Friedman #17: https://youtu.be/G38fM40NfRk
I'll Remember April: https://youtu.be/A7vryzYIBzI
Tune study guides
Diminished Passing Pt. 3 by Behn Gillece
Diminished Passing Pt. 2 by Behn Gillece
Diminished Passing Pt. 1 by Behn Gillece
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Stella by starlight (head and solo): https://youtu.be/fFQU0ZfcMp8
Billie's Bounce head: https://youtu.be/oyB4JJxfqcI
Etude No. 33 from my book "Vibraphone Virtuosity Series - Intermediate Progressive Etude, Multi-stylistic
2&4 Mallet studies for Solo Vibes". The most comprehensive vibraphone jazz book, ever written; exclusively
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Just a reminder. If you're looking for etudes to work on your technique, try the Parker Omnibook or the Coltrane Omnibook.
They are great and saxophone doesn't seem to me to lay out easily on the vibes so the music is challenging. I have always thought that trumpet lays out really well on the vibes. Don't know why but it does. Maybe it's harder for trumpet players to jump around on the instrument? What do you think.
And if you use transcription books, you are working on improvising, even though the best way to do that is to transcribe it yourself.