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Try to play this with a click track. Study the harmony (the tune is black Orfeus) and practice playing on the off beats.

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!

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.

Donna Lee

In Day 2, you will start to notice the use of a few chromatic notes and approach tones. The line is similar and still pretty diatonic. Take notice of the surround tones in M4. You will see lines like this all the time in bebop where there's half step approaches to notes.