So the University of the Arts (where Tony teaches in Illadelph) is illin' hard this year and we are going to start a monthly to bi monthly study. So we will blog on the blogoshphere of the interwebs via vibesworkshop.com about a certain composer or style, recommend tunes/info/recordings to each other, each learn some tunes from that composer or in that style, and eventually meet up and have a vibe hang that is centered around the topic du jour of the month.

The first up on the list is Duke Ellington/ Billy Strayhorn.

Dampening etude #3

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Here's a new etude for Summertime. It's similar to the first one, but there's a few more chords and some anticipations of certain melody notes and chords that are a little different than the last one.

It keeps popping up. Either the student doesn't know the melody or sort of knows it. Or, he can only play the melody with his 4 mallet arrangement.

I think you guys should make yourselves a promise. When you learn a new tune, you will learn the MELODY first and play it and work on it, unaccompanied. No chords. Use your inner to hear the chords while you play the melody.

Next learn the chords.

Then you can put them together, but NEVER forget the melody or lose the ability to play it unaccompanied.

Deal?????? This will go a long way!

Hey guys vibe hang this Saturday, 12pm My time. That's East Coast USA Time.

Hey marie - so what time will this start in Europe? It will start 9am in California!

THE HANG IS HERE

Hi There-

A friend and I are undertaking a rather involved project for our duo of trumpet/flugel and vibraphone, and we're just wondering what the precedents are for this combination; if there's a jazz/improvised music duo with this instrumentation out there that I'm not aware of, if there's a historical one that is no more, but recorded together, what classical/new music repertoire has been written for this combo, etc. I'm looking on google now, but hoping y'all might have some handy anecdotal/first-hand knowledge about this. Much obliged.

JAmes