Vibraphone

Transcribing, Hearing Form, and Ear Training.

Working on Pemutations, Technique, and Pedaling.

Working on Technique, Dynamics, and Pedaling.

🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 9

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been expanding our line vocabulary using real jazz language:

• Guide tones
• Chromaticism
• Augmented sounds

This week, we take another important step by focusing on two essential dominant sounds:

👉 Whole tone
👉 Diminished

These sounds show up constantly in jazz improvisation, especially over dominant chords, and they create a strong sense of tension and forward motion.

Friedman 16 Pedaling Etude (With Extra Background Noise)

Working on Pedaling, Chords and Technique.

Working on Pedaling, Technique, and Dynamics

🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 8

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been building lines using real jazz vocabulary—starting with guide tones, then expanding into phrases drawn from players like Milt Jackson.

This week, we focus on one of the most important elements of that language:

👉 Chromaticism

These lines are built using phrases from Milt Jackson transcriptions and other bebop sources, but the main idea is how chromatic notes connect and shape the line.

You’ll hear:

Tony's "blues super pack" transcription transposed in C.

Here's the original in F : https://www.vibesworkshop.com/video-embed/blues-super-pack-transcriptio…

This is a new group I'm part of. I think it's very cool. A unique instrumentation and all the string players are really top notch! 

We recently played at the Wells Rapp Center For Mallet Research. (AN AMAZING PLACE THAT YOU MUST VISIT!)