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Six Mallet Marimba solo

JoePorter 6 July 2010

Hello Everyone,

This is a six mallet marimba solo. This video is from a tour about 2.5 months ago. This show was at 11am, and I did not feel the greatest, staying up all night before, typical tour! We were abit late getting to the place so we only had 25minutes to unpack. No time for warmup of any sort.

I find tours very interesting. You have to play your best no matter how you feel warm or cold. I think it's a very good experience touring it really forces you to be on your A game.

I also think 6 mallet technique is often thrown off as "Garbage" to alot of 4 mallet players. I think it has alot of interesting opportunities. I think depending on the application it is valid to play with 2, 4 or 6 mallets. In this piece it really gives more meat to the harmony and makes the sound nice and full. I do think that 6 mallet technique has alot more application on the marimba then on the vibes. Robert Paterson has created some very interesting 6 mallet marimba pieces and has developed his technique to have each mallet very independent. If anyone is interested check out his piece "Komodo" It is very neat!

hope you enjoy.

Joe

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tonymiceli Wed, 07/07/2010 - 08:19

hey man that piece sounds good! Even at 11am! :-)

Tell us about your tour. What is the group? Any more video or audio to check out?

Yeah I don't think 6 mallets have received a warm reception on the site. But you're right it's in the application and it's players like you to take it to a new level and convince us otherwise. I'm sure vibe players said silly things about 4 mallet playing when it started!

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JoePorter Wed, 07/07/2010 - 19:56

Thanks for the comments.

At the University of Lethbridge we created a percussion ensemble called global drums. We play anything from steel pans to japanese taiko to brazilian samba to african drum and dance to classical percussion.

We went on a 2 week tour playing 1hour concerts and a few places we did workshops. We did everything from playing at different university's, colleges, highschools, a festival and some others. We did 12 shows.

I'm waiting for a friend to give me a dvd and I'll post some of that stuff!

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