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Open Closed Open exercise with minor7b5 chords in all 12 keys 

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Can you play this? With a metronome, make it swing and play the rhythyms? Go as slow as you want to!!!! But once you get it down, work on the speed. Also, IMHO, don't use it as a reading exercise. Memorize it. Can you play it in another key? 

I'll give a free lesson to anyone who can play it (memorized) in another key. And you'll have to play it at the lesson as well! :-)

Great lesson to break into playing tunes solo. 

Here are links to all the other vids: 

Misty Intro

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Tune Study - The Jody Grind Pt. 2 by Behn Gillece

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Me talking about this tune and how I study it and play it! 

BTW - I lost 1,000 dollars. This is no Tune of the month for this tune! 

Real simple, play this etude. Make it sound good. Look at the music, I put in some of the changes. you should be able to figure out the rest. 

After you figure out the cords, look at each bar and add all the upper partial so you know it's being played. A lot of these voice things are rootless voicings.

I didn't use a bass track because I want you guys to hear the harmony work all on its own without a bass so you can see that these are rootless  and that they work even if you're playing only Vibes or maybe Vibes and singer or Vibes in sax any of those combinations.

Diminished Passing Pt. 1 by Behn Gillece

? Working on Time Pt. 7 – Syncopation and Motion in Bossa Comping

This lesson introduces a new variation, a more syncopated approach to bossa nova comping over the A section of Wave. Designed to deepen rhythmic phrasing and hand independence, this variation more closely simulates the natural, flowing feel of authentic bossa guitar patterns—adapted for vibraphone.