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Here's a Lesson - Do It and Let's Talk About It In the Comments (But no information yet) - Pt. 1

Here is your assignment:

Play this all over your instrument. Just play the progression. Grab a spot and a voicing and play it. Move to another spot and play it. Use the chord symbols, not the notes. Play in all inversions.

All The Things You Are and Prince Albert - Contrafact - New TOTMS (Tunes of the Month)

Ok let's move to another TOTM.

How about:
All the Things You Are
and
Prince Albert

Do you know about these tunes? Prince Albert is a contrafact of All the Things You Are. That is same chords but new melody.

Prince Albert is a great bebop tune and GREAT to play through all the keys.

So you're studying one set of chord changes, but two tunes.

So get ready for some fun lessons!

New YT channel: Ed Saindon Piano

Hello everyone, I just created a new YT channel titled Ed Saindon Piano. Uploaded clips include solo piano versions of Danny Boy (using harmony from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett) as well as several renditions of Tennessee Waltz. Here's a clip of Over The Rainbow that includes several modulations along with some harmony by Keith Jarrett.

A copy of the lead sheet with the harmonized changes and modulations can be downloaded here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/113437494/Over-the-Rainbow-Reharm-Modulation

Jazz Improvisation channel on YouTube

Hello everyone, videoclips have just been uploaded to my new Jazz Improvisation channel on YT. More clips related to jazz improv concepts as addressed in The Complete Guide To Improvisation will be added soon. Concepts in the book include Chord Tone Soloing, Tension Resolution, Chord Scale Theory, Chord Scale Application & Practices and Harmonic Practices.

OK I'm back!

I had an amazing and busy summer.

I can inform all of you including Gary Burton and Dave Friedman who talked about the demise of the vibraphone that it is still out there and strong. Sure not like a guitar, but it's there and WE are all having an effect on that.

You guys along with me are playing and talking about the instrument and we're making a difference. I think the instrument has grown a lot in the last 7 years. I am so psyched by what I've seen this summer.

Hauke was here!

Hauke was is essen and i was lucky that he asked me to jam at my house. he´s a great guy and such a great great player already. we had fun and i switched on the cam for 2 tunes.
tony, we both agreed that this was just possible because you and your work made people meeting each other...thanks for that man!

tarik

2014 UD Workshop Videos!

Hey guys, I've been working hard this week to sort through and post all the videos from last week.
So without further adieu, here's 28 videos (about 3 hrs. total)
from the 2014 Summer Vibraphone Workshop at the University of Delaware.

This playlist features a lot of playing from the participants of the camp (the whole concert is up there),
and there's also some great footage of the guest artists that came through, including:

-Behn Gillece
-Tyler Blanton
-Steve Shapiro
-Tony Miceli (-ok he's not a guest)
-Anthony Smith
-Harvey Price
-Warren Wolf

Almost Done!

It's been an incredible but exhausting summer. I have about 3 weeks left and I'll be back in full force on the site!

I get to travel a lot this summer, however some of the plane delays and cancellations have been terrible and did not make things fun!

I can't wait to get back to practicing and doing lessons!

Very Soon!