Rest in peace to one of my earliest and most profound inspirations! I attached a clip of one of my earliest performances on vibes (late high school). I played drums and piano long before this so I had harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary already and stuff, but this was one of my first real performances on the instrument, and I was obsessed with the Chick/Gary duos at the time, so I chose this tune.

(ESP) Bienvenidx a Vibesworkshop.com ! Tuve una gran clase con un alumno mío. Estamos trabajando las posiciones abiertas y cerradas de acordes, además de utilizarlos por toda la escala. Casi siempre sugiero que se trabaje una mano a la vez, pero se nos ocurrió una alternativa que musicalmente hablando tiene sentido. Entonces, es muy simple, lo que vas a hacer es tocar Do mayor, (tan fácil no?). Vamos a tocar este acorde moviendo una mano por vez, pero la que no se mueve se queda en donde estaba, entonces muevo esta mano (la derecha) por arriba y dejo esta mano (la izquierda) abajo.

Hola!
Sobre un coro de Autumn leaves, armé este solo aplicando siempre escalas pentatonicas mayores.
Por ejemplo: En los acordes dominantes utilizé la b5P (es decir Ab para el D7, o F para el B7b9), en el caso de los -7b5 utilizé la b6p (es decir D para el Fa#-7b5) y así...
Siempre buscando que en la escala elegidas se escuchen tensiones de esos acordes.

On an earlier post, I suggested an idea of creating Good Vibes at www.PIPERvibe.com by helping other artists. In my years working as a musician and then as a rescuer serving the population of many different types, I learned a lot about myself and what I really enjoy doing. I learned that even when I was the "boss" over my fire crew in Antarctica, I loved to cook, clean, and serve them during down time. It creates good vibes for me while serving others. This translates also to goals in music.

I just love this solo!

Me and drummer that will never miss a beat. Things to do with this drummer.

[ESP] Yo y un baterista que nunca se va del pulso. Cosas para hacer con este baterista.

So here's the deal.

I have a Sibelius file and a midi file and an xml file. So there's a way to use this with any notation file or even DAW that you have.

I put down chord tones on the beat. You fill in the off beats with notes from the scale (the rests).

Make musical sense. Half step below is fine. Half above has to be in the scale.
Listen to it and make changes to make it sound as good as you can. it won't sound super great but parts of it you will like and you can play. I recommend playing the whole solo.

Play along with me and Drum Genius!