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Here's your final for Satin Doll!

Play it! Come up with a simple version of the tune! Let us see what you've learned. You can post your version here.

To me there are several versions you can do.

head solo head.

For beginners head, chord tone solo, head

if you're more advanced, think about an intro and an ending

Some tips on simple soloing over rhythm changes.

A must watch!

We've been studying Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whispers'. We've all learned a ton from Joe and his tune.

Here's a pretty complete reference of what we've done.

If you put your version, please let me know so I can add it to this page!

Check out the comments to see what we were thinking!

David Friedman talked about playing free at the VBP 2010 workshop. Great lesson here!

Hello everyone,

Here's the first video of me playing Life's Blessing. Please excuse the sound and video quality. I'm not too good when it comes to the technical recording and video stuff.

On this video, I'm doing one chorus of left hand comping in which I'm bringing out guide tone lines as well as some bass motion. I also use quite a few 10ths which seems to work well with this type of tune.

If anyone has any questions about this, just let me know.

Ed

You probably don't know much about Dick Richardson, who passed away last week. He is the guy who built Musser into a major company.  Dick bought the Musser Company from Claire Musser back in the 50s sometime, when the company typically was selling about 50 vibraphones each year.