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Hi there,

I'm practicing the Blues Etude (link below) but I have a problem to analyze bar 35. The chord on beat 4 is a bII9, a substitute dominant, right? But what function is a f d bflat a c on beat 1 - 3 in measure 35? Any help, please? Is it kind of a V13? Any help?
Thanxalot,
Wuestentrommler

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/good-vibes/-blues/blues-etude/tonymic…

Here's a really quick and simple 4 mallet version of invitation.

I talk about coming up with a quick version of the tune that fits with the melody, just something to get you going. Here's a version of that. Just really simple.

I would use this if you're having trouble coming up with your own version.

Hi Tony!

I've been messing around with Lou Reed's song Perfect Day and tried to do a jazz interpretation of the harmonic progressions but I got in trouble with the Fmaj and Dm bar.

Am/D7/Gmaj/Cmaj would be a II/V/I/VI progression in Gmaj.

I tried to use a Fmaj scale for soloing over the next two bars F(maj)/Dm as this would be a I/VI progression in Fmaj but this does not sound good.

So maybe you can give me a tip which scale to use on the three bars F(maj)/Dm/E7?

12 kEYS!!!!!!!

Hey Guys,

I thought I'd start a little discussion/lesson on how to transcribe changes to tunes. As a drummer(or a drumming vibist..haha) I have been(and still am) always struggling with learning and transcribing changes and I thought I'd start out here with some tips on how to break it down. As Tony's shrink would say: if you have a big problem, brake it down into smaller problems and the big problem will go away.

I don't post much but now that I'm studying with Tony, he said that I have to share this on the site. I sent a dvd of me playing to PAS last year to apply for the Terry Gibbs scholarship and I got an email yesterday saying that they have selected me as the winner. I'm pretty excited about it and thought I should share this on vibes workshop. They also said that they're going to put me on the site which would be pretty cool.

I'm at school right now and I had a few minutes with the camera on. So I thought I'd play a very rough and quick version of Donna Lee, the etude I have posted here.

I think if anything the etude will lead to you thinking about using double stops in your lines to get the chords happening.

I also have a version over Bud Powell's Celia that I'll post soon.

I do spend a lot of time playing solos 'in slow motion' and seeing where I can add things in. That's what is fun about this instrument, it can be sort of like a puzzle.