I started a discord server for Vibes workshop. I think it's gonna be very cool. It's gonna have stages in it where we can play and have the coffee hang we can have impromptu talks we can have impromptu playing together, etc.. I'm building out slowly and will post this just for members here at Vibes workshop for you guys to join once I see a handful of people. I will start doing some things whether it's classes or question and answer things or performances. I will start setting things up. We have about 10 people so far.

Most of us are smart and careful. I am, but the other day I slipped and clicked on something someone sent me. I never do that. It hijacked my email and sent the same to my whole email list which is about 3000 people. 

Becareful when selling an instrument. Even with the vibes there are a lot of scams going on. 

I sell owner to people who come and pick it up and bring cash. It seems that with venmo and paypal there are a lot of ways to file a dispute a week later and then get your money back. 

So I think in this day and age, it's seller beware.  

Hi everyone -

I got an email from Tony, with an "invitation" link to Dropbox. The URL did not match Dropbox. I fear that I have been phished...

the url was "glentor.vu", which seems to have mirrored the Dropbox site, and is a known phishing op.

Hopefully I'm wrong and paranoid or whatever, but I don't think so.

Does anyone know about this? 

🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 10

Over the past five weeks, we've gradually expanded our rhythm changes vocabulary.

We've explored:

• Guide-tone lines
• Embellished 3rds and 7ths
• Chromatic approaches
• Diminished and bebop scale language
• Chord-tone based improvisation

This week, we begin bringing many of those ideas together.

👉 Chord outlinings, scale motion, and substitute chord changes.

🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 9

Over the past four weeks, we've been steadily building a melodic vocabulary for rhythm changes.

We've explored:

• Guide tones (3rds and 7ths)
• Embellished guide-tone lines
• Chromatic and flat 9 dominant language
• Diminished and bebop scale vocabulary

This week, we shift our focus to another essential improvisational concept:

👉 Using chord tones to build melodic lines.

Retired a while back and now have the time to get more serious about the vibes.  Thought the 15 week thing would be a good place to begin.  So here is my lesson 1 stuff.

My four root notes are F, Ab, B, and D.  I think of the vibes as an F-centric instrument, so F.  Going up or down a major or minor third takes it in more of a sharp key or flat key direction, so Ab and D.  And B is a tritone away, which takes you as far from the original key as possible.

Here we go!

From F - all modes, muting and open/close, improvisation all modes