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hi all .....

its been a while since ive been on the site. The roots Reggae band that im playing Keyboards in has been travel almost every weekend. We are also goin to be backing " Studio one jamaician reggae legend NORMA FRASER, soon.

Since my wife and i moved down to southern oregon. my musical adventures have been primarily as a keyboardist .. playing B3, clav and other sounds ....also expanding into the use of my laptop on stage via reason 4 for some sampling and LIVE Dubbing....

"Within a Page" is one of my favorites. I wrote it while working on a page out of my sight reading book called "Shapes and Patterns of Music". The title comes after spending weeks on a single line trying to develop it into a song. When I finally came up with a "song" (that I really love), I realized that there was SO MUCH music and work that went into this small page of music. So I titled it "Within A Page". After coming up with the arrangement for solo vibes, I thought I'd offer it along with a lesson on how to play it. So, here it is in PDF download form. I hope you enjoy it.

This attachment on "Tritone Substitutions" goes along with Tony's lesson on "Pivot Chords".

Here's a 4 part lesson talking about scales and modes. Some introductory stuff with a little depth.

I get a bunch of email with people having questions about playing. At the University of the Arts we're supposed to have office hours. So I've decided to have office hours here for subscribers.

I'll do this on livestream.com. I'll announce the link where it will take place later.

You can set your cam up and play and I (or any other one else online) can critique you. You can bring up a topic and we can all talk about it. Anyone with a cam can take the spotlight and talk about the subject as well.

This is a practice vid of "But Beautiful"  w/ some examples of the "stair climbing" thing I spoke about at the Philly workshop.  At  approx 2:43, I used stair climbing exactly as I explained it at the workshop (Bmi7b5 / E7alt / Ami7).
At approx 4:50, I begin stair climbing on Ami7  and continue it through C#dim7 (using dim arpeggios). At 5:00, the same idea as at 2:43 reappears (again, over Bmi7b5 / E7alt ).

It's really important to practice the modes in a way that helps you learn the sounds of each. Paying C Major and then D Dorian will still sound like C Major. Play C Major and then C Dorian and hear the difference!

今天要講調式音階（Ｍodes），練習調式最好的方式是練習把七個調式建立在同一個根音上，有些人會有錯誤的觀念覺的Ionian就是從Ｃ音開始，然後Dorian就從D開始。

所以最好練習的方式：
左手演奏根音和五音（設定好一個固定低音）
右手演奏不同的Modes，例如Dorian的聲音, 是major scale降3音降7音(bE, bB)，你也可以想成C是二級，
所以往下推就是Bbmajor scale.
然後來回互換七種不同的調式，讓耳朵適應各種不同的聲音色彩。

好處：等你熟悉各種調式之後，你會容易的就聽懂更多東西。

（Tony示範按照順序轉換七種不同調式）

Ok here's the etude. It should be in good shape. But here's what happened. I came home from a gig and started reading Arthur C. Clarke's 'Rendezvous' and couldn't stop until i finished the book. I really tried!!

Then I ran down to my studio and cranked this out. I added a solo section for you to check out also. I'll add the midi file. Remember it sounds bad (the midi file) but might serve as a good reference.

I put the chords in for the head, and then left them out for the solo section. You should play each bar, write the chords in and study it that way.

Les Paul died today. He was 94.