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Mike Pinto came over to hang out and we played a few tunes. Here's Jitterbug Waltz

Here's me trying to delve into Mike's world with cell structures and all the rest. The sounds are different for me as well as the approach. It was interesting because things would happen and I would think sounded bad and Mike really dug it. I don't play like this too often and musical taste is definitely acquired.

I thought it would be interested to post this to see a pretty mainstream player trying to play this way!

Mike Pinto came over to hang out and play. Here he is playing over Chick's Children Song #2.

Here's a quick and dirty cop this groove. I'm just trying out a new inexpensive camera and I wanted to shoot something quick and I had a 'Cop This Groove' lesson in mind. So I just did a quick recording. Very imperfect but the groove is still there. So cop it!!

this is my version of tonys cherokee etude. i spent a lot of time on this but unfortunatley i couldn´t do one take (and marie did forbid me to cheat and to cut 2 or 3 versions together!) without mistakes. this is the best one take i could find...with video proof :)
normally i should spent more time on this to get rid of the mistakes now but after recording many versions i´m tiered of this song and give up with this one.

Guidetones are heavy!

I won't be writing stuff out. We're going to use our ears. I know already that that's very difficult with 15 vibe players in the room, but the alternative of writing stuff out just doesn't work for me.

You might want to get into the swing of things by transcribing a little bit each day. Take a solo and just go 1 bar a day.

We're going to sing also, so you might want to put on Aebersold and start singing solos and getting into the swing of things.

More to come!

I'm here working on some forms I have to fill out and have Pandora playing a John Adams Station I made. All of sudden this marimba comes on and it's beautiful and articulate and stops me dead in my tracks. It's Evelyn Glennie and I just go WTF.

She plays great. How does she do it? What is she hearing? I hear her talk about it, but sometimes I go yeah right. But man she can play.

See if you can cop this