Why don't we all answer these. Here are my answers
Where's the dividing line between playing a melodically interesting accompaniment and overpowering the soloist?
Hello everyone. This is my first lesson on Chords & Harmony festival 2011. This lesson has to do with the major and minor triads that you can play over a diminished h-w scale. So, I hope you find this interesting. For any questions let me know. Pdf is attached.
thanks
Dimitrios Angelakis
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Título: Acordes y armonía - triadas mayores y menores en una escala disminuida 1/2 - T por Jim The Vibes
I'm going to put the word out to Behn, Ted, Mike and all the other guys for comping lessons. I'll also do some as well.
Let's start off with questions? You have any questions about comping??
I always tell my students that everybody should always have questions about everything in music. Even the pros. That's the sign of interest, I think. If you're interested in something you think about it and have lots of questions.
So...... Have any questions??? :-)
Another xylo lesson that would definitely help beginning improv vibe players.
Recently upon reviewing some transcriptions I have done, I stumbled across a very simple and clear example of why transcription is so important I thought i'd share.
The transcription is of John Coltrane playing his composition "LazyBird".
I've got some of my students coming over this Sunday at about 1pm-4pm for a little get together. I thought I would open it up to any students here on the site that want to come by. I wanted my Temple students to meet my Uarts students and VW students to meet them all as well.
If you're interested email me at tonymiceli@gmail.com
Another lesson by John Swana that can benefit vibes players AND trumpet players!
John's not a vibe player but this is great stuff!
Hey Guys,
Staying in line with the Chords and Harmony idea this month I remembered I did a 3 part series on Upper Structure triads a while back.
Upper Structures are an easy way to achieve a rich harmonic sound.
Before (or after) going through the links below as a simple exercise for comping, lets pick a couple upper structures to practice playing with 4 mallets through all keys.
Lets start with a dominant chord. G7 and move to Cmaj7.
(Note you should play the root by itself before playing the upper structure so you can hear the upper structure against the root of the chord.)