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Our next TOTM is Autumn Leaves. Here is one of my favorite versions. Do you know who Eva Cassidy is? Man check her out, she is pretty heavy. More of a blues singer, but wow, she gives me chills. She died very young and in her prime. I'm a…
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Whether it's music, or business, or sports, or relationships...in the end, success is all the same. This man gets right to the heart of it. Worth a few minutes to read... https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/just-do-it-by-art-williams PS…
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If you know the changes to Miss Jones and know the melody, here's a simple melodic solo to transcribe. If you transcribe it, post it here. You can hear the tune in the solo, right? You hear the harmony right? And I'm playing so little to…
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here´s some more music i wrote for the detective novel...this time a simple 7/8 bass vamp with various themes played by the malletkat and sax. this will be during a chase in the story...you get the picture?
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Here you go Stefan. Autumn Leaves voicings. You have to do some of the work. I think I got the form and all that right. You need to label the chords and then label the alterations. Finally I think you need to memorize this. Just play it…
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Great player! I was just watching some of his videos to get inspired to practice, when I noticed these weird spacers on his vibes. Anyone have info on them?
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This was at the Vibesworkshop France workshop.
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So I said I'd start to be accountable and post video of things I"m working on. This is a start. Starting reading through this yesterday. Harder than it looked! So many nuances with time, phrasing, pedaling, etc. So, a work in progress! I…
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Hi Everyone, As I always try to do, I've mixed it up for you with some standards (Airegin, Old Devil Moon, Green Dolphin Street) and some contemporary compositions by Nick Mancini, Steve Hobbs, and David Friedman. Change of pace is always…
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Now that I have reentered the world of being a musician who is uninterrupted by a day gig, I have been thinking about what I could offer this site. In the recent post about 4 vs. 2 mallet playing, something surfaced. It occurred to me…
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Sus Chords
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Hi all. I hoping for a little advice and suggestions on how to handle sus chords. I have to say, I'm not always sure which tones are the most important, and I find that when I'm reading through pop tunes, sus chords appear a lot. Not sure…
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Hard mallets, soft mallets, different mallets on different tunes??? o What are the factors that go into this decision?  Timbre is an important musical parameter, conveying much of the emotional content we seek to share as artists.  In…
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Scales Part 4
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Talks about the modes of the Major Scale. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinese translation for Chinese students Ionian 的結構:比如以C因爲起頭音,一路上行,8個音中間半音全音的關係。全全半全全全半。 你可以用這樣的方式,找到七個調式音階,音根音中間的關係…
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"When I Fall In Love" - My private students and I were working on solo vibe playing concepts last week as applied to ballads. In addition to working on solo playing techniques, we were discussing ways of sounding colors of the chord via…
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I've always loved this tune but never learned it because I thought it was so difficult, especially after hearing so many gorgeous versions by Bill Evans. It's not only about playing the chords, but moreover about CONNECTING them and…
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hey, i´m currently wrinting some music for a detecive novel that a friend has written. here´s just 1 simple theme i wrote and recorded with vibes & malletkat. Frl.Rösler dies as u can imagine... hope you like it!
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Here's a mega etude. Your job is to enter the chords and study each bar by writing all the alterations in. Is it aN F7b9? F713, F713#9. Look carefully at each bar and study the tune. Then play it. Memorize if you dare.
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There was a period when I listened a lot to the great pianist Errol Garner. I loved Errol's sense of unpredictability, playfulness and overall adventure in his playing. Also, I loved his sense of relaxed and swinging time. His left hand…
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