Patrick Tiglao wrote:Here is one of my humble tributes to the Master.

Excellent! That's got to be the most difficult pop song to execute well and you nailed it. Must have taken a fair bit of practise.

I love this song and Gadd swings so hard on it.

Ride cymbal collapses at 4:00 and at 5:00 he gets angry. Like a child throwing his toys out of the pram.

Agreed, that Nate Wood piece is absolutely excellent.
Love the music as well as the mind boggling instrument multi tasking.

Vinnie interviewed his greatest teacher. Chafee invited Vinnie to check out, learn and play a piece of music by someone called Ben Johnston that he says is the hardest rhythmic piece ever written. Quite something to say considering how difficult the black page is. https://youtu.be/5XTSlwfl_sI?si=T8R...

I'm not sure if it's something I knew but forgot about or wasn't aware of before today, but an interesting little detail is that the very ending of 'Monmouth College Fight' (@ 6:14) from Montreux 1981 with Ricky Lawson and Yellow Jackets, and the ending of 'You're So Square' (@ 4:24) with Vinnie and...

Even seeing it written down and having it explained, it's still hard to get my head around and would take me months to play correctly. Such is the genius of VC.