A Little Prayer

[lrobertson]

Beautiful. Well done mate!

[jrmarimbistics]

dynamics??!!

[MrTrapSet409]

i need this sheet music

[luvmypup93]

wow your amazingy talented!

[sheepfromhell]

I would have to say that you played it quite well... I recorded this myself and only upon hearing it back did I realize that I played it quicker than I wanted. What make is the marimba if you don't mind my asking? the dark bars would indicate something like a Yamaha but the grading doesn't look like one... Maybe Musser? I ordered this piece from Glennie's site... SOOOOOOOOOOO expensive to order it from the UK so no one should do that! Great job on the piece!

[marimba1980]

I'm playing on Yamaha Acoustalon marimba (YM2400).

[HRW01]

Could I ask where you got the transcription for this? I'd love to have the sheets, but have only found them online for an exorbitant price and supposedly arranged for brass.

[pregimentx129]

steve wiess music has it for marimba

[HRW01]

Does that read like piano sheet music?

[drummerboy1138]

yeah.

[drumc94]

i actually like this piece slower than faster, give's a better sense of feeling to it and you can actually hear the notes change. When someone plays it fast you can't hear all the note changes and I think going slow makes the music! I'm learning it right now, it is a diffucult piece and I'm only in 8th grade but I've been working on it for a while now and hope to get it really good.

[Laurensnl]

Yep, this isn't played good. It sucks. Played to fast.

[drumc94]

It doesn't suck, but it could be played slower. I still think he plays it very well.

[kl0441]

@ drumc94

I completely disagree

OMG this recording is too slow already. And there is no movement in the tempo, it just sits there - way too slow.

[drumc94]

@kl0441

I just saw this comment, and I decided to watch the video over again. I completely agree with you now that two years have passed and I've actually learned this piece. I do agree that it is slow, and it makes the whole video less interesting to watch. I usually speed the tempo up near the end, and I start out quite a bit faster than he does in this video.

[banzaigerm]

@drumc94 i feel like the fact that it is slower makes it more interesting. great piece and well done =)

[marimbababe]

it is not to slow!

it is a prayer!

i thiink u play this very well!

i agree make sure ur rolls are goin somwhere and make sure your rolls r even and that ur stronger hand doesn't dominate!

hope this helps

[jsr33]

general rule of thumb sustained notes should always be going somewhere..be it crescendo or decrescendo, more movement will help you really nail this

[poweredbydrums]

sounds awesome.  try messing around with your roll speeds. faster for louder portions and slower rolls for the softer portions.

[seanmichaelfreese]

beautiful lad...i think miss glennie would be proud.

[janusdederde]

it's way to slow and watch de 'curves' the piece may look like it's very easy but in the same time it's very difficult.

[BachaBachaNinja]

[continued] In the section around 3:30 in the time, make it seem like you're pushing those notes forward like make the first chord short driving/crescendo-ing into the second chord, like the two chords shouldn't last at the same time, but one is longer than the other. Also, you could use more body into the piece, and more expression. That could really help. Think of something that can really get you emotional so you can really get the dramatic sound you want. =)

[BachaBachaNinja]

Really make statements with the phrases, as if they are a sentence. If you have a recording of it by her, then carefully listen to how she phrases each line. You could do more with dynamics, really exaggerate them. You want to make the piece feel like it's moving more.

[drummerboy1288]

Very good performance. Something that you may want to think about if you're still working on this piece: when you've got big open intervals sometimes it changes from sounding like rolls to sounding like 16th notes back and forth between octaves. There are lots of ways that you could fix that, the first one you might want to try is rolling slightly faster at those sections. Another might be using slightly softer mallets to prevent the articulation from being heard. Great job.

[amwayMasak]

very nice...I like it.