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I was humbled by Steve Shapiro's practice tape of April In Paris. (great job steve) So I'm going to up his April in Paris with 3 versions of It's You Or No One. Let's see this wonderboy top that one. Nobody practices harder than me!…
15 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
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A few simple etudes are attached below. I talk about them in the audio.
15 years 1 month ago - 9 comments
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15 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
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To help me learn Days of Wine and Roses, I have been practicing on piano, as well as vibes. This weekend I was hoping to create a piano backing track and did some recording. Kept getting interrupted, as you will hear. LOL. I am not…
15 years 1 month ago - 6 comments
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Check out the lines!
14 years 3 months ago - 10 comments
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I'll kick it off. I'm hoping all you guys record when you practice. So this week is Practice Tapes Week (tapes, ha ha). So take the pledge and post something from your personal practice tapes this week.
15 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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Fair warning -- this is a major geek-out. I'll forgive anyone who doesn't want to slog through it, and I don't expect many comments. But, I'll go ahead. As often comes up in comments to posts here, this is a freakin' fantastic site.…
15 years ago - 1 comments
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Hi everybody, So I know it's a bit late, but the new TOTM (Days of Wine and Roses) has really inspired me to build up a wider repertoire of tunes, so I've come up with a new year's resolution. From today, I'm going to try and learn a new…
15 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
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A little bit of a Spacey lesson here. But might be of interest for some!
15 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
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Does anybody have any leads on a used frame for an Musser M55? I have a set of bars and resonators. Just need the frame. Let me know if you have any options. Michael Zellers
15 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
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I analyze Giant Steps. Go slow and play everything. Then work on the tune in 12 keys. This is for advanced players. I move fast.
14 years 9 months ago - 5 comments
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John! You're birthday is the same as Gary Burton I think. Two great people! One GREAT vibe player and one up and coming great vibe player! You guys are both great friends of mine and great supporters of the site. You both have many…
15 years 1 month ago - 10 comments
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15 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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i watched tony's video on left handed technique and started playing in C dorian like the video with those ideas
14 years 3 months ago - 14 comments
Workshop/explanation
David Friedman
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Hi to everybody coming to the workshop at Niko's in Sassenheim. I'm afraid my "suggestion" to prepare Coltrane's "Giant Steps" sounded a bit too harsh. I shouldn't have said "prepare" these two tunes, but rather check them out. I know "…
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Workshop Sassenheim
David Friedman
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I would like to ask the participants to prepare the following two tunes, which I want to concentrate on in depth. In terms of voicings, please prepare "Darn That Dream" in G major. For lines and linear improvisation, please prepare "Giant…
15 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
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Todd C. brought up a very interesting point in another post that read and I think it might make good conversation on its own. His point was that it's easier, faster and therefore closer to instant gratification to learn music and…
15 years 1 month ago - 20 comments
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Jean-Baptiste (mallets/organ) and Gildas (bass) Boclé are two french great brothers! Here is a vid from their last album "Keltic Tales", a clever encounter between celtic and modern music. J.-Baptiste plays the organ, but on this sample…
14 years 2 months ago - 10 comments
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A little concept exercise.
15 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
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I recently discovered a pattern in the jazz/ blue changes. Take the simple change of Bflat major 7 to e flat major 7 and back to b flat 7. Then you would go to f major 7 and down to eflat 7 and bflat 7, right? Thats just a simple thing…
15 years 1 month ago - 11 comments
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Hi everybody...I thought it's time to post a video here, since i'm always watching inspiring videos of the great colleagues here!... It's a composition of mine called 'French Song'. Although there is nothing like a french character to it…
15 years 1 month ago - 7 comments
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Get your lines going!
15 years 1 month ago - 10 comments
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For me, the best caravan vibes solo on youtube till now.
15 years 1 month ago - 4 comments
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This is a rough recording I have done on Bluesette, it has taken me ages to get to this point, chords melody solo and chords with melody again to finish but trying to be more rhythmic at the outro using left hand to comp with melody, Rip…
14 years 3 months ago - 14 comments
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We've talked a lot about sitting and playing. I've done it before. Last night I sat for the whole gig. I was using my old M-55 which is my lowest instrument. This bar stool was a little high but ok. I felt great playing like that. It was…
15 years 1 month ago - 20 comments
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