Ed On The Web:
I'll be at the Academy of Music for a clinic hosted by Peter Sadlo and Arnold Riedhammer on Thursday, March 11th at 2:00 PM. The clinic will cover some of the following: the Fulcrum Grip, dampening, improvisation and solo playing. For more information, please contact me at edsaindon@berklee.edu
We just added a new article available for download. The article is titled Four Note Groupings, Part One and will be in the upcoming March issue of The Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. The article is an excerpt from my new book on improvisation which I'm in the process of finishing. The book has been a long and tedious (but enjoyable) project which I began in 2009. The book addresses a long list of improvisational concepts which I explain and illustrate via musical examples and sample solos. If anyone would like to be on a list to be notified when it's finished, just send me an email.
We just launched this new version of my website. My thanks to Jon Letsky for his expertise and hard work in getting the new site up and running. The site includes some new features including the Video section with links to all of my YouTube videos. An upcoming feature will be an interactive Shop Talk section where discussions on various topics can be posted by anyone that is interested in airing their comments, views and questions.
It may have taken awhile, but we finalized the design for my new Signature model mallet from Vic Firth. The mallet features a weighted core, three layers of latex and tightly wrapped thin yarn. I was looking to create an all purpose mallet for vibes and marimba that sounded good from playing solo to performing with a band. The mallet creates a very big sound, sounds fat and round while still retaining clarity at all dynamic levels.
The Vic Firth site also features my artist page which has been updated. The page now features videoclips from Berklee Vibe Night (group performance of "The Last Goodbye" and "The Healing" from Depth of Emotion), video excerpts from my PASIC 2006 vibraphone clinic in Austin, Texas, links to PDF downloads to some of my past Percussive Notes articles and soundclips from Depth of Emotion with saxist Dave Liebman and Key Play with pianist Kenny Werner.
The concert with Dave Liebman, Matt Wilsin and David Clark on Monday, February 2nd this past year at the University of New Hampshire was a lot of fun. The band featured Lieb on soprano and tenor, Matt Wilson on drums, David Clark on bass and myself on vibes, marimba and piano. We performed music from Depth of Emotion along with some of my new originals and a few standards. The concert was videotaped and clips from the concert are now up on YouTube. All of my YouTube clips can be directly viewed in the Videos section of the website. Free download audioclips of the concert are available in the Recordings section of the website.
