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Joe Locke – Sword Of Whispers (solo vibraphone)

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Joe Locke's solo vibraphone version of his tune "Sword Of Whispers". Sheet music is available on his site if you want to study it.

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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Body & Soul - Week 1 by Behn Gillece

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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 1Welcome to the next installment of Play A Great Standard In One Month!After spending two full series exploring blues and rhythm changes, we've moved into a new phase of our…

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David Friedman, "Darn that Dream" (lower-register voicings)

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David Friedman demonstrates his lower-register voicings on "Darn that Dream". Worth close study of his four-mallet harmonic approach.

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Gary Burton — The Sunset Bell (1966)

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Gary Burton with the Stan Getz Quartet in 1966 — his vibraphone solo on "The Sunset Bell," the tune he made his own, captured by the BBC at the London School of Economics. A clear look at the four-mallet style he was building that year.

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The Practice Club is Starting Up

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Here's the link for the practice club invite.https://discord.gg/CTx6wv8PH?event=1557784898096599182 Our first class is Oct 18th, 1pm Eastern U.S.If you are serious about playing the vibes join us! It's free as long as you do the work…

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Warren Wolf — "I Can't Get Started" (Frankfurt Radio Big Band)

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Warren Wolf featured with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band on "I Can't Get Started," recorded January 2025 in Frankfurt. Worth studying for how he projects the vibraphone through a full big band.

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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 4 by Behn Gillece

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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 4Last week, we worked through a full chorus of "Stella By Starlight" using clear, relatively simple melodic ideas. The goal was to hear the harmony through basic scale and chord tones…

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Comping Under Tony's Solo

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A solo that Tony played that I comped under (or over, I guess)

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So What

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So What - head; transcribed solo; improvised solo; headAudio is from iReal Pro

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15 week course lesson 3

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OK, slowly crawling my way through the lessons. Slow but steady wins the race, right? :)Friedman 3 https://youtu.be/A5dHhQmdFYQ and Friedman 4 https://youtu.be/y0qv0KSj4P8Diminished chords open and closed https://youtu.be/…

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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 3 by Behn Gillece

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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 3Over the past two weeks, we've been developing our approach to "Stella By Starlight" through voicings and chord melody.Week 1 established our harmonic foundation, while Week 2 explored…

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Play A Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 2 by Behn Gillece

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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a…

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Simple blues solo

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This is an exercise of blues solo. One chorus written using chord tones on the beats, and (mostly) blues scale and bebop dominant scale tones as passing notes.

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