Maple Leaf Rag on Marimba

[jezza94]

cools :)

is from the grade 5+ 6 book ?? it sounds like a nice peice to learn ( im currently learning grade 8 peices at the moment too ) i might have a go at it

you look to really be enjoyin yourself :) i always practice peices at my school on xylo and everyone says im just showing off ... im not i just love playin xylophone ! xD

well played :)

[darthrebelpenguin]

Yeah, don't stop moving! "Don't play the instrument, play the music!"

[waactastic]

You played very well but I do not like this arrangement...it is over complicated and makes the marimba sound clunky...if anything it shoulda been arranged like that for concert xylophone. Otherwise good job hunni

[chickenwiretire]

Thanks! This arrangement was ment for xylophone, but I played other pieces on the marimba that day. I've also heard professional recordings of this tune on marimba, so I figured I'd have a go. Its a familir and entertaining tune for the folks at the retirment home. (:

[deicticdrummer174]

is this from the book raggedy ragtime rags?

[chickenwiretire]

why yes it is!

[BanditKir]

Nice job! What arrangement of the piece is this? Ever since I heard Evelyn Glennie playing this I've been wanting to transcribe it but this is almost as good!

[tryinsohard95]

nice wow

i never knew that was possible...

ur amazing

[Edward19Dean]

Also, does every marimba play kick their feet like that? I've been trying to break that habit, and because of that I've started noticing a bunch of percussionists (especially mallet players) that do it.

>.>

[chickenwiretire]

Its a fun quwerk of mine. Don't break the habit! Its more fun to move around and "dance" you play. My college professors encuraged the movement- becuase its more exciting then just standing there like a statue. I get alot of my performance "moves" from my drumcorps/WGI pit expierence. Besides, I hear that Kieko Abe jumps around like a maniac when she plays! (;

[Edward19Dean]

Yeah, but she is a different breed of cat altogether.

Oh, I've been trying to break the habit of moving around without being able to help myself, if that makes sense.

Once I can stop myself from doing it (so I know I'm in control), I'll let myself do it.

And maybe I will do it. And maybe I'll finally post a video of me playing something...

[Edward19Dean]

Very nice job. I was thinking about learning this, but one of my friends (plays clarinet and saxophone, little bit of piano) was having some serious trouble with it so I decided to hold off until after I finished with my college audition stuff.

[chickenwiretire]

Go for it! Its a fun piece.

[sr5813]

LOL, that's like playing a big piano with only 2 fingers, good instrument to have fun, but only for that

[chickenwiretire]

The marimba is a huge and popular instrument in the percussion world these days, its not just for fun, and is used in many different kinds of performance ensembles- from drum and bugle corps to concert wind ensembles.

[jimmiw]

ya, its a lot more difficult than piano actually and people have used up to 6 mallets on it... In fact, ive seen literature for marimba so difficult that even pianists would have trouble with it even though they have usually 6 more viable striking devices (4 is the common practice use although most people start on 2 most people that learn 4 dont understand that 2 can be just as challenging)

[KezmeisterG]

There is a guy from the Netherlands called Ludwig Albert who plays with 8 Mallets. But he is crazy.

[laportakat]

Remember... life is just one crushing feat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

[mysticradio]

way too much fun..... that tickled me pink

thanks

[itsscap23]

thats so crazy that instrument has such sick sound and u make it 10x better ure amazing

[krackapleaz]

Sweet!!!!!!!!!

[Roadsidepictures]

Excellent job!

[chickenwiretire]

Thank you, very much!