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A beautiful original piece by Behn Gillece.

Written By Howard Levy

can you guys see this video below?

also does this page load ok? http://www.vibesworkshop.com/faculty/tony_miceli

Practicing connecting the dots between chords of a tune.

My mentor said when you practice one thing you're practicing everything. That's so true. When we look at things we're studying we can probably see many things we're getting out that one thing.

In this exercise here's a way to study Lines, Dampening, Pedaling and Chords.

Jimmy White spent the week as an intern for vibesworkshop.com. Wednesday he came to Philly from Ohio to spend the day with me and see what goes on at VW as well as try to do some lessons. Here is Jimmie's lesson on Stick Dropping.

This is the tune I was playing with Tony in Holland in the "This is why Marie is so hip" video. It's got a beautiful melody and beautiful, simple changes, which nevertheless pose a challenge. I like to play this tune as a solo piece as well.

Behn Gillece shows you how he plays Bye Bye Blackbird

Cool lesson by Mike Pinto using upper structure triads on the tune My One and Only Love

here is part 3 where I discuss improvising using the upper structure triads on the dominant chords for "My One and Only Love"...

For example...
In the A section you have a B-7b5 to E7 to A-....
for the E7 I use a G triad as the upper structure so the voicing looks like this:
G# B D G moving to an A C E for minor.
Now when improvising try to create melodies that utilize the notes from an E7 (E G# B D) and mix in a G triad (G B D) so it might look like G G# B D E. Move around the octaves and try to make melodies that resolve to the A minor chord.