I made this with a bass and percussion. I think it's 'groovy'.
It's focusing on one chord, and that's C7. Check it out and Try and play it. I have the groove at 2 tempos a slow one and a faster one.
And then.... a slow one in F in case any of you guys want to try and transpose it. To the first person, who makes a video of them playing it in C and F, I'll give to free lessons. OFF EXPIRES JULY 1 2024
Here's a second part to the other lesson titled "A Way To Practice Soloing and Comping Together".
I took a couple other examples about how to practice this. Ultimately, you just do it and try to make music. I know for some of you it won't sound great in the beginning. I always think that if you keep doing it and doing it, eventually you play something good and recognize it and learn from it. Know what I mean????
Get to work!
I am making some Tik Tok MalletKat videos for Alternate mode. (The Malletkat is the pro model of electronic keyboard percussion). So I decided to play some tunes and then I thought I'll notate them as an etude for all of you.
Can you play it? I left out the pedal markings? Why? Because they are a pain to notate partly. And partly because you can listen to the pedaling of the track and study that and then at the pedaling yourself. I think it's really important to not have it all handed to you. That's too easy.
This is a newly published etude for Vibraphone by Joke van Dal-Kleijne.
It was very challenging, so it may be a good piece for more advanced players here on the site to work on. It took me about four months to be able to get through a clean pass recording it. I'm sure some of you can put it together quicker than that, but it's a challenge, no doubt... as a good etude should be. You'll learn a lot about mallet positioning and sticking choices. I did and I've been at this 45+ years. :)
