Here's an arrangement of Cherokee I made for my bachelor exam at the conservatory. After the post by Tony I thought I'd post this. I hope you like it. I'm not playing vibes, but drums on this one.

i have attached an mp3 of a trax that is basically a looped 8 bar idea. There is really no chord structure, but rather sound shapes. What i do alot in my home studio with REASON 4, is make short loops ideas to play over.. and then i work on the creative process

in the example its based around a C min tonality.. but can also be a Ab major tonality. like i mentioned previous there was no concept of chords.. just a groove....

with that in mind here is a list of step and ideas i mess around with ...

1. sing a line .. and play it. have a conversation with yourself and your instrument.

When I think about improvisation, I think about a way of life, a concept about the "moment", not just something I do in the evening in front of an audience for one or two hours.

There's something VERY wrong with this video. Can you see it?

I was experimenting with dampening the two inner voices of chords, inspired by Joe Locke's video "Intros Part 1" and heard the song Laura when I lowered the inner two voices a 1/2 step.

Flat three

So I see a bunch of University Professors here and some have been hanging out quite a bit.

I would love to try some stuff with all this technology with your percussion department. I think we're ready to design an online jazz course, we can certainly do workshops.

In fact if a few of you 'guys' wanted to test things out, we could meet online and I could show some stuff. I've been using Skype and Ichat to teach lessons all over the world, and so far so good! There's also a few other sites which deliver video and have chat rooms.

I'll be at

Memorial Hall
Cathedral of the Woods Church
100 Stokes Road in Meford Lakes, NJ

It will be a trio, myself, Larry Mckenna (sx) and Dave Brody (bs).

Should be cool.

Joe talks about an intro to play over tunes.