🚨 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!

Hello again! Here’s actually the second take that I got of Friedman 14, with the first one also up on my YouTube channel. I decided to use this one in particular because I think it has a better use of dynamics, although the tempo is a bit slower here. Any comments, questions, feedback, etc. is much appreciated!

Hey! This is another one of the Friedman Etudes that I recorded around a month ago. Any comments, questions, or feedback is gladly welcome!

Hi! Here a recording of Friedman 11 I got a month ago. Feel free to ask any questions or give any feedback about how I did, etc. in the comments down below!

🎵 Harmony Without Chords – Pt. 10: Putting It All Together

In Part 10, we bring together the core concepts from Parts 1–9 into a single, musical chorus over Minority by Gigi Gryce. This etude is designed not to feel like a technical study, but like a complete improvised statement — one that clearly implies harmony through line construction alone.

Throughout the chorus, you’ll hear: