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The Melody

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!

Forum Topic: Music for trumpet/flugel and vibraphone?

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

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