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Are you guys familiar with Lenny Tristano? He's the head of this whole subculture in music. A really interesting bop player. A monster! His lines were incredible.

He's a guy worth checking out although there's not a ton out by him.

A few guys were in that 'school' of thought and one was Warne Marsh. Here's a Warne Marsh excercise.

Just a reminder not to spend an inordinate amount of time on technique, and to think of musical ways to practice technique. After all the goal is to make music. That should be part of your practice routine! There are ways to incorporate technical practice in a musical way!

Here's an etude I wrote to demonstrate lines moving through scales. The sort of weaving up and down the scales that you hear advanced players do. Hopefully by playing this etude you can get some insight into all that. It's a blues, so fill in the chords and then analyze the lines against the chords. Remember if you were comping to this, you'd have to change the extensions of the chords to fit the lines. Say for instance the first note was a B and the chord was F7. Well then you'd play most likely an F7 Bb.

A quick lesson on finding threads through tunes and building lines around them.

A member of the site here just got his first gig on vibes. I thought I would mention that and mention how important it is to play live. Yes if you haven't done it, the first times are a little scary and might even be a disaster, but this is a huge part of getting better and you need to do it.

Thought maybe we could discuss this a little bit if you guys wanted to. Playing in groups and playing live is a important as practicing, if not more!

This is so grooving it's killing me!

Do you use sequencers to practice. Man, they can be very helpful. Loops are a great way to practice. But even making up loops without the sequencer and playing them in a solo vibes format can be really help you're playing.

So, I talk about loops in this lesson.

I am learning Skylark and decided to have a duet with Tony while he was at my house. Bass and drums are Band-in-a-Box RealTracks.

Barry