Lesson

How about we build a list of Essential Blues heads. The must knows.

Billies Bounce
Bags Groove (of course)
Sonymoon for Two
Straight No Chaser
Footprints
Berks Works

I'll stop there. what others? it would be great if we had a list of 20 of them, major and minor

Marcel posted this exercise in a comment to barryk.

I thought I would turn it into the EOTM!

here's marcel's comment:
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I often look into exercises of rudimental or technical snare drum books to aply to the notes and caracteristics of vibraphone in different ways. This last days I took one to practice combination of simple and double strokes and I think that works very well to practice C major (or any mode with the same notes!).

Hi all,

Here is a lesson that explains some ideas for soloing over the blues. Enjoy!

Behn

David talked at the Delaware 2011 workshop about the time when he wanted to work on wide intervals... So he grabbed paper and would just write anything on paper and then play this etude. Just dots, and then he'd make the rhythms on the fly.

Here David talks about solo playing and makes the point about syncopation. Why play the same rhythm with both hands? Play another rhythm with the left hand.

A few years ago, I did a lesson where I talked about minor surround tones. I feel like surround tones are often discussed over dominant and minor, but not major as often. So I decided to talk a little about how to surround chord tones on major chords, enjoy!

Behn