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Hey Guys,

This is a video of my mallet duo M-DUR and my good friend singer TOMKO FAHNSTER playing the tune TIME by TOM WAITS.

voc - Tomko Fahnster
vib - Hauke Renken
mar - Patrick Stapleton

Patrick and me played a few gigs this summer, most of the time in churches in the north of Germany, and we had this new song on our setlist. For us it was often the highlight of the evening. So much fun to play!!! :)

What do you think? Thanks for some comments and critics! :)

Hauke

hey guys
I've practicing giant steps these days and this is a video of me using the 3 major pentatonics concept which I learned from Ed Saindon and John Swana (teacher at UARTS).

My time is rushing and I think that my right hand is louder that the left.
What do you think?

thanks
Dimitrios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOFJdTNk-E
Sorry, i changed it from private to unlisted so now it can be viewed.

This is my practise in the tune sophisticated lady. Simple but my goal was to to play the melody and the chords.

Hi
This is a tune I am working for the vibe hang. This is my etude....

Bye!

Hello
Since we are practising Duke Ellington's tune I am going to play try to play the tune called melancholia which is a greek word and it means I am very sad (it's actual a medical term).
I could play it with a bass player or by myself....

See you all soon!

Dampening etude #3

I saw that Tony and Behn selected Summertime and Wave for TOTM. Both great songs. Here's a clip that I made in my studio with good friend and bassist Mark Carlsen. I love anything written by Carlos Jobim. There are so many great compositions that he has written. I'm using some different scales (including symmetrical diminished) on some of the changes here as well as some techniques using upper structure triads and triad pairs.

Hey guys, this is a clip that was just featured on the Vic Firth YT channel. The footage is from a concert that took place in Boston this past July as part of the Berklee Percussion Festival. The channel will be adding more clips from the concert over the next few weeks. This clip features my composition "The Healing" (which can be downloaded from my website). The band includes: Matt Marvuglio on flute, Marco Pignataro on tenor, David Clark on bass and Ron Savage on drums.