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What a great tune Flamenco Sketches is for working on chords and chord melodies. There is no melody so it's all you! I love practicing this tune.

You can do it!

A very simple idea, but check out the pdf and work this through all the keys.

If you're more advanced try and figure ways to solo on this as well.

Correction - Think of the D mixlydian phrygian chord as a D triad with an Eb.

Attached is an example of how to play The chord part of Flamenco Sketches on the vibes.

This is pretty cool. Here are the most popular lessons on the site.
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I use a metronome a lot. You know some people are against using metronomes. And some of those people don't have good time. If a musician with great time is against metronomes, then ok, we disagree. But if you don't have great time and your against using a metronome then I don't get it. It would be a great tool for you in my opinion.

So here's an example of how I use it. I take a tune I'm working on and slow down the tempo. In this case the tune is in 3/4. I have the metronome hit on 1 and I play.

I talk about studying 13th chords via a blues.

Attached is a PDF of an etude you can practice to work on your 13th chords. ALL KEYS ALL KEYS ALL KEYS!

Here's a sample of my current morning warm ups. My warm ups are always comprised of something I'm working on and spend about 30 to 45 minutes on them and then move on to learning tunes, practicing improv or whatever but first, I warm up with my current challenge goal. I stick with a particular warm up subject each day for as long as it takes to really get a good grip on it. I'm just about finished with this particular one and I really enjoyed it so I thought I'd share.