Sunday night practice session with ascending Minor triads starting with Bb minor. Thinking about using various stickings including alternate and combination strokes as well as using all four mallets for the lines.
You all might want to check out and down load the new Christmas album by my "Generations Quartet, "A Christmas Gathering", a new take on Christmas.
Go to www.malletmuserecords.com and listen to some examples. If you like it you can…
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I am about to embark on the dissertation stage of my Ethnomusicology PhD program and my topic will be within the realm of music and disability studies (I know what you're thinking Tony, we just were talking about my other…
I struggle when I practice! It sucks striving for perfection and never achieving it. I guess I just look for better. However I think the end goal is perfection. It is a nice goal that none of us will ever reach, but some seem to get pretty…
I always wanted to test the material of plastic bottles (PETG) as resonance tubes. I have long searched for suitable material in the appropriate diameter grading.
Unfortunately, it is always the case that you have to buy a certain minimum…
“My Ideal” - One of my favorite songs composed in 1930 and played by one of my favorite pianists, Art Tatum. Art recorded it with Ben Webster as well as Coleman Hawkins.
"Samba e Amor" - a beautiful song by Brazilian composer Chico Buarque. Here's a simple version of the song played with an AAB form. Here's the lead sheet:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1okuOrqEVQlzHTDoxafJjD9V_K71rP8ag/view?…
Song for My Father is a Great tune to study mainly because it has a couple dom 9 chords. Not altered, not diminished, just a 9 chords. We can get rid of the root and the fifth and add the 9th and the 13th. I do this in this etude.
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