In this exercise, as in with all the ones in the style, your job is to fill in the chords right, and all the other partials on the chord page, and then memorize the solo. Next play it over and over and over, make it work for you make a swing, give it your interpretation.

When you get it all down and you understand it, you should try and put it in at least one other key as painful as that may be.

Blue Bossa Trading Choruses

Hi all,

Dylan is a member of our VW community and he came over my house a few weeks ago to do some playing. Here's our version of Days of Wine and Roses. He sounds great and we always have a lot of fun playing two vibes!

Check out the attached PDF!

Blue Bossa Trading Chorus: 

Friedman Etude #11: https://youtu.be/b0pOiG-O1BA

Here's an etude of two five ones! 

I wrote in the chords but not the upper partials. You look and write in the upper partials. Play the chords and then play the solo. Is this helpful? 

The rhythm is a brazilian comping rhythm I know and have used for years. Try doing it all by yourself. It's a deceptively tricky rhythm. 

Check out the solo and the notes I'm playing. Can you learn anything from that? 

Check out the attached PDF!

Usually when I do solos, I make them really simple. Here's one where I just tried to play without thinking that this was for a lesson.

I've included the keyboard part and the vibe solo part.

Your job is to try and transcribe the solo and use the sheet music to check yourself, or just transcribe it and don't even use the sheet music.

Shapes are important for vibe players. Moving shapes around can be challenging partly because our instrument set up is a keyboard that is not symmetrical. Click here if you want to see a symmetrical keyboard!

So we need to be able to move around the keyboard with shapes with 2, 3 or 4 mallets. 3 mallet, shapes are interesting with how the mallets will move around. Take the shape A Bb and D and then play Bb B and Eb with mallets 2,3 and 4. 

Check out the attached PDF!