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Hi Everybody
I'm just back from the french Marciac Jazz Festival where i stayed almost 3 days. I've never had been there before, then knowing nobody at all. I discovered a very busy small village, with a lot of venues with jazz played live 3 or 4 times a day... The first evening I counted 32 jazz live sessions...
One of my "normal" jokes about vibes is to say that with this kind of big instrument, when you go to a jam session you have to come before the band for setting the axe and be sure to get the minimal room needed to play.

The recent post about piano players imitating vibes on an electronic keyboard got me thinking about grace notes.

It is my understanding that, in the Baroque era, these were mostly a notation shorthand. They were but one of many melodic ornamentations available. The playing convention was to give them a specific rhythmic value.

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
這一集我們仍然要講intro，但是並不是要給你新的和聲進行，
而是要給你一個不同的概念，
我們之前講的都是和弦式的打法，但是其實你可以演奏線條性的旋律（lines），
只要非常清楚的讓大家聽到和弦的性質以及色彩，
小技巧是，在快要進入曲子的前一兩個小節，你可以開始演奏一些和弦（voicing），
讓前奏聽起來清楚，讓大家可以知道你演奏到哪裡。

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Hi Guys this month I'll talk about one of my favorite topics: Harmony.
I will explain 2 of my favorite close voicing and how to play them in context.
1. F-G-C-E can be a Dm7(9,11) or a G7sus9 or a FMaj7(9, omit 3)
2.D-G-Ab-C can be a Dm7b5(11, omit 3) or a dominant Bb7(9,13). It can also be the triton substitution of Bb7= E7(#9#5).

A brief snippet of Chord Tone Soloing over "The Days of Wine and Roses". One of the first topics that my students and I work on in my Berklee improv class. It's a basic but important and fundamental technique to have down. Some of the things we focus on include connecting the chords, use of motives, phrasing, feel and sound. All crucial musical elements needed to make it work. All of this is addressed in Volume 1 of my improv series The Complete Guide to Improvisation.

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