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I've been playing through Freddie Hubbards solo from his tune Birdlike. Oh man is there a ton of stuff in this solo!

Here's an excerpt. The second chorus. Check out the E natural in the first bar over the F7. He does this all over the place. He does it also on the 4 chord later on. It's so cool because you can see ways you can play the major 7th over the dominant chord.

Next this chorus is a GREAT etude. try to play it using alternate sticking and get it up to speed. It will take some work! After that play it in different keys!

Here's a beautifuk version of "When you wish upon a Star", by master ballad singer, Martina
Bárta. We recorded our rehearsal today.

I was inspired by Tony's rendition of "Joy Spring" so I decided to try a a couple of choruses, concentrating on keeping the time, experimenting with different voicings, rhythmic comping and ultimately trying to swing! VERY Challenging with any solo bebop version. The reason I faded the track out is simply because I didn't like what I played towards the end. :-) Not terribly mysterious (Ha ha!)

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Hi Vibes lovers, today the lesson is for advanced players who wants to extend they harmonic palette using triads that touch extensions of the chord (7, 9, 11, 13) on their solo.
Make sure to check the attached file where there'a table that shows what triads can be played over any type of chord.

As usual remember to check out my youtube channel and follow me on facebook and instagram.

www.giovanniperin.com

This is a homage to one of my all time favorite songs,"The Witchita Lineman", by Glen Campbell. I love the unexpected harmonic movement and the general mood of the composition.
I first just worked on playing the melody with a decent accompaniment. It took me forever! It's SO difficult to play correctly and maintain the mood and flow. Then after recording the melody a couple of times I decided to play a simple improvisation over the "vibe" of the song. Hope you like it.

Hi everyone at vibesworkshop.com! I'd like to announce the publishing of my new Trio 'Verwirrspiel' ('Confusion') for marimba,vibraphone and percussion (cajon+cymbals).

It's a piece, i've been working on quite a while. The sound of marimba and vibes combined with cajon an cymbals is very inspiring to me. In addition, I have always been interested in rhythmic 'knots' and their resolution, as you can clearly hear in this piece. ;-)

Download the MP3 of my composition where I layered all percussion elements, with Randy Roos on guitars. This concept tune features several tabla solos in different rhythm cycles and structures (binary and ternary).

Analysis of Polymeters (balafon lessons 1–5):

3:2 0:00 – 0:12 (basic)

3:2 0:12 – 0:47 (syncopated)

4:3 0:47 – 1:46

5:3 1:46 – 3:00

7:3 3:00 – 3:53

5:4 3:53 – 4:36

7:4 4:36 – 5:28

3:2 5:28 – end

Translation for Chinese students 中文翻譯:
CYDT 是Can You Do This 縮寫，
這個系列都會有一些小小的有趣練習可以挑戰。

這一集我們來做一些關於音階的練習：
影片中，Tony以F大調音階開始，
內棒兩隻還是演奏原來的音階進行，
左手外棒的部分，加入了在音階中的三度和聲進行，
（聽聽看Tony的示範）

試試看把同樣的觀念運用在任何你知道的音階上面，
例如影片中的：diminished scale

這個練習可以幫助我們：
1.改善只用外棒演奏單旋律的習慣
2.在演奏單旋律的線條時，也能夠加入一些和聲的色彩

Tony說剛開始的時候，他沒辦法一次做到，
花了幾天的時間才完成 ;
因為很久沒做這個練習，
現在有些生疏，所以他有空時也會繼續持續這個練習，
讓自己的腦袋持續保有豐富的點子！

我們也來試試吧！