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Hi Guys this month I'd like to talk a bit about the blues.
This is a lesson for beginners that want to approach the blues form!

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Serenata is a very old standard, written in the 1920s I believe by Leroy Anderson (I think). You don't hear it too much but I've always liked the melody, and the changes are fun to play on.

I've been working on Groovin' High the last couple weeks, so I wrote a little etude on There Will Never Be Another You using its main thematic idea. I had to tweak it here and there to fit the chords and harmonic rhythm. I still need to work on playing it well, but I wanted to share it.

-Tristan

On a semester break working on this beautiful song composed by the late Kenny Wheeler, a wonderful musician and composer who left us in September of 2014. I just learned about this song last week from Joe (Locke) who was here for a visit. Of course Joe played it unbelievably and in a way only he could. It's a beautiful song but somewhat tricky to improvise on melodically and make the changes. Here's my first stab at it.

Happy Holidays!

Ed

Hello to everyone:

Check it out this video where I accompanied one of my students during a lecture to promote in Spain the “IV Workshop de Improvisación e Vibráfono” and the “European Vibraphone-Festival & Workshop 2016". When one my students (called Sergio, 14 years old) watched the duet of David Frideman and Tony Miceli playing "Samba de Orfeo" and he did not stop to ask me if he could prepare, so, this is part of the performance recorded by the audience.

I was messing around with dampening yesterday and discovered a cool trick to make a "bending" sort of sound.

Basically, (1) play any note at a low volume, then (2) play the note a half step or a whole step above at a higher volume and immediately dampen it after with the same mallet you hit it with. The effect is that you hear the sequence E-F-E (e.g.) as three distinct but smoothly connected notes, even though you've only attacked two.