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For this first part, memorize the first four measures of the tune. Pt 1b coming shortly!

Hello everyone!

This is a lesson geared towards beginners, but useful for everyone! I explain my method for going through all possible standard extensions and voicings for a dominant chord (there are 32 in total for any dominant chord!). The same applies to major, minor, diminished, etc.

C&C welcomed. First time uploading!
Anthony Luker

University of Southern Mississippi

Instructor Dr. John Wooton

Modes - 15 wk crs - Lesson 2

Assignments Due - Make sure all these assignments are completed.

Hey all,

The lesson offer is still on but with a small change; complete any two etudes from the blues or rhythm changes etudes I've posted and I will do a free 30 minute lesson. So if you want to do one of the blues etudes and one of the rhythm changes, you can get the lesson. Must be a decent version of each though :)

Hope to see some posts!

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. 

I always make a stand along version of tunes I'm learning. How can I play them simply and what would I do to play them like that.

Hello everyone,

Here's another lesson about voicings. The common theme of all these recent lessons is trying to extrapolate as many different possible voicings as we can out of a sing idea. You take any four notes, and you can do all these things we've talked about so far:

-add extensions
-alter notes
-invert the chord
-use drop 2s, drop 3s, drop 2+3s, etc.

And now we'll add planing to the list! This is when you move a chord through a scale, or just move it chromatically.

Here is David Friedman's Etude 2 from "Friedman-Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling".