🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 2

Last week we built the foundation of our blues comping using guide tones and the Charleston rhythm. The goal was simple: clear harmony and solid time.

This week we’ll start adding a little more movement to the voicings.

Instead of keeping the upper voice mostly static, we’ll move the top note of the chord to create two different sounds for the same harmony. Even a small change in the top note can dramatically change how the voicing feels.

My Rendition of Friedmans Dampening Etude. 5

Friedman 9 Dampening Etude

Hello! I have attached a link to a youtube playlist which contains all of my lesson material for the last month. Thanks

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2ia_j36ngaDEfKtQhc4BOtiwMqQStjG&si…

🚨 New Series Alert – Play a Great Blues in 3 Months

Back in January at the World Vibes Congress, I shared materials from my Working on Time series — focusing on pulse, clarity, and guide tone awareness on the vibraphone 

A lot of that material centered around one idea:

If your time and your guide tones are clear, the music makes sense.

This new 15-week track builds directly on that foundation — but now we apply it to something practical:

🎵 Playing a great blues.

Great stuff here! 

This is some old great stuff! 

Hello once more! This is the last one of the Etudes I’m uploading today. I’m actually happy with how this one turned out, and with some minor things here or there I don’t think there was as much issue putting this one together as I was thinking. Any comments, questions, feedback, etc. is much appreciated!

Hello again! This is a take I got of Friedman #15 last week. I’m open to all comments, questions and suggestions that anyone might have!