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2016 - Jennifer Schmitz and Marie in Paris! :)

Hey everyone!

It's been ages since I last posted something on the site!

Surely some of you will recognize Jenny, a German vibist from the Wuppertal school from The Spring Vibes workshops of the past few years: she was in Paris for a few days... and guess: we could meet and share a nice pique nique near on the grace my work in Paris... near the Invalides Dome! :)

We had some great time with one of her friend who nicely took this picture!

7WOB - Groovin High - My Lessons

Here are my groovin High Lessons.

I've posted the main audio which contains Groovin High Melody and a Chord Study (2 separate pdfs)

Then you a quarter note solo (no audio) and a syncopated study in 3rds (pdf and audio).

If you're a beginner do the following:

  1. Play the melody, then follow it with the quarter note study and then take the melody out.
  2. Fill in the chords on the quarter note solo etude
  3. Post 2 recordings of Groovin high from Youtube that you like.

If you're intermediate:

Intro to Afro Blue by Thomas Mackay with Gerardo Velez and friends

aloha ..

sharing his amazing night of music with you all .. over the last couple months I've been working with the great percussionist from spyro gyra Gerardo Velez .. he invited me to be featured on his 2nd night at the blue note in hawaii .. we performed afro blue.. i did a little intro upfront before the band kicked in ,, the axe i used for the gig was the Malletkat double marimba sound ... bring quick setup and awesome for small stages ..

Mahalo

Cmin pentatonic groove

aloha VW

i hope everyone is safe and in good positive Vibe rations....

Joe locke recently posted an great article from a keyboard article that was based on concepts with the Minor penatonic scale.

using the Cmin pentatonic C Eb F G Bb this scale can be used over the following chords .. Cm7 Dbmaj7 Fsus7 and Aalt7 i made a play along progression based on these chords and improvised over them using this scale ..

the progression is Aalt7 / Dbmaj7/ Fsus7/ Cmin7...

fun stuff .. how to work this into all 12 keys