The Ragtime Robin - G.H. Green

[Samax13]

solid improv

[Lovezmarimba]

Niceeeee!!!! I'm playing this piece too but it's soo fast!! I always mess up part B :$

[cjlives]

awesome!

[JJITOUCH]

hes goin so fast at 2:04 nice job dude

[Scinders]

This is really good-nice one lads

[mprimecoleman]

This is great. So lucky to have Morris up there. The hall/recording sounds amazing. Keep it up!

[TheMrMusicMan95]

what mallets are you using??

[savageaushawn]

@TheMrMusicMan95

Malletech BB30s -

[celestinlp]

What brand of xylophone is this?

[savageaushawn]

I'm pretty sure it's a Malletech.

[DforDrums]

Great improv section!

[daneshawsontv121]

bob becker it is in the discription

[DrkGK]

ah, i've been practicing this solo for a while, and i had no idea that there is a marimba accompaniment! sounds so much better together!

[cscfury19]

wow my friend cory allgood played this solo for our spring

concert it is cool

[olitnt]

Good! But you could give more energy in the «climax» passages

[gabejohnson92]

wow... thats insane. im gonna be playing that xylo solo for a percussion ensemble contest in a couple weeks, and im having trouble with it at HALF that speed. that guy makes it look very easy, but let assure you: it's not!

[xWOODYHAYESx]

GOOD JOB!! even the accompaniment did good. :)

[rhythmruns]

I was interested in knowing if the playing can be transferred onto the piano because like the xylophone, the piano has keys to strike with. Instead of using two mallets, one would be using two fingers.

[rhythmruns]

shawn, are you able to play this song on the piano with two fingers?

[savageaushawn]

Probably? Why?

[jds622]

Outstanding playing!! -- feel free to check out some of my vids for the xylo enthusiast :) Keep up the fabulous playing!

[Dr1drful]

Nice playing. Can't wait to see some of your Senior Recital.

[janusdederde]

Aah okey,

but it's weird

because it seems to be you just improvised the same way as the recording i've got from Nexus.

so I was wondering if you've had an other version.

[janusdederde]

Aaah, now I get it,

so the version you're playing on this movie is the version of Randy Eyles?

Because they sound a bit different.

Because I've got the Bob Becker arrangement from Green and in you're movie you can hear more notes after each other, I can't find the words in English but I hope you know what I mean.

Greetings

[savageaushawn]

Well, I think what you should do is get recordings of some ragtime xylophone. Nexus has a great recording because it is of course Bob Becker. Other artists have some great recordings too.

Most all of them have improvised elements. In my performance I improvised just a few small things in the A section, the entire repeated B section as well as an added B section, and I noodled in the repeat of the C section.

There are a few different ways to improvise though.

[janusdederde]

I've got this piece to but mine is a bit other,

Is this an other arrangement or did you improvise?

I think it sounds great

[savageaushawn]

Which version are you learning from?

I've worked from both the Bob Becker arrangement as well as the Randy Eyles. They're essentially the same except for differences in notation of things like rhythm.

I did improvise a little bit with this piece. It's good to listen to recordings to get a feel of how to do it properly. I'm not sure that I did the best job of it but I'm still pretty proud of this performance.

Thanks for commenting.

[butlerKNOWSall]

there are enough people in alaska to form a university?

[savageaushawn]

It just so happens that there are enough. Apparently there are enough people for Alaska to be a state as well.

[PSearPianist]

That was great. You are fortunate to study at a college that can offer you such excellent performing facilities and equipment.

[savageaushawn]

Thanks. I am indeed fortunate.