🚨 Tune Deep Dive: “Wave” – Pt. 6: Soloing with Motifs 🚨

In Part 6, we focus on building solos using motifs—short melodic ideas that you can develop, repeat, and vary throughout the form. This exercise takes one simple motif and applies it across all the chords of the A section, showing how a small, clear idea can be adapted to fit shifting harmony.

Detailed Summary: The Genesis and Evolution of the Vibraphone

The Genesis and Evolution of the Vibraphone

The history of the vibraphone is characterized by intense commercial competition, continuous technological refinement, and pivotal artistic innovation [1]. It evolved from a novel percussion instrument into a sophisticated concert tool through a "symbiotic and competitive co-evolutionary process" [2].

🚨 Tune Deep Dive: “Wave” – Pt. 5: Scale and Arpeggio Options 🚨

In Part 5, we focus on outlining Wave with scale and arpeggio shapes. Each chord in the A section is approached with either a diatonic arpeggio, a scale fragment, or a tension tone (like ♭9 or ♯11) to bring out its unique color.

I have a concert in a few days. It's with The Philadelphia Mallet Quartet. That's me, Behn Gillece, Oliver Mayman and Morgan Walbridge. We are each going to play a solo tune in the middle of the concert. That's a little nerv racking! 

When I do something like this I first work on the tune, then start recording it. I walk in my studio turn on Logic. I HAVE TO play the first version complete. Imagining I'm at the concert and walking on stage. I have to try and play with some nervs, if you know what I mean. 

This was a nice discussion about Practicing.