Neighbor tones are ways to embellish melodies. A very natural musical thing. This does though take a little practice if you're not already familiar with them.
Here's an in depth study on neighbor tones!
I just had a great lesson with my student/buddy from Ohio, Jon Letsky. It's great to do the online lessons because I can see what I post in action. He's practicing invitation and doing the quarter note solos, chord tone solos and playing the tune through the keys and he's kicking ass with it all.
It's not a requirement to post stuff, but affirmation, completion and closure are important. At least with private students I get to see the stuff in action. What I've learned is at these ways of learning tunes DO work. I've seen them happen way too many times for it to be anecdotal.
We've been working trying to solve the Explorer problem but the reality is that Explorer is a big problem on any site. If you look through any CSS or html book, you see these parts where they show how to do cool stuff with the programming languages and then they tell you if Explorer can do it and if there's a way how to hack it to work. This has been forever.
Nothing I can say about loyalty, if you're into Explorer then ok, but if you're open, get Firefox, check out the cool add ons and then have a much better experience on the Internet.
Check out Warren Wolf. Pretty killin' stuff!
I'm just summing up what I practiced tonight. Might be of interest.
My teacher (Tony) wanted me to post this. It's me playing #5 in Friedman's Vibes Technique book. Rip me to shreds!
Me and Barry were having a Debussy party on Youtube. Check this marimbist out! wow!!!
I just found this guy, Felix Martinz, on You Tube. Really cool stuff he is doing with the vibes and his bands.
Invitation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmI-6JHJDg
Vetne 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgNuwtjBM8
Home Page:
http://www.martinz.se/
Barry
Hi All,
I came across this recording of "Beautiful Love" from a gig a couple of years ago, and thought it'd be good to post. In addition to me on vibes, there's Brett Baker on guitar, Mike Caruso on bass and Ed Conley on drums. Hope you enjoy it :-).
Tom P.