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"A Treasured Moment" - an original that I recorded with strings first and then with vibraphone played over the strings track. I'm a huge fan of the great film composers like Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Hans Zimmer and many others. I love how the film music enhances the mood and feelings in the films. I wrote this composition with that in mind and as the inspiration.

"Skylark", a classic ballad by the great composer Hoagy Carmichael. One of my favorite ballads with wonderful versions from a long list of vocalists and instrumentalists. Composed by Carmichael in 1941 with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

"Satin Doll" by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn while experimenting with the combination of solo vibraphone and hi hats. Always fun playing these classics in the style of my favorite pianists who are masters in this "older style" of playing which embraces such devices/techniques as a "four to the bar feel", octaves in the right hand, block chords,... Some of those pianists include Art Tatum, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Teddy Wilson, Dave McKenna, Errol Garner, Ralph Sutton and Dick Hyman.

See the attached PDF for notation

Here is David Friedman's Etude 9 from "Friedman-Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling".