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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GK-AA2zcC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpG6UGXqAK4

hi guys here's some sketches from my tour in Australia, hope u enjoy

Hey Guys,

This is a video of my mallet duo M-DUR and my good friend singer TOMKO FAHNSTER playing the tune TIME by TOM WAITS.

voc - Tomko Fahnster
vib - Hauke Renken
mar - Patrick Stapleton

Patrick and me played a few gigs this summer, most of the time in churches in the north of Germany, and we had this new song on our setlist. For us it was often the highlight of the evening. So much fun to play!!! :)

What do you think? Thanks for some comments and critics! :)

Hauke