I'm always looking to see and hear how people play in different situations and whether it holds my attnetion.
David Patrios is a great mallet player. Just look how he plays in this duo!
He's on a .... is it a Balifon? Or do I just call it a marimba? I don't know.
But he makes great melodies.
This just reminds me what we need to make music. We don't need 4 mallets going on all the time. For most of us that's a good think. We need strong melodies with chords interspersed!
Once the harmony is there we don't need much to keep it going. I think this is a good think for most of us. Work on technique and work on content. Knowing how to make harmony, making melodies and thus making music.
What do you guys think?
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I like it
John Keene Fri, 05/15/2020 - 13:22
I've been watching a lot of marimba videos since this quarantine started, and I've really started thinking about getting into playing marimba. Yahama makes a nice 3.5 octave model called the YM-40 that appears to be a nice jazz instrument.