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The theme of this lesson is to find something that YOU like when you play. Forget about judgement, and just listen. Find patterns that sound good, pick out melodies that sound familiar or make up new ones, experiment with different ways of striking the instrument. Try anything. Record and/or remember the things that you really like, and then later you can learn WHAT it is you played so that you can do it again, or be free to change it however you want.

Behn Gillece plays and talks about My Ideal.

im a true believe that the more the student practices ii V I progression and is able to recognize the progression on the fly, this will enable the player to play in most situations. Many times at jam session ive not known the head or did but not not well enough to play with the other players. so ill lay back and listen the the the form first, then the key, and then listen for turnarounds or odd changes, accidentals ect. once i have an idea where it is going ill dive in.

this play along is a cycle i use when practicing the ii V I progression ...

Chinese translation for Chinese students

要如何確保每天完整練到、學到東西！！！
就是假裝有觀眾在場！
像是，如果你練了一個項目兩個小時，比如blues，
在這兩個小時結束後，不管如何，你要確保自己假裝有一個小表演，所以把剛剛練的東西不能停下來的一次演完，就算有錯誤，也讓它過去。
如果你做每天這個練習，會有很大的幫助，

(Did I post this already? I don't think so.)

Here are some 4 mallet exercises I made a long time ago. These are just some ideas of how to create exercises to practice 4 mallet playing. I hope you like these. See the attachment for the pdf.

Man! Back in the day, I used to teach Behn Gillece. He came over today and recorded some lessons and a piece for the school and I learned a ton. Behn has come into his own and is a top notch vibe player! He talked about solo playing and then how to practice chord voicings.

I added some of the stuff to my practice routine! It came around in full circle. Amazing. To be honest he's the best student I ever had. He practiced EVERYTHING I gave him and came back with ideas and questions. Some lessons he'd be talking through the whole lesson. I'd just listen to what he did.

This is a pretty arrangement of Burt Bacharach's Alfie. It's a timeless tune with a great lyric. Check out Stevie Wonder's version on Youtube. It's killin.

A pdf of this arrangement is included. Remember.....make it sound beautiful!!