BOD Productions Music Services

01/08/2025

Some great pics from the JERRY COKER TRIBUTE Concert @ the University of TN Concert Hall this past October 24, 2024 celebrating the life and accomplishments of legendary jazz performer and educator, Jerry Coker. All of us as guest performers, students, and/or educators had pivotal moments and encounters in our lives with Jerry and his accomplished musical wife, Patty. It was a stellar evening and moment...one that I will not ever forget. And I will never forget the years I got to spend w/ Jerry as a student and as a colleague. Enjoy...!
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12/10/2024

Thought we would share this look back to 1980… The Madison Scouts! A totally different time for DCI as compared to now. We loved the activity then and we love the activity now! Check it out, and simply enjoy! If you marched during 1980, give a shout out!

12/05/2024

Am enjoying greatly performing w/ VINNIE and THE HITMEN for the past two days with another show tomorrow...! Love this off-the-hook pro group of individuals and the mission behind what we do...! If you get a chance...check out VINNIE and THE HITMEN online or somewhere LIVE...!

11/04/2024

Hey guys, regardless of what you may have seen posted concerning the concert times for 11-21-2024 @ the BARKING LEGS THEATER in Chattanooga, doors open at 7pm...showtime is 7:30pm-9:30pm...! See you guys there for a hip night of some cutting edge jazz featuring Edward Freytag, Alan Wyatt, Shawn Perkinson, William Ellis, Margherita Fava, and David Schwab!

10/29/2024

Just a quick reminder of how well these cats played...! Dig this battery and the writing massively...! Yep!

10/14/2024

Yes...these cats...tomorrow night (10-5-2024)...at THE 5 SPOT...in Nashville...showtime @ 6-8pm...doors open at 5:30pm...9 screamin' horns and 5 groovin' rhythm...classic and contemporary rock, pop, and R&B...$10.00 at the door...some of the BEST players in Nashvegas...! See you there...!!!
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come get your face melted off w/ the coolest wall of sound...EVER!

10/11/2024

Settled into my Hilton room in Tupelo, Mississippi... tomorrow I will spend the day as percussion adjudicator for the MHSAA/MBA Championships Festival and Competition! 33 units in the Festival and 10 units in the Competition...should be a super eventful day!

10/09/2024

Quick reach out to the band director cats in the Nashville and immediate surrounding areas...how would you like to have the coolest pro group of Nashville musicians do a concert/clinic for your music students (middle school to college)...at your school...during the school day...for FREE...! Yes...VINNIE and THE HITMEN have one spot open for one school on Dec 4...must be before noon...that will blow your kids away...! Those of you that have had VATH at your school can testify...please feel free to comment! 9 horns and 5 rhythm playing the hippest arrangements of current and classic pop, rock, and R&B tunes! AND your students get Q&A opportunities w/ these top session players that have toured and recorded with everyone you can imagine! Give VINNIE a shout ASAP and lock THE HITMEN in for your school...! VATH looks forward to being at YOUR school...!
December 4, 2024
Vinnie Ciesielski, [email protected]
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10/03/2024

As mentioned recently, I will be posting a tutorial vid performance weekly of a solo from my THE RUDIMENTAL COOKBOOK. The solos range from easy (beginning) to extremely advanced (advanced high school to collegiate)...the videos will be of great assistance to those preparing one or many of them for performances, competitive festivals, and/or auditions. Our first post is an easy level solo titled HOT LICKS, solo #1. Enjoy!
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"HOT LICKS" is written by Edward Freytag and is featured in The Rudimental Cookbook. HOT LICKS Solo #1 contains 5 PAS Standard Rudiments.Chapters0:00 Cookbo...

10/02/2024

Hey guys and gals...posted this back in July as our marching seasons got underway...thought it would be very helpful to many to re-post this now that we are in the heat of competition...enjoy!

"PRO-TIP: as we all are approaching the upcoming fall and the immersion into the marching arts, let me focus for a second on one element that I find to be an issue for most programs...snare tuning...! Each year as I judge a great variety of shows (and I will be doing several this year), I find that the number of snare lines that I hear as being "clean" are few and far between! And in many cases, I can tell by visually evaluating them that much great teaching is taking place, that ex*****on and stroke styles are spot on, that stroke styles and heights are under control, and that the written book is not unachievable. So what are (or is) the issue(s) that keep sending audible dirt to the press box? Well...if the performers' skill sets are in order...the issue is mostly tuning! Many instructors with backgrounds as performers in DCI and WGI are accustomed to playing on drums that are cranked to the moon and bone dry! Nothing wrong with that...until you expect 4 or 5 high school kids to play on drums tuned in that fashion to sound as clean as a DCI line. I promise...ain't gonna happen. And it all revolves around audible note lengths coming from our instruments. A great group of pristine players in a line tuned high and dry will likely come close to creating a sense of impact unity, henceforth, creating a clean statement. For example, a great DCI snare line. You can take those same drums and reduce the number of players and take away a portion of the skill sets and impact unity goes away creating a statement of dirt. Do your students a favor...once their skill sets and ex*****on abilities are in place, slightly drop the batter head pitch a bit...wet the bottoms slightly by also slightly lowering pitch and tuning the snares where they actually respond a bit creating a little more note length...and miracles happen...the same performers that couldn't play clean on the high/dry drums are now making a clean statement...! Please notice where I used the word SLIGHTLY...it is key to the success I'm referring to. AND...if we've paid attention over the past few years, even DCI lines have dropped pitch creating more note length...SLIGHTLY! Give it a shot with your group...I promise...it works...! There it is..."

09/29/2024

Also, seriously look into this one for your HS and undergraduate marimbists and pianists for concerts, solo & ensemble festivals, or auditions...! This one is killer...!

A LONG WINTER'S NIGHT is a four-mallet marimba/piano duet written for advanced high school to early collegiate percussionists. This work would be suitable for any percussion ensemble and/or student recital.

09/29/2024

Check this one out for your percussion students HS through undergrad...great material for your concerts, solo & ensemble fests, and auditions...!

Timpani Solo

09/29/2024

Super day judging percussion at the 20th annual Yellow Jacket Marching Invitational / 9-28-2024 / at Trousdale Co. HS in Hartsville, TN. Big thanks to Rob Joines for the invite to be on his panel. Congrats to all of the competiting groups today on their fine performances!
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09/15/2024

Quick disclaimer: NO, I am not promoting and selling T-shirts at the moment or any time unless I have a product promoting BOD Productions MUSIC Services...which at the moment, I do not...and NO, I am not endorsing or promoting any of the other crazy scams that the moronic scam click of sub-humans are promoting...! Hope that's perfectly clear...!!

09/02/2024

Be watching for more posts displaying Edward Freytag percussion compositions of various types and difficulty levels...solos, duets, quartets, quintets, percussion ensembles of all types...varying levels from beginning to YIKES...! More coming soon...!

08/25/2024

PRO-TIP...COPYRIGHT...please understand that any and all posting of print copyrighted music (without direct permission from writers and/or publishers) is a direct violation of PRINT copyright law and can/could result in legal action if not avoided or corrected. I am seeing from time to time postings of copyrighted materials that I have written on people's websites, pages, instagram pages, sharing sites, and in instructional youtube videos. I even see some posted on school band websites and music educator association websites. As much as I (as a writer) appreciate greatly the interest and use of my materials by the percussion and general music community (and appreciate greatly seeing/hearing my pieces/ensembles performed), the actual display of readable PRINT music is a violation without due consent from me or the publishers. Please cease asap to avoid legal action. Please FEEL FREE to post any videos or pictures of performances of my music by your students and/or yourself...much appreciated...as long as no READABLE print music can be seen. For questions or to seek potential permission to post print material, contact me directly at [email protected]. Thank you so much and thank you for loving my music...! Happy Drumming...!
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08/10/2024

Two of my favorite pics w/ gear in the FreyStudio...can't thank endorsers ever enough for making it possible for me to play all of these stellar goodies...! Love drumming...love music...love performing...love recording...love educating...love creatively writing music...just simply love being an artist...! Super thanks to Mrs. F for her undying support of my artistic life...! Hope at some point that many of you have had an outstanding artistic experience based on something I had the opportunity to do for you or with you...! Love all of you artsy guys and gals out there everywhere...!