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Hey guys, here's a solo marimba clip of me playing my composition Life's Blessing. Tony and I had recorded some videoclips of that tune in the past as a project. The lead sheet can be viewed and downloaded in PDF format from my website. Here's the link: http://www.edsaindon.com/documents/Lifes_Blessing.pdf

I just listened to Tony's excellent post on bringing the four mallets into play when soloing. This clip sort of applies to that topic.

Ed

This is a short etude I recently wrote aimed at improving my single hand dampening. Listen out for the continuous C5 under the moving harmonies..

Hey guys,

I got some more video that someone shot at my last trio gig, and was able to marry it with a clip I took with my phone for a slick "two-camera" production. Ha ha, pretty neat.... but what's crazy is that in low light, the iPhone video looks almost as good as the stuff from his two-thousand dollar DV camera.

Thanks to all for the nice comments on the last one, hope u enjoy!

SS

My interpretation on solo marimba of Eric Clapton's deep and powerful song Tears In Heaven. Clapton's version on his Unplugged recording is very special. Also, there is a beautiful verson by Kenny Werner on his recording Form and Fantasy.

A new solo marimba clip of Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from the movie Cinema Paradiso. A beautiful melody from Morricone. I first heard this song from a fantastic recording of Joe Locke that features movie themes. Every track is a gem on the CD. On this clip, I play the theme and improvise a bit while periodically weaving in the theme of the composition.

Very Interesting speech and very nice music (as usual with Gary !).

This free improve video is from a concert I did in October at UD with The Real Vocal String Quartet, a great group from the SF area. This was totally unrehearsed. I'll post some tunes I did with them later.

Hi VW friends,

Here is a gig video I shot by putting my iPhone next to me during the set. See what you think of this mash-up of Duke & Paul, two of my favorites.

(ps. someone else shot some good video of this gig, so maybe I will get some more to post in the future...)

Steve

This piece is the 1st movement from Bach's violin sonata # 1. There's lots of opportunity for mallet dampening. The goal is to get it to sound full and resonant, but very clean. As you move from chord to chord use good dampening and/or pedaling to make sure no notes from the previous chord ring into the current chord; making it sound sloppy.

The tempo is really slow, with an 8th note set to about 50 on the metronome. A pdf of the manuscript is included HERE