Hey, I read that you were from McGill University ? Do you study in ''general percussions'' or you study in vibraphone ? Cause I'm a jazz vibist and I would like to go to University in Vibraphone Jazz, does it exist ?
@Jcc477 I am a jazz vibraphonist at McGill, but I made this classical piece for my application portfolio for undergraduate admissions. The jazz vibraphone major certainly exists, but check each individual university so you don't waste an application fee!
@mbe0027 Wow, thank you very much! I liked you Bach by the way ! I should soon post a version of La Rêverie by Debussy on vibraphone ! Oh and chek this piece on youtube: Pavane pour une infante défunte by Ravel on vibraphone ! I MUST find and arrangement of this one !! Ok, see you !
I've always been taught to use the inside mallets when using 4 while playing 2 mallet parts. is there any reason to use 1 or the other, or is it just personal preference?
It's how I was taught, and quite common among users of the Burton grip like myself. Stevens grip users almost always use the inside mallets for two-mallet passages while holding four.
I really don't see why people have to come on here and argue so much. It's stupid and petty. I have an M.M. in percussion and have a lot to say about some of the remarks on here but smart people keep their mouths shut and their ears open. Dude, this was HOT! Thanks for posting!
Hey man, sounds good. I'm currently tackling this whole sonata for my Senior recital next year! It will take that long, knowing me...
I like your pedaling/phrasing, and YES, 4 mallets is a must! Someone told me the same thing, then they tried it with two mallets, and it was so much more work than it needed to be. If I may make one suggestion, it would be to make more use of dynamics. That, and just gradually add speed.
Really, it's just the way I play. Using only two mallets is, for me, as natural as hiking up a mountain with my left foot in the right boot and my right in the left.
This piece is challenging on the vibraphone, especially in the use of the pedal. You have to watch the violin phrase markings, use those as your guide to the pedaling so that the notes dont bleed together too much. You can do it with the pedal barely depressed so that you can really get the phrasing and articulation.
Its just my observation, and opinion.
I really enjoyed hearing and watching the performance, and i wish more people would play Bach on the vibraphone.
Hi, do you have some sheet music references for playing Bach on the vibe or do you usually adapt from another instrument's ? Great perfomring though !
I simply look for violin pieces that conform to the violin range (F3-F6) and then play them on vibes. I don't do much special arranging for vibraphone with classical music.
I think it with the slightly slower tempo. Any faster, and one cant really appreciate the reverberation that makes this kind of instrument so interesting.
... Is the name not incorrect? The piece is from the Well Tempered Clavier, so it would be a prelude or fugue.
So if you're talking about quarter, that'd be 108. Which is half of 200 almost, and a little faster than he's playing it. Maybe there's some scholarly disagreement about how fast Bach meant it to be, but this tempo sounds fine...
It's not really open to interpretation if it says that a dotted quarter should be 72 bpm. The number is there (though Bach may not have put it there, I doubt he did). Either way, the claim that it's being played too slow is without merit.
unless of course you're traveling at a gradient conducive to the speed of light in which a minute for you would seem much, much shorter, and would therefore have to take it at a much slower tempo.
it is by this reasoning that i have deduced that the nice vibraphonist here was traveling at approximately 502962472.05 mph, or 3/4 of the speed of light.
The speed would be measured as a relative speed between the sound source and the observer. I'm pretty sure the distance between the microphone and the vibraphone is static.
pretty good. at some parts instead of reaching for the notes try and use ur outter left mallet. good phrasing, could make the crescendos and dimminuendos a little more contrasting but overall great job. try doing it with two mallets next time. its easier.
Nice Phrasing, Perhaps try a carpet square underneath the pedal to eliminate some extraneous noise, but overall I appreciated this piece - a definite change from hearing it on marimba all the time.
Shouldn't the last chord of the piece be minor, not major?
TheEpikCenter 4 months ago
What does the pedal thing do?
technoholic562 11 months ago
only a word: lol.
9MetalPawa9 1 year ago
wowww this is dope.. whoever clicked dislike is an idiot
blasianjh 1 year ago
Hey, I read that you were from McGill University ? Do you study in ''general percussions'' or you study in vibraphone ? Cause I'm a jazz vibist and I would like to go to University in Vibraphone Jazz, does it exist ?
Jcc477 1 year ago
@Jcc477 I am a jazz vibraphonist at McGill, but I made this classical piece for my application portfolio for undergraduate admissions. The jazz vibraphone major certainly exists, but check each individual university so you don't waste an application fee!
mbe0027 1 year ago
@mbe0027 Wow, thank you very much! I liked you Bach by the way ! I should soon post a version of La Rêverie by Debussy on vibraphone ! Oh and chek this piece on youtube: Pavane pour une infante défunte by Ravel on vibraphone ! I MUST find and arrangement of this one !! Ok, see you !
Jcc477 1 year ago
Your grouping is wrong. It is not a triplet beat 6/8, but rather 3/8.
gracee118 1 year ago
I've always been taught to use the inside mallets when using 4 while playing 2 mallet parts. is there any reason to use 1 or the other, or is it just personal preference?
LGsubmarine 2 years ago
It's how I was taught, and quite common among users of the Burton grip like myself. Stevens grip users almost always use the inside mallets for two-mallet passages while holding four.
mbe0027 2 years ago
@LGsubmarine - He is using the burton grip, and the concept of that grip is to use the 1 and 3 mallet for lines in this case.
malletguy 1 year ago
Excellent dude!
zeom76 2 years ago
Bach would've loved this!
zeom76 2 years ago
I really don't see why people have to come on here and argue so much. It's stupid and petty. I have an M.M. in percussion and have a lot to say about some of the remarks on here but smart people keep their mouths shut and their ears open. Dude, this was HOT! Thanks for posting!
iluvperkushun 2 years ago
Hey man, sounds good. I'm currently tackling this whole sonata for my Senior recital next year! It will take that long, knowing me...
I like your pedaling/phrasing, and YES, 4 mallets is a must! Someone told me the same thing, then they tried it with two mallets, and it was so much more work than it needed to be. If I may make one suggestion, it would be to make more use of dynamics. That, and just gradually add speed.
But, overall, it sounds great, man!
enthusiastoftoast 2 years ago
Hah!That's brilliant!It really is!
Twinkleh 3 years ago
Great playing...always good to hear guys playing music originally written for other instruments on different ones....nice tone. cheers !
GrantSmithBass 3 years ago
u dont need 4 mallets....why do u have 4...?
rcleroy89 3 years ago
There is a chord at the end, isn't there?
Really, it's just the way I play. Using only two mallets is, for me, as natural as hiking up a mountain with my left foot in the right boot and my right in the left.
mbe0027 3 years ago
This piece is challenging on the vibraphone, especially in the use of the pedal. You have to watch the violin phrase markings, use those as your guide to the pedaling so that the notes dont bleed together too much. You can do it with the pedal barely depressed so that you can really get the phrasing and articulation.
Its just my observation, and opinion.
I really enjoyed hearing and watching the performance, and i wish more people would play Bach on the vibraphone.
DrumminJoe 3 years ago
u should try to get into interlochen!! r u in high school??? cause its a bording high school for the arts!!
whtevr1228 3 years ago
I'm a little too old for high school. I currently attend McGill University. In fact, this clip was on my pre-screening DVD for McGill.
Thanks for your support and for taking time to watch me play.
mbe0027 3 years ago
Excellent! Like it a lot!
Pricueni 3 years ago
Hi, do you have some sheet music references for playing Bach on the vibe or do you usually adapt from another instrument's ? Great perfomring though !
faboulo 3 years ago
I simply look for violin pieces that conform to the violin range (F3-F6) and then play them on vibes. I don't do much special arranging for vibraphone with classical music.
mbe0027 3 years ago
you need to make this a lot faster....it needs to go around 200 for the tempo...
so, u should play it ALMOST twice as fast..no quite, but almost.
other than that, it sounded really good!
I played it on marimba, so it was neat hearing it on a vibraphone.
Nicely done.
rcleroy89 4 years ago
I think it with the slightly slower tempo. Any faster, and one cant really appreciate the reverberation that makes this kind of instrument so interesting.
... Is the name not incorrect? The piece is from the Well Tempered Clavier, so it would be a prelude or fugue.
poorkinghaggard 4 years ago
This is from "Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo" or some editions say "unaccompanied violin".
DrumminJoe 3 years ago
It doesn't need to go around 200. o_O
The music says Presto. (dotted quarter = 72)
So if you're talking about quarter, that'd be 108. Which is half of 200 almost, and a little faster than he's playing it. Maybe there's some scholarly disagreement about how fast Bach meant it to be, but this tempo sounds fine...
StryfeXArcadia 3 years ago
well you know, beethoven always complained that the second movement of his 9th symphony was never performed quickly enough.
the beauty of italian tempo markings lies in the fact that their open to interpretation.
masterkhufu 3 years ago
It's not really open to interpretation if it says that a dotted quarter should be 72 bpm. The number is there (though Bach may not have put it there, I doubt he did). Either way, the claim that it's being played too slow is without merit.
StryfeXArcadia 3 years ago
unless of course you're traveling at a gradient conducive to the speed of light in which a minute for you would seem much, much shorter, and would therefore have to take it at a much slower tempo.
it is by this reasoning that i have deduced that the nice vibraphonist here was traveling at approximately 502962472.05 mph, or 3/4 of the speed of light.
point: masterkhufu :)
masterkhufu 3 years ago
damn, you're good :\
StryfeXArcadia 3 years ago
The speed would be measured as a relative speed between the sound source and the observer. I'm pretty sure the distance between the microphone and the vibraphone is static.
Nice vid.
mynameissambo 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that the distance between the microphone and the vibraphone is 7.84 feet.
Take that! "Sambo" - if that is your real name...you and your fancy basic principles of physics!
Did I mention that he was traveling at 3/4 the speed of light?
masterkhufu 2 years ago
You Sir, are a Bad Ass!!! Great job.
linguamortua 4 years ago
i ♥ the vibraphone!!!
craxymusician 4 years ago
4 mallets....thats awesome i never thought it was possible
pksocool 4 years ago
pretty good. at some parts instead of reaching for the notes try and use ur outter left mallet. good phrasing, could make the crescendos and dimminuendos a little more contrasting but overall great job. try doing it with two mallets next time. its easier.
crazylilflip 4 years ago
Great! I liked the accentuation :)
sonata1992 4 years ago
Needs A LOT of work!!
musser2007 4 years ago
amazing
d3e2a1n 4 years ago
um try it with 2 mallets and um to tempo meaning dotted quarter = 68 i mean it is presto.
percmajor666 4 years ago
Niiiice job, dude.
Silke1104 5 years ago
very nice!
xyphy 5 years ago
Awesome!
QBCNetwork 5 years ago
Really well played.
bassjack99 5 years ago
Nice Phrasing, Perhaps try a carpet square underneath the pedal to eliminate some extraneous noise, but overall I appreciated this piece - a definite change from hearing it on marimba all the time.
BosPercussion 5 years ago
Muito Bom!
bernardocox2 5 years ago
nice
ChorusHallelujah 5 years ago
Bad ass!!!
linguamortua 5 years ago
Beautiful! :)
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lisasimps 5 years ago