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I've been up in the mountains this week. Brought my gear up. Lots of time to think and practice. Here is a stream of consciousness about the tune Peace.

Do you guys get stuff out of posts like these? This is pretty advanced stuff I think and you do have to know the tune well to follow me. But this is how me and my buddies teach each other stuff, we play stuff and talk about it. I do this on this tune, he does this over here, copped this off a record of Chick playing this over this tune, and on.

Lesson in June left me with two tasks.

I recently acquired a marimba, and started messing around with some stuff!

More questions on comping.

1. What rhythms should you use? There are all of the charleston variations. Stride quarter note feel. Then there is the modern broken rhythms like you hear Chick and Herbie use a lot. But when and where do you play these?

It's funny. I don't even know the Charleston variations! You know I just bought some cd's and listened to a few of the guys play and tried to imitate it. Then since then I just kept listening to things and picking up things. My advice is just listen to a few of the stride players and then try and recreate it on the vibes.