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General Vibes 101 Course - Lesson 2 - Open Voicings

VW Lesson: Check out Open and Closed Voicings” by Tony Miceli

In addition make sure you can play the following:
Scales: Lydian Scales (4th mode of major) in all 12 keys.

Tunes: Someday My Prince Will Come, Soul Eyes, Minority, Recordame, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise.

Assignment: (record and post the following IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW)

Think Like a Drummer?? -V

Here's a lesson from a while back. I didn't dig it so I never posted. I didn't think I really did a good job Illustrating it. Maybe it's not so bad, but I think the idea is important.

It's about role playing, thinking like you're a different instrument. I think putting your brain in a different point of reference can really help your playing.

Let me know what you think.

7WOB - Tricotism - My Lessons

Ok Tricotism: Here are your assignments :-)

Beginners:

  1. Print out the Epic Etude. There are 3 choruses in this etude. Take the chorus with the comping (chords) and fill in the chords with their extensions.
  2. Play the head, play a solo (even a chord tone solo), comp for one chorus and then play the head out. Repeat the last 4 bars as a tag.
  3. Play the A section in one of key.

Intermediate and advanced

Comping with walking bass-like line

I've always admired of how well piano players can play changes with walking bass lines. It's not so easy to accomplish on vibes. The way I attempt this requires some mallet dampening to keep everything sounding full and clean.

To get started you might try writing out a walking line to practice with, but ultimately you want to be able to create your voicings and "walking bass" spontaneously.