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"Farmer's Trust" - one of my favorite compositions from guitarist Pat Metheny. A great song to use as a vehicle for dampening including the one hand dampening techniques - slide, hand and pivot dampening. All of these dampening techniques will be covered in depth via exercises, etudes and pieces in my upcoming book on pedaling and dampening.

I haven’t been able to get to recent Wednesday 2 pm Zoom coffeehouse meets. The earlier ones I attended were great. As a discussion topic, I’d like to hear how vibists approach the challenge of learning chord sequences as you improvise. Do you think of a number sequence, or visualize a chord signature? Do you have any suggestions for how to practice the skill of sequence memorization?

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He changed the title since I first saw this from "Music Theory is Racist" to its current form. Probably a better descriptor of what he has researched and laid out in pretty good detail.

"What Kind Of Fool Am I" by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Working on solo playing with reharm and voicings. Was playing through the Bill Evans version and got some nice ideas and wanted to try it out on the vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CyCfWHjM5Y

Comments welcome!