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Look at Sammy rockin out at the end!

@DrumMasterT You would only need two; if you put the mics too close they will be overloaded.

Love the sound of your drums!

Amazing!

Worst music I've heard in many many years.... no talent at all.

Nicely done! I haven't seen Emise Mali perform before, she is excellent! I don't know how to type letters with the accents above them, but the violinist was very good as well!

I did an analysis of this piece during an independent study course in college, and one of the more interesting things I discovered, whether intentional or not, is that at least 75% of the notes occuring in a common time with at least one other part are either a half step or a tritone away from at...

@gridit I live down near the AC Expressway these days, and next year I will start offering lessons out of my studio. I just put up some photos of it on fb. Since the job market has been so bad, I figure I might as well be self-employed. Have to jump through some hoops with the neighborhood Ass...

Anybody else notice the video and audio don't line up? Maybe a rehearsal recording dubbed over the audio of concert footage?

I can't tell if you used soft mallets to cover how hard you are hitting the marimba, or if you are hitting the marimba so hard because the mallets are too soft for the sound you are trying to achieve. Also, beware mixing MB's and LHS's of any hardness; MB series has a synthetic rubber core and L...

Vary your roll speed during the (surprise) rolled section. You can avoid some of the clank by tilting the mallets forward just a bit. Also be careful if you are going to hit accidentals on the ends, make sure you are hitting the end of the bar rather than halfway between the end and the bar cor...

Looks like he has two bars that are tuned "between" chromatic notes but he probably didn't know how to add caps to the dummy resonators which is why you can't hear them as well as the other notes.

God even Auto-tune couldn't fix these people...

I hope he didn't have to buy that suit just for this audition... the producers should have never let him on.

Thumbs up if you think she needs new friends...

This is awesome, but you should hear her play Stout's 1st Mexican Dance with TWO mallets and the COVER ON. Unbelievable stuff!

I'm surprised Moersch let you play this from memory given his music standectomy procedures... ;)

Hey I'm going to stretch your memory waaaay back to the mid-1990's; you came to Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL to do a masterclass for Johnny Lee Lane's students. It's one of my favorite memories from college! You said "scheiser" so many times I lost count! I don't know if you r...

Hey man, slow down until you are ready. Hitting the right notes is more important than speed, that comes not just with good technique but familiarity. That is why hitting the right notes is so important. You missed many of the notes in the first few measures; slow it down till you can hit all ...

FYI Xenakis was an architect, and he viewed his compositions as physical constructions. Find a video of Metastasis showing the score go by in real time and you will understand. This is a guy who spent a part of his youth fighting against Fascism as a Communist rebel. To his ears gunfire and ex...

Having read some of Stockhausen's own writings about his music, this seems to be a serenade to his "angels" that watch over him and what not. Why else take music to the sky and not have a live audience for it? If he could have four rockets to take to Sirius he would have done that in a heartbea...

@01perkussion That's true; I have several urtext editions of violin and keyboard works, and Yo-Yo- Ma's recoding of the 6 cello suites. Very few markings of any kind, you have to rely somewhat on the scholars for proper interpretation. As far as I remember, the rubato was used for emphasis in m...

I was under the impression that Senor Guinness was Irish and possessed a beer belly. What is this?

These people should not be allowed to own pets if they are not going to look after their health. These animals will have half the life-span they should. These animals only get this fat if they are overfed and not allowed to run around and get exercise, and once they get to this level of obesity...

not cool.

I laughed at the football action... they're men, manly men; men in tights!

Looks more like a big Momma to me... and who the hell volunteered to hold the microphone up in there?

Then you basically only need to keep eyes on mallets 2 and 3, and even when they are too far apart to be seen simultaneously it is a much shorter trip moving your eyes between mallets 2 and 3 than it is between mallets 1 and 4. That little trick helped me nail the marimba part on Toccata by Ande...

Leigh Howard Stevens, Keiko Abe, Dame Evelyn Glennie... plus a handful of Europeans ("classical" music is held in much higher regard across the pond than it is in the US). You probably know the names of many more people who are amazing on the marimba but it isn't how they make a living. Keep t...

Funny story about sympathetic vibrations - when I was in college at Eastern Illinois University our Latin Percussion Ensemble rehearsed in a large classroom with a high ceiling (14' give or take). Every time we rehearsed and stopped, there was a high pitched whine in the room; it ook us a long t...