Man Danny Gottlieb was playing the DrumKat today! It sounds just like a drum set!!

I'm curious about other people's experience with mallet break in. I have a set of mallets that sounded really harsh (i.e. too hard) when I first played them and now they sound really great.

Interesting sounds and nice playing ! Enjoy !

Thank you Mike Balter for making this years workshop a big success!!!

I thought you guys might like to see this. I've been using these mallets for about 3 or 4 months and they are great! Much lighter than the old ones and I'm able to play 4 mallets way easier. They last a really long time as well. Stefon also shows some interesting techniques.

This etude has a similarity to Etude No. 7, but focuses more on mallet dampening with ringing chords underneath. PDF is attached.

Behn

Here's a lesson I recorded for the trumpet site and thought some of you might be interested in it. Keep in mind that all of the examples I play will sound a step lower than what they are (because trumpet is a Bb instrument). So if I talk about G7(#9#5), it's really F7(#9#5).

Not a pretty sound!