intermediate

I am doing a lot of teaching this semester. Probably the most I have ever done. It's really hard for a musician to turn work down. Well for me it is. 

It's a lot of fun teaching students who practice and work hard. Not as much fun teaching students with lots of excuses. 

I do have a bunch of good students though so that helps. Here's an exercise I made for one of them to work on the Bebop dom scale. Learn it, memorize it and play it fast!!!!

Friedman Etude 8

Two choruses of All The Things You Are with notation. 

Ok, this is a little artsie fartsie as they say, but it might be helpful. What do you think? 

Real simple. We are just working with the first 4 bars of tune. This is valuable stuff! Watch the video. 

Try not to do my etude which is below here, until you've done the video part of this lesson. 

Here's what to know and do: 

I downloaded and have been practicing a solo that was written my vibes workshop members Patty and Tony created waaaaaay back in 2009.

With the utmost of respect to both Patty and Tony who have created this transcription I have made some additions to it. In playing it, I couldn't help but throw in some ideas that have come about from listening to a lot of Milt Jackson, my number one go to for finding some sweet lines. So, I've written them down and I hope that this might be of use to all.

I love the tune Recado Bossa Nova. My fav part is the Eb to A. What a cool sound. 

I wrote a very detailed (for me) etude with sticking. So you can really see how I think of things. I try to take a very minimalist approach to the vibes (most of the time). 

Notice how the harmony works and there is not a lot of chords. I think this works as a solo piece which means you don't need a lot of notes and chords for a solo piece. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhbfGYiAFwxEYBeZMxEhKP818wKrbEYxa

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