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There is a lot of video on YouTube with Mr. Burton and Pat Metheny. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=burton+metheny… I love "Question and Answer". Such a great blowing vehicle and catchy tune…
13 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
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Here is another tune I played for my jazz vibes exam. Round midnight...always stressed ;) Emilie
13 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
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Hi Everyone ! Here is Up jumped spring I played last week for my jazz vibes exam in university of Sherbrooke (Qc). it was very stressful to be rate, but... it's a challenge :)
13 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
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Hey guys, This is a GREAT exercise for writing, improvising, and tune learning. The idea is to write a new melody over the chord changes to an old standard tune. You can alter the harmony a little bit here and there to fit your new melody…
14 years 2 months ago - 3 comments
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Ok here's my version of 'It Might As Well Be Spring'. I've included an image from my Itunes song list. You can see how many versions I still have. I probably threw out just as many. I studied the $($% out of that tune. It was so inspiring…
14 years 2 months ago - 10 comments
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Totally embarrassing but I Forget the name of the tune but thought some of you might enjoy this recording!
14 years 2 months ago - 11 comments
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To celebrate the succes of the introduction of the gigVibe one year ago we now have a special offer, valid until the 1st of July 2011. You get the 3.0 octave model with our sensational blue bars, including HDS treatment, for only € 4600.…
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
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Todd is a long time member of the site. I wonder how old this picture is?
14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
Office Hours
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Ok, I know I come up with lots of ideas, and some don't make it. But heres another one. I think I'm going to try and do office hours, like we do in college. Maybe pick a night and do a few 45 minute sessions with anyone that needs help…
14 years 2 months ago - 11 comments
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Here's a continuation to the first "Cop This Lick". It's a very similar line to the first line, except that the notes for the double sticking change. PDF is attached this time. Behn
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
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Here's a new piece that I composed. It's called "Warrior" The piece is in 4 movements connected together. I.Love II.Hope III.Pain IV.Revenge Hope you like it, The piece is still highly improv based but I've started to notate it.
13 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
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14 years 2 months ago - 1 comments
Hey guys!
jimmiew
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Hey Vibes workshop! Just wanted to apologize for being out for a while and letting some of the books content back up. With everything from college auditions, internships and being in a world class indoor drumline that rehearsed all weekend…
14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
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Hi everyone, I'm attaching a pdf hand out I used recently for a clinic. In it I go through an example of how one might use a combination of Cells and Upper Structure Triads to create tension and release for playing melodic lines and…
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
Billy Cobham!
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14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
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Transcribe this! Here's a simple solo. Transcribe at least the first chorus. Does it sound like the tune? Can you play it and it sounds like the tune? Why does it sound like the tune? What's happening? Can you memorize it? Can you start…
13 years 8 months ago - 10 comments
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I saw a workshop with Joe Lovano in my neighborhood last week and something he said kinda stuck with me. It was a little question and answer session between the sets and someone had asked about this apartment that Kenny Werner had in…
14 years 2 months ago - 2 comments
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There's been some talk on the site lately about what should a beginner do around here. First off if you're a beginner, you need one thing on your side. That's time. You have to have a lot of time on your hands. You need to be able to go…
14 years 2 months ago - 9 comments
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Looking for some advice on a piece? This is the place
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
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Fried Bananas!
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
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Hi all, Here's a lick to work on. Sometimes, I like to use double stickings and paradiddle type rudiment patterns in lines to create a different effect. Notice that the left hand stays on the accidentals. Also, another way to practice…
14 years 2 months ago - 0 comments
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Vibes are booming in France as anywhere else in the world. Classically educated guys like Frank Tortiller are establishing new standards. I really dig this. Do you ?
13 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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Here's a track from "EARMIX" wih Daniel Humair, Drums. Marvin Stamm, trumpet and Sebastian Boisseau, bass. I kind of forgot about this project, probably because I wasn't crazy about the results. The whole album was more or less free, with…
13 years 8 months ago - 10 comments
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I believe there is a very interesting fundamental difference between improvising "lines" and improvising "melodies". What do you think? Is there a discussion here?
1 year 1 month ago - 18 comments
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On my last visit to the Royal Academy of Music in London, some of the students had prepared things for me which they'd acquired or learned from Vibes Workshop (2 of the students did a duo arrangement of "Sword of Whispers, including Dana…
14 years 2 months ago - 7 comments
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