Bach: Double in B Minor (Sonata II) - Sonatas and Partitas for the Violin. Exploring and improvising on Bach's music today. I love Bach's music and his Sonatas and Partitas are among my favorites. I'm a big fan of Itzhak Perlman's recording of these Sonatas and Partitas. The students and I get a lot from studying and playing Bach's music as well as using some of the progressions in the pieces to improvise on. The harmony in his music is brilliant and contains beautiful inherent lines and a wonderful sense of logic.

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Deagan, with the motor on and two mallets. As Milt said, that’s a vibraphone.

“Da Blues” - warming up today on my favorite set of vibes at Berklee. An old, beat up but great sounding vibe that we bought used many years for $1,500.

“It Might As Well Be Spring” - a great song by Rodgers and Hammerstein written for the 1945 film State Fair. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. I was reminded of the song listening to the superb recording Last Dance by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden. They play a beautiful version of the song. I’m using my signature mallets (M39) from Vic Firth. Very happy with how they sound in terms of clarity, fullness and the ability to extract nuance from the instrument at all dynamic levels.

Links from past posts.

https://youtu.be/OZSJv0enGU4

https://youtu.be/q8qMnDp3Lo0

https://youtu.be/MwRE-9N308Y

https://youtu.be/Gq0IZ94YS5o

Me playing Bag's Groove.

There are other songs on my youtube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3BdE9H18n59kyeoLZevzg?view_as=subscr…

Enjoy!

Kurt Schleunes