Invitation - Full Solo Version
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Hey Tony, this is two choruses of comping on invitation.
I'll be playing with Elio Villafranca quartet Featuring Grant Stewart on sax.
I'll be covering the following topics:
Sound production
Phrasing, with and without dampening
Thoughts on sticking
Practicing concepts
A non-traditional scale approach
Arranging jazz standards for the vibraphone
(I'm glad I'm going! - tm)
Here are 2 versions of mine for Woody 'n' You. The second is attached. I liked it the most, but I flip the beat around in the middle, so I'll make that the alternate take!
PART 2 - I don't like version one and have deleted it and put the alternate take up. Our kindest and toughest critic send me an email and said it didn't pass the test. I actually like this version a LOT better than the first, even though I flip the beat in the middle.
Part 3 - Now I'm listening to it on the bus and I don't hear the beat drop. Maybe I didn't flip it. What do you think?
Here is another of my tunes that we ran a trial run of at our last concert. It's called Waltz for Dasha...
Enjoy!
James
Here's the next tune for the Tune of the week series.
I saw Barry's post and thought it would be nice to do Mood Indigo this week.
Try to do a version like Barry did, so playing block chords. Voice the melody with four voices. If I have time, I'll make a video lesson on block chords. I think Tony has a lot of video's where he talks about this and also the drop 2 lessons by Dana are also a study in block chords.
I'm pretty busy this week, but I'm still gonna try to do as much as I can.
CU
TJ
For my (Tony Miceli) part of the workshop I'll cover many of the things that I cover here.
Stride Vibes
Lines (clarity)
Learning Tunes
Playing Tunes in 12 keys (How easy it really is)
I'm always interesting in talking about getting players to break down there playing and see where they are at. This is great for practicing, that is learning how to find where you're at with something and then build on it. Too many players jump right in and build on confusion. To me that's no good.
Here's all the info for the 2010 Summer Workshops.