"Samba e Amor" - a beautiful song by Brazilian composer Chico Buarque. Here's a simple version of the song played with an AAB form. Here's the lead sheet:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1okuOrqEVQlzHTDoxafJjD9V_K71rP8ag/view?…
I was inspired by Tony's rendition of "Joy Spring" so I decided to try a a couple of choruses, concentrating on keeping the time, experimenting with different voicings, rhythmic comping and ultimately trying to swing! VERY Challenging with any solo bebop version. The reason I faded the track out is simply because I didn't like what I played towards the end. :-) Not terribly mysterious (Ha ha!)
That's not for jazz purists, but it's just fun.
Song for My Father is a Great tune to study mainly because it has a couple dom 9 chords. Not altered, not diminished, just a 9 chords. We can get rid of the root and the fifth and add the 9th and the 13th. I do this in this etude.
Most of this tune can and should be played with rootless voicings ESPECIALLY with a bass player. Here I add the root but it's never with the chord. This is to make sure you can hear the voicings in context.
We have to be careful with rootless voicings. They can sometimes sounds like a different chord then they are supposed to be.
I always wanted to test the material of plastic bottles (PETG) as resonance tubes. I have long searched for suitable material in the appropriate diameter grading.
Unfortunately, it is always the case that you have to buy a certain minimum quantitie per diameter. Since I finance all my handicrafts with my private money, I limited the test to only two diameters, but there are also suitable gradings for the tube-in-tube-concept with better fitting to the bar sizes.
The V5 frame with aluminum tubes weighs 20.3 kg, with PVC pipes 19.5 kg and with the PETG pipes only 15.7 kg.
Hi guys this month I'm talking about sticking related to the jazz phrasing.
It's important to understand when and where playing alternate/double stroke sticking.
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I was working on this song with my student this past week. We were talking about various techniques that can be applied in order to fill things out with the melody and improv. A few things we covered were counterpoint, comping underneath the melody and two hand lines with left hand jabs. All of these techniques will be covered in depth in the upcoming solo vibraphone playing book. Writing this stuff out is hard though. Ha!Ha!
A simple, elegant, and somewhat underappreciated tune by Cole Porter.