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Check out the attached PDF!

Check out the attached PDF!

Here it a simple solo on Cherokee. I like making simple solos and trying to get the essential notes, guide tones, color tones, etc. Your job is to transcribe it. Then try to play it faster and faster. 

I talk a bit about studying chords and voicings. We all have to do it, how are you going to do it? 

🚨 New Series Alert – Play a Great Blues in 3 Months

Back in January at the World Vibes Congress, I shared materials from my Working on Time series — focusing on pulse, clarity, and guide tone awareness on the vibraphone 

A lot of that material centered around one idea:

If your time and your guide tones are clear, the music makes sense.

This new 15-week track builds directly on that foundation — but now we apply it to something practical:

🎵 Playing a great blues.

I played really simple. It should be fairly easy to transcribe.

Hello all,

Here's another lesson on dampening, and specifically how it can be used to achieve a certain stride-like feel on vibes. I use this technique when playing solo and with a trio and love its possibilities for different articulations and textures. Watch my lessons on staccato and partial dampening first if you haven't already seen them.

Great stuff here! 

This will take a little explaining. 

First we had a zoom meeting with microphone designer Ron Oswanski. He used to work for Amt microphones and is now out on his own and has made a beautiful vibe microphone so I had him come and talk about it.

That's the easy part to explain the hard part is what happens next. If you don't know what Google Notebook LM is you need to check it out it's mind blowing.