hello everyone, I wanted to let you know that I just uploaded some new videos to YouTube. The videos are from my May 7th clinic and concert with Philippe Mace at the conservatory in Paris. Here's the link to my YouTube page which lists the…
14 years 9 months ago - 8 comments
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Angelo the 91 year old vibe player (maybe the oldest professional working vibe player) write me now regularly. He always asks me to post the letters for everyone to read! here's the latest. he's really interesting and his advice is good!…
14 years 9 months ago - 3 comments
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Tony recently put up a dampening exercise based on the changes for Stella. Ensuing comments on his posting examined the E-7b5 chord at the beginning of the tune. Tony suggested I start a post with a challenge for us to find as many tunes…
14 years 9 months ago - 18 comments
Rootless
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
Here's an interesting study. Print this etude out and learn it. At some point you should realize what tune it is. Then realize that there are no roots in the chords except at the beginning and at one spot where I added it by mistake.…
14 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
Practice
JoePorter
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Hi all, new to the website it's fantastic! Abit about myself: I'm entering my third year of percussion studies at the University of Lethbridge under Adam Mason. I started playing vibraphone about 7months ago by volunteering in jazz band…
14 years 9 months ago - 5 comments
Coming out of hiding:)
David Friedman
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I have a suggestion: Since this isn't a teenage chat sight, or a lonely hearts,"Hope to meet someone nice" site, why don't we all go by our real names? I find it a bit irritating if I want to say something to a specific member, or answer a…
14 years 9 months ago - 23 comments
Multiple keys.
Jdoubleday
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Ok. So I just finished watching Tony's video series over Stella and I realized something.... I rarely work things through 12 keys. I once tried to learn Stella in C and failed miserably. I keep hearing over and over about working in all…
14 years 9 months ago - 6 comments
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Hey Tony, I think this version is a litte better with keeping the time. I'll check my schedule and get back to you with a few nights this week. Let me know what you think! Thanks for the help!
14 years 9 months ago - 4 comments
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Here's another etude over the tune 'My One and Only Love'. You put the chords in. It's a chord etude based on quarter notes. You can see the top note of the chord and the up and down of the melody. You can see where there's a chord and…
14 years 9 months ago - 6 comments
Content type: Story
I was practicing You and the Night and the Music, tonight and thought I'd whip something up for the site. So here's a sort of duet. I figured out the vibe part and started messing around and adding some other parts and it turned into a…
14 years 9 months ago - 0 comments
Name That Tune
tonymiceli
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Here's a solo I did with my improv class. I'll post it with bass, but I thought first for fun, that I'd put it up with no accompaniment and see if you guys can guess what tune it is that the solo is over. Then we can work on the tune.
14 years 9 months ago - 7 comments
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This is just me practicing Blue Monk. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated! Anything that can help me to be better! I promise I will upload some 4 mallet stuff soon. Thanks, -Joe Doubleday
14 years 9 months ago - 22 comments
Content type: Blog entry
i´m a little upset.i got relative good recording mics and euipment and the sound of my video´s in the uncompressed original format is always good.but if i compress it to make it fit to youtube the sound always gets bad.anyone of you has…
14 years 9 months ago - 1 comments
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Here's a dampening etude. Put the pedal down and leave it down for the whole etude. Dampen every note until the very end where it's indicated to let the notes ring. There's also a quite different accompaniment part if you want to use it.…
14 years 7 months ago - 15 comments
Content type: Forum topic
Ok, I see all these videos of you guys comping for yourself. How do you do it? I'm sure it's not a simple answer. I recently had a gig filling in for my jazz piano teacher on vibes. it was a trio setting and i could not for the life of me…
14 years 9 months ago - 11 comments
Content type: Story
Hi Folks- Been awhile since I dropped in... looks like lots of exciting stuff is happening around here! Just wanted to post to let everyone know that I somehow lost my entire M46 crossbar and pedal assembly between the 55 Bar and my house…
14 years 9 months ago - 4 comments
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I was sight reading this song. The melody rhythm Shelley plays on the sax isn't what is written on the page. It took me stepping on him a couple times before I got the change. I like this song. It was running through my head for a…
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
Content type: Blog entry
well here is the start.... this is an idea on how i get around Gaint steps... I have only done the first Cycle of the progression, however, this idea should be continued to the other cycle that starts not the Bmaj7 but rather on Gmaj7.…
14 years 9 months ago - 11 comments
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