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Line Building Blocks Exercise

In this part of the series, I talk about feel and proper dynamics of playing a bass line on vibes. I also look at chord substitutions on the F blues.

We had a great talk at our coffee hang last sunday. We talked about practicing.

One of the partipants Richard Schwagerl sent over some interesting docs he uses and created for teaching. Here they are. 2 docs didn't come over well, I'll add them later, but one is good and I'll post it here. 

For my lessons with Tony, he asked me to get some modal practice in. This has been a really fun way to learn my modes more intimately, and work on my time feel!

Hello all!

I’m taking a little break from the “how to play vibes like” lessons and am doing a couple beginner-oriented ones on ending tunes, although I think everyone can probably get something from them. This lesson is really for anyone who has ever been on a gig or at a jam session where at the end you all just kind of fizzled out in an unsatisfying, anticlimactic way, and wants a better alternative for the future. It’s also for anyone who just wants more creative options to end tunes.

Play it, study it, move into different keys, learn about the chords. It's a blues in F.

Hey everyone,

I think this is pretty cool. "Pitch bending" is something I've been messing around with on the vibes, especially in a blues context, but also in ballads and really any setting you want. Let me know what you think!

Here is David Friedman's Etude 9 from "Friedman-Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling".

Line Building Blocks Exercise