I think this is a good track! I dig players that have and lived through the old school and are also trying the new stuff. the combination of it is really cool.

I also dig the showman stuff. He plays and looks at the audience and smiles, neither of things i do on stage. So this is pretty cool to me.

Another bablafon player. I love listening to this and hearing the kids in the background. Folk music is really cool. Ultimately it's what music is really about right?

Mike Balter's Joke of the Week.

Restricting your options is a great way to get freed up on the vibes.

I'm looking through some of these posts, looking at the replies, seeing the depth of some of these discussions and just flipping out.

Here we're talking about Musser models and there's all this feedback and then Gary chimes in with an in depth reply about the M-55 and the M-48. This is incredible!

I was just excited about all that and thought I would post my excitement.

man it must have been an interesting time when jazz got onto pop-culture tv!

Check out how this cat plays the vibes. Pretty different approach.

Here's lesson 5. Play a chord tone solo. Why? Well let's see if you know the chords. If I can put you in a box and ask you limit yourself and play a solo, and you can play through the tune and we hear the tune very clearly, then you know the chords. And you know how to simply play through the tune.

If you're having trouble then just play arpeggios for each chord. But play in time and play the chords where they fall.

I mean if you can't play a chord tone solo, then you just don't know the chords. So this exercise is to make sure you know the chords.