Patty Franceschi plays Etude 27 from Dave Friedman's Book Dampening and Pedaling. This is a must get book for all vibes players!!!
I'm reminded of that Zen story about the grasshopper that keeps jumping half the distance to his destination and never gets to where he's going.
We're so close with this site, the increments are getting tiny now and I'm dying to get to the finish line. I can see it though.
Our launch date is August 1st. I think we'll beat it by a few days. So keep an eye out!
Check out this lesson plan. Check out the simple solo and the scales. Then lets talk.
can you do a chord tone solo easily on this tune?
can you play the chords with 4 mallets?
is it memorized?
we should meet online when i get back from canada.
Check out the referenced post listed below. It's an audio file of a chord solo over Green Dolphin Street. It's about as simple as you can get. It will help you learn the chords and move around the instrument.
Bluesette is a great tune to study because of all the ii Vs. This is one of those tunes that is you really work hard on it, you're practicing many other tunes since they'll have similar changes.
Musicians usually play it in either Bb or G, so at the very least you should work on it in at least those keys. Here are a some different things to help you study Bluesette.
john. let me know you got this, by responding and posting a comment. then we'll work on bluesette here. i'm going to make you a video tonight i hope!
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Private lessons are easy. Your teacher and YOU can post lessons and leave comments. You'll see on the left in the side bar under the private lessons 'Create a Post to a Group'. That's where you can post a lesson or topic you want to work on with a faculty member.
With each posting here you can attach files and leave comments. You'll get an email when a faculty members posts to your lessons and they'll get an email when you post and/or leave a comment.
When you post to your lessons group a page will open up with settings and dialog boxes.
Put the title in the title box.
Pivot Chords are an interesting way to modulate. It's a great study when added to a tune you're working on!