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This another short practice video working on "Tangerine." There is a brief warm up then a take of the arrangement I have been working on. If anyone is interested, I can write it out and post a pdf. The next step is putting it all together with some improvising.

I am doing a lot of teaching this semester. Probably the most I have ever done. It's really hard for a musician to turn work down. Well for me it is. 

It's a lot of fun teaching students who practice and work hard. Not as much fun teaching students with lots of excuses. 

I do have a bunch of good students though so that helps. Here's an exercise I made for one of them to work on the Bebop dom scale. Learn it, memorize it and play it fast!!!!

Friedman Etude 8

I put on a  C drone and did my best to improvise through the seven modes.

Recorded in the USM School of Music 

Recorded in The USM School of Music 

This is a performance of Friedman 13.

This is a piece that I wrote for an assignment in Tony Micelli’s private vibraphone lessons on vibesworkshop.com

I called it “He Laid upon the Ground” because I came up with the melody while I was laying in the floor of a practice room at USM.

You’ll have to forgive the hesitation close to the end, but otherwise, enjoy!

Many years ago I heard a recording of Joel M. Ross on Youtube where he had taped his mallets. I found the subtle noise when playing very interesting, but the mallets were always too expensive for me to ruin the winding with tape. 
With my mallet winding machine, I was able to take up the idea from back then again and made my first test mallet with a "striking sound".
The video contains a first quick & dirty test and describes how I made the mallet.