Hi everyone,
For the next few weeks, we will be studying Summertime and Wave. These are great tunes for the TOTM, many things to talk about with both. I will be posting the first introductory lesson on Summertime shortly.
Behn
Hi all,
Hope everyone had a good summer. I was on sabbatical from the University of Cincinnati last semester and finished a vibraphone method book. It focuses on building technique and creating ideas for improvisation. If anyone is…
So I heard it said somewhere that great comping should include a variety of both opened and closed voicings. I think I'm at the point now where I can play and voice lead open and close voicings in all their permutations and variations (i.e…
Hey I have been working with a really excellent set up this past month and i thought i'd share it with you. I play a lot of Acoustic Bass and I have been using my bass rig to amp the vibes. It ain't cheap but it is really superior for gigs…
Ok, I think I've seen a lot of vibe players, talked to them and listened to them. I have a huge stack of CDs, I watch video all the time and do workshops for many vibe players around the world now. That's cool because that was my goal. A…
The saxophone player I played with 10 days ago made me know this splendid ballad (how could have I missed that one during 30 years ????), it became instantly a nice poison, and then my first try. I know, it's a jazz monument, but as the…
Check this out. Andre is a great vibe player I think. He's play Brazilian Choro music on the vibes. (is it choro?). I saw him to a whole concert of this music and miss one note. Every tune was like this. This is sort of like Brazilian…
Hi Everyone,
It's about that time to wrap up the TOTMs we've been working on (Ornithology and Peace). Please post ANYTHING you have on these tunes! It can be just the melody, a chord melody, a version with a play along, etc. Since some of…
This is a new thing I want to start doing with TOTMs. It's a detailed lesson on many of the concepts that were discussed in the videos. My main goal with these lessons is to provide helpful insight to the beginners on the site. Please let…
I've transferred the Livestream video of a concert I played with the MetroWest Jazz Project at the Sunset Jazz series at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts to YouTube. It's mostly original material from our CD, "Phrygid Aire".
We have some…
In Part 2 of my Upper Structure series I use a Maj Triad built off of the 7th scale degree of a Major 7 chord.
So if we are playing a Cmaj the upper structure would be a Bmaj triad.
I use this mainly to suspend the Maj7th chord. So…
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