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Vibraphone Masterclass – Left Hand Accompaniment on “Poor Butterfly: Here are some of my thoughts and techniques for left hand comping on this great song from 1916. Hard to believe this song was written that long ago. I’m more or less playing in a four to the bar feel ala pianists like Errol Garner, George Shearing, Art Tatum, Dave McKenna and Teddy Wilson. I really enjoy playing in this style and playing tunes like this.

Dampening on the Vibraphone - "You Must Believe In Spring" composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Playing the melody on this beautiful song with a focus on using a variety of dampening techniques throughout the clip. Techniques include two hand dampening as well as one hand dampening techniques using Slide Dampening and Hand Dampening.

This is a song written by J. Ballue the pianist of my 4tet.

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I just dicovered this great presentation, enjoy !!!

This is a demonstration/lesson about harmonizing the blues scale to create chord solos. I hear this a lot in piano players and big band writing. It can be a little tricky to move chords around on the vibes quickly, but it works pretty well using simple lines from the blues scale.

Attached are two pdfs, one of the demo I play at the beginning and the other of harmonizing possibilities for each chord. I would welcome your ideas/suggestions as I am still working on this concept.

What I find interesting is making personal arrangement by playing all the parts on MIDI keyboard and acoustic vibes all over. You learn the tune then in the least detail.

Chinese Translation is for Chinese students
這個練習可以幫助你練習止音、樂句以及音樂理論。
隨機選一個調性打一段旋律，再從那個調性中，選一個音當作是下一個樂句的調性的主音。
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Ｃ - C major
(選一個在C major 中的音) 比如G 音 ——— (選一個音階會經過G這個音) Eb major
(選一個在C major 中的音) Bb ——— (選一個音階會經過G這個音) B major
Ab ——— E major
F# ——— F#major
F ———— F major

練這個練習，會讓你的樂句更有音樂性，如果一開始很慢沒關係，慢慢練習會越想越快，到後來也許你會先有粵劇的idea，調性才會出現。