Hi everyone -

I got an email from Tony, with an "invitation" link to Dropbox. The URL did not match Dropbox. I fear that I have been phished...

the url was "glentor.vu", which seems to have mirrored the Dropbox site, and is a known phishing op.

Hopefully I'm wrong and paranoid or whatever, but I don't think so.

Does anyone know about this? 

When I was younger, I would spend hours with my sisters and my friends sitting around listening to records, sometimes the same record repeatedly for hours.   Sure, I would also spend a lot of time in a transcription mode, trying to learn the drum parts.   But, beyond the learning processes of becoming a musician, there was a significant amount of my recreational time spent just listening to music.

🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 10

Over the past five weeks, we've gradually expanded our rhythm changes vocabulary.

We've explored:

• Guide-tone lines
• Embellished 3rds and 7ths
• Chromatic approaches
• Diminished and bebop scale language
• Chord-tone based improvisation

This week, we begin bringing many of those ideas together.

👉 Chord outlinings, scale motion, and substitute chord changes.

🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 9

Over the past four weeks, we've been steadily building a melodic vocabulary for rhythm changes.

We've explored:

• Guide tones (3rds and 7ths)
• Embellished guide-tone lines
• Chromatic and flat 9 dominant language
• Diminished and bebop scale vocabulary

This week, we shift our focus to another essential improvisational concept:

👉 Using chord tones to build melodic lines.

Retired a while back and now have the time to get more serious about the vibes.  Thought the 15 week thing would be a good place to begin.  So here is my lesson 1 stuff.

My four root notes are F, Ab, B, and D.  I think of the vibes as an F-centric instrument, so F.  Going up or down a major or minor third takes it in more of a sharp key or flat key direction, so Ab and D.  And B is a tritone away, which takes you as far from the original key as possible.

Here we go!

From F - all modes, muting and open/close, improvisation all modes