Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.

Solo vibraphone on Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from West Side Story. I'm using some reharm on this. To view and download the lead sheet, go here to google docs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQUlhRNktkbFhESmc/view?usp=s…

Third attempt at this etude! Definitely not done with it yet, but hopefully a good culmination of my posts of it here.
I did not use a metronome this time, so I know my time still needs work; I wanted to see how good it would be without a met.
Thank you for the feedback, Mr. Friedman.

Great site Tony!

Hello everyone, if anyone is interested in writing an article for the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes, please email me for the details and to discuss possible topics. The article could be on topics associated with the vibraphone, vibe playing and/or improvisation. There is a small honorarium paid when the article is published. I have a few articles scheduled for the next few issues at this point, but it would be nice to get a few more for future issues. My email is esaindon@berklee.edu Thanks. Ed

This etude is based on the harmony of All the things you are. The idea is to play a basic structure of the chord (most of the time 3-7) with the Left Hand while the Right Hand is playing broken chords using some extensions of the chords or an upper structure triad. There's also a challenging rhythmic displacement (triplet on right hand against Left hand)

If you have some question feel free to contact me: giovanniperin87@gmail.com

Have fun

Giovanni Perin