He said play an Ab dominant bebop scale over a Cmin7b5. It's interesting because a C-7b5 looks like a rootless Ab9 chord.
So I thought I'd pass it along here. I'm sure he has covered it in lessons, but I thought I would mention it.
Adapting 3+3+2 to the Balafon
Sometimes we need to step away from our primary instrument to rebuild our awareness from the ground up. I incorporate my Harmonic Time method for all the material I have learned and teach. Here is a general description of the method:
Morgan transcribed me playing Joy Spring. Here it is! Mistakes and all :-)
It's from this version:
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/images/uphill-battle-joy-spring/tonymicel…
https://www.vibesworkshop.com/video-embed/tones-joans-bones-solo-vibe-s…
There is the link for this transcription. Now you can study a little John Piper.
Cool music played on vibes... Enjoy ! An happy new year to everybody, with a lot of good vibes ! :o)
Hi guys! Here's a transcription of Pat Martino that I've been working on off of the live album Young Guns. It is interesting to see how he can weave through changes and connect all of his lines in different ways. Playing this over and over is helping me to start hearing longer phrases. I've also been trying to challenge myself and work on playing uptempo with 4 mallets. I tend to feel a little bogged down when I am holding all four, so having something like this to work up to speed little by little has been very helpful! Let me know what you all think.