First and foremost you have to master the Open and Closed Voicings Excercise. You should spend months on this exercise! Click on this link and scroll down to open and closed voicings: https://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/chords/marie-noëlle/050316

I'm very appreciative to mon amie Marie-Noelle on her kind words about the tunes on my MySpace page with the H-Factor, a local Philly jazz group. She pointed out to me that since previously, my page was set to private, that nobody was able to access my page to hear them. So I unblocked it. If you have time, please give a listen and tell me what you think. One tune, "That Old Devil Moon", features the great Larry McKenna on the tenor saxophone. The others members are Rob Henderson, the leader, on drums, Pete Colangelo an bass, and myself.

I think it's all of you guys, you're having an affect on me. For a while I wasn't doing a lot of listening. I don't mean transcribing or figuring stuff out, I mean listening just to listen.

I've noticed over the last few weeks that it's been really exciting to just listen to stuff!! I think it's from all the discussion around here!

Here's the link for the class, starts at 7: http://www.mogulus.com/thephillysoundlive

Larrys' going to try his class again this Wednesday night.

Larry is not a vibe player, he's a sax player and an incredible musician. Vibe players can learn a ton from Larry!

I'm not sure what he's going to cover but I'm sure it will be something great. If there's a handout I'll scan it in and post it before the class.

Come back here and I'll have the link to the workshop.

I can remember going from the Beatles in the '60's to Led Zepplan and Chicago and Blood Sweat and Tears to Hubert Laws to Chic Corea and Joe Farrell back in the 1970's... Then being introduced to Elvin and Bill Evans and Gary Burton. These were amazing experiences for me. What were yours? I think the one that influenced me the most and got me in this business the way I am was.....

(do you think I can sue?)

Lesson on Symmetrical Diminished Chord Scales

here is a radio recording made by my father in 1978 of a solo performance of Gary Burton in l'Espace CARDIN in Paris.
I've listened to it all my youth on my walkman...I love it ! Sure you will too.
Patty, I'm sure that will sound like a challenge for you...;o)

This is where all the learning should take place. In other words:

You hit the site, log in, check the front page and then check Recent Activity. All these sections are in flux, they'll change all the time. They are NOT the places to go back to and look for things you previously saw. They are places to go and check on what's new.

The books section is broken up into different books. Anything in a book will stay in the book in the same position. Things like lessons, tunes, blogs will usually go into books and stay in the same spot.

The mixolydian scale is the major scale with a flat 7. It's a very distinct sound, you've heard it all over the place.

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Chinese Translation for Chinese students

All Blues 這首曲子都是用到Mixolydian 的聲音。

Latin music 中也很常用到Mixolydian 的聲音。

在爵士樂中，遇到屬和弦(Dominant)會演奏Diminished音階，或是Altered音階，或是不同的音階。

但是也有時候會用到Mixolydian音階。

如果和弦記號有降九音，也不能用到Mixolydian音階。要是九音（Natural 9th）才適用Mixolydian音階。

I frequently put on tracks in itunes and practice comping. I come across sometimes, tracks with no chord player. I always forget what they are. But when I find them I have fun being the chord player and get a lot out of it.

So I thought I'd make a list of cd's with just bass or just bass and drums. I only have one to start, but I bet you guys will come up with a ton.

I'd like to organize all those tracks in itunes and just pull them up and comp.

I also will import them into a program like audacity and change the keys.

What you guys got??? You got tunes?