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Here are my groovin High Lessons.

I've posted the main audio which contains Groovin High Melody and a Chord Study (2 separate pdfs)

Then you a quarter note solo (no audio) and a syncopated study in 3rds (pdf and audio).

If you're a beginner do the following:

1. Play the melody, then follow it with the quarter note study and then take the melody out.
2. Fill in the chords on the quarter note solo etude
3. Post 2 recordings of Groovin high from Youtube that you like.

If you're intermediate:

What's great about this site is that a week can be a month or a year!!!

Check out this Parker lick. I thought it would be interesting for your guys to play it through the keys and learn from it. Very simple and to the point, but it weaves through the changes like Bach!

I won't tell you guys any more about it, why don't you figure stuff out and post it in the comments.

I'll give a free pair of my mallets to the first person who posts a record of them playing it without stopping and through all the keys.

Here's some ideas for comping in a slow 5/4.

If you need a break from the lines festival, here's some additional ideas for tune endings!