Hi all!

I visited the www.rossmallets.com site and it turned out that apparently Ross vibes are no longer available but there is another brand called Majestic that belongs to Jupiter who has a new series of vibes.

Check it out: http://www.jupitermusic.com/majestic/

It seems that I bought an already no more existing "vintage" brand vibe - probably bad for reselling :-(

Cheers Stefan

Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.

Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.

Any jazz musician has been tripped up by the bridge of Rhythm Changes, the 4 dominant chords. It's easy to fake your way through the bridge and difficult to weave your way through the bridge.

Make sure you study dominant chords and scales and ways of getting through them!

I simply grouped to lessons that would be in two different places here for you to check out.

Work hard on the modes. They are the foundation of the line!!

Locrian the crazy scale! The 7th scale degree of the major scale.

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Chinese translation for Chinese students

如果拿Locrian 音階和大調（major）音階來比較，Locrian音階多了降2降3降5降6降7音。

因為沒有完全五度（根音跟五音中間），所以聲響上沒有被解決的感覺。

單單只打這個音階覺得沒有被解決，所以通常用在minor7b5- dominant7b9,

例如Cminor7b5- Fdominant7b9 - Bbminor7

Locrian 是比較難的音階，可以練習在不同調式之間轉換，熟悉不同調式音階的聲音。

Aolian the 6th scale degree of the major scale.

Chinese translation for Chinese students.

Aeolian是大調音階降3,降6,降7
在爵士樂中，比Phrygian多，比Dorian用的少。
Aeolian和Dorian的不同是Dorian沒有降6音, Phrygian多了降2音,

I analyze Giant Steps.

Go slow and play everything. Then work on the tune in 12 keys.

This is for advanced players. I move fast.

I have only been playing vibes for about a year. Before I started playing the vibes, I thought you just hit the vibes with the mallets and use the pedal to let it ring out or stop the sound. Since then I have learned about so many different playing techniques that I would never have imagined. For one thing, I never realized you could actually play the vibes with the pedal up.

Other techniques that I learned about are:

Mallet Dampening
Pitchbending
Hand Tremolo
Bowing
Echo emulation (ala Piper)
Spider Egg Sacks (or plastic bags) over resonators

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