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Check out David Friedman's new piece 'Bettina Dreams of the Garden of Elves'. It's an epic piece and we'll be selling it Feb. 1, 2010 in our new store www.store.jazzimprovonline.com.

And especially check out David's student Julius Heise. He's a great young player with a GREAT teacher!

Here is my Drop 2 version of "As Time Goes By". All I am doing here is playing the melody harmonized in Drop 2 voicing. When there is no melody, I fill it in a little but I was trying to keep it simple. I have attached the music to what I play in the video below in my comment.

This takes a lot of work to do smoothly on the vibes. It does not work for every melody, nor would you want to play like this all the time but I think it adds a sophisticated vocabulary to the instrument.

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Here's a good performance of David Friedman's new etude 'Texas Hoedown'.

I'll buy and send a copy to the first two people who want it and agree to learn it and post a video within 2 months of their performance. (Must be a subscriber)

Hey vibes-men and -women,

please look at the video in "HQ" (if possible) and "full screen size"! Then you can listen to the original solo and read the music as SIBELIUS-score. The cursor always shows you where you are.
For those who are interested in the sheet music of the transcription please click the following link:
Mike Mainieri: Pools Solo (4pages).pdf
Have fun!
Regards

#FLORIAN

Patty talks about exercises for all grips that helped her with Etude 25

Here's an in depth study of the tune Stella By Starlight. It's an intermediate/advanced lesson that covers ways to study Stella as well as other tunes.

Here is the PDF to go along with Drop 2 Lesson 3 Part 3

Here is the melody of "Alone Together" harmonized in drop 2 voicings. I have included the .pdf of what I am playing (minus my performance mistakes <:)-