For anyone exploring diminished scales, some basic ideas to work with.
A short clip from the vibes cam...recording my tune The New Old with pianist Steve Allee.
Rusty
My philosophy is kind of simple. You get better by making things sound good. By playing things well. If you're learning a melody and really trying to play it well, you're getting better. If you're transcribing a solo and making it sound as good as you can, you're getting better. If you're working on a tune and working out a solo, figuring out how to get through the changes, you are getting better.
Aloha, everyone..
Hi All,
My electric trio is playing a free show at Rockwood music Hall in NYC tomorrow at 7pm if any of you are nearby. This is the trio project I've been working with the last year or so where I play malletkat. Band is myself, bassist Massimo Biolcati and drummer Ari Hoenig. If you can make it, drop in and say hello.
-Tyler
Concert in 2009 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH that featured Dave Liebman on sax/flute, Matt Wilson on drums, David Clark on bass and myself on vibes, marimba and piano. This clip is a composition that I wrote titled "Deep Hearts" . The lead sheet can be downloaded from my website.
Metronome at 138. Still lots of mistakes. Time to move on anyway.
Metronome at 138. Still lots of mistakes. Time to move on anyway.
Tension Resolution (TR) on "Time After Time": One of the improvisational concepts that my students and I were working on this week in my improv classes at Berklee was that of TR. We chose specific tensions for each chord change on the beautiful standard "Time After Time" and improvised based upon the sounding of those tensions along with their resolution to the nearest chord tone. The constant tension and release creates forward motion in the improvised line and can be the basis of rich, melodic phrases.