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I was jamming with some guys last night & "What Is This Thing Called Love?" was called. I had learned the tune a few years ago but didn't really remember it, & kinda picked it back up as we went along. Looking at it again briefly today I decided to try to use my ears rather than charts to clean it up again. Here's a rough recording from that process. Also posting before I'd call it ready because waiting until they're perfect tends to result in me never posting. :P

OK guide tones. I'll do a video and talk about them very soon to go along with this TOTM.

But they are super important. If you know your guide tones then you understand how the harmony works. If you can improvise guide tones, then you can make up accompaniment parts behind a singer. You can make up other parts with other musicians quickly. Guide tones are important!

Here's a two chorus line etude on Minority. Take notice of some of the diatonic phrases in the beginning. Remember that even simple ideas can really outline the chord if you end on 3rds and 7ths in the right way!

So my buddy posted this list on FB. he said it's a list of all the chords.
Too much info for me!!!! What do you think!

All of the chords - Based on melodic/harmonic minor and major.

7th Chords:

△7
△7+
-△7
sus △7
-7
-7 +5
sus7
Dom. 7
Dom. 7
Dom. 7+
ø7
o7
o△7

9th Chords:

△9
△9 +5
△7, #9
sus 9,△7
sus 9
sus b9
-9
-△9
Dom. 9
Dom. 9, +5
Dom. #9
Dom. #9, +5
Dom. b9
Dom. b9, b5
Dom. b9, +5
ø b9
ø ♮9
o ♮9
o △7,♮9

11th Chords:

I've known many good people who discount the relevance of art because it has not been explained to them in a way that they understand. Art is a quest for greatness in all forms. It sets the bar for humanity. It's the best and highest level of accomplishment that humans can achieve or fathom. An artful effort supplies the world with a path toward achievement. An Artful accomplishment offers the world hope of that achievement. Art is not mere entertainment. It is purposeful beyond all other physical things.

BEST ATTENDANCE EVER RECORDED FOR A JAZZ STYLE CONCERT! (per capita) Over 10% of the entire U.S. and New Zealand population in Antarctica poured in for PIPER'S "Concert of the Snows" on May 7th at McMurdo Station Antarctica, with Jon Rees on Tenor Sax and Flute.

This is an articulation exercise in the style of an Indian Raga. I use lots of accents and different stickings for the repeated notes so that the sound constantly changes through varied articulation. There's lots of double stickings, i.a. LLR, LLR, LLR, RRRR, LLLL,
Playing on the tip of the mallet head with the pedal down creates the illusion of long held out tones because you don't hear any attack.
It's also a tremendous (I sound like Trump!) challenge to keep the tempo steady.

Enjoy!

Hi vibes lover in this lesson I'll talk about some new technique I developed while writing my new book called AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone
In this lesson I'll talk about the intro of AFORISMA #6 - CALYPSO where i'm playing 5 notes voicings preceding or postponing the root to a 4 notes open voicing.
Here you can listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcVr3hZJR8&t=3s

This is my solo vibraphone attempt on the well known standard For Heaven's Sake, by Don Meyer (I love this piece). 1 chorus for the theme, 1 chorus for improvising, 1 A section to wrap up the tune. I played in the changes, and tried to play around the theme for my solo.

If you have the time to listen to it, please give me feedback, whatever it is, beacause I don't have a lot of occasions to play the vibraphone publicly!

Thank you!

Victor B.

P.S: recorded past midnight, with few hours of sleep last night... finals rush!