In this etude, I took a Parker line from his solo and developed it into different ideas. Keep this in mind when transcribing; get the most out of a single line! Develop the idea for all it's worth.

This is a pretty arrangement of Burt Bacharach's Alfie. It's a timeless tune with a great lyric. Check out Stevie Wonder's version on Youtube. It's killin.

A pdf of this arrangement is included. Remember.....make it sound beautiful!!

I don't know if this is covered elsewhere, but I found a couple of major 7th voicings with crunches (two notes next to each other) in the middle. They are based on two 4ths, or 5ths next to each other. I found the one with 5ths in "I'll Remember April" at the end of the B section.

Examples of Emaj7
4ths: B D# E G# - Sticking B & E left hand 4ths, D# G# right hand 4ths; Leading tone is 3rd of the chord.
5ths: G# D# E B - Sticking G# & D# left hand 5ths, E B right hand 5ths; Leading tone is 5th of the chord.

where 1 = outer left, 2 = inner left, 3 = inner right, 4 = outer right

Hello everyone, if anyone is interested in writing an article related to the vibraphone for the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes that would be great. Possible topics: dampening technique; four mallet techniques and exercises, theory related articles on improv concepts, voicings or harmony; concepts and approaches to comping; ideas on classical interpretation say from the Bach Sonatas and Partitas; a transcribed solo with accompanying analysis. These are only a few of many possible topics. Including specific music examples (written in Finale) in the article is preferred.

Happy Birthday Tony!!!

At least in Europe it already is your birthday Tony!

And on your birthday I got the keys to my new house for my family.

A lot has happened and I see all kinds of great stuff happening here!! Hope all you guys and gals are doing well!?

I'm looking forward to catching up!

cu

TJ

Concept for breaking down the harmony into the major movements. Over the TOTM Chi Chi.

Here's my mic set up. You can see the specially designed plexiglass PZM boundary I had made many years ago. It's shaped in a stereo configuration. I really like the concept of PZM. Here's what I know about it. I think the "PZM" (pressure zone microphone) was discovered in the 1980s. You can research it but I got my information from crown engineers. Crown owned the patent or patent rights. I'm writing from memory so it may not be completely accurate. The way I understand it, the "pressure zone" was discovered in the '80's. Here's how it was explained to me.

Hey all,
I haven't been around here for a while. I know I know, no dessert for me.

I worked on a chapter in Jon Metzger's book called digital riffs.

At the end of each chapter there is a list of some tunes where you can aply the technique. I tried it on Blue Bossa.
I got the playalong track from www.learnjazzstandards.com.

I'm not really happy with the result. You can hear I'm not used to playing with others (even if it is on tape)