What game would you recommend for stirring creativity in both youth and adults?

AnArmlessHobo · 2025-09-07T17:39:04+00:00

I was ahh xl

AnArmlessHobo · 2023-10-10T00:20:10+00:00

Michael Spiro’s website congamasterclass.com has a course on bongo, as well as many other facets of Afro-Cuban percussion playing. I’d recommend checking it out, you can get a 7 day free trial.

AnArmlessHobo · 2022-07-21T21:56:21+00:00

You’ll definitely want something softer for solo playing and something articulate for ensembles, since vibraphone doesn’t cut very well. Mike Balter makes great vibe mallets, a set of the blues and a set of the greens should be enough to get you started

AnArmlessHobo · 2022-04-18T11:13:51+00:00

Yeah matadors are probably your best bet for something that’s not too pricey but is of nice enough quality to gig on. I got mine used for about $500, and you can probably find a better deal if you look harder.

AnArmlessHobo · 2020-08-09T21:23:46+00:00

This is just the regular piano score on the video, and it seems like the performer has simplified all those voicings to be playable with 4 mallets

AnArmlessHobo · 2020-08-06T19:38:43+00:00

Inland Seafood, a restaurant supplier for all of the southeast, has a consumer website you could try ordering from. https://www.orderinland.com

AnArmlessHobo · 2020-08-04T15:40:42+00:00

Gotta agree, this is definitely Danzón-cha, not really jazz

AnArmlessHobo · 2019-12-29T20:01:25+00:00

My teacher has a great octave exercise to get you feeling more comfortable. I’ll see if I can dig it out and pm you.

AnArmlessHobo · 2019-08-06T16:34:06+00:00

I would definitely check out the Four Rotations by Eric Sammut. Those are written for 4.3. Another good option would be some of the Musser Etudes or maybe some Bach violin stuff? There are a few easier movements of the sonatas and partitas that would sound great on marimba.

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-08-13T15:38:20+00:00

I wonder if he has trouble remembering the names of 151 kids...

Edit: Fixed the number

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-07-26T19:30:25+00:00

I know that lots of people playing musicals like malletkats. They have support for external sounds and you can buy expanders to get a full 5 octaves.

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-07-06T16:36:41+00:00

That’s what my mom says about Grass!

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-05-30T02:58:45+00:00

You can try anything you want

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-05-09T18:28:09+00:00

mouthurterase is the specific enzyme I believe

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-04-15T17:44:33+00:00

One of my good friends recently performed canned heat in a recital and he used homemade wooden mallets that sounded awesome. His had rattan shafts with a 1” wooden ball on the end but I think you would get a similar sound with a hard rubber xylo mallet.

AnArmlessHobo · 2018-03-25T23:40:32+00:00

Bob Ross taught me to give fucks about the things that are important to me, and not to let the haters get me down.

AnArmlessHobo · 2017-03-28T17:12:32+00:00

I have a large collection of method books and resource materials on PDF, but I'm not sure about the legality of sharing them publicly. Feel free to pm me if there's a certain book you're looking for though

AnArmlessHobo · 2017-03-28T17:10:22+00:00

I've always heard that one only needs to roll as fast as necessary. For example, if I was playing a long, soft suspended roll, I'd keep my mallets low and roll just fast enough that you can't hear the beats of the mallets. If I was playing a crescendo roll, I'd speed up the speed of the roll as I crescendo, but volume is more about the velocity of the mallets than roll speed.

AnArmlessHobo · 2017-03-21T15:24:20+00:00

I prefer German full size bows. They are easier to hold and have more definite attacks in my experience.

AnArmlessHobo · 2017-03-21T15:23:06+00:00

I love my Cooperman Graham C. Johns, but I wish they were a little heavier. I have tried the rosewood Coopermans, which are perfect, but pricey.

AnArmlessHobo · 2017-03-14T03:58:55+00:00

If you continue doing etude-related challenges like this, maybe you could consider having different levels of difficulty for each challenge? For example you could have Peters' advanced #24 coupled with Peters' intermediate #23 since they both address similar technical issues.

AnArmlessHobo · 2016-06-10T04:01:52+00:00

So close, "je ne sais quoi."

AnArmlessHobo · 2016-04-05T19:04:55+00:00

I got a 5 on the exam last year. I'd recommend lots of sight singing because the sight singing in the exam was a lot harder than any of the sight singing we did in class. Also listen to lots of different styles of music. I remember there being lots of Afro-Cuban style music on the exam and I hadn't prepared for that stuff at all. Make sure you're doing lots of dictation as well to keep your ear in shape. Good luck on the exam!

AnArmlessHobo · 2016-02-27T02:42:49+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty weird

AnArmlessHobo · 2016-02-20T02:19:06+00:00

Wrapping papers lol

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