I can't resist posting you this vid of Ed Saindon in duet and trio!
Shame on me, I don't know that much of his musical recordings, but I truly dig this performance!
And with a special "best of" for me with the third sample, around 4"44:…
This is a clip from the 1960's featuring Canadian jazz musician Don Thompson on vibes. Don is a quadruple threat on vibes, piano, bass and drums and plays them all with virtuosic aplomb. He started out as a bassist with the John Handy…
Here are some 4 mallet exercises I made a long time ago. These are just some ideas of how to create exercises to practice 4 mallet playing. I hope you like these. See the attachment for the pdf.
I've watched the video I linked to above here several times now. There is a whole study out of how this guy plays. And I think if any 2 mallet player incorporated that into his playing he opens up a whole new world of things.
Since the…
Can I ask you guys a favor? Could you go into itunes and then go to the store, search for 'Percussion Geeks'. Then just write a glowing review of the video podcast.
I would REALLY appreciate it. Even subscribe to it if you can. It will…
I mentioned something about swiss drummers in another post and thought I would post this. This is pretty amazing to see. It's called basel drums, and they play with these realy thick sticks and most off the rolls they do are not using…
