Vibraphone

I'm always checking myself. Especially with all the different opinions here on the site. Gary has really helped me chill out about practicing. I still DO practice a lot, but i'm not as freaked about it. I'm someone who put in 8 hours a day on average for about 20 years. And personally I think most young musicians should be practicing and playing ALL THE TIME.

No matter what I read or hear about transcribing, I just love doing it. It's fun and I play along with someone whom I really admire for a few days and have a good time.

The A Train study is an in depth look at a tune. Tunes unlock secrets to harmony and improvising. In a way, a tune is a well thought out solo! A prepared one! And in a way a solo is a quickly conceived melody over a tune. That's not quite true but you get the idea.

The A train study is a way to really work through this tune and learn the nuances, see what you can take over to your improvisation and work on your chords, chord melodies and solo playing.

Here is the PDF to go along with Drop 2 Lesson 3 Part 3

Here is the melody of "Alone Together" harmonized in drop 2 voicings. I have included the .pdf of what I am playing (minus my performance mistakes <:)-

I'll be posting parts from Joe's appearance on Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz.

This is from the Mid 90's.

It's a great chance to check out Joe and listen to him play and talk. He's a very inspiring cat!

Welcome to Philly.

You in the dorms?? you dig it??

i've been swamped. you around next tuesday about 11ish. i get out of a meeting around then, we could meet and talk.

there's a chance i'll be around saturday night, but i'm not sure.

also my friday gig is outdoors and it looks like rain. are you around friday night?

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Barry asked me to talk about the tune invitation. So I whipped up a quick video, just talking about what makes that tune unique and why it's a great tune to study.

I'm going to do an etude and then I think if some of you guys are interested we can do a study of the tune, just like with A train.

I don't know if this performance has been previously posted, but I just found it on YouTube and really enjoyed it. Red and Gary play on just one vibe (sometimes together, which looks a bit cramped!) and do nice version of Back Home in Indiana.

It's interesting to see the 2 playing styles displayed so well.