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Let's face it, not every gig allows us to play the difficult and hip jazz tunes we all spend hours shedding. Even many of the best known standards are completely foreign (and possibly boring) to a large section of general audiences today.

So what to play for all those restaurant and casual gigs that might hire a solo vibes player as an alternative to a pianist or guitarist? It's surprising how well many tunes from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even the 90s will translate to solo vibes. Tunes people will generally recognize and appreciate are great choices to sprinkle into your sets.

I was recently talking with a student about playing in slow motion. I think I've talked about it here before, but I thought I'd do a little reminder on the topic.

This was mentioned in the comments so I thought I'd post it as a new post.

How about this? You guys want to post a whole bunch of links here about the subject for others to check out?

Here is a video I made today just talking about learing tunes.

I guess there are a lot of drummers on the site that already know a lot of tunes on drums, but switching to the vibes is like learning them all over again.

Here I talk about something I'll be experimenting with myself and I hope some of you guys will find this usefull.

TJ

Here are some ideas for using voicings made from 5ths and 6ths. There is a pdf file that goes along with this that gives most possible interval combinations. Some of the last few on the pdf are very dissonant but might have their use. If you come up with some more ideas for chord/voicing relationships, please "pass them on in".

Play the last 8 bars!

Chinese translation for Chinese students

其實這樣的Intro不只可以用在Days of Ｗine and Roses，最後8小節當作intro的方式，是一種很普遍演奏Intro的方式。
Aminor A7（增加色彩） \ Dminor \Bminor7b5 \Bb7(or E7) \ Aminor7 D7 \Gminor7 C7 \ FMajor7 \C13 or Calt. \

Intro的功能，是讓觀眾聽到曲子的鋪陳，所以盡量明確的給出和弦的性質，
必要的時候，也可以演奏根音，讓觀眾的耳朵先熟悉聲音。
另外intro一定要明確的讓樂團跟到，音樂走向（和弦\節奏）不夠清楚的話，
樂團中其他團員會很困惑，不知道什麼時候要進音樂。
你可以模仿Tony的節奏，或者是聽出他用怎麼樣的Voicing, 或著是她加上了什麼樣的旋律線條在其中。
試著去模仿。