listen to the recording.. doesnt sound much the same.
wow whos that guy whos played for 3 years and isnt half as good o_o four mallet just needs getting used to and then a song like this may take a few weeks -_- took me like three weeks this summer to get used to it -_-
hey do you have Sheet music for this, cause some wierd kid in my percussion section used to play this and its just something that gets stuck in your head
hey dude nice job, alot of the problem was just the type of marimba. Something that seems like would be a good thing for you to work on, would be to play the notes out of the keys, and think more of lifting the sound instead of just playing the bar with a mallet. Alot of your strokes are just down into the notes. I just started learning this yesterday and have about the first page down, and i must say this is a very fun piece to play.
That marimba that he is playing on is the same model one of the ones at my school; trust me, it rings a lot, which hinders the clarity. I don't know the solo, but for a public preformence (I know that when I publicly preform my solo's, my hands get sweaty and my mallets 1 and 4 start to slip slightly) it sounds great. Nice job! I might actually look into learning this solo one day.
hey dude u did awesome mann!!!!! thats a really hard four mallet solo dont worry bout the mistakes, everyone needs improvement!!! if you want my opinion i think you're good enough to join an independent world class drum corps!!!!!!! go for it dude!
Got to Tapspace and listen to the recording of "Parody" there. It sounds great. Listen for the spots you need to work on. I would even suggest a slightly harder mallet or a two-tone mallet.
With a time limit of 3 minutes...either cut more out, or pick a different piece, but this sounds slaughtered. You needed more time to slow it down, get it accurate, and make it more musical. I love this solo though.
Nice job dude, this is a really cool song. A couple rough parts and accuracy problems, maybe shape some of the phrasing more, and the contest time limit thing is unfortunate, but still you've inspired me to learn this piece (which i'm having alot of fun doing).
I bet if you tried recording it again you might have better luck with the notes and shaping the musical phrases and come out with an even better take. :)
Good General Skills - Make music out of it now, you can generate some power without always playing so high - especially on ripples. Think where is each line going towards, a landing point, or coming away from. Also it sounds so ringy it it almost like a vibe solo.
yeah it sounds like nerves just got the better of you. you gradually just kept speeding up. youre slow section sounds pretty good though. just use some more dynamics and phrasings for some better musical shaping purposes.
work on clarity more than anything. also work on musical expression because without them, this piece sounds too frantic. slow it down and concentrate on making it sound more musical. i played this piece a while back also
Could be just the nerves...but many note accuracy issues. Fast does not mean good, so slow it down and fix those notes. Perform it a little more to the audience, exaggerate your body movements and emotion. Look up every once and a while as well. I couldn't tell whether or not you were done in the end, so express that to the audience.
he stops, and just starts shaking his hands and then moves down to the lower register and shakes his hands some more and then..."oh, ok, I'm done" When he's done playing he needs to stop moving and allow the ending to sink in.
Lots of accuracy problems. The section with the moving fifth bassline needs some work. When it hits the upper register you're repeating the same part over and over, make sure you take a look at the notes, it has changes in it. Try to make the piece flow a little more, it has huge tempo changes which disrupt the flow of the piece. Start it slower so you can play the harder sections without drastically changing tempo. Try raising the marimba too, seems too low for you.
Ugh I just never put all my thoughts into one comment, sorry. I just wanted to say that your appearance in this performance looks very good and energetic. Very professional looking.
By the way if you're going to do another 4-mallet piece, I would look at one by Keiko Abe. You can find some music by her on <www.steveweissmusic.com>. My recommendation would be one called "Frogs".
Very nice performance, love the four mallet. Great piece too! Challenging, definitely not elevator music. You were playing in a gym though weren't you? To bad, acoustics are always nuts in a gymnasium... it is always so insulting to musicians to play in a gym...
Oh Coooooooool. Started four mallets about a year ago, too, but we barely played them at all. Now my hands are pretty much shot from doing it so much the past week.
oh and by the way, adams or yamaha marimbas rock..i have an adams marimba in my basement and a 4.5 yamaha accoustalon at my school. fun. and (about the first comment about go die, that was a friend. so thanks for not gettin pissed. heh)
im in California, And cool i have a four and a third Vancore padulk in my kitchen that i got a week or two ago. Doesnt owning a marimba rule. And cool about the first. I just got a superior in solo and ensemble.
i wish i had a rosewood to play on, thanks. Yeah, im experimenting with quite a bit of different mallets to try and minimize the ringing of the keylon. So far ive found balters to be the best.
no, i agree with you fully, i did a bad job and rushed the hell out of it. It was a couple months ago, and its cleaned up alot. Ill post a newer one soon. I would also like to add that i didnt play it as it was origionaly written, where was alot of stuff that i changed and addapted to my playing.
count your restss.. you're rushing o_o
listen to the recording.. doesnt sound much the same.
wow whos that guy whos played for 3 years and isnt half as good o_o four mallet just needs getting used to and then a song like this may take a few weeks -_- took me like three weeks this summer to get used to it -_-
abacus101 4 years ago
Good Job.
I love playing the marimba.
I've been playing...... three years now?
I'm not half as good.
That's amazing.
=]
xxawwxsugarxx 4 years ago
hey do you have Sheet music for this, cause some wierd kid in my percussion section used to play this and its just something that gets stuck in your head
P3rcuss10n 4 years ago
Do you go to Foster?
AlphaFalconX 4 years ago
good job on playnig this man. i know its a demanding piece. were you in a gym?
blindbmx941 4 years ago
muy bueno
6863654 4 years ago
sand down the ends of ur mallets or put on grip tape if ur hands get really sweaty
whit5ney 4 years ago
sanding down mallets (that have varnish on them) is a good idea...but you have to use FINE GRIT sandpaper...
skidrum11 4 years ago
hey dude nice job, alot of the problem was just the type of marimba. Something that seems like would be a good thing for you to work on, would be to play the notes out of the keys, and think more of lifting the sound instead of just playing the bar with a mallet. Alot of your strokes are just down into the notes. I just started learning this yesterday and have about the first page down, and i must say this is a very fun piece to play.
Percussionizer 4 years ago
That marimba that he is playing on is the same model one of the ones at my school; trust me, it rings a lot, which hinders the clarity. I don't know the solo, but for a public preformence (I know that when I publicly preform my solo's, my hands get sweaty and my mallets 1 and 4 start to slip slightly) it sounds great. Nice job! I might actually look into learning this solo one day.
quadium32 4 years ago
hey dude u did awesome mann!!!!! thats a really hard four mallet solo dont worry bout the mistakes, everyone needs improvement!!! if you want my opinion i think you're good enough to join an independent world class drum corps!!!!!!! go for it dude!
biggz512 4 years ago
your are hitting wrong notes all over the place buddy
xtwotheesee 4 years ago
Hahahaha the ending... funny, well played though:)
Admin022 4 years ago
I can play this solo :) it's FUN.
bombadillo2 4 years ago
Got to Tapspace and listen to the recording of "Parody" there. It sounds great. Listen for the spots you need to work on. I would even suggest a slightly harder mallet or a two-tone mallet.
drbdrmmr 4 years ago
i agree, he is really talented
Brukei101 4 years ago
every ones a critic get off his back i bet none of you could play as gd as tht!
pikmenpikmen 5 years ago
With a time limit of 3 minutes...either cut more out, or pick a different piece, but this sounds slaughtered. You needed more time to slow it down, get it accurate, and make it more musical. I love this solo though.
dmbchic 5 years ago
Nice job dude, this is a really cool song. A couple rough parts and accuracy problems, maybe shape some of the phrasing more, and the contest time limit thing is unfortunate, but still you've inspired me to learn this piece (which i'm having alot of fun doing).
I bet if you tried recording it again you might have better luck with the notes and shaping the musical phrases and come out with an even better take. :)
abmiram161 5 years ago
Good General Skills - Make music out of it now, you can generate some power without always playing so high - especially on ripples. Think where is each line going towards, a landing point, or coming away from. Also it sounds so ringy it it almost like a vibe solo.
BosPercussion 5 years ago
yeah it sounds like nerves just got the better of you. you gradually just kept speeding up. youre slow section sounds pretty good though. just use some more dynamics and phrasings for some better musical shaping purposes.
poweredbydrums 5 years ago
work on clarity more than anything. also work on musical expression because without them, this piece sounds too frantic. slow it down and concentrate on making it sound more musical. i played this piece a while back also
IIImasamuneIII 5 years ago
Could be just the nerves...but many note accuracy issues. Fast does not mean good, so slow it down and fix those notes. Perform it a little more to the audience, exaggerate your body movements and emotion. Look up every once and a while as well. I couldn't tell whether or not you were done in the end, so express that to the audience.
htbeatsnr 5 years ago
I have a marimba but its a billion times smaller and im not that good Im a native Guatemalan so I practice
Sergiotheisafish 5 years ago
When you're done playing, make it look like you're done playing.
jm615 5 years ago
lol.... what the hell does that mean?
youknowme650 5 years ago
he stops, and just starts shaking his hands and then moves down to the lower register and shakes his hands some more and then..."oh, ok, I'm done" When he's done playing he needs to stop moving and allow the ending to sink in.
jm615 5 years ago
Lots of accuracy problems. The section with the moving fifth bassline needs some work. When it hits the upper register you're repeating the same part over and over, make sure you take a look at the notes, it has changes in it. Try to make the piece flow a little more, it has huge tempo changes which disrupt the flow of the piece. Start it slower so you can play the harder sections without drastically changing tempo. Try raising the marimba too, seems too low for you.
knifemundo 5 years ago
thats pretty good but you cut out some parts why?
michaelwr80 5 years ago
We had a time limit of three minuets.
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
Time limits on your solo, that's fucking crazy!
TXHC956 5 years ago
good! I'm from Spain and I would know the name of this piece. I love marimba. Thanks!
kikems 5 years ago
Good Job My friend played this same peice at the Gala. He played it a little slower to make it sound more musical.
Good Job thoungh. I play marimba I'M not god enough to play that peice yet. But it was cool.
Trwkeys 5 years ago
Ugh I just never put all my thoughts into one comment, sorry. I just wanted to say that your appearance in this performance looks very good and energetic. Very professional looking.
garebearfoster06 5 years ago
By the way if you're going to do another 4-mallet piece, I would look at one by Keiko Abe. You can find some music by her on <www.steveweissmusic.com>. My recommendation would be one called "Frogs".
garebearfoster06 5 years ago
good job
garebearfoster06 5 years ago
there were a few wrong notes and the style is off. not musical enough
BrentSaul 5 years ago
Very nice performance, love the four mallet. Great piece too! Challenging, definitely not elevator music. You were playing in a gym though weren't you? To bad, acoustics are always nuts in a gymnasium... it is always so insulting to musicians to play in a gym...
Great job!
annolyn 5 years ago
i heard wrong notes and the dinamics are not the best but i still think that it was very good.
btman2 5 years ago
i agree 100 percent, i realy need to post a new video
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
That's a very nice piece! I'm not familiar with it myself, but I really enjoyed the performance :-)
BriarCub73 5 years ago
I play marimba, and i play four mallet. But you are amazing.
rythmman 5 years ago
its a difficult intellectual piece. cool. not elevator.
joetheufo 5 years ago
do you know where i can get recordings of songs?
btman2 5 years ago
great performace!...unfortanately this piece doesn't do anything for me. It's just elevator music, really.
iluvperkushun 5 years ago
well i want to know what elevator your on? let me know
standtall2000 5 years ago
Or English..
stormin20 5 years ago
^_^ lol Good one...
broccolivirgin 5 years ago
hopefully when i get 2 hi-school the'll teach me 4-malleted
guy787970 5 years ago
Oh Coooooooool. Started four mallets about a year ago, too, but we barely played them at all. Now my hands are pretty much shot from doing it so much the past week.
CollyPocket 5 years ago
I love marimba. How long have you been playing?
CollyPocket 5 years ago
from then i had been playing four mallets about a year, now its been a year and a half.
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
at the time of that video about a year, but that was awhile ago
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
I like the mirimba
chad410 5 years ago
Wow, i just broke the one thousand views mark. Cool!!!
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
I would love it if you played the monkey island theme.
ofolde 5 years ago
oh and by the way, adams or yamaha marimbas rock..i have an adams marimba in my basement and a 4.5 yamaha accoustalon at my school. fun. and (about the first comment about go die, that was a friend. so thanks for not gettin pissed. heh)
malletstud 5 years ago
im in California, And cool i have a four and a third Vancore padulk in my kitchen that i got a week or two ago. Doesnt owning a marimba rule. And cool about the first. I just got a superior in solo and ensemble.
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
how long ago was this..?
recent?
you got some work to do.
malletstud 5 years ago
WOW!
b0blee 5 years ago
i cant believe how evil that was to watch.
die.
malletstud 5 years ago
is that good or bad?
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
ITS TERRIBLE!!!!!! GOD!!!!!! I WANT TO KILL MYSELF!!!!!!
....
play easier solos.
malletstud 5 years ago
Man, I wish I had chops like that as a Junior in high school :) Keep up the good work.
linguamortua 5 years ago
The sound quality isn't fantastic, so I can't tell if you're making mistakes in some sections or what. You played it very nicely; I love this solo.
I would have played it on a rosewood, just because the Keelon rings way too much and this peice needs to be so articulate.
Nice, nice job though.
stickfiguremovies 5 years ago
i wish i had a rosewood to play on, thanks. Yeah, im experimenting with quite a bit of different mallets to try and minimize the ringing of the keylon. So far ive found balters to be the best.
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
if you want me to, ill post a vid of this too, but i know what im talking about.
shazaam.
malletstud 5 years ago
no, i agree with you fully, i did a bad job and rushed the hell out of it. It was a couple months ago, and its cleaned up alot. Ill post a newer one soon. I would also like to add that i didnt play it as it was origionaly written, where was alot of stuff that i changed and addapted to my playing.
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
mhm. i played Nocturnal dance in Feb. and got 1st. it was fun. yeah...1st in MN
what state are you out of?
malletstud 5 years ago
Hey Stephan, Great job. I hope it was fun!!!
contrasoos 5 years ago
keep up the good work, i know that what your doing isnt close to being easy. I luv it.
edmils559 5 years ago
Mr. Ferenci taught you all that? He is one of the greatest if not the greatest band teacher on the planet.
edmils559 5 years ago
yep, he realy helped me troughout all of the work
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago
that's great!! lovin' it!
dalem 5 years ago
thanks
ioaLosernerd 5 years ago