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You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This

Here's a great video from a new site we'll be launching very soon. It's over at www.worlddrum.studymusiconline.com. Todd Isler is the instructor, he's a great percussionist and drummer.

He has a book out in our store called 'You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This'. The book is here: www.store.studymusiconline.com/you-can-ta-ka-di-mi-improve-and-expand-y…

Here's a great video on the book by Todd.

Sarabande from Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for Violin by Ted Wolff

This piece, a sarabande from Sonata IV in D minor, is a slow thoughtful piece and a good 4 mallet exercise. Use the 4 mallets for melody lines as well the block chords. For instance, in bar 6 you’ll find it handy to use 4 to play the wide intervals in the line. The same approach should be used in bar 23 where the melody line jumps around a lot.

Melodic Minor Scale Pt. 1 - by Tony Miceli

Let's tackle the melodic minor scale.
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今天我們要介紹,旋律小音階Melodic minor。
看起來就是major大調音階,降3音。
(如果你還沒有了解調式音階,先去看了解調式音階的練習方式,影片:Ways to study Modes)

還記得我們在講調式音階時說到,練習modes時,重點在七個調式要建立在同一個根音上。
所以C Ionian就是C大調音階,C Dorian就是C大調音階降3降7,同時也可以想成,C是二級,往下推大二度,
得到Bb,也可以看成是Bb大調音階。

在這邊的練習方是也是一樣。演奏C melodic minor scale, 然後換不同的調式音階,都還是保持大調降3音的規則(melodic minor),可以得到不同的Melodic minor scale。

Lazy Voicings

The concept of lazy voicings can help you find NEW voicings. When you play lazy voicings you move voicings to the next chords closest notes. This can even help you get away from the root which is a voicing suprisingly you can usually omit, ESPECIALLY with a bass player.

Michael Pinto simple Upper Structure triads series part 3

Hey guys here is part 3 where I discuss one Upper structure triad option you can use for a V7 chord moving to a Minor i chord.
If you are in the key of C- the triad over the G7 would be Ebmaj. so a maj triad built off of the b6 scale degree.

Try it out!
Also check out part 1 and 2 of the series:

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