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Joe Locke – Sword Of Whispers (solo vibraphone)
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Joe Locke's solo vibraphone version of his tune "Sword Of Whispers". Sheet music is available on his site if you want to study it.
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Body & Soul - Week 1 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 1Welcome to the next installment of Play A Great Standard In One Month!After spending two full series exploring blues and rhythm changes, we've moved into a new phase of our…
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David Friedman, "Darn that Dream" (lower-register voicings)
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David Friedman demonstrates his lower-register voicings on "Darn that Dream". Worth close study of his four-mallet harmonic approach.
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Gary Burton — The Sunset Bell (1966)
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Gary Burton with the Stan Getz Quartet in 1966 — his vibraphone solo on "The Sunset Bell," the tune he made his own, captured by the BBC at the London School of Economics. A clear look at the four-mallet style he was building that year.
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The Practice Club is Starting Up
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Here's the link for the practice club invite.https://discord.gg/CTx6wv8PH?event=1557784898096599182 Our first class is Oct 18th, 1pm Eastern U.S.If you are serious about playing the vibes join us! It's free as long as you do the work…
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Warren Wolf — "I Can't Get Started" (Frankfurt Radio Big Band)
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Warren Wolf featured with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band on "I Can't Get Started," recorded January 2025 in Frankfurt. Worth studying for how he projects the vibraphone through a full big band.
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 4 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 4Last week, we worked through a full chorus of "Stella By Starlight" using clear, relatively simple melodic ideas. The goal was to hear the harmony through basic scale and chord tones…
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Comping Under Tony's Solo
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A solo that Tony played that I comped under (or over, I guess)
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So What
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So What - head; transcribed solo; improvised solo; headAudio is from iReal Pro
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15 week course lesson 3
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OK, slowly crawling my way through the lessons.  Slow but steady wins the race, right?  :)Friedman 3 https://youtu.be/A5dHhQmdFYQ and Friedman 4 https://youtu.be/y0qv0KSj4P8Diminished chords open and closed https://youtu.be/…
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 3 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 3Over the past two weeks, we've been developing our approach to "Stella By Starlight" through voicings and chord melody.Week 1 established our harmonic foundation, while Week 2 explored…
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Play A Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 2 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a…
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Simple blues solo
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This is an exercise of blues solo. One chorus written using chord tones on the beats, and (mostly) blues scale and bebop dominant scale tones as passing notes.
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Circle of Fourths w/ Maj 7 Min 7 and Dom 7 Chords
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Circle of 4ths with various chord types. 
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Friedman Dampening Etude 4
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Friedman 4
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Friedman Dampening Etude 3
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Friedman 3 slow
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Friedman Dampening Etude 2
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Friedman 2 slow
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Friedman Dampening Etude 1
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Friedman 1 slow tempo
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The VW Discord Server Is Growing Fast - Come Join!
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Discord is a cool way to build a community. Come check it out. We have a couple days left on our first giveaway which happens to be a free lesson with me. Join our server and enter the giveaway! There will be more! https://…
3 weeks 5 days ago - 1 comments
Cleaning grime off old bars
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Hi all, First post here, though I've been aware of the site for a while. I'm looking for some advice on what I might use to (safely) clean the bars on an old Jenco I recently acquired as my secondary, at-home practice rig. It…
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 1 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 New Series Alert – Play A Great Standard In One Month!We've spent the last two series taking a deep dive into two of the most important forms in jazz:• Play A Great Blues In 3 Months• Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 MonthsThose 14-week…
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Blues for Diahann - Art Farmer solo
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Still working on the blues... This is a transcription of the beautiful solo of Art Farmer on Blues for Diahann (Milt Jackson -Bag's opus). Lot of space in it.I've a question about transcriptions : when do you consider you're done with a…
1 month 1 week ago - 4 comments
What mallets is Emil Richards holding in this classic photo?
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Does anyone know what brand/model of mallets Emil Richards is holding in this classic photo of him? Possibly original Albright's? Or Yamaha?
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Play a Great Blues in 3 Months - Week 4 by Behn Gillece
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🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 4Up to this point, we’ve stayed in F and focused on building a strong foundation:• Clear guide tone movement• Controlled upper voice motion• Consistent Charleston rhythmThis week, we take a big step…
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Play a Great Rhythm Changes in 3 Months - Week 14 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 14We've made it to Week 14 and the final lesson in our Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months series!Over the course of this series, we've worked through rhythm changes from a number of…
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