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 Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:39 am
I am, safe to say, the only percussionist AT MY WHOLE ENTIRE SCHOOL who ENJOYS playing mallets. (And is good at playing it)
Other are either to slow at reading the music or can't even read noted music. Some of our sectoin can't READ music for heaven sakes. They just glace at it, and repeat a mindless beat. -_-"
But I love it. A lot of people are forced onto the mallets, mainly in Percussion Ensemble. We even had to bring in another musician who played sax and piano to play a part ,,_-_.
I suppose my love for piano is the reason for my love of timpani and mallet percussion. I'm mainly the only person trusted for such things...
But, anyways, I think we're getting some tubular bells, and hopefully, a vibe ^^ I NEED A VIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -_-"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:47 pm
our vibes are cruddy. the pad doesn't even stop the vibrating and the keys are all loose so they clang together and make a very UGLY sound! we got a new one, but its screwed because someone knocked them over, so now the once pretty, new ones are not big, gold, and s****y!
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:49 am
herr_doktor.exe I play xylo this year for marching band, seeing that all girls seem to be always put into pit or cymbals. lol Girl tener (sorry if I spelled it wrong) and base drum. And I have seen several guys in pit secions
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:00 pm
Phantom of the Forum Well, let me start off with this: Our vibraphone is crud. The felt pad is indented, the reverberation tubes keep falling out of their sockets...and the support beams sometimes come out of their positions. At one point I wanted to learn violin. Well, after doing some reasearch, I found that vibraphone is possibly one of the hardest instruments there is for percussion. (or in general, really...) And I'm good at it. XD Go figure. Anyone else think that vibes are weirdly hard/easy for them? Anyone have four mallet solos? Any techniques you'd like to share? POST 'EM HERE! EDIT: I've decided to make it a mallets chat, since not many people play vibes. I know exactly what you mean;; all the mallets instruments are oddly easy for me. Though it takes me awhile to read the music (at some points my mind goes blank and all I see is a piece of paper with a bunch of dots xp ), it's pretty simple to actually play the music. I'm not sure why... Have any of you had to play songs with four mallets at once (not four players, but four sticks)? EDIT:: Okay, I feel a bit dumb. I hadn't realized what 'four mallet solos' meant... but yes, I have- in a song called The Great Locomotive Chase. It's not that complicated, but even the 8th notes are killer after awhile >.<
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:05 pm
Veritas of the Amethyst I am, safe to say, the only percussionist AT MY WHOLE ENTIRE SCHOOL who ENJOYS playing mallets. (And is good at playing it)
Other are either to slow at reading the music or can't even read noted music. Some of our sectoin can't READ music for heaven sakes. They just glace at it, and repeat a mindless beat. -_-"
But I love it. A lot of people are forced onto the mallets, mainly in Percussion Ensemble. We even had to bring in another musician who played sax and piano to play a part ,,_-_.
I suppose my love for piano is the reason for my love of timpani and mallet percussion. I'm mainly the only person trusted for such things...
But, anyways, I think we're getting some tubular bells, and hopefully, a vibe ^^ I NEED A VIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -_-" Gah!! It's the same at my school, all the other percussionists are hung up on playing snare or any other drum-type thing. [personally, i STINK at snare.] It's also the same with the reading music- half of them just assume the 'ooh look, a dot! let's hit something!' pattern. >.< I've been playing piano for a long while too (though I gave it up for a while when i started hating it because my parents were forcing me into it... but then when they relented i got to loving it again) so yeah, i think that has a connection to it... and possibly to the timpani too. It's the only drum I'm enjoy playing 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:09 pm
Suisho_Tomoe Are vibes really that hard to learn how to play? Hmm . . . . I learned in maybe five minutes my rookie year of Marching Band, the first time I'd ever played mallets. But then again, I'd had six years of piano lessons before that. vibes are fun, but i like Marimba better. We have a five octave marimba at my college, and it is amazing! It was the same for me when I started playing, the piano lessons made it feel somewhat natural.
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:42 pm
vibes arent yellow they can be gold or silver rolleyes
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:07 am
I can play a little piano, but my favorite instruments have to be the keyboard percussion, the bells, xylophone, vibraphone, and expecially the marimba! it's a lot of fun to play, besides, me and this one other guy are the only ones who play them in marching and concert, 'cos most of our drumline can't read pitch (XD) or they play timpani (in concert only, of course)
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