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sorry for posting again but today i gave it one more try and i made this version which i liked much more...also the video quality is better...so i hope you don´t mind given me a second chance :)
this is the last version promised....

winter is almost gone i thought its time to make a solo vibe version of tune i wrote few years ago called "spring time". inspired by tonys cherokee etude with the walking bass i tried to apply it here in the b part. man thats so hard for me to do (as you can hear). i worked on it the whole week and its still not without mistakes but i dont care.

another problem for me with this tune was that i get faster while playing it.i practized with metronom but if i do wihout i always rush, maybe i hear it that fast in my head but just can´t play it.anyway here it is...

Just a quick video talking about a conceptual sort of thing. Working on going from here to there!

Helllo all. We are going to have a live internet tv station every Wednesday night a starting at 7 PM. The site is alternatemode.tv

It is a mogulus station. If you want to participate and perform live, let me know (mariokatman@gmail.com)

Besides performances, it will be a place to get your questions answered live. The focus for now will be the malletKAT.

Hope to see you there.

Take a break, this is really funny.

This is a great video of Gary sitting in with a big band in poland.

Thanks to tifoo for finding this.

I exchanged a couple nice emails with Gary Burton. He was suprised to see his video of Chega. I would imagine that that would be pretty heavy if you didn't know it existed and saw it after all this years. That's the 60's?

I'm a Gary fan from way back. When I first heard Chega, I almost cried and died. I had never thought it was possible to do that on the instrument. I'm not alone am I?

Joe's off in Idaho or somewhere playing a tribute to Lionel Hampton. I told him he better smile and grunt alot. Any other advice for Joe. I hope he plays Stardust. I know one of his solos is a transcribed Lionel solo!! I would LOVE to hear Joe copping a Lionel solo.

I just wanted to pass along a message to everyone. The site is growing, and there are a lot of high profile vibe players starting to check out the site. I'm getting email from many of these guys, some are already here. I grant them all full access to the site and ask and hope they'll get involved a little. I'm asking them to use their real names for OUR benefit, not theirs. I think when you guys see Joe Locke on the site that it's probably pretty inspiring. How about when you see Joe, Ed, Friedman,Piper and Mainieri all on the site at the same time. That's an amazing roundtable, huh?