You know what, to be very frank and mildly funny, the big boys and girls can play good 2 5 1 voicings.

Well rounded players can do all this stuff. You can tell how well rounded a player is by listening to them play a standard and comp. For whatever that is worth. I imagine if you are a blue grass vibe player and that's all you care about then you're not worrie about this etude. But if you want to be a decent jazz player this stuff I think is important. 

Real simple, play this etude. Make it sound good. Look at the music, I put in some of the changes. you should be able to figure out the rest. 

After you figure out the cords, look at each bar and add all the upper partial so you know it's being played. A lot of these voice things are rootless voicings.

I didn't use a bass track because I want you guys to hear the harmony work all on its own without a bass so you can see that these are rootless  and that they work even if you're playing only Vibes or maybe Vibes and singer or Vibes in sax any of those combinations.

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Here's a second part to the other lesson titled "A Way To Practice Soloing and Comping Together".  
I took a couple other examples about how to practice this. Ultimately, you just do it and try to make music. I know for some of you it won't sound great in the beginning. I always think that if you keep doing it and doing it, eventually you play something good and recognize it and learn from it. Know what I mean???? 

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There's an incredible guitarist in Philly. His name is Elijah Cole. He's a monster. 

We did a duo session. And I'm about to put it up on band camp, but I thought I'd post a track here for Subscribers. I'm such a nice guy huh? 

A little abstract (is that the word?). But it's how I practice playing over tunes. 

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