"Opening" from Glassworks (Philip Glass)

[solianikus]

great!!!



[193614]

this piece is so dream-like! beautiful playing! I'm going to try and learn this lol

[AfricanLionsHunter]

Aplause and standing ovations !

[ysmnthelight]

I was waiting for you to play one of the repeats on those Roto-Toms. :P All kidding aside, beautiful performance!

[loverliars]

This entire program is incredible. Sorry, I'm referring to the selection of pieces you played in your recital ("Dream" etc.)

(Obviously, this too)

Your playing is superb.

[todimbauer]

ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE ILOVE

AUYHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUH =]

[viovio77]

Wow. Love the marimba. Can't comprehend how you do this.

[1945Jaap]

Helemaal geweldig! Om weer helemaal tot rust te komen na een drukke dag.

Just great!

[WakingLife55]

4 people are fucking stupid

[AidenMcKee]

Dude.. I'm hella gonna play this next!

[ondesmartenot3]

This is very amazing

[AudreyAHHHH]

I LOVE YOUR SHAPING. I can never shape this piece how I'd like to when I perform it.

[AfricanLionsHunter]

I can*t play it loud enough to fill the room with the pure sound of this beautiful noise. I want to close my eyes and feel the sound with every sense and then slip over to deep meditation. And play it again and again until my empty warehouse of music is filled up again.

[yoshiegg1544]

Listen to the resonance above all else... its like a choir

[trawamaciej]

co za koordynacja! Great job!

[osnelli]

HOW WONDERFUL!!!!!!

[JonasGrumbyBand]

*sigh* - Do you have any idea how pissed my wife is going to be when I inform her that I MUST get a marimba?

[DewersByrne]

Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Philip Glass.

[Galia2001]

Amazing! Congratulations.

[bluberrypenguin]

love it, you play the marimba with such poise and beauty!

[humatech]

Great job! Never appreciated the beauty of changing the main instrument of an original tune til I saw you playing this :) And marimba's got such a warm tone color, which brings out some sense of warmth and relief that I didn't perceive at all from the original piano version. Thanks for showing another beautiful profile of "Opening." :)

[MdrnDncr87]

very impressive, have you done DCI yet?

[ZeusesWar]

WOW! That looks so difficult! Keeping rhythm between two mallets is hard enough for me lol.

[MrProphetMan]

awesome!

congratulations on the deepest levels of admiration, not only have you made a beautiful song sound great on another instrument, you've also shown that art, true real art can actually exist as an entity on its own, of course several factors must be considered, like personal proficiency at expressing the intended feelings and states the piece intended, but this time, it really came out as something unique and amazing!

[ereignisfelder]

that's worth a whole universe.

no one ever can take that from him

swimming up and up the stream

[drmKing2012]

Hey man you inspired me to play this on my recital this semester. I'll have the video up soon

[galabadan]

very good and beautiful

[isisdazs]

You play this so beautifully - god it sounds so good for marimba. What a great performance!

[sheumack88]

I was really suprised upon listening to this, great job.....

[MCMAK9]

this should tell you that you only need four fingers in total to play this song on the piano

[robhaskins]

Marvelous performance. Bravo.

[ziplesswonder]

Very nice dude! I can play this on the piano, but I bet it's a bit trickier with a marimba! Well done indeed!

[Dollymayfrosty]

Wow...I've never seen anyone play an instrument with 4 stickes before!

[jonbashjonbash]

Wow, you've inspired me! I think I may play this for my upper-division percussion jury next year...

[AbeNW11]

Great playing. Bravo. I'm in a dream.

[gzayas145522]

really good performance!! this theme is a nostalgic song!.. another great work of the master of the masters philip glass!

[Timpani4ever]

very nice playing!!!

[Niyou77]

Jesus christ, you are pro. It's hard enough trying to get the rhythm right on the piano, let alone a marimba (not that I've tried)

[mat1500]

Beautiful! Remarkably done, and very talented, datimpster! Thanks for this beautiful reprisal of Opening!

[mellotrongirl]

Wow, just plain WOW! Tearjerkingly beautiful.

[blazetube80]

OMFG! *_*

It`s amazing!

[Marimbalu]

Oh my god. I would have liked SOOOOOO much to play that. I'm incredibly jealous !

It must have been tricky to put the different rythms in each hand straight.

Where are you from, anyway ? Who are the musicians playing these arrangements for marimba ? They are all so lovely.

[datimpster]

@Marimbalu I literally just played from the piano score -- it's not as difficult as you may think! I'm from Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm now a college band director. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Philipianistemaurice]

Wonderful...

[lastwishSTAR]

wonderful! nice control.

[SokoGhandi]

Traumhaft !!!

[clayatube]

Cool.

[Deonsagers]

Wonderful performance. Where were you able to buy the music?

[drmKing2012]

Really nice job, what mallets are you using?

[caralhosvosfodam]

Outstanding.

[Hakaori]

Absolutely amazing performance! The Marimba redefines this piece

[swarmnet]

i always wonder how do people play this piece with triplets on one hand, and normal time at the other! it's crazy coordination!

[aquaticstone]

The trick is to have the rhythm 'quaver, semiquaver, semiquaver, quaver' in your head. Once you get it it's not so hard to keep up.

[Hakaori]

@swarmnet

It is actually very simple:

The right hand plays in a rhythm matching the left hand, playing the first and forth note together. Go grab the score, it seems more complicated than it is. Once you start, you can continue without thinking :)

[lordmerlin1]

what instrument is this

[datimpster]

Marimba!

[b33p]

@lordmerlin1 When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me, make me sway

[MrNoelJMIS]

it sounds really cool on a marimba! Thanks! :)

[appledecca]

Hi. This is very beautiful- I just wanna sleep on it. He he !! Thank You

[kukkurah]

Has Philip Glass already given you a kiss for this? Beautiful performance, thank you for sharing it here!

[maxrutc09]

how come with most composers, we say their last name, but with philip glass, we say his first name too?

[Orlymusicboy]

because he's a modern composer, and thats what he and the media has ended up with

[TheLarres]

@maxrutc09

well actually most of the people say philip glass but their are some philip glass lovers like me that only say glass

[wiwysova]

@maxrutc09 now i know im not the only one who has pondered that

[rainingautumn]

Really fabulous...

[scottryjones]

hey where can i get the music for this? I know its from glass works but i really dont feel like buying the whole work. do they sell just this movement?

[polghirstenskoetter]

You should probably buy the complete Glassworks CD, because a large part of the whole work consists of variations of this theme, not just the opening. You'd be missing most of the listening experience...

[trytofloat]

this is something else...man, beautiful. brilliant playing.

[Leendert173]

I have a question for anybody who plays percussion. Where do you find you're percussion-music? Other sites like Youtube? Online-stores with samples...?

[sistaspooky1013]

"Most of these works avoid any sort of climax, development, or direction and are based around constant cycles."

very natual constant evolvement that touches the heart, the mind, the soul like magic

[philnoll]

While i like the piece, I agree that there is no development or climax. At 3:12, I wanted the piece to continue building.

[Maxfield93]

oh man, marimba is so enchanting.

[RhinoGirl414]

That was really cool! I really enjoy the music of Philip Glass, and I played this piece for one of my piano juries back in college.

[nostradamusguy]

I would like to hear the triplets come out above the duplets, it makes it more interesting and beautiful to listen to. Otherwise, a great performance.

[jwizz51]

where did you get this arrangement for marimba from?

[tacobelsaus28]

Just get the piano one. The marimba is just a big piano right ;) Anyway, it's not 'transposed' or written in different octaves or smaller ranges or such. This is in essence the piano solo taken to an (even more) beautiful instrument.

[jwizz51]

alright, just making sure that there aren't any times more than 4 notes are played in the piano part. ill pick up a copy

[datimpster]

Hi jwizz51. Just as tacobelsaus28 said, I played this right off of the piano part. Thanks for watching!

[morralo]

touching magical atmospher

[cleanbeats00]

Very well done, you did Phillip Glass great justice!

[tradogg3]

that is smashing 5 stars!

[lunaticoperdido]

Dear Datimpster, do you have the music archive of this excelent concert? I mean, if you have all the concert in an archive rar to download? That music don't let be alone here, plz i well agree if you can have a music link to download, because all is beautiful.

[emdog2564]

oh this is nice. and it takes a great talent to do, but there is something i feel is missing...

[gurcrist]

Not trying to be a critic.. It might be the the quality of the audio on this recording, but I think the mallets are a bit to soft. I'd love to hear a versjon with a bit harder attack like what you get on a piano.

It's a matter of taste I guess :)

[chubbaustralia]

yes this works so well for marimba... lovely perfromance too.

[TorgeirFausken]

this is why the marimba is the most amazing instrument in the world.. ^^

[soancar]

So so so so so nice!

[Amaminio]

Beautifully played

[bakersman12]

Simply amazing

[larkin78]

That is very cool to watch. I can't imagine doing that.

[thirdtimeyo]

That's awesome

[NektarVision]

I'v watched this to many times man! I need the audio recording of this or learn how to play it.

[floklinger]

hey.

very well played!

were can i get this arrangement?

i also play marimba.

[playswithpassion]

you can buy the piano music online and do an exact transcription off that...that's what a clinician(Nathaniel Bartlett) who played this piece on his marimba album told me when I emailed him.

[CheekyVimto08]

i almost never leave comments but this is amazing and deserves more views.

[inlandempires]

A very interesting arrangement, suberbly performed.

[mapexdrummer1234]

very nicely done. impressive.

[philglassfan]

From a huge Glass fan, fantastic!

[slave40]

Let me be the first to compliment you. I got "Glassworks" over 20 years ago and this piece is my favourite. I'm impressed not only by your playing ability but by how well the piece can sound on marimba.

A fine job, Justin.

[tr0pic0ng0d2]

I need to listen to more Philip Glass.