I had the privilege to play in my university's top jazz ensemble this semester. Here's an informal recording we did at the end of the semester of Milt Jackson's "The Prophet Speaks". It's a rather unusual 20 bar blues. Fun to blow on! I'm hoping to do some more recording in the New Year.

-Tristan

Piper Flyer Vibraphone is in its new practice/performance room in the Chapel of the Snows - Antarctica. The instrument plays great but setting it up leaves a lot to be desired. So, there's a more work yet to be done to make this instrument the perfect professional touring vibraphone. It is also the first vibraphone to make it onto the continent of Antarctica. I'm so glad I have it with me.

Day 5: We've combined the top note passing tones with the inner voice passing tones. It's a little tricky to complete all this dampening in tempo, so be sure to pick a nice, relaxed pace to work at!

Hi guys,
wish you a happy new year filled with good vibrations!

Best,
Stefan

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Day 4: Rather than having the top notes of the chords as the passing tones, we've changed the passing tones to inner voicings. These passing tones have the b9, which creates a different tension.

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OK so it's 4 bars. Play it twice :-)

Get it under your hands and play it in C. Every few days play it in another key.

REMEMBER: play all these exercises in time. That is learn them and then make sure you can play it in time. Don't learn them out of time and then move on. Get it?

This is a great exercise to help you really start thinking about comping through the scales.

It's the A section to Little Sunflower harmonized in block chords.

It's easy and if you know the tune you'll easily play it in D minor.

Keep it around and whenever you want do the exercise HOWEVER do it different keys. This will really help your comping as you will start moving the chords up and down the keys.

Day 3: There are additional passing tones in m2, 4, and 6. M2 and 4 have b13 passing tones. This adds some tension to the voicings. As in the other lessons, dampen and create legato transitions between the notes.