Vibraphone

So... Wow.

He is the man, huh?

in my lesson we talked about approaching practicing for a little, and tony reminded me of a bill evans quote.

"It's better to practice one tune for 24 hours than it is to practice 24 tunes in an hour."

I'm guessing he didn't mean literally to spend 24 straight hours on a tune, but i'm on break, and i've got some free time... we've been working on fried bananas in our lessons, and so in the next few days i'm going to pick a day to wake up at 8 or so, and practice fried bananas for 24 hours, with some breaks for food.

You and I by Rebel Bran and the Funky Orkestar

For those of you checking this out please enjoy!

hi people I do not know if you see that but it is interesting not?
it is a transcription solo of gary burton

amazing solo?
hi has a incredible fluidity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqlTmUzcAE

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Are you guys listening to our next TOTM Fried Bananas?
What tune is it based on?
Who wrote it??
What recordings are you listening to?

Start getting it in your system, it's a good tune.

Let's make this the research page for the tune. See what you can dig up.

i am on the site for almost 2 years now and i just want to encourage more people to post.to me it´s a little bit pity that there are so many members but most posts are done only by few memebers. i can for sure understand that many people don´t want to post something, because they think it´s not good enough to be listened by many vibes maniacs or the masters like david friedman or tony miceli. maybe i´m wrong but the main goal about posting is not "fishing for compliments" or try to make the perfect version of something.for sure getting a compliment is nice but that´s not really important.

I was thinking, we have tons of buried lessons and videos here. So if you can, take a second and find your favorite lesson and put 'Diggin' It Up' in the title.