i played this at my Vanguard winter audition like a week ago. at my individual with the instructors, i found out one of them was this same guy! so trippy! i didn't even know. his name is Grayson and as you can see in this video, he has mad chops.
Lastly, play at a speed where you can choose where on the bars you are going to strike with all 4 mallets, not just the one taking most of your attention. Especially near the end of the piece, (ignoring wrong notes, that happens to everyone even LHS once in a while) if you listen closely you will find yourself hitting the nodes quite a bit, which emphasizes the overtones of the bar over the fundamental pitch and takes away from the richness of sound.
As far as the actual performance goes, not bad. Your "recording engineer" should be farther away and at a different height than the keyboard (high overtones come out the ends of the bars more than the fundamental pitch) to eliminate that clanky sound. A higher quality instrument helps but you can overcome that somewhat if you find a spot on stage where there is a reflective (sound, not light) surface close to the low end and the high end is out in open space.
Just thought I should point out that Eric Sammut IMPROVISED this on the spot, many many times, and this published version is just kind of an average length compromise to get something down on paper. I have heard a performance of this by Sammut prior to the published version and WOW it is amazing. We as mortal marimbists end up playing this as a memorized piece note by note, but this arrangement originally came from his soul, not a piece of sheet music.
too fast for his own good...just like me in my teens.....SLOW DOWNNNNN.....ur destroying that piece.....wrong notes everywhere...i would give you a 2 rating on that one homie
Sound, phrasing, voicing with fat base line????!!!! Did anyone listen to the version of Jasmin Kolberg or Francesca Santangelo? I can't believe the hype here....:-)
Most of the world class corps used rose wood this last season. Yeah, kelon sucks, but most in DCI are trying to use rose wood, especially this last season.
he keeps rushing through it, prolly due to nerviosity.. makes him hit several wrong notes (fair enough).. but other than that, not the worst interpretation. still too fast... and the mallets are a tiny bit too hard for my tastes.
Holy marching marimba batman! C'mon, he could've busted out the rosewood for this. He actually does a pretty solid job keeping the arm out of it until the end too. Not quite the phrasing Sammut would use either, but I like it.
@marimbaplaya17 marching marimba's are also made for projection. Concert marimbas don't have to worry about projection as much so they can focus more on sound. I don't believe that if you placed a nice marching marimba next to a nice normal marimba (Either malletech or marimbaone, not Adams), that you would still think marching marimbas are better. Maybe you are comparing adams to adams, because the adams concert marimbas suck awful.
I must say I know the original from piazzolla and I have heard many versions on the marimba from professional marimba players and I think this version is very good!!! Yes its a little bit too fast, but everyone should find his own tempo and he found this tempo, so: Where is the problem? :-)
This is one thing I don't like about marching band (I can't really speak for Corps, since I'm not in one) front ensambles. Its always a pissing contest to see who can play faster, musicalitly and showmanship be damned.
LOL Hell no many of the BOA bands usually have drum corps instructors, some, and its not about who can play faster its the technique one has and if they are able to keep tempo aswell the different chords one can play stuff like that. This is an I&E most definitely hes gonna show his best and in the drum corps world everything is raised up to a professional level when it comes to musicality, tempo, such things like that. Obviously you come from a lousy marching background if you think thay way
There is a lot of great technique and musicality there. What I meant to say is that a lot of what makes a song special is lost in the desire to play it faster to show off, and the non-muscian may not aprreciate it as much.
Well its just the style they play it into. Also you have to realize that the instrument thats being played. I get what your trying to say since in a way its not living to the way Astor PIazzolla wrote it, but this piece is just experimental and somehow it works. Hey if your good why not show it to the world, Astor didnt keep it to himself on how fast he can play the bandoneon. These people are showing off, their talent
@darthrebelpenguin its a talent contest, he'd get laughed at if he played it "at the speed people would dance to," I mean its a dance right???!!!! please.
never buy from weiss if you live in Europe or any other country that is not the US... we ordered a huge number of sticks several weeks ago, and still haven't heard anything about it...
@OogaB0oga I live in the U.S. and we had problems with shipping when we ordered from Weiss. Granted, it was an item known for shipping problems, but still.
@DrummerCoCa Yo i happen to live half an hour away from Steve Weiss Music, know some people tight with them and went around their warehouses. Everything was legit whenever I've ordered too though. They slow with international stuff.
sort of... you'd be using the piano part more as source material to make your own arrangement rather than reading the piano music directly (since the range on the marimba is different than the piano, and also quite simply that on the piano, you will be playing more than 4 notes at a time). You are much much better off purchasing the sheet music for marimba.
horrible¿? lo primero tu si no sabes nada sobre musica, pirate tio... lo segundo, tu sabes lo k tne k costar tocar con cuatro baketas de esas a la vez¿? si ya es dificl con dos... lo k no gusta muxo, es el sonido, es muy basto...
There's just something about synthetic bars that I don't like. Natural wood just sounds so much better, albeit WAY more expensive. Very good player at the board, though.
Yuck. I expected better from an SCV vet. Take it a tad bit slower and you'll be amazed at how many right notes you hit! Besides it's not meant to be that fast - have you ever heard a tango? Typically not 190bpm. Yea, you have chops. Make use of them.
Have you ever heard anyone else play Libertango? It just seems fast because he's got all those extra rhythms in there. If you pay attention to the melody you can tell that his tempo is pretty slow for this song.
I'm playing the exact same arrangement. It's not possible to play it much faster than this, and it definitely doesn't sound good that way. I know what I'm talking about.
Well since you clearly have no idea what I've been trying to say, by all means, go ahead and play this arrangement of the piece. It'll still sound bad, no matter how well you play it.
Well it's called an arrangement for a reason. If you want to hear your version then go find it. This was arranged probably for the purpose of that "extra rhythm." You can't exactly replicate the same exact thing with the intentions of just playing it again. If that were the case he'd be copywriting.
Thanks for trying to mediate... or bash my opinion. Whichever. Libertango is one of my favorite songs ever, and while I'm sure the guy in the video is a great musician, the way the piece's concise melody has been butchered makes me die a little. Next time I'll keep my mouth shut since everyone "knows what they're talking about" whilst I, apparently, don't.
I never said you don't know what you're talking about. I'm just trying to make the point across that it's an arrangement for a reason. Most arrangements do butcher and the arranger does that for their own opinion, so for whatever reason this arranger did it is beyond me, and you like it or you hate it. Try listening to any marimba arrangement of canon in D and you'll have a great example of personal arrangement and opinion butchering to anyone.
Well, if you don't like the arrangement, then say that. That's fine. I'm sure Sammut knew full well what the original tempo was, and wrote it that way on purpose. It's ok to take something and put your own spin on it - it's called creative lisence.
Well you don't necessarily need a different arrangement. You can just take out the extra add-ins and slow it down. A buddy of mine(myriad2010) did it just today and it sounded a LOT better and it is the same arrangement so it is possible
as well as he played this technically...the musicality was not as expressive as it could have been. this seems to be the case with many other of sammut's classical arrangements that i see played. none the less, still a solid performance technically, but musicality is more important.
Haha, so true. I have a friend playing this at PAS this year, of course I can't find a damn recording of my chosen solo anywhere on the damn internet, but her was all like, the judges will have never heard this...I laughed.
Cool, good performance. A friend of mine did this piece for I&E in '05 but got keyed for the body dampening. I hope the judge learned that this piece has body dampening before hearing you play it.
nope. that's the right speed, however i think that the best i've ever heard it played was by Katarzyna Mycka, one of the greatest marimba players out there. [:
"Everyone is right" my ass. I would say everyone knows nothing about this piece, before complaining about the speed, does anyone noticed that thats not the original ritmic for the melody? He made a different version I find really interesting, the speed doesnt have anything to do, if we compare it with some of Piazzolla´s live performances this may be considered even slow!
oh you dont need to consult me, you have the entire right to write as you like about something you dont know, as i have the right to disagree with you.
however, I believed it lacked musicality, I felt like it was pretty much the same dynamic through every phrase with the exception of a couple drastic decrecendos. I think that with some microphrasing, it would have had a lot more umph
The arranger is Eric Sammut, a (the?) teacher in Paris (CNR).
This interpretation is very impressive... Just a few wrong notes in a very difficult piece. A shame that the sound from the recorder isn't good at all.
Yeah, I can't translate the whole last comment but I was about to mention also, Sammut didn't compose it. It's an arrangement of an Astor Piazzolla tune. I do love Sammut's playing though and you play it very well.
malletech sucks! Congratulation for your performance...I would add a bit more of q/a in the dialogue...a bit more smoky, more, you know, cuban rum bar, very soft at the beginning and then some passionate tango. Remember, afterall tango is passion and death and nothing more.
Great proficiency and skill to do all of those notes, especially the middle section around 2:30ish or so. The only thing lacking is some direction. It seems alot of the IE performances get so concerned with virtuosity and technical performance that they end up losing some of the nature of the music in the performance. Just my 2c
Dude you are freaky good... I first heard that piece at Leigh Howard Stevens Highschool program thing and its NOT easy... I'd say that your mallets are a bit too hard... For some reason student recitalists always use really hard mallets... Those low notes start to just hurt when you slam them like that. Maybe I shouldn't be talking... Ah well. Either way... You are a VERY talented and skilled Marimbist and should be very proud of your accomplishments.
i played this at my Vanguard winter audition like a week ago. at my individual with the instructors, i found out one of them was this same guy! so trippy! i didn't even know. his name is Grayson and as you can see in this video, he has mad chops.
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auch ein sehr schönes stück: "variaciones sobre un thema do rio grande", einfach oben eingeben und dann gleich das erste video :)
oder einfach vor diesen link 3 w´s: .youtube.com/watch?v=-prGo1vMQiI&feature=feedf
lucky942 3 months ago
:O
IIIIKaroIIII 3 months ago
Lastly, play at a speed where you can choose where on the bars you are going to strike with all 4 mallets, not just the one taking most of your attention. Especially near the end of the piece, (ignoring wrong notes, that happens to everyone even LHS once in a while) if you listen closely you will find yourself hitting the nodes quite a bit, which emphasizes the overtones of the bar over the fundamental pitch and takes away from the richness of sound.
BeakismEIU 8 months ago
As far as the actual performance goes, not bad. Your "recording engineer" should be farther away and at a different height than the keyboard (high overtones come out the ends of the bars more than the fundamental pitch) to eliminate that clanky sound. A higher quality instrument helps but you can overcome that somewhat if you find a spot on stage where there is a reflective (sound, not light) surface close to the low end and the high end is out in open space.
BeakismEIU 8 months ago
Just thought I should point out that Eric Sammut IMPROVISED this on the spot, many many times, and this published version is just kind of an average length compromise to get something down on paper. I have heard a performance of this by Sammut prior to the published version and WOW it is amazing. We as mortal marimbists end up playing this as a memorized piece note by note, but this arrangement originally came from his soul, not a piece of sheet music.
BeakismEIU 8 months ago
too fast for his own good...just like me in my teens.....SLOW DOWNNNNN.....ur destroying that piece.....wrong notes everywhere...i would give you a 2 rating on that one homie
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jangoslut 9 months ago
this is exactly how eric sammut arranged it people. he is one of the best marimbists ever. stop saying it sucks this is spot on.
ryan9312 11 months ago
Sound, phrasing, voicing with fat base line????!!!! Did anyone listen to the version of Jasmin Kolberg or Francesca Santangelo? I can't believe the hype here....:-)
marimbalena 11 months ago
well i am a bit confused @_@
darkbluemars 1 year ago
Very aggressive playing. I like it. Has anyone seen the Arkadiusz Katny version?
maxitrillion13 1 year ago
@maxitrillion13 That is an awesome video!!! :)
Jhnny025 1 year ago
2:11 to 2:17 is my favorite lick
COLDiViAN1 1 year ago
I always wanted to learn this but my high school didn't have a 5-octave
aenyxx 1 year ago
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Who can send me the score, please??
adry_alonso.p@hotmail.com
Adry4991 1 year ago
Excellent !
espirito999 1 year ago
Excellent !
espirito999 1 year ago
lol that thing looks like somethin in a dream that tried to eat me 0.o
fragout515 1 year ago
I agree, rosewood bars are way better. DCI is gay and so are kelon marimbas
jfloyd1879 1 year ago
Most of the world class corps used rose wood this last season. Yeah, kelon sucks, but most in DCI are trying to use rose wood, especially this last season.
benjiontenors 1 year ago
Excelent version my favourite!
betson123456789 2 years ago
go greyson!
tenorplaya10 2 years ago
what? i thought everyone marimba player was Yamaha all the way?
Cronaldo02 2 years ago
he keeps rushing through it, prolly due to nerviosity.. makes him hit several wrong notes (fair enough).. but other than that, not the worst interpretation. still too fast... and the mallets are a tiny bit too hard for my tastes.
OogaB0oga 2 years ago
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gshuda22 2 years ago
Holy marching marimba batman! C'mon, he could've busted out the rosewood for this. He actually does a pretty solid job keeping the arm out of it until the end too. Not quite the phrasing Sammut would use either, but I like it.
j5tucker2 2 years ago
woooow amazing
poositivee 2 years ago
@percussionfreak16 i play snare in marching band
CLOFS 2 years ago
marching marimbas suucckkkk... make me gag. playings good though.
toolateforcofee 2 years ago
@toolateforcofee dude marching marimba's are probably thhe best out of all of them idk what your talking about
marimbaplaya17 2 years ago
@marimbaplaya17 marching marimba's are also made for projection. Concert marimbas don't have to worry about projection as much so they can focus more on sound. I don't believe that if you placed a nice marching marimba next to a nice normal marimba (Either malletech or marimbaone, not Adams), that you would still think marching marimbas are better. Maybe you are comparing adams to adams, because the adams concert marimbas suck awful.
toolateforcofee 2 years ago
I must say I know the original from piazzolla and I have heard many versions on the marimba from professional marimba players and I think this version is very good!!! Yes its a little bit too fast, but everyone should find his own tempo and he found this tempo, so: Where is the problem? :-)
giggn92 2 years ago
The marimbist is Greyson Boydstun of the University of Nevada, Reno
dontbeakakke 2 years ago
This is one thing I don't like about marching band (I can't really speak for Corps, since I'm not in one) front ensambles. Its always a pissing contest to see who can play faster, musicalitly and showmanship be damned.
darthrebelpenguin 2 years ago
LOL Hell no many of the BOA bands usually have drum corps instructors, some, and its not about who can play faster its the technique one has and if they are able to keep tempo aswell the different chords one can play stuff like that. This is an I&E most definitely hes gonna show his best and in the drum corps world everything is raised up to a professional level when it comes to musicality, tempo, such things like that. Obviously you come from a lousy marching background if you think thay way
Pikachu24 2 years ago
Maybe I phrased that incorrectly.
There is a lot of great technique and musicality there. What I meant to say is that a lot of what makes a song special is lost in the desire to play it faster to show off, and the non-muscian may not aprreciate it as much.
darthrebelpenguin 2 years ago
Well its just the style they play it into. Also you have to realize that the instrument thats being played. I get what your trying to say since in a way its not living to the way Astor PIazzolla wrote it, but this piece is just experimental and somehow it works. Hey if your good why not show it to the world, Astor didnt keep it to himself on how fast he can play the bandoneon. These people are showing off, their talent
Pikachu24 2 years ago 7
@darthrebelpenguin its a talent contest, he'd get laughed at if he played it "at the speed people would dance to," I mean its a dance right???!!!! please.
john3047X 1 year ago
4 sticks... and its huge lol
nice work!
ych1249 2 years ago
that's what she said
dontbeakakke 2 years ago
great!
BurNiNgBAssisT86 2 years ago
wow! great performance!
i wonder, where can i get a marimba solo sheet music on the internet?
coz i couldn't even find it in the music book store.
olaprdd 2 years ago
steve weiss
dailey 2 years ago
you won't find percussion solos like this in a music store. You pretty much have to buy them online, steve weiss, percussion source, whatever else.
toolateforcofee 2 years ago
never buy from weiss if you live in Europe or any other country that is not the US... we ordered a huge number of sticks several weeks ago, and still haven't heard anything about it...
OogaB0oga 2 years ago
that really sucks. i guess i better buy all the sticks i can before i move out of the US.
johnpetrucci87 2 years ago
@OogaB0oga I live in the U.S. and we had problems with shipping when we ordered from Weiss. Granted, it was an item known for shipping problems, but still.
DrummerCoCa 1 year ago
@DrummerCoCa Yo i happen to live half an hour away from Steve Weiss Music, know some people tight with them and went around their warehouses. Everything was legit whenever I've ordered too though. They slow with international stuff.
Jordainio 1 year ago
@Jordainio Yeah, most people say their shipping and support is really good, I think we just got unlucky.
DrummerCoCa 1 year ago
bravo!
yoooscar 2 years ago
Good
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turmenashun 2 years ago
Would piano sheet music for this song work on marimba?
ZoaTV 2 years ago
sort of... you'd be using the piano part more as source material to make your own arrangement rather than reading the piano music directly (since the range on the marimba is different than the piano, and also quite simply that on the piano, you will be playing more than 4 notes at a time). You are much much better off purchasing the sheet music for marimba.
TheDigitalMonk 2 years ago
if i had a 5 octave..... oh boy
lifeisgood224 2 years ago
i desire Libertango Marimba bookscore.
hyunju84 3 years ago
omfg what is up with you people and these crappy quality things
iwasadeum 3 years ago
not similar to piazzolla music so much, but good job anyway...
thanks:)
amaniator 3 years ago
It's a tango. When it's played this fast, it ceases to be at tango tempo.
I know you're more than qualified to play it this quickly, but the music doesn't like it.
LuxAurumque 3 years ago
thats a big ass marimba
N0GoodUsernamsLeft 3 years ago
This arrangement really suks!!
You are fast and good, but my mother cross the room asking "who's the child trying to play Libertango?!?!?"
brokk2 3 years ago
It doesn't suck, and really, it's not libertango. Scores are there to be re-arrnged, and suited to the instrument it's played on.
I say syncopating it even more and upping the tempo is a good move.
well played fella
Ryan
ryanjonescymru 3 years ago 6
not bad, souds very different to the piazollaversion
Muertedertod 3 years ago 2
The tempo is 152, but its a little too fast, great job!
olitnt 3 years ago
Take into account that this is, after all, a recording. From experience, I can assure you it would sound better live.
Ohnodiwu 3 years ago
Nicely played.
TwerQQ 3 years ago
I think it's really funny that people are criticizing people who are winning, (not necessarily this guy)
gulliversslave 3 years ago
horrible¿? lo primero tu si no sabes nada sobre musica, pirate tio... lo segundo, tu sabes lo k tne k costar tocar con cuatro baketas de esas a la vez¿? si ya es dificl con dos... lo k no gusta muxo, es el sonido, es muy basto...
julillo26 3 years ago
horrible
ams146 3 years ago 3
it sounds wayy too fast. idk if thats the marked tempo but it sounds like its the top end of it
naruto81791 3 years ago
There's just something about synthetic bars that I don't like. Natural wood just sounds so much better, albeit WAY more expensive. Very good player at the board, though.
Ibanez3789 3 years ago
woah
that looks hard.
jaein1 3 years ago
Wow! I just LOVE IT!!! Mr. Sammut played very very well. I never heard before this kind of version!
Thanks to share the video!!
cassiaeire 3 years ago
lol mr. sammut played very well. Eric Sammut is the composer, not the player
bcbcscbc 3 years ago
Upss! My mistake! Sorry ^^
Thanks to correct me!
cassiaeire 3 years ago
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AreY0uExperienced 3 years ago
I like this song, good job!
olitnt 3 years ago
Yuck. I expected better from an SCV vet. Take it a tad bit slower and you'll be amazed at how many right notes you hit! Besides it's not meant to be that fast - have you ever heard a tango? Typically not 190bpm. Yea, you have chops. Make use of them.
myriad2010 3 years ago
Have you ever heard anyone else play Libertango? It just seems fast because he's got all those extra rhythms in there. If you pay attention to the melody you can tell that his tempo is pretty slow for this song.
sprinklesrock 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's not physically possible to play it much faster.
myriad2010 3 years ago
I agree. He should have chosen an arrangement with better fluidity.
sprinklesrock 3 years ago
Then why did you say he should play it faster?
johnnc2 3 years ago
I'm playing the exact same arrangement. It's not possible to play it much faster than this, and it definitely doesn't sound good that way. I know what I'm talking about.
myriad2010 3 years ago
Well since you clearly have no idea what I've been trying to say, by all means, go ahead and play this arrangement of the piece. It'll still sound bad, no matter how well you play it.
sprinklesrock 3 years ago
Well it's called an arrangement for a reason. If you want to hear your version then go find it. This was arranged probably for the purpose of that "extra rhythm." You can't exactly replicate the same exact thing with the intentions of just playing it again. If that were the case he'd be copywriting.
darkertimes2010 3 years ago
Thanks for trying to mediate... or bash my opinion. Whichever. Libertango is one of my favorite songs ever, and while I'm sure the guy in the video is a great musician, the way the piece's concise melody has been butchered makes me die a little. Next time I'll keep my mouth shut since everyone "knows what they're talking about" whilst I, apparently, don't.
sprinklesrock 3 years ago
I never said you don't know what you're talking about. I'm just trying to make the point across that it's an arrangement for a reason. Most arrangements do butcher and the arranger does that for their own opinion, so for whatever reason this arranger did it is beyond me, and you like it or you hate it. Try listening to any marimba arrangement of canon in D and you'll have a great example of personal arrangement and opinion butchering to anyone.
darkertimes2010 3 years ago
Well, if you don't like the arrangement, then say that. That's fine. I'm sure Sammut knew full well what the original tempo was, and wrote it that way on purpose. It's ok to take something and put your own spin on it - it's called creative lisence.
myriad2010 3 years ago 2
Mimura Nanae plays this, also on Utube. She is amazing.
023854300 3 years ago
You jerk
lol
johnnc2 3 years ago
I'm saying that he needs an arrangement of this piece without all the extra stuff so he could play a concise melody.
sprinklesrock 3 years ago
Well you don't necessarily need a different arrangement. You can just take out the extra add-ins and slow it down. A buddy of mine(myriad2010) did it just today and it sounded a LOT better and it is the same arrangement so it is possible
johnnc2 3 years ago
yeah Greyson!
kylethegr8 3 years ago
now THAT is one big-ass marimba!
servantlol 3 years ago 2
very nice, good dynamics and technic as well!
percashic 3 years ago
as well as he played this technically...the musicality was not as expressive as it could have been. this seems to be the case with many other of sammut's classical arrangements that i see played. none the less, still a solid performance technically, but musicality is more important.
lacrossedawg44 3 years ago
hahah yeah, its a wonderful piece though.
ill probably see your friend at pasic this year.
chrissanders07 3 years ago
Haha, so true. I have a friend playing this at PAS this year, of course I can't find a damn recording of my chosen solo anywhere on the damn internet, but her was all like, the judges will have never heard this...I laughed.
lhsdrummer2010 3 years ago
really good job. he could have done a bit more with dynamics but aside from that. its really really good.
this is THE most overplayed solo at pasic btw. so if anyone really wants to see about 9349384 high school kids playing libertango, join PAS lol
chrissanders07 3 years ago
So all those high schoolers have 5-octave marimbas to practice on???
Get me a piece of that action!
MKfulcrum 3 years ago
i wish my school had a 5-octave marimba. that would be cool too.
cookiesquirel 3 years ago
We rent one. Our school is so obsessed with football that they send no money to the band division.
Zoraura 3 years ago
Yeah, what is it with schools not caring about the fine arts department?
drummerboy1138 3 years ago
Same here. We have an amazing band, but our football team is shitty. Still, administrators in OUSD love football
Gatorade8472 3 years ago
Cool, good performance. A friend of mine did this piece for I&E in '05 but got keyed for the body dampening. I hope the judge learned that this piece has body dampening before hearing you play it.
gnoted 3 years ago
nope. that's the right speed, however i think that the best i've ever heard it played was by Katarzyna Mycka, one of the greatest marimba players out there. [:
marimbamarcy 3 years ago
beautifulllll !!
Good job
Maikel2play 3 years ago
Jeez everyone, relax a little. Not everyone can be as good as Naoko Takada.
marimbagirl1993 3 years ago
I met her!
drummerboy1138 3 years ago
Really? That's so cool, I met her to! I actually performed in one of her master classes.
marimbagirl1993 3 years ago
the 13th bar in this piece "has to be" played twice!
AbanicoVIBES 3 years ago
thats it, I'm buying this solo.
percussion8903 3 years ago 2
Everyone is right. Too fast. Amazing technique but way too fast for the peace. Slow down and savor it rather than just showing how fast you can play.
Trentazer 3 years ago
"Everyone is right" my ass. I would say everyone knows nothing about this piece, before complaining about the speed, does anyone noticed that thats not the original ritmic for the melody? He made a different version I find really interesting, the speed doesnt have anything to do, if we compare it with some of Piazzolla´s live performances this may be considered even slow!
leandrusi 3 years ago
Well, I'll be sure to consult you before ever stating a personal opinion again.
Trentazer 3 years ago
oh you dont need to consult me, you have the entire right to write as you like about something you dont know, as i have the right to disagree with you.
leandrusi 3 years ago
maybe a little too speed
ddrumFranceSlipknot 3 years ago
dci vs concert marimbas: huge difference!
marimbist06 3 years ago
technisch gut,nur sehr hart gespielt
simondrum88 3 years ago
kann aber an der aufnahme liegen, dass es zu hart, trocken und sehr stumpf klingt...
AbanicoVIBES 3 years ago
not well played!
he plays too fast. you cant get the melody.
its quite grubby
DerLausH 3 years ago
he's right. you cant get the melody.
Battlefuzzy 3 years ago
hes not, i get the melody perfectly.
leandrusi 3 years ago
man i hype this solo...
jordanbd4 3 years ago
His name is Greyson Bodyston, he is my instructor and he pretty much rocks ha ha sounds awesome!!!
ghettopod 4 years ago 2
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mallets seem kinda hard.. very hard on the low note...
i prefer eric sammut's version better.
and the beginning is like... WAYYYYYY under tempo..
and to think this is all coming from myself.. and 8th grader..
XD
ZaNeSsAx3 4 years ago
yea,... that is Eric Sammut's version...
homelessmarimbist 4 years ago
.. im talking about on the cd..
theres the written version, and then when sammut sort of improvises..
im not stupid..
ZaNeSsAx3 4 years ago
.. im talking about on the cd..
theres the written version, and then when sammut sort of improvises..
im not stupid..
ZaNeSsAx3 4 years ago
but yet you double posted....
homelessmarimbist 4 years ago
that was an accident that i had no idea happened, and i don't really even know how it happened.
and, why are you waisting your time arguing with an 8th grader?
ZaNeSsAx3 4 years ago
why does it matter if you're an eigth grader?
percussionzach 3 years ago
idk.. its just pointless to be arguing with me. i figured he was older than me.. ok, people, why does it matter?
ok, i commented. big whoop, case closed, and all that other stuff... blah.
0.o
ZaNeSsAx3 3 years ago
Wow, great playing!!! One of my pit-friends is playing this piece, too!
marimbagirl1993 4 years ago
I thought that it was played very masterfully...
however, I believed it lacked musicality, I felt like it was pretty much the same dynamic through every phrase with the exception of a couple drastic decrecendos. I think that with some microphrasing, it would have had a lot more umph
pheonixes5 4 years ago
Insanely good technique! That low note didn't sound very good, maybe cracked? or the wrong kind of mallet on it? But, I love the dance in the piece!
BachaBachaNinja 4 years ago
SCV pitt players that participate in I&E always have the best tunes played. Other than the Cavies Front Ensemble with their classical pieces.
Pikachu24 4 years ago
The arranger is Eric Sammut, a (the?) teacher in Paris (CNR).
This interpretation is very impressive... Just a few wrong notes in a very difficult piece. A shame that the sound from the recorder isn't good at all.
Theusz 4 years ago
Actually, he's teacher at the conservatory in Toulouse ;)
phileejazzlocks 4 years ago
cool arrangement. Do you know were I can order the score?
Whose the arranger? Thankx, great playing, a bit hard mallets for the lower bars.
Greetz
VinnieVibes
vinnievibes 4 years ago
Yeah, I can't translate the whole last comment but I was about to mention also, Sammut didn't compose it. It's an arrangement of an Astor Piazzolla tune. I do love Sammut's playing though and you play it very well.
Flobey 4 years ago
Billy, Billy, aprendé a escuchar un tango, más si es de Piazzolla. Está muy bien ejecutado y es su versión. Me parece muy buena. Saludos.
raulosvaldo1 4 years ago
hmmmm... well the person who plays it is great... but I really could neither hear 'libertango' or hear the tango rythym.
billywombat 4 years ago
ok.... what ahorrible arrangement.. not the playing dude tha playing is amazing... but that arrangement is not too ... tango lol
arturoherrera 4 years ago
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was so fuckin cool
makes me mad cuz u have to be as good as that to be in SCV i gotta long way to go haha
akerok123 4 years ago
malletech sucks? ok bud...lol
lacrossedawg44 4 years ago
malletech sucks! Congratulation for your performance...I would add a bit more of q/a in the dialogue...a bit more smoky, more, you know, cuban rum bar, very soft at the beginning and then some passionate tango. Remember, afterall tango is passion and death and nothing more.
neo5drumer 4 years ago
haha i remember that at the stevens camp when that asian kid broke leighs mallettech low e by playing this solo. keep up the good work
marcusPITchick 5 years ago
Great proficiency and skill to do all of those notes, especially the middle section around 2:30ish or so. The only thing lacking is some direction. It seems alot of the IE performances get so concerned with virtuosity and technical performance that they end up losing some of the nature of the music in the performance. Just my 2c
BosPercussion 5 years ago
great job. i dont agree with alex's post. your mallets are fine. it's the instrument. that solo would sound awesome on a demorrow...peace.
nsudrumr 5 years ago
Dude you are freaky good... I first heard that piece at Leigh Howard Stevens Highschool program thing and its NOT easy... I'd say that your mallets are a bit too hard... For some reason student recitalists always use really hard mallets... Those low notes start to just hurt when you slam them like that. Maybe I shouldn't be talking... Ah well. Either way... You are a VERY talented and skilled Marimbist and should be very proud of your accomplishments.
alexanderpit2006 5 years ago
excellent
ebrua 5 years ago
Wow!
Where can I get the score of this? :-)
marritaa 5 years ago
Wow...That was a lot of fun to watch! Keep up the awesome work!
CodyJMac 5 years ago
sppe.Where i can get the score of this?
eydsstgst 5 years ago
That was incredible.
Who doyou study with?
stickfiguremovies 5 years ago