Vibraphone

okay, so her two weeks into the tune of the month. I'm curious as to your thoughts of what's happened so far, what's happening to you, and what you think of this process.

I know for myself that just thinking about things changes my direction and give me things to learn. I personally got way more into tunes based on the tune of the month club and have altered my practicing and am studying lots of tunes again. I know for myself this is been a great thing.

I'm inspired by the TOTM gang.

I used to have a database on my palm phone with several hundred tunes on it. I knew almost all of them at one point. Then I switched phones, got a palm pre and didn't switch all that over.

However you guys inspired me and a week ago I installed a DB program on my Iphone. I put in about 200 tunes and am building the list again. I have a DB set up with a few different views.

All tunes
Swing tunes
ballads
up tempo tunes

Then I have a pop menu for each tune. Either I know it, have to refresh it (means I can fake it if I have to), or learn it.

I was practicing a few weeks ago and when reviewing some of my taping, I really liked this one for some reason. It is quite short so I decided to share it. it was practice with some different goals, most of which were accomplished.

BruceW :-)

Tony demonstrates different approaches to playing over rhythm changes.
We saw a lot of this at the workshop in Delaware.

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/sites/vibesworkshop.com/files/emily.mp3

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This is likely to be old news for most on the site but hopefully helpful for those who haven't worked through these yet. I don't think I mentioned very clearly that you can replace the fifth of each voicing with the 6th for more color or variation.

The Vibesworkshop videos are now available on Android phones. The app has the same functionality as the Roku app, so see http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/vibesworkshopcom-roku-now-available/… to see how it works.

The app is available for free in the Android Market, just search for "vibes". Any feedback/problems, post here or e-mail me. Enjoy!

Tom P.

Ok here's a video on the etude: Holyhell937. I perform it and I talk about it.

I hope someone else tries to play this, misery loves company!

Here's the link with the actual lesson and pdf:
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/node/4435

This is a beautiful lesson by friedman. Wait until you hear this solo! It's an incredibly melodic solo, which is the point of the lesson. So Watch: Lesson: Learn! And if you have any questions, ask David!