At one time i knew every MONK tune by heart. I played in a Monk band and over 2 years I had every tune down. 6 months after the band stopped playing, I knew about 1/3 and now, not really any except the ones everybody knows.

This is something we all have to face and as far as I'm concerned there's only one true answer here. Anyone know of any others?

I didn't know this tne untill I heard Tony play it. It's a beautiful tune, so I'll be studying this tune the coming week. I'll post audio at the end of this week.

Here I will post a list of tunes that I really know by heart. Like Tony says, if you really know a tune you've got to be able to play it through 12 keys. So that's my goal here.
I'll only post tunes that I put to the test of playing through 12 keys. So this is gonna be a hard list at first, but think it will get easier when I do this a lot. Let's see what happens.

The list will be below, will be adding the first tunes soon... I hope...

1. tune 1...
2. tune 2...
3. tune 3...
4. tune 4...
5. tune 5...

This is the Milt solo from the alternate take of Don't Get Around Much Anymore. Check my transcription below, it's handwritten, but I think you guys will manage. If you really want a computer written transcription, post that comment here, then I'll do that.

Remember to first try to transcribe the solo yourself, you will get MUCH more out of it that way.

Here's a version of Stella by Starlight I did a long time ago...

Hello Everybody,

Here are some thoughts I'm struggling with as a drummer who has been playing loads of standards on drums and now trying to get to know all of these on vibes.

I kept looking at the Joy Spring solo and thinking ok, I'll work this up again and post it so you guys can hear what it sounds like. But there's something about pulling out stuff that's old and spending the time to learn it again. I want to do new stuff. So I wussed out, however here's a midi, that will help you here some of the stuff! It's attached to the lesson, the lesson is above, so you can get to it right from here.

Here is a duet of Stella by Starlight. I did this one with Tony a few years ago.
I think my part is not that great, but you get an idea of what you can do with these duets.
I also added Tony's part for you to play along. Remember if you don't know how to put the two parts together you can upload your part and we will put it together for you. Just make sure that you count or hit your sticks along with Tony so we can synch the parts together.

Have fun on this one!

Note: the play-along is available for download below

So I've added the feature that members can now blog. This might be a great way to keep in touch. Here's my challenge, that we all blog once a week if only a few sentences and talk about what we're working on and the challenges if any. Even questions about things.
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Here's mine:
For me as a player with 30 years now of playing experience, I'm always dealing with those 'long' term problems. I've transcribed so many solos, worked on so much stuff, that sometimes I can get depressed about it, especially when I think of what to work on.

A little experiment here. Subscribers can now blog. It might be a good way for us all to keep in touch. Why not start a blog and talk about what you're doing. Then some of the 'faculty' and respond.

There are 4 faculty members here. You've probably seen them all, myself, Tjaco, Patty and Behn. All good players with a lot to say. So maybe check in once a week and talk about what you're doing!