Furioso and Valse by Earl Hatch

[KryptoGurlL]

you r awsine dude!!

[tguy32779]

i know its been awhile, but like you need to feel it. not just play notes. Drive yourself into it and own it, listen to it. Also, on the valse, when you start, be loud and furious first, then get softer until theres nothing, THEN out of no where start off nice and gentle, and build. Thats for all music you play, make it sound amazing.

[Bassbeater09]

Great overall performance! Agreed, use slightly softer mallets. Work on bring the stick back up off of the bars when you strike. You have to much downward motion going on. For example, play and try to quickly draw the sound out of the bars. You get a much more elegant sound instead of KLUNK, KLUNK, KLUNK! also remember its more wrist action on mallets and no fingers! Well no or LITTLE finger action. Better sound this way as well

[Marinbot]

Lol cat @ 4:02 made me laugh so hard. This was a fun piece to learn. Gotta love Earl Hatch. :)

[aril93]

Yeah sounds great. And thanks for putting this on here, because I keep listening to it haha. I'm doing it for a solo recital in April.

[houseOchops]

very nice man, instructor gave this piece to me today to play for a solo... this will be a good reference tool so thanks and nice job.

[JimOnex]

I hope you won, excellent performance, enjoyable to listen!!!

[MonsieurDrummer]

It's not quite mono-dynamic... but it's a bit on the hard side. Might be the mallets. Great accuracy though

[lithium3fun]

Definitely seems like the mallets are too hard...

[lazybido2]

Ich spiel das stück auch gerade für jugend musiziert klingt echt gut!

[ruicarl]

? this is an English video so talk English

[standarkDW]

Hey you are good :)

[Arav7eeX]

Aww the cat was so cute. Nice technique. The tenor sweeps were sick.

[damedash101]

nice job man. you were basically perfect. For me though I exaggerate the slow and soft parts. Like When you got to the 2nd part of the piece (you know what Im talking about) I would slow that down more. that way you show control and you enjoy playing it even more.....but thats just me man. good job

[mydlands]

Fantastic piece of music, and thanks for posting your video of it. I played this a few years ago, and got inspired to look at the music again. Then thought I'd check out videos. Yours is the first I found. Love your sound--compliments on your chioce of mallets. I'm also really envious of your instrument. I never had one of my own but still want one!

[imslow13]

oh, btw, my cat does that to me all the time... =D

[imslow13]

this prolly doesn't matter, but i played this for my solo and ensemble piece, group 1. im a freshmen. i didn't go to state but was really close. ur doing a great job with all of ur mallet technique and everything. =)

[Northside777]

The cadenza for the cat is also a nice touch! ;-)

[drummerboy67003]

Nice job man. I played that piece in one of my juries quite a few years ago. I had to practice those last few runs a TON!

[F5Percussion]

Hey, I'm playing this for a solo & ensemble festival. I'm trying to find the perfect mallets for this, any suggustions?

[wingerspoon]

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. For your mallet choice, I think it really depends on your instument. Are you playing this on marimba or xylophone? If marimba, what kind? I was playing on a Musser (and sometimes an Adams) and I picked Encore "blues" - model 32YR. These are medium hard, providing the attack you need for the fast section, but not over-killing it on the valse section. Any medium hard mallet (any brand) would work well on most instruments for this piece. Good luck!

[F5Percussion]

I'm playing on a Marimba. Practicing on an Adams but who knows what will be at the festival. I decided to go with the Innovative ENS25. Thanks!

[spookyman123]

Hey wingerspoon, I play this today for my Solo and got a Gold Medal, but Im not going to State because I went it Group II instead of Group I. Once I can get a camera set up I'm going to record me playing it.

[wingerspoon]

Congrats! I look forward to seeing your vid :)

[Junker9003]

Very great playing! Even if I prefer playing a little bit more slow, just think this sounds more beauty, but everyone got a different view ;)

Maybe you should just play more quiet at the beginning and by moving down getting constantly louder.

But your technique is great, I really enjoyed it.

And by the way, the cat is the funniest thing I've seen :D

[wingerspoon]

Thanks for the nice feedback!

[Sbguitar195]

Very nice! I enjoyed it.

What tips would you have on putting this piece together. What difficulties did you have? I ask because I'm playing this for my solo and ensemble in about 3 weeks, and could use all the help I could get. Hopefully I'll get around to posting a video.

But yeah, nice job!

[wingerspoon]

Hi - The biggest thing is making sure you have the notes well enough to be able to play the piece as fast as it is written. I literally started out out 60bpm, and played the whole piece at that speed, then gradually crept to 70, 80, 90, etc, 160, 165, 170, 175, etc, 208, even 220bpm at one point. Make sure during the middle "Valse" section, you take liberties and add plenty of musicality to the phrases. My teacher told me to make it as "shmaltz-y" as possible - lots of exagerration! -Good luck!

[Sbguitar195]

Thanks! Yeah, when i saw it performed at 208 I was like 0_0

But Its coming along, I'm still working on individual parts, but i should be able to play the entire piece pretty soon.

[wingerspoon]

Cool - good luck! Post a video if you take one :)

[Sbguitar195]

I made it to state with this piece! I'm very excited, but there's still a lot of stuff I need to work on with it. I have an iffy video of it i might post, but I'll keep working on it before I move on to my 4 mallet piece.

But expect a video to come soon!

[max102490]

How were those ribs?

Great playing by the way.

[apoafanzero]

i have tell 3 45 down i love this song

[spookyman123]

ive gotten the 0:13 - 1:00 and 1:52 - 2:25 all memorized and ive only practiced it around 10 hours. I should have it down and pat by Feburary (my solo contest)...one again nice video...ill post more comments when i get more it memorized..

[spookyman123]

This is what im doing for my Solo Contest this year...nice job...its that at full speed (208bpm) or faster?

[wingerspoon]

Thanks! It is slightly under-tempo - about 200bpm. Good luck at contest!

[apoafanzero]

good job im going to play this for phs

[allstar550]

It's good to know that during your performance at the competition, if a for whatever reason a cat jumps onto the marimba, you'll know how to handle it :p

[erdnuckel5]

me too :)

but i'm 16 still thursday

[saheone]

hello, I'm preparing this song for a concert. I'm from spain and I'm 15 years old.

it's amazing!!

[erdnuckel5]

nice cat :)

[dramaticplastic2010]

Were you the kid in Columbia, MO?

[wingerspoon]

I've been to Columbia a few times for DCI shows, but other than I don't know what you are talking about :)

[dramaticplastic2010]

Oh ok. In Columbie, Missouri, someone played that same solo for State competition.

[yourconflict]

is that your marimba?

[wingerspoon]

No - I wish it was. It was on loan to me.

[SICKxCHARISMAxTURTLE]

What did you make at state???

[wingerspoon]

A 1 :)

[LazyBastard69]

2. You can take your time befor the "morendo" part of the valse. Theres a fermata and that means you can take as long as you want before you go to the upper octave. By the way morendo means dying. Imagine a guy who is slowly bleeding out and takes his very last breath at the end of the phrase.

[wingerspoon]

Hi! Thanks for the help :) I will definitely take a look at these spots whenever I play this piece again soon!

[LazyBastard69]

First of all: Nice Playing! But it isn't all great and i hope you can apreciate some hints. 1. Play music, don't play notes. Let the bars sing and don't be too rigid with the timing or the dynamics written on the sheet. You can use rubato in the valse section more freely.

[goodgirl2498]

wow you did a really amazing job playing this peice. its a great video how long have you been playing the marimba?

[dbziscool]

I like the solo...but after hearing it 80 times in a row it bores me...In a good way. Still good job.

[musicisthecure1]

my goodness david, I learn more and more ways you can impress me every single day. Wonderful, wonderful job. I had no idea you could play these little thingers!!!

wonderful job. I am absolutely impressed.

This is britany by the way. :-)

[Treni217]

My cat does that to me when i'm playing piano but he falls asleep on it.:)

[yonny999]

Hey bro, this is matt. Sounds great dude. Kicks my marimba piece's butt haha. Nice job and good luck if it hasnt already happened when you read this.

[Treni217]

Whoa! Nice!!! :)

[bcbdrums]

one of the better performances i've seen of this piece actually. nice job! the only criticism i could make is that when you play chords the mallets don't always strike the keys at the same time. also, your left hand seems slightly tense; but that could simply be the angle from which i'm viewing. what mallets are you using by the way?

[Treni217]

Hey, he's still good.

[bcbdrums]

i didn't say he wasn't; he's easily better than i am. he asked for feedback so i gave it.

[Zachattack2]

Great job! Can best safely say that is thge best xylophone performance vid I have ever seen!

[bcbdrums]

dude...marimba

[KamuiTa]

CAT!  Lolz.