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This etude is based on the harmony of All the things you are. The idea is to play a basic structure of the chord (most of the time 3-7) with the Left Hand while the Right Hand is playing broken chords using some extensions of the chords or an upper structure triad. There's also a challenging rhythmic displacement (triplet on right hand against Left hand)

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Giovanni Perin

An excerpt from David Friedman's Workshop. Here he's talking about common tones.

Listen to this. I've given examples before. This works perfectly on the vibes. Can you imagine playing a jazz ballad with this 'style' of playing?

There's so much to learn from Bach. He's figured it all out. So maybe the vibes are not like the guitar or the piano, they're like the violin!!!! :-)

Yo guys,

One of the requests I get for the vibe hangs is that I'll devote time and answer some questions that people might be having.

I'm thinking about setting up some times 'office' hours. I can go online live for an hour here or there and if you guys have any questions we can talk about them. for now, i'd probably do it like the vibe hangs and you guys would have to type the questions. But I think we could get 3 or 4 of us on skype and try it like that sometime.

Here's some tips on soloing in 5/4