Los Angeles based musician, new baby daddy, hustling to make it happen.
Hi friends! It’s that time of year where the Ensemble Block team is publishing new videos for our friends in Texas for the All-State Audition Etudes. Working alongside this year’s selectors for Flute (Dr. Krista Jobson) and Percussion (Dr. Brian Zator), we’re excited to be expanding the offerings beyond percussion (multiple reference recordings and etudes) … More TMEA 2023-2024 Texas All-State 4-Mallet
TMEA ALL-STATE BAND PERCUSSION AUDITION ETUDES 2022-2023 Reference Recordings and Tutorial Video Series https://our.ensembleblock.com/portal/tmea Andante, Op. 241, No. 18 (A minor) Méthode pour la guitare by Ferdinando Carulli Anthology of Lute and Guitar Music for Marimba by Rebecca Kite Andante, adapted and transposed to D minor P. 20-21
It’s been almost a year since my last public youtube video. Since then, we’ve: moved into a new studio space given 20+ virtual masterclasses with high schools and colleges across the country met with many, many directors and teachers across the world started school for both kids! You’ve only made one video in a year? … More The last one was a year ago…
What a crazy year it’s been, very surreal in many ways as we come down to the final weeks of 2020. 🙏💙 While there’s a longer update to come, I’d like to start by sharing an event we’re hosting next week: Bret Kuhn: former Caption Head and Percussion arranger with 6 World Championships and 5 High … More Next Week! 🥁 Holiday Hands 2020
A large amount of my work time is now spent creating online articles, video lessons, digital products, and weekly live video streams for music students and teachers. While I’m able to continue serving my private lesson students through online video lessons, I realize it has been a struggle for many students and parents that are … More New Video Course! CBDA 2021 Percussion
Audio Version – listen on the go! For the past couple months, I’ve been experimenting with a content format in collaboration with my good friends, Karldrumtech, and Eric Carraway. Our weekly creative and business Mastermind Group has been a great source of inspiration and accountability for each other. We decided to begin recording our … More Using Video to Learn
On Passion Projects… The most meaningful work I’ve created has consistently been rooted in my passion projects. 2020 is about exploring some of these ideas that have marinating inside me this past year. OPEN CONSORTIUM First passion project experiment of 2020 will be a marimba solo. I’ve been reserving time to play almost every … More Open Consortium Project
If you feel overwhelmed, discouraged that you don’t know what you’re doing or that it’s just not good enough, know that’s normal. Several questions this week coming in about upcoming auditions, and even some colleagues asking: “What do I do when I get overwhelmed?” My answer: All I can do is try my … More Everybody Starts Somewhere
#ASKHUEI Hello! I’m a snare player in my marching band I’m trying out for a dci group for the first time and I’m sort really nervous. I was wondering if you had any practice tips you wouldn’t sharing, especially on how to build singles and multiple strokes (triple and double beat). What’s up, Allen! When … More #ASKHUEI: Double Strokes and Triple Strokes
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