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Hey VibesWorkshop,

I just wanted to share some thoughts here....
Tonight I was thinking about my vibes practicing, and jazz practicing more in general....
As you know, my set of vibes (my dear old Deagan from 1942) is not at my home anymore, but in the practice room. The thing is that I don't practice anymore at home. Before that, I didn't really practice at home, I simply couldn't get focused enough. That's why I got the practice space...

Anyway, I just figured out I had a MIDI piano, and maybe I could work on some things with it?

Hi everyone,

Here's an article which will be in the upcoming July issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. The article is titled "The Healing" and details the recording session of Depth of Emotion which featured saxist Dave Liebman, drummer Mark Walker, bassist David Clark and myself on vibes, marimba and piano. The article also discusses the compositional and improvisational aspects of my original composition The Healing.

Here's the article: http://edsaindon.com/documents/The_Healing_PAS_July_Issue.pdf

Hey guys!

Here I play a transcription of a Milt Jackson Solo to All The Things You Are.
Recording is 'Mostly MJQ - Disc 1'

Normally I always play with the recording, but this time I wanted to try to play without recording and without metronome.
The goal was that you can snip your fingers on 2 and 4 through the whol solo :-)

The tempo is a bit slower than the original...

Tell me if it works for you!?

best, Charly

I came across this. Man Lalo, beside talent, has a great sense of humour... but that music is very serious! I had never tought about it before...

Enjoy!

- M

As promised... here is the second part of our little tour of crazy instruments.

So this time, Florian performing "Au Clair de la Lune", on what could be called a "Metalo-Elastic-Phone". Sorry that you will in fact hear more the children having fun around than the sound of the instrument! :o)

Enjoy,

- M

I saw a handbell player this weekend at a local art fest. I saw she had mallets and asked for a demo. I didn't know that handbells could be played with mallets.

The thing that interested me was that they can ring out when they are laying down on the table. She showed me that under the cloth was a thick foam cushion. This allowed some ringing, but with some dampening to shorten the ring duration.

Barry

Hey guys,

Here's a version of Jobim's How Insensitive. Thanks go to Gustavo for doing the editing of this concert footage.

Ed

In my town there is a special fiest for Children one week end per year. A giant firework on Friday night, all kinds of shows around the place, and in a park tons of games, sports, manual activities, actors in costums on stilts etc...

It's this week end a we are back from our little tour in the park. And there we saw a good dozen of amazing giant instruments, each one more nuts than its neighbour! (old saucepans as drums, weird huge wheel full of plastic bottle corks, other strange recycled percussions, etc...)

Speechless...