I have an effects pedal that has a very basic looper on it, so I decided to get it out yesterday and see what happened. Insensatez is a tune I use a lot because it sounds cool as a fast samba or partito alto funk, but it sounds just as good as a slow ballad. This is the version I came up with Saturday morning, let me know what you think!

Joe Locke showed me a cool scale that Olivier Messiaen used to write with. I found out later that it's a MOLT (Modes of Limited Transposition), which is pretty interesting. A major scale transposes into 7 variations and a diminished scale 2 (if I understand this correctly).

At the end of our 2010 workshop at the University of Delaware, we will perform a final concert in this beautiful theatre.

This is an inexpensive hotel in Limerick and is 5 minutes walking distance from where we do our workshops. The website is: http://limerickhotels.jurysinns.com/

Did you ever watch a video or listen to music and it just seemed nice. Not flashy or anything just nice? I keep coming back to this video and just like it. This guy's not doing anything spectacular but I think it's simple and cool.

Isn't that the art of making music? To ALSO be able to play simply and capture a listener? I think of folk guys like John Prine and Steve Earl and others who just play simple music but it holds your attention!

Ok just thinking out loud here.

Part 3 of this lesson is not using time to help you outline harmony and create lines that are clear.

In the first half of the video is a Morello Drum solo. It's pretty smokin.

Hi all,

I'd like to introduce for those who don't know him Emmanuel Séjourné, a great mallet master here in France.

He's a great pedagogue, composer, player, with appart from mastery, humor and fantasy.

He's playing here a marimba piece with six mallets, a few partners... and fun!

His website: http://www.emmanuelsejourne.com/

Enjoy!

- M

In Part 2 of my Upper Structure series I use a Maj Triad built off of the 7th scale degree of a Major 7 chord.
So if we are playing a Cmaj the upper structure would be a Bmaj triad.
I use this mainly to suspend the Maj7th chord. So instead of directly playing C maj I play a Bmaj Triad and then play the C maj chord.

Check out the video and if you have any questions please post them!

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