Furioso and Valse by Earl Hatch

I am preparing this piece for regional/state contest this Saturday. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• marimba
• xylophone
• hatch
• earl
• furioso
• valse
• mallets
• music
• bells

[F5Percussion]

Hey, I'm playing this for a solo & ensemble festival. I'm trying to find the perfect mallets for this, any suggustions?

[wingerspoon]

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. For your mallet choice, I think it really depends on your instument. Are you playing this on marimba or xylophone? If marimba, what kind? I was playing on a Musser (and sometimes an Adams) and I picked Encore "blues" - model 32YR. These are medium hard, providing the attack you need for the fast section, but not over-killing it on the valse section. Any medium hard mallet (any brand) would work well on most instruments for this piece. Good luck!

[spookyman123]

Hey wingerspoon, I play this today for my Solo and got a Gold Medal, but Im not going to State because I went it Group II instead of Group I. Once I can get a camera set up I'm going to record me playing it.

[wingerspoon]

Congrats! I look forward to seeing your vid :)

[Junker9003]

Very great playing! Even if I prefer playing a little bit more slow, just think this sounds more beauty, but everyone got a different view ;)

Maybe you should just play more quiet at the beginning and by moving down getting constantly louder.

But your technique is great, I really enjoyed it.

And by the way, the cat is the funniest thing I've seen :D

[wingerspoon]

Thanks for the nice feedback!

[KryptoGurlL]

you r awsine dude!!

[tguy32779]

i know its been awhile, but like you need to feel it. not just play notes. Drive yourself into it and own it, listen to it. Also, on the valse, when you start, be loud and furious first, then get softer until theres nothing, THEN out of no where start off nice and gentle, and build. Thats for all music you play, make it sound amazing.

[Bassbeater09]

Great overall performance! Agreed, use slightly softer mallets. Work on bring the stick back up off of the bars when you strike. You have to much downward motion going on. For example, play and try to quickly draw the sound out of the bars. You get a much more elegant sound instead of KLUNK, KLUNK, KLUNK! also remember its more wrist action on mallets and no fingers! Well no or LITTLE finger action. Better sound this way as well

[Marinbot]

Lol cat @ 4:02 made me laugh so hard. This was a fun piece to learn. Gotta love Earl Hatch. :)

[aril93]

Yeah sounds great. And thanks for putting this on here, because I keep listening to it haha. I'm doing it for a solo recital in April.

[lithium3fun]

Definitely seems like the mallets are too hard...

[ruicarl]

? this is an English video so talk English

[houseOchops]

very nice man, instructor gave this piece to me today to play for a solo... this will be a good reference tool so thanks and nice job.

[JimOnex]

I hope you won, excellent performance, enjoyable to listen!!!