With Julian Lage, Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez.
Killer stuff!
"'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk - After 43 straight years of teaching at Berklee, I'm officially on a sabbatical for the upcoming Fall semester. My sabbatical project is the recording of videos that feature solo vibraphone techniques along with the application of improvisational concepts from my 4 volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation. Some of the concepts in this clip include the application of Upper Structure Triads, the Symmetrical Diminished scale and the Pentatonic b2 scale.
I am honored to have been a part of this beautiful project.
A little warmup on the marimba this morning playing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade” before putting in a full day of teaching at Berklee in Boston. Using my signature (M39) mallets from Vic Firth.
"Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone. A beautiful theme from the movie "Once Upon A Time In America". This is an arrangement that I wrote for my upcoming book Pedaling and Dampening for the Vibraphone. I loved the theme when I heard it and so many others of the great composer. The piece involves a variety of dampening techniques that will be covered in the book including slide dampening, hand dampening and pivot dampening. Much of the exercises, etudes and pieces are written and I just started to chip away at the text. Fun but challenging stuff.
by Chick Corea (with intro)
I restructured my website bilingually and started a new "Do It Yourself" - section.
A first DIY tutorial is creating pickups for mallet instruments.
www.wyndorps.de
Good luck!
"A Place in Time" - solo vibraphone version of a new song inspired by two of my favorite composers - Ennio Morricone who wrote the theme for the movie "Cinema Paradiso" and Luis Bacalov who wrote the theme for "Il Postino". The song has some unexpected harmonic twists and was a bit of a challenge to pull off in terms of keeping it consistent and maintaining the mood of the piece.
Short excerpt from a practice session yesterday playing “Solar” which is a 12 bar blues. One of the ways I like to practice is to play non stop with sort of a “stream of consciousness” approach with little planned as possible. Sometimes some good stuff and sometimes not so much. Ha!Ha!