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It's from back in the day! I actually have someone helping me find bad pages missing files and then I'm trying to fix them. Here's the etude.

Someone should try and play it and post it. It's not easy.

You need to know your scales and each scale or mode should have a sound you recognize.
Here is a whole section for each mode of the major scale!

Study it hard so you can recognize these scales.

Go here for the series:
Modes of the Major Scale

Morgan is a great young musician! She sat at a computer and transcribed this with no instrument. Then she adapted it for the vibes and then she played it!

These are individual tracks each of one note on the vibraphone.

Download this. Put it on your phone like a CD.

Play the "album", set it to shuffle. Play a note, stop it. Find it on your instrument. Eventually You'll be able to let it play and follow it. It's super great ear training.

Just do it, 5-10 minutes a day. After a while, 5 is plenty.

Don't go fishing for the write note. Use your ears if you play a wrong note. Sing you're note if it's wrong and then sing the other note.

Don't waste a lot of time thinking,'use the force'.

Donna Lee