Vibraphone

Play along with the duets. Play vibes or even marimba and add your part and then upload it for others to check out!

I created these so you can get some ideas on how to comp for other instruments. Also this will help you're solo playing.

A couple things to consider:
1. If you can accompany me in this setting then when you play with a bass things will be even simpler. In this setting your voicings have to be very clear, you have to do all the work.

2. If you are in settings when you have to accompany another soloist with the support of a bass working like this will help you.

In this section we'll tackle the blues!

Here's a simple study to get you started with the 'bebop' blues. I always thought of the 'Blues For Alice' changes as a rebellion against the blues. Maybe this is not accurate but it explains a couple things for me personally. When you play over the 'Blues for Alice changes' your solo shifts away from the traditional blues scale and becomes more complicated. Scales and harmonic challenges really come into play. This is what the beboper's were all about thought, right? Making things much more complicated, that is, lines, chords and rhythms.

In this section you'll find all online LESSONS. Most of them are naturally only available for subscribers, except for the Dampening & Pedaling part where you can listen to all Friedman Etudes posted by members and comments from David himself and others.

This lessons book is a huge and complete resource, still new lessons are added every day. So you might consider it as in "constant building and improvement".

If you're still wondering, here is a useful link on how to become a subscriber and enjoy all the advantages of the "School" part of the site: www.vibesworkshop.com/node/3006/

In this section we are work through Dave Friedman's book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. Watch the video above if you're new to dampening.

Below are all the etudes already worked and posted by our members (most of them available for all). Some were even commented by David himself. A very useful tool if you decide to suddy the book!

Enjoy! :o)