My student and I were working on “Darn That Dream” today in a private lesson. We were talking about playing voicings under the melody and discussing ways of adding color to the harmony while playing the melody. A lot of the voicings and voicing techniques I’m using in this clip (clusters, shapes, voicings in the texture, symmetrical diminished shapes, reharm, six note voicings, voicings with upper structure triads, linear movement,…) are discussed and shown via examples in my book “Voicings Concepts for the Jazz Vibist”.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? or ... what came first, the melody or the scale? In a scientific world, the scale was certainly here first. It was always here. Partials derived from the harmonic series and placed in a row is not a creation of man but an existing entity just waiting to be discovered. Humanity's discovery of scales and modes evolved as artists made new melodies and found order that spoke a language of expressiveness. As a result of their exploring, learning and constructing melodies, patterns and similarities were revealed.

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How to Chose Extensions on a Dominant 7th Chord
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A vibe player named Ray K. sent me this. This is how he saves the felt on his vibes. he attaches this wooden piece he made and it keeps the felt off the bars and his felt stays useful and new for a long time.

Here's a note Ray sent me
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Hi Tony,

This guy has been around for a while with this approach to holding mallets. And now he has a student it seems. That's great, who knows where it will wind up!

"Blackbird" by Paul McCartney. One of my favorite songs recorded today at home while we have a blizzard outside. Hope you like it.

This video might be a little similar to Tony's "marking the tune" video, in that it is another way to outline the changes, and make the "pretty notes" flow together. Anyway, it was inspired by a banjo player: Danny Barnes who I first heard of from this sight a long time ago when Tony posted a link from his blog.