Marimba

Here is an alternate version of a solo marimba interpretation of my composition Life's Blessing. 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

This clip was videotaped in the Percussion Department at Berklee. Mallets are my signature model from Vic Firth and the marimba is a Marimba One owned by marimbist Eriko Daimo.

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

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.

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.

I think I've posted this before but I'm not sure. This would make a great EOTM (Exercise of the Month). Might not be as easy as it looks. The left hand plays the double stops.

Vince Lardere, a great local alto player came to University of the Arts and did a workshop on the bebop scale that the students LOVED. So I asked Vince to come over so I can video the workshop. This was great stuff. So maybe we should start a little series on 'Lines and Licks'.

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