I made this for a student and thought I'd share it. We did it on the fly.

Practice page one in all the keys. Also page two.

Use the closed and open positions and then go through all the open and closed voicings. Remember the rules are the same as you move to the SAME notes to other voicings. If a note moved in one voicing it WILL move to the same place in all the other voicings.

Page three just analyze.

Remember: you don't need the roots. It's not Emin7 It's Cmaj. UNLESS you see an F# then it will sound more like Emin 9 than Cmaj7.

Hey guys! Another tune that me and my quartet played a couple of months ago. Our tribute to one of the most importants jazz musician ever, Freddie Hubbard!
Best regards for everyone!

Javier

Here is the full etude. The etude (as written) is monophonic with just lines written out. I added 4 mallet stuff to work on getting it into my vocabulary. It's always funny how long it takes for this stuff to really sink in. I think that's what is interesting about what we do compared to what classical musicians do, having been on both sides of the fence. If I were to learn this as just a classical piece, I would be done with it. I learned it and played it with minimal errors. But as a jazz musician, I am just scratching the surface of getting 4 mallet stuff into my improvising.

After David's lesson Dim had a try and he sounded great.

John

This is a great lesson by David based on structures of the b5 of the dominant chord. It creates that "out" sound played over an F Blues. Thoroughly enjoyable lesson. Enjoy

John

Hey guys,
Normally I hate play alongs, because as david friedman said to the workshop last year, it's better to create our own play alongs because in that way we learn the tune in many concepts, but I recorded this tunes with play along just for fun. It's not something special, just messing around with lines and stuff. Thanks

dimitris

John Keene's sent me this photo of Richie Havens and his parents and someones vibraphone. Wow, 2.5 octaves from C.

Hey guys,

I was working on something today, and decided to make it into a little video for VW... my first lesson here.
Hope u enjoy.

Steve

Here's a good line for rhythm changes on the bridge.

I was showing Marie this this morning. I dunno how familiar everyone is with the 1 o'clock, but they are worth checking out. Check out this incredible composition by their director, Scott Wiest.