Don't Know What To Practice?

Here is a list of things on the website, lessons I liked a lot or thought were important. For me it's all of them I guess.

Can any of you guys copy a link of something you thought was interesting and help and put it in the comments? I'll Building on this. This would be especially for new comers to the site or players who don't know what to practice. Pick something from here!

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Looking For Something to Study?

• How about this section of the site. It's a growing section of things all mallet jazz players should know how to do. Click here to see it.
• Are you a beginner? Try doing all the lessons in this section: Click here for beginners lessons
• Also if you're a beginner, you can sift through all the beginners links. Click here for everything for beginners.
• Here are a list of all the tunes we’ve studied. Click here and pick a tune and go through all the lessons.
• Click here for a few 30 second lessons. Simple things to keep in mind or work on.
• Click here for a few lessons on Grooves.
• Click here to learn a cool Phrasing Technique that David Uses.
• Have you gone through the David Friedman Book “Dampening and Pedaling”? If you haven’t you should really work hard going through the book and doing each and every etude. It’s the one book that will definitely transform your technique in a hugely popular way! Also we have almost every etude performed by different VW members here on the site. Click here to see all the etudes.
• Click here for an interesting short talk by David Friedman talking about dampening.
  
• Here’s an little out of sync video about the importance of scales.
• It’s fun to emulate a stride piano player on the vibes. Here’s a section with a bunch of lessons on doing that.

You will need to be a subscriber to see the actual lessons. Subscribing is easy and inexpensive. You will have access to over 1500 lessons

• We did 7 weeks of bebop. Click here for a bunch of great lessons on bebop
• Check out the lessons here with SBYI which means “Stand Behind Your Instrument” They are here.
• We did a series called 8 Measures a day. It’s great. Just that 8 measures a day for you to practice. You have time for 8 measures don’t you? It’s here.

Here's an idea to get into soloing.
Here are a few lessons with a little twist to them for soloing and working on harmony. Give it a shot.

• Here you play a minor 7th chord play a line (in dorian). When you stop you play that note you stopped on and make it a minor 7th of a new chord. Check out the video.
  Click here for the Minor 7th improv exercise
• Here is the same exercise with a Maj 7th chord. Click here for the major 7th exercise
• Here you play a chord, play a line when you stop make a decision of what part of the next chord the note you stopped on is. Click here.

Chinese translation:
中文翻譯：
這裡是關於這個網頁的整理，一些Tony認為很重要、很喜歡的課程。
如果你在網站上找到認為很有趣，但不在這個清單裡面的課程，
歡迎留言告訴Tony，他會加入進來。
給初來乍到的或是不知道要練習些什麼的朋友，歡迎在這裡挖挖寶喔！
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想要找東西學習嗎？

* 這個區塊裡頭有爵士鍵盤演奏者應該都要會的小練習唷！Click here to see it.
* 這邊是給初學者的課程天堂！Click here for beginners lessons

* 也是給初學者的，你可以看到所有初學者的po上來的影片或是跟初學相關的所有連結： Click here for everything for beginners.

* 這裡是我們所學的所有的曲子Click here and pick a tune and go through all the lessons.
* 30秒影片，簡單的小練習：Click here for a few 30 second lessons. Simple things to keep in mind or work on.
* 關於律動的課程Click here for a few lessons on Grooves.

* David使用的很棒的句子和技巧Click here to learn a cool Phrasing Technique that David Uses.
* David Friedman有一本很棒的教材“Dampening and Pedaling”，大家都應該完成裡面每一首練習曲，對演奏鐵琴的技巧會非常的有幫助！這裡有關於每一首練習曲的影片，都是網站上的成員所演奏的： Click here to see all the etudes.
* 跟音階相關的連結：Here’s an little out of sync video about the importance of scales.
* 將鋼琴的演奏移植到鐵琴上，很好玩！來看看！It’s fun to emulate a stride piano player on the vibes. Here’s a section with a bunch of lessons on doing that.

＊你會需要成為網站的付費成員，才能看到這些課程。只要每個月付大約一張CD的費用，你就可以觀看超過1500個課程喔！

* 關於Bebop的課程，7週完成學習過程： Click here for a bunch of great lessons on bebop
* SBYI系列：站在你的樂器後！“Stand Behind Your Instrument” They are here.
* 我們有個系列叫做“一天8小節“，一天只有8小節要練習，一定會有時間的吧～ It’s here.

關於獨奏：
這裡有一些課程是關於可以用在獨奏上的和聲概念，可以來試試看！
* 先演奏出一個小七和弦，並使用Dorian音階，演奏到遂意一個音停止，從你停止的音上面，做一個小七和弦，看看影片中的示範：Click here for the Minor 7th improv exercise
* 這裡是大七和弦的練習： Click here for the major 7th exercise
* 這個影片是關於，先演奏一個和弦，從和弦延伸出線條，在你停止的音上面，想想看這個音是你下一個想要演奏的和絃的那一個音：Click here.