Libertango

SCV marimba player playing Libertango by Eric Sammut at the 2006 DCI I&E

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• SCV
• Libertango
• marimba
• pit
• DCI

[Pikachu24]

Well its just the style they play it into. Also you have to realize that the instrument thats being played. I get what your trying to say since in a way its not living to the way Astor PIazzolla wrote it, but this piece is just experimental and somehow it works. Hey if your good why not show it to the world, Astor didnt keep it to himself on how fast he can play the bandoneon. These people are showing off, their talent

[ryanjonescymru]

It doesn't suck, and really, it's not libertango. Scores are there to be re-arrnged, and suited to the instrument it's played on.

I say syncopating it even more and upping the tempo is a good move.

well played fella

Ryan

[allenadrivera]

i played this at my Vanguard winter audition like a week ago. at my individual with the instructors, i found out one of them was this same guy! so trippy! i didn't even know. his name is Grayson and as you can see in this video, he has mad chops.

[IIIIKaroIIII]

:O

[BeakismEIU]

Lastly, play at a speed where you can choose where on the bars you are going to strike with all 4 mallets, not just the one taking most of your attention. Especially near the end of the piece, (ignoring wrong notes, that happens to everyone even LHS once in a while) if you listen closely you will find yourself hitting the nodes quite a bit, which emphasizes the overtones of the bar over the fundamental pitch and takes away from the richness of sound.

[BeakismEIU]

As far as the actual performance goes, not bad. Your "recording engineer" should be farther away and at a different height than the keyboard (high overtones come out the ends of the bars more than the fundamental pitch) to eliminate that clanky sound. A higher quality instrument helps but you can overcome that somewhat if you find a spot on stage where there is a reflective (sound, not light) surface close to the low end and the high end is out in open space.

[BeakismEIU]

Just thought I should point out that Eric Sammut IMPROVISED this on the spot, many many times, and this published version is just kind of an average length compromise to get something down on paper. I have heard a performance of this by Sammut prior to the published version and WOW it is amazing. We as mortal marimbists end up playing this as a memorized piece note by note, but this arrangement originally came from his soul, not a piece of sheet music.

[jangoslut]

too fast for his own good...just like me in my teens.....SLOW DOWNNNNN.....ur destroying that piece.....wrong notes everywhere...i would give you a 2 rating on that one homie

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[ryan9312]

this is exactly how eric sammut arranged it people. he is one of the best marimbists ever. stop saying it sucks this is spot on.

[marimbalena]

Sound, phrasing, voicing with fat base line????!!!! Did anyone listen to the version of Jasmin Kolberg or Francesca Santangelo? I can't believe the hype here....:-)

[darkbluemars]

well i am a bit confused @_@