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Arrangement from Gary Burton of Michel Legrand's "The Summer Knows". Dug this up from the files and got this way back from Gary during lessons in the 70's. Some really nice things in here in terms of the harmony, techniques and voicings.

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19q3XU8qLELCQt1g_WDZfF4xKPk1Be1Z1/view?…

Try this with the dominant chords and then use it over just in time.

I also added a very scalular solo. So you could write the scales in here for next weeks class. It's all below.

In time, through all modes in C.

Hey everyone,

Another lesson on comping. This time I'm looking at octave displacement (a lot less crazy than it sounds in this context) and rolls -- two things vibes players could do more, I think!

Here is my solo vibes arrangement of Black Orpheus in d minor.
More keys coming soon. Head/Solo/Head/Out

OK, a bit of a clickbait title, yes, but it's true! All three voicings I'll show you in this video have no third, which is usually the one note we absolutely need! We shall explore why that's the case.

Hey everyone,

Here's the third and final part of my series on comping over a medium swing F blues, and how to give it that rhythmic drive a full rhythm section has. This is an interesting lesson, because I, myself, am still figuring it out! We're talking about sliding -- like a glissando, and how to use it the way guitarists and pianists do.

Let me know if you guys have thoughts on this! I obviously don't think it's applicable in all situations, but I think it certainly has some use in swing and rhythm music.

We had a great talk at our coffee hang last sunday. We talked about practicing.

One of the partipants Richard Schwagerl sent over some interesting docs he uses and created for teaching. Here they are. 2 docs didn't come over well, I'll add them later, but one is good and I'll post it here.