Jay's Honor Band Mallets Recital

Jay is playing some xylophone and marimba concert music on bells. The mallets that he chose to use are actually a too big for the bells and are better suited for playing xylophone. In first to last order, he is playing the All-West TN Xylophone audition music for the Junior High and Senior High Honor Bands, and lastly a mallets/marimba etude that he likes. Because I am often asked- Jay is 11 years old and in the 6th grade.

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Music

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• Jay
• xylophone
• marimba
• mallets
• percussion
• solo
• All-West
• Tennessee
• honor
• band
• audition
• music

[tonymontana1229]

God, I'd love to see him play Yellow After the Rain by Mitchell Peters, it's a great beginner 4 mallet solo! It was the first one I learned when I was first getting used to 4 mallets.

Love the videos, and I hope he stays with music, it's a great thing!

[oldchops]

@tonymontana1229 Share the music and he'll learn it and play it (and post a video). This is a good time to do it because in about three weeks he will be preparing for his first year/fall marching season, in high school marching band- playing snare drum.

[tenniscrazy2]

@oldchops I know a website which has the sheet music for Yellow After the Rain free. If you're still looking for it, send me a message and I can give you the name of the website.

[oldchops]

@tenniscrazy2 Thanks! I sent you a pm.

[kyle14028]

but can he sight read music? or can he even read it?

im thinking he just completely memorized that, you need to be able to read music too. you can't always have someone show you

[oldchops]

Let's see...he actually was first-chair in the All-West TN Junior High Honor Band (9th grade and below) back then, as a 6th grader. He has since earned a spot in that band the following year, and should earn a spot this year, and is one of the top players in the Memphis Youth Symphony; all requiring sight-reading proficiency on mallet/keys, timp, and snare. Yes, he can read.....extremely well!

[tweetEBird]

@himrasmus101 exuse me? mallets one of the easiest instruments? oh i dont think so. can you even play mallets? hmm?

[alexsmmb]

One word to sum that all up : magically. Does anyone see "DCI" written all over him? :)

[HossBoss135]

dude you are beast i wish i could ply like you in my purcussuion section at lewisburg. keep rockin it dude

[BlackMineCraft20]

I have that same pearl set



[KndC6710]

@ghostvenom051 I'd like to see u play that good when u were 11.

[aj8676]

That's pretty good for his age, but softer plastics would do better

[GhostVenom051]

not really impressive, but interesting :/

[awesomebrownie10]

i thought i was good , wow ur so good

[kingzed00]

omg i have the same set lol good job kid

[TheNickperrin]

that was good but i hate the bell so much that it makes me want to drive into the maternity ward of the nearest hospital

[stevenhamlin1000]

@alexsmmb i see a future in the cavaliers or blue devils drum line

[mrgammer131]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN