Lesson

I posted this over at www.trumpetworkshop.com.

I think it's great for us to hear as well. John is a master of the line. He had a big influence on how I work at the vibes. I think you first have to be able to make lines that weave through the changes. Once you can do that, playing with four mallets becomes very easy!

So check it out!

John Swana is a phenomenal musician! He played trumpet but had to stop because of lip problems. But he's an amazing musician none the less, and now he plays the EVI. This is a great lesson!

So with all the styles of blues there's one more I can think of. That's a blues with a bridge. Many times these are sort of AABA blues'. For instance it would be 2 choruses of a blues and then a bridge and then one more chorus of the blues. Listen to this exampleof the tune 'Unit 7'. Can you follow it.

Here is a version of Charlie Parker's 'Confirmation'. So it's a bird blues with a bridge. AABA. See what happens, 2 forms are combined to make a new form.

I found yet another lesson on getting to the four chord. I'll post as a refresher!

Udel students. Here's your first assignment. Choose one of the lessons under check this out and do the assignment.

If you do the lesson 'getting to the four chord' give a few examples of getting there.
If you do the blues scale lesson make sure you do a couple choruses and make sure we can here each change.

Any questions post them here, and we will reply. (VW community feel free to help out)

I had a lesson online with John Daly last night. We talked about Stella and I told him I'd make a quick and dirty chord melody for him. Here it is.

If you guys find any mistakes let me know. Remember quick and dirty!

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!).