🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 7

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been working with phrases drawn from Milt Jackson’s vocabulary, building full choruses from short melodic ideas.

This week, we continue that approach—but with a specific focus:

👉 Using augmented triads over dominant chords

You’ll notice that certain moments in the chorus highlight the sound of the augmented triad (1–3–#5), giving the lines a bit more tension and forward motion.

1. make it sound like the tune! Does mine sound like the tune?
2. Lots of chord tones
3. Memorize my version and follow it with yours and post it.

Autumn Leaves Quarter Note Solo, All Octaves, From Memory

Look at this? It's Eb maj 7 rootless. 

1. hit the root and the first closed position then go up the scale one note back and down one note.
2. first position open, up one down one
3. second position closed then open up and down 1
4. third position same
5. fourth position same

Can you figure out how to do the same thing in other keys? 

Any questions? 

I see some small mistakes but over all this is very good! If you are new to the vibraphone you should go through it.

The Golden Bars: 15 Weeks of Jazz Vibraphone

Friedman 15 Pedaling Etude

Friedman Pedaling Exercise 

🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 6

So far, we’ve been developing lines using guide tones—focusing on 3rds and 7ths to clearly outline the harmony.

This week, we take that idea one step further.

👉 Instead of creating lines from scratch, we’re working with real vocabulary drawn from Milt Jackson transcriptions.

I’ve taken a few short phrases and used them to build a full chorus etude, showing how a small idea can be developed across an entire blues form.

Here’s my Take of Dampening and Pedaling Etude #19! Any comments, questions, and feedback is greatly appreciated

Friedman 12 (under tempo)