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Help! I'm trying to figure out how to get good sound on video. Please skip the mic placement advice, I know about that. This is worse than that. I need help with equipment and programs. I have Macbook, Garage Band, good mics, 2-channel Focusrite digital interphase that I'm using. I just go directly from the headphone jack of the interface to the mic jack of the canon camera. I tried using Garage Band and Imovie but I had a delay problem/sync between the video and audio. How can I learn this?

Much thanks to Roger Clerc for sending me this video at Pasic 2013 Mallettech booth. Tony and I didnt get a chance to get a photo in together, thankfully Roger took a short video of the Omega Vibraphone and Tony Demostrating some of the features.

I downloaded this tune from Christos' lesson. I had never heard it before. I was sitting at the piano reading it down and was captivated by it. Such a beautiful song. I'm playing it here just trying to be true to the melody and adding some simple accompaniment/counterpoint. The tune plays itself. Thanks Christos! Ed

Bela Fleck traveled to Africa to make a film and perform with local musicians. This excerpt features a giant marimba. The resonating chamber is a hole dug in the ground. The enormous hand carved bars a placed over the hole. I've never seen anything like it!

A short clip of some post-Thanksgiving practice on the Fats Waller classic Ain't Misbehavin'

A short clip of some post-Thanksgiving practice on Autumn Leaves

Last May I had to do a presentation for my job, so instead of a boring lecture I decided to have a recital and talk about my work in between pieces. It was a great success!

I finally uploaded the videos onto my computer, so I'll attach some of them here. Enjoy!

Some info:

1) An excerpt from Bettina Dreams of the Garden of Elves by David Friedman: David, I would love to hear your feedback on this one. I have my own constructive criticism but let me know what you think...
http://youtu.be/N5oZYzuaS-o

I think the new TOTM is a great selection. Alone Together is a very hip tune to play on. Thought I would post this from a past concert to perhaps generate some ideas and approaches to work on. This clip includes a few things like playing lines using four mallets, lines in octaves using four mallets, deadstrokes, right hand octaves with left hand four to the bar comping. As far as notes go, I'm using at times some pentatonics, motivic development, various chord scales, reharmonization. Sometimes if there's a II-7 V7, I'll just think V7. There is some over the bar line phrasing in the solo.

Hey
This is Blue in Green. I break up this impro etude in two videos.
The first video show how I can break the chord into arpeggios and the second is how to brake the chord into the bass note and the others notes of the chord. This is not a lesson and I really would appreciate your opinion (especially from the pros).

Thanks a lot
Dimitris

hey
Giant steps take 2 using the 3 pentatonics (f sharp / d / b flat) which I learned from Ed Saindon and John Swana.

thanks