I've been working on my basic language skills by checking out some of the old school heavies. I've been mostly digging into Bud Powell. He is so freaking heavy. I think some of it is starting to come out in my playing.

I think Bud Powell and Brad Mehldau have a lot of similarities. Bud Powell was way ahead of his time.

This is a trio gig I did with a couple of old guys that I play with frequently. It is also pretty fun to stretch out on a blues like this.

Joe Doubleday- Vibes
Mike Boyle- Bass
Hal Corn- Drums

Inspired by David's version of Jobim's "Chovendo na Roseira", I decided to study it. Here is a take from my practice session tonight.

An arrangment is available from:
http://www.jobim.org/xmlui/handle/2010/4790

I played most of it from memory. I think I need to add more double-stops/comping in the left hand when I play the melody in the head.

Suggestions appreciated.

Barry

Hi, everybody!

One question: Is it possible to tune the bars on a vibraphone from 442hz to 440hz?

All the best,

Karl Ivar Refseth

Let's tackle the melodic minor scale.
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今天我們要介紹，旋律小音階Melodic minor。
看起來就是major大調音階，降3音。
（如果你還沒有了解調式音階，先去看了解調式音階的練習方式，影片：Ways to study Modes）

還記得我們在講調式音階時說到，練習modes時，重點在七個調式要建立在同一個根音上。
所以C Ionian就是C大調音階，C Dorian就是C大調音階降3降7，同時也可以想成，C是二級，往下推大二度，
得到Bb，也可以看成是Bb大調音階。

在這邊的練習方是也是一樣。演奏C melodic minor scale, 然後換不同的調式音階，都還是保持大調降3音的規則（melodic minor），可以得到不同的Melodic minor scale。

found these photos that made for a student showing how to deal with small intervals with 4 mallets.

I've attached a zip file with more photos. They're not very glamorous but they show what's up.

Here are some photos from the grip that I use.

I've attached a zip file with more photos.

Here are some old photos i found. I don't remember why I took these, but they're holding 2 mallets.

I've attached a zip file with more photos.

Here's part 2 of ideas for comping.

This stuff gets a little difficult to teach. But if you can get the concept and can work on it, I think you'll get lots of benefits from this.

We have a ton of lessons up here!!!

Some of you have really looked through all of them. What do you think is missing?? Give us some ideas.

Here is etude 5. This one has taken me a while to get together and I'm still working on bringing it speed but I think it still sounds good a little slow.