Bach's Violin Concerto No.1 in A-minor on Xylophone

[SUNSNARE06]

thats the best instrument they could provide you, a little porta-xylo?

[TheTechnicalchaos]

sounds nice! this video is really helping me out. Im learning this for my audition to get into college so listening to your orchestra is making things a bit easier.

[pilotoatomico]

I think u need harder mallets. Those mallets are too soft man!

[juwan66]

i guess i should be glad that strings in high doesn't get marimbas or xylos. they would be better than us band people if they had them. percussion is better in band even though i play tenor sax

[babismatsamakis]

bad,bad choice of the organ played! sounds like coke bottle caps! you got talent in your hands, try the art of... soldering!

[chenwenhua2269]

oh why not use a marimba instead of the xylophone? Marimba has a richer and rounded sonorous timbre. Pls. do consider, thanks.

[reflectionist]

Because it's Morris Goldenberg's adaption for xylophone, not marimba. The xylophone goes an octave higher than a marimba, and in this case, it's not a viola concerto, or a cello concerto (cello pieces DO adapt well to marimba), it's a violin concerto.

Not only that, but violins do have more of a brittle, sound that's more conducive to xylophone than marimba.  I'm a little unsure about that particular xylophone, though.

[alancheng12345]

crappy xylophone too. is that a toy?? looks like one

[LPjudith]

@alancheng12345 i think his sticks are wrong and the xylo sounds crappy yeah

i would've chosen a pair that aren't this hard... also better for the xylophone.... i would use these sticks (don't know another name for it haha) on my marching bells (glockenspiel xd)

[Silenozio]

It doesn't sound in tune at all.. A shame really, because I can hear that the soloist know the piece..

[mashimarokim]

heard little dynamic contrast

[Maul3rR4ngx]

i agree the mallets are a bit too hard it makes the sound dampened and very hard, other than that well played. im playing this song right now too but i havent learned it all yet

[mashimarokim]

were you triple sticking that first part?

[barcanard]

What does it take to get a conductor that wants to do a violin concerto on xylophone? I wish mine did that. I just figured this was a good thing to learn on Xylo, I didn't realize orchestras would actually pass off the part to xylophonist instead of violin. Very cool!

[Jugador12]

@barcanard I really just proposed playing it and auditioned

[pilotoatomico]

the mallets are a little bit too hard, get softer ones

[DarkAnimeGirlLover]

the thing sounds very out of tune. Should have used different sticks. (i play it too)

[yellotheemcee]

whoa man u still @ yosac...is uggi cm?

[DrummerDG]

Wow, nice job! That's a hard piece to pull off, and you did well.

[seahyimin]

cool

[gkdrummerboy]

How'd this sound on marimba?

[xmikeyyc]

cool

[Megarturo]

well with a bit of wrong notes, but is ok... Bach is pretty amazing and adictive, i played this some time ago and is very nice. Dinamic contrast is the only thing taht you may need to work ;) well keep working ^^

[arnipants]

i played this on marimba a couple of years back. pretty sweet. nice work but yeah quite a few wrong notes. needs a little more dynamic contrast too. but overall, good work.

[mcflyte]

Good!!! but i've heard a lot of false notes

[pianofiend1]

I'm confused... isn't that instrument called a marimba? I've never understood the difference. I've seen metal xylophones (or are those vibes?). Great job though, never seen anything like this. Truly original.

[princeali69]

the metal instrument is most likly vibes a marimba is a full octave lower then a xylophone... thats most defintly a xylo phone

[pianofiend1]

oh ok, thanks.

[666Atuor]

Great job, could have played it a bit slower. WhAt's your orchestra and from where are you?

[Jugador12]

@666Atuor I was playing this with the YOSAC orchestra in the Bay Area of California

[peace2218]

wats up with the xylophone?

[doobyfizzle]

it was a bit fast

[rcleroy89]

yea man, its alright, just next time try to hit all the notes instead of missing so many.

like, it runs....u hit would miss a note and play the note previous to it on accident.

aim for perfection.

good job though. very impressive.

[barnetino]

Unusual suit for Bach's violin concerto..

great job.

[elaine0924]

Great :) It sounds better on xylophone than me playing it on violin :D great work

[Bimsmoothy]

I think think the only problem here is your technique and the fact that you're playing on a xylophone the size of my fist (which does not make hitting all the notes easy). I really like the lightness of sound achieved from raising the wrists, but try and achieve that while lowering the wrists. I have to get better at that too, and I also need to relax more.

[whit5ney]

watch dynamics and musicality throughout

[BRocka2006]

That's interesting...I've NEVER heard it played it on a xylophone...that's clever. I likes!

[shootingstar9999]

oooh!!! i'm playing this song!!!! my teacher prob fell in love with this song cuz usually my songs last for a month, but this one i've been playing since december...

[eppinizer]

Awsome =D, thats a unique talant

[z354x2]

impressive ryan, I don't know how you managed to do it on an actual xylophone though, when I did it it was on marimba...and this may be because its been 4 years since I played it, but it sounds like your arrangement is different, but as I said, I coudld just be tripping

[camerones77]

impressive. but uh greatest man alive. NOT hahaah

[Michael94546]

you may be the greatest man alive