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.)
I know there was a streaming of the concert from the Delaware workshop, but is it actually recorded that i could watch it somewhere?
Great stuff!!
I've been thinking lots about the open/closed thing that Tony brought up again recently, and so I've come up with an exercise which I've been doing everyday this week. It's quite big... I can just about get through all the keys in a hour now, and it still makes my head hurt following it through and remembering which chord I'm on! But I really feel it's improving my knowledge of scales (just major so far, but there's no reason why it won't work through other scales/progressions etc.), and the chords within scales.
Ok, stop, freeze. What's the last vibe cd you listened to???
For me it's Jim Hart's Narrada. Guys were talking about him in the shout box so I put him on while I was folding clothes. Great stuff! He's a great player.
Your turn.