You are a great teatcher! The best I've ever seen. You realize people's dream of playing jazz! Thankyou!

I bought the Killer Vibes Book a few days ago. Wonderful. Over 200 pages of brilliant instruction and clear well defined levels of play. You have worked diligently for years perfecting your technique and understandings of music. You nailed the method of starting simply and adding layers of harmonic depth and melodic invention.. I can't thank you enough for the monumental contribution you have made to my life.

@TimCollinsVibes

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad you dig it. It is definitely the culmination of a lot of work.

I'm a pianist and this has really helped me - the work on pentatonic scales will pay off!

Thanks!!

Great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

I would love to see your analysis and an etude (or "levels" of learning) for the tune "It Could Happen To You"

This video is so helpful, even for a pianist!

I love the new style so far!

Great Lesson! Great Etude!

Great lesson! Thank you!

Congratulations! Great lesson!!

I wish I had a music teacher like this guy when I was growing up.

This is awesome! I didn't know where to start with the vibraphone before these videos!

Thank you very much for this great tutorial and your good job !!✌

thanks a lot young Master...you are now my new and super teacher...thank you tim...

Lovely video thank you Tim - am inspired to start to learn jazz!

Great skills to learn

You're very much The Piano player Sir! AWESOME Teacher!

I'm writing from Argentina. Great lesson ! Thank you very much, I enjoyed it and I learned a lot.

Hé! Thanks very much mr Collins! Great! Let me go study these scales! I've been singing this melody in the past.

Thank you!!

Excellent instructional video. It's a lot easier thinking of 5 tone centers instead of all the chords.

Gracias y salud!

this really spells it out for me as a guitar player. Thank you sir!

Another great post Tim ! Your phrasing is super and have a very clean technique. Your videos helps me improve my sight reading. Cherokee would be a good one.

Actually working on “All The Things You are” right now. Found this video to be really helpful. Working also on Summertime, and Little Boat.

You are a great player, I wish we was in the same neck of the woods. I I am a jazz pianist I grew up as a child listening to Cal tjader on one hand and Charlie Parker on the other playing all the standards, I love bebop and swing. Bird and those cats left us a music that if played right it comes to life.. I like the sound of those vibes, you put a lot of love in what you play... Oh by the way, you are a great teacher.

I love your phrasing Tim!

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Let me know if you are ever down 'south' in Munich.

Hi Tim thanks for your videos! I’m practicing your soloetude and I‘ m really glad I found it.Im looking for some new inspiration for that tune I‘ m playing the same lines over and over again! I’m sure this will help

I like your videos. You're articulate and very understandable. Good Job.

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm trying to get better.

Thank you for this lesson! "Chega de saudade" would be nice

Great video and teaching! Suggestions: Autumn Leaves, Blue Bassa, Fly me to the Moon

Tim, thanks so much for taking the time to create these excellent lessons! I have learned so much from you. Could you teach improvising on Coltrane’s Moment’s Notice? Thanks!!!

Beautiful Love (Young), Darn that Dream (Van Heusen), Night Dreamer (Shorter), Bluesette (Thielemans), Misty (Garner), Very Early (Evans), Much appreciated!

i think this is best jazz tutorial !!!!!

thank you so mucch

Thanx! you save my life

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

haha - glad I could help, jazz can seem like life and death sometimes

Please, a video about soloing over My little suede shoes by Charlie Parker. Thanks Tim.

Yes😍, on green dolphin street

ime going to have a look into this for the keyboard ,i am interested in latin jazz ,with great tunes like carlos jobim childrens games

I would love to see your analysis of "Donna Lee"!

How one approaches teaching All The Things You Are may be my new standard for whether I subscribe or unsubscribe to a musician’s channel. Subscribed and liked. :) Cheers, Daniel

Thank you. Would enjoy a video tutorial on “Lester Left Town” by Wayne Shorter.

Love the class! Pls make Stella by Starlight!

thanx man u r great

This guy is bananas good

Love these-how about Just friends, Green Dolphin, Wave, All of me

Hey Tim! I really enjoy your videos. I was wondering if you've considered doing a video about soloing over ballads. I'm playing Sophisticated Lady on a recital coming up and improvising over that tune is proving to be pretty tricky. Thanks man. Keep making awesome content!

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

ah yes - another great topic idea. I will definitely put that on the list! As a starting point, make sure you can really play the melody, and then improvise around it..on Sophisticated Lady specifically, I don't try to do too much on those descending dominant chords. Leaving space and playing slow rhythms is perfectly OK on ballads!

You Are Great !! Thank you Sir🙏 Could you teach Us too for the song "Giant Step"?

Great lesson! Really clear and efficient. As a fretless bass player, I won't expect to play pentatonic scales as fluently as you do, but anyway, this is very useful for me. Thanks!!!

@patrickkelcey2435

9 ай бұрын

Isn't he great... And I'm a sax player... Tenor...like it matters... It's all good.

Tune Up

Amazing video... thank you! #SeeYouInThreeMonths

Please make more tutorial about jazz piano... thanks

Hi Tim from Julie the Melodica player great video as usual i am working on this song right now thank you

@TimCollinsVibes

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear from you! Have fun

im a guitar player and this helped me gonna practice for 6 months hahah

@jonathanhilliard9772

5 жыл бұрын

lone wolf I’m a bass player and this is super helpful for practicing solos (when I have any haha)

@DaddySantaClaus

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone is entitled to solo 😂 I play bass too but just blues

I hope you’ve heard “ATTYA” on Hank Garland’s “Jazz Winds from a New Direction” with Gary Burton at age 17.

I'm only 3 minutes in and already have to say I love the elemental approach. Understanding the concept of key centres really unlocked the next level of improvisation for me, and this is a great presentation (and extension) of this approach. Thanks Tim! Edit: ooooh see you in 3 months I guess

@TimCollinsVibes

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@F20ization

Жыл бұрын

@@TimCollinsVibes thank you for this video tutorial,i would like to ask you if you know any international program that offers grade 1-8 then diploma in jazz music for every instruments include guitar,as it exists in classical music?

Sounds great, would like to hear you interpret and also give some tips on Lazy bird, that bridge kills me every time.

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

This is actually one of my favorite Coltrane tunes - one tip is that I tend to ignore the V chord in all of the ii-V progressions and just improvise over the 'ii' instead. It's a lot less thinking. Definitely a good vid topic though, I'll put it on the list :)

good job!!!!!! 🤣

I'll need those 6 months but I have some new direction to work with...thanks

And funny thing, I almost skipped this lesson all together. There are a lot of options to choose from when skimming thru all the thumbnail images for videos on this song. So I said to myself...."Why should I bother watching this? The guy is wearing a sweat jacket....what kind of a jazz musician is going to make a god video wearing that?" Should never judge! So I was wrong, and I am so glad I made my way hear. You are helping me understand the basics of music theory and I never got it until today, now I am beginning to grasp the big picture and now I don't feel so lonely when I pick up my guitar.

@TimCollinsVibes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate your comments- I do sometimes go back and look at old videos that I’ve made and see how I can improve upon them. Maybe I should think about a new thumbnail for this one :) I’m glad this helped you. Cheers, Tim

@yellowmagicdog3350

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimCollinsVibes Really though, I am wrong to judge someone for that....your video is GREAT! For the first time in my life you are helping me to understand some music theory in a way that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much!

@TimCollinsVibes

3 жыл бұрын

@@yellowmagicdog3350 That's ok - it is something that people do subconsciously as well - so I need to keep it in mind for future videos. If you have suggestions for other topics you'd like to see, please let me know!

Lucky Southern by Keith Jarrett

Please, please, please demo Blues for Alice - Tricky tune to get right...

Hi Tim, great video. I was wondering how you identified the key centres and where they stop and start. Thanks!

@TimCollinsVibes

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Benjamin, it's the dominant 7th chords in this song that give it away (not in every song though). Dominant 7th chords are the 5 chord, and from there we can figure out what the 1 chord is, and also backtrack to identify the 6-3-2-5 before the 1.

Hey Tim, just starting out as a jazz vibes player (played drumset for years) and loving your videos. I'm starting on lv1. Do you have a video explaining how you figure out the key centers for each area of the tune. It's not always obvious sometimes, especially when it's seemingly changing every bar. Thanks

@TimCollinsVibes

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a great question- the giveaway is to find the Dominant 7th chord resolving to a major (or minor) chord.. that’s your “1”.

Donna Lee, Beatrice

If you haven't already done so, tutorials for There Will Never be Another You and Just Friends

Have You Met Miss Jones, Joshua, Nica's Dream, E.S.P.

This was wonderful. Thank you! I'm ready to practice the etude, though I can't find the download link on your website. Is it possible to provide that? Thanks again!

@TimCollinsVibes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The link is under “Sheet Music” and then “Vibes Etudes”

Do you mind to show us the process of how you incorporate new vocab into ur playing and also the process of how you practice the same line in different contexts to familiarize with it?

@TimCollinsVibes

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea. I can try

Tim you are Fantastic!! can I ask one infomation? that brand name of you microfhones. you sound is very very good. best regards Dan

@TimCollinsVibes

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think in this video I just used the Zoom H4 for recording the vibes.

Hey Tim, i really enjoy your videos, great work! i know this is a bit more advantage, but i would love to see you do the tune bebop by dizzy, concerning the issues of playing a fast tune which changes in it's A Section only between f minor and C7. That would be a tremendous source of inspiration, as always! Greets, Harald

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

I learned a great tip from a Barry Harris workshop years ago specifically for this tune - but I still find it difficult. Remember that the C7 isn't all that important - you can just improvise on F minor. Conversely, if the tune only had F minor, you could put the C7 in whenever you want and it will still sound good. The C7 is there to give some harmonic direction to the line, but it's still basically just F minor.

@ditschnluis1

6 жыл бұрын

so simple, but so true.... thanks for the advice!! i've got another idea for a song for a video, but guess you have enough yet: misty!

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

I can never have too many suggestions... ;) It just takes me awhile to get through them all so be patient!

@ditschnluis1

6 жыл бұрын

i will, rest assured.... ;) your videos are really great and a great source of inspiration, not only in learning and applying myself, but also for teaching and how to explain and verbalize different kinds of stuff! Great Job!!!

"You Stepped Out of a Dream"

BLUE BOSSA & BLUE IN GREEN

is there any chance to get a transcription of a solo of this wonderful song ???

@TimCollinsVibes

Жыл бұрын

Yes - just check the description.

Love ur Cat : D

Could you please do an episode on "Deep Purple"? The standard not the band lol. One of my favorites.

@TimCollinsVibes

4 жыл бұрын

I have to admit, I don't know that tune.. but I love learning new ones, so I'll have to check it out!

@luvpants2012

4 жыл бұрын

Tim Collins I'm new to Jazz and it's the first song I'm doing a chord analysis on after watching some youtube videos. Deep Purple is in F. Was just working on it. Here's the sweet progression. F F#/D7 (secondary dominant) Gm C7 F Cm (borrowed chord from parallel minor key) D7 Gm B flat minor(another borrowed chord from key of Fm) Am D7 Gm C7 Cadence F F#/D7 Gm C7 I'm not sure about the secondary dominant chord name, might be F#dim instead of F#/D7? Are they essentially the same? I'm 50 years old, hope it's not too late to learn this lol.

@luvpants2012

4 жыл бұрын

Tim Collins the version I'm working from is on this album. Frank Vignola is a master. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGaqz4-lqby3YJc.html

Tim you're a virtuoso on Vibraphone. Playing piano as well?

A Night in Tunisia

When is the top 10 jobim tunes vid coming out?😅😅

@TimCollinsVibes

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yea- it will definitely happen I promise! It’s just buried in the cacophony of my brain at the moment :)

Can you play work song? Milt jackson

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Nice pick ;)

Half-bred Apache (Getz)

I’m not sure if it’s cheating to ask for two but Smoke gets in your Eyes. By Jerome Kern

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Sure - ask away! That's a great tune.

Maybe donna lee

Body and Soul Please

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

That's a very good idea... thanks

Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock!

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes - you requested this before and I actually filmed it, only to have the SD card in my camera die, so I lost the video footage. I think this one has some broad appeal as well so it's on the list ;)

A taste of honey by Lionel Hampton

I like your cat

no moe? watch what happens?..and hope you can share some idea about how practice syncopation into a tune

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! Rhythm is definitely going to be an upcoming topic.

Misty!

Anthropology ? Half Nelson ?

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't done any rhythm changes yet, so this is a good idea. Thanks for the suggestions!

Beautiful love please

What kind of mallets are those ?

@TimCollinsVibes

6 жыл бұрын

Those are the old Albright Mallets - unfortunately not made anymore.

@timetravelers4682

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for all your teachings!!! I am learning too much at every day!!!

@thomasmccutchen8680

2 жыл бұрын

@@TimCollinsVibes they do sound great. Similar to the Milt Jackson mallets from Pro Mark. Also check out the new Drew Tucker mallets from IP! Awesome video as usual.

Cat! :)

Homeboy is ripped, what strain are you smoking, Jazz CAT!?

@TimCollinsVibes

3 жыл бұрын

actually I was recovering from a bad cold when I filmed this. Stereotypes abound though I guess.

The way to be a better jazz player is to own a cat

Instead of a tune...perhaps a style...Bossa Nova...? Thank you.

Cat has no melodic sense, but great sense of time!

Are you high? Haha nice video

@TimCollinsVibes

5 жыл бұрын

Haha- I was pretty sick when I recorded this video if I remember correctly

Is it sad I play vibraphone songs on my glockenspiel