Tony recently put up a dampening exercise based on the changes for Stella. Ensuing comments on his posting examined the E-7b5 chord at the beginning of the tune. Tony suggested I start a post with a challenge for us to find as many tunes that start with a minor 7 flat 5 chord as possible.

Rules: you cannot use your fake books or browse any lead sheet you may have. Just think through all the tunes you've memorized and find those that fit the description. Here are some to get you started. This is to challenge yourself to see how many tunes you know.

1. Beautiful Love

I have a suggestion: Since this isn't a teenage chat sight, or a lonely hearts,"Hope to meet someone nice" site, why don't we all go by our real names? I find it a bit irritating if I want to say something to a specific member, or answer a post, without having to check, "Am I writing to Vibraman, Vibraphoneman, vibratorman, or whatever. We're all serious musicians, right? What do you all say we drop the "chat" names and start fresh? What does everybody think?

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This is just me practicing Blue Monk. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated! Anything that can help me to be better!
I promise I will upload some 4 mallet stuff soon.
Thanks,
-Joe Doubleday

Ok the title looks weird. It's not for Tarik because he's 'My One and only Love', it's just that he posted his version of the tune so I thought I'd crank out a chord study based on the tune! We got that straight right?

What I would do would be fill in chords and then learn the tune and check out the voicings.

I decided not to post an audio version (midi) of the etude because I think it's pretty straight forward and maybe it's better that you solve the puzzle and get the sounds happening by learning the etude.

Hi Folks-

Been awhile since I dropped in... looks like lots of exciting stuff is happening around here! Just wanted to post to let everyone know that I somehow lost my entire M46 crossbar and pedal assembly between the 55 Bar and my house about a month ago. I have an m48 I practice on, so I was using its crossbar to make a frankenphone for awhile... unfortunately I first discovered the situation as I rolled up to a GIG! (Still haven't confirmed it wasn't stolen from my car by a thief who's a bit confused.)

i listned to ricky lee jones pop pop cd recently.it was one of my favorite cd long time ago and i didn´t hear it since 15 years.my one and only love is one of my favorite songs of it. so i tried to make my solo vibes version of it.as always it´s far away from perfect but videoing it helps me always for pratctice.
tarik

Ok, I see all these videos of you guys comping for yourself. How do you do it? I'm sure it's not a simple answer. I recently had a gig filling in for my jazz piano teacher on vibes. it was a trio setting and i could not for the life of me comp for myself. Every time I took a solo I would just have to go Strollin'. Should I just be focusing on the 3rd and 7th? The video I was watching was Tony burning through Cherokee, or when he played Giant Steps last night.

This is a great tune by Kenny Baron that seems to be growing in popularity. Laura and I used this recording to open our new CD. I especially like the bridge. The chromatic harmonic climb can really get you going. I've included an attached pdf of the lead sheet if anyone needs it. The leadsheet is also available in one or more RealBooks.

I was sight reading this song. The melody rhythm Shelley plays on the sax isn't what is written on the page. It took me stepping on him a couple times before I got the change. I like this song. It was running through my head for a couple days after the gig. It's fun to solo on changes you have never seen before.

Ardina Lockhart - vocal.
Shelley Carrol - sax
Shawn Pickler - drums
Chris Clark -bass
Caleb McCampbell - piano
Dana Sudborough - VdP eVibe (direct to PA)