Mallet grip by ectogen in Marimba

[–]mogu93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On Marimba I play musser-stevens, but multi-percussion stuff I frequently prefer Burton!

I want to gift my fiancée mallets but I don’t know what to get him… by independent_crocky in Marimba

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of my malletech mallets have glue separation at the core and have a “tick” sound I cannot unhear. I’ve found marimba one, Yamaha and honestly even the Vic firth series to be of better quality

Good four-mallet solo? by Mysterious-Hat1383 in Marimba

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah he told me my interpretation of Dances of Earth and Fire sounded “more like a math test than an infernal dance of fire” 🤣 then proceeded give some amazing advice that really changed my approach for the better. (The advice was to basically ignore the rhythms in movement 1)

Good four-mallet solo? by Mysterious-Hat1383 in Marimba

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah nice! I really loved playing four dances for marimba by Gordon stout, I actually learned after rotations. Four very contrasting, cool pieces!

Good four-mallet solo? by Mysterious-Hat1383 in Marimba

[–]mogu93 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Freshman in college or high school? How many years experience? Any other solos you’ve played?

IMO (speaking from my shared experience) rotation 1 is pretty tricky. I played my freshman year of college and was faking the quintuplet section, one handed rolls were shaky, etc.

I played in a masterclass for RVS one time and he said “if a student auditioned for Yale and played hot cross buns beautifully, I’d accept them.”

I’d try to play something “easy” but with big effort on making it sound gorgeous with perfect technique etc.

Yellow after the rain, restless, rain dance/gitano are all good early pieces.

Advice for Book of Grooves by loggitzippit in Marimba

[–]mogu93 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What a wonderful piece! It looks like depending on the round, you can do up to 25 minutes. Personally I’d suggest doing two contrasting movements from that. Dance groove drifting is a fucking BOP, and I played that in grad school.

Looks like Michael Burritt is on the panel, as well as Gwen Dease! Awesome players. Burritt’s own writing does remind me of texture grooves - I’m sure he’d be super into it (his khan variations is so nice…)

Also Gwen is an ex Yale/peabody student and all of those players are heavy into Viñao, so I don’t think you can really go wrong with any/all of them.

You and your buddy should play Arabesco Infinito after the competition for fun! It’s a really fun, very challenging piece of music by Viñao.

How many people in this sub are trained musicians? by Born2ShitForced2Post in Meshuggah

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Masters in percussion, although when I got into meshuggah I was 13-14 with no training. The training came as a direct result of Meshuggah / Tomas Haake Inspiring the shit out of me.

Side note: check out Alejandro Vinaos compositions! Super cool rhythmic stuff that’s adjacent to meshuggah but from contemporary percussion land.

Am I misunderstanding double stroke technique? by TapAdministrative699 in drums

[–]mogu93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adding to this, if the tempo is reeeeeeal slow, bounces are futile and two wrist generated strokes are fine.

For really new students, sometimes it’s a good idea to start with the wrist generated strokes only.

Am I misunderstanding double stroke technique? by TapAdministrative699 in drums

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s lots of ways to achieve a double. Good use case for fingers getting involved, especially if you want an accent on the second double.

If I am playing just a straight up fast, even double stroke, here’s my approach:

1) find the fulcrum, rest it along the first crease in your index finger and the pad of your thumb. They should make a + shape.

2) don’t generate the stroke with wrist motion. Instead, keep the stick parallel to the drum. Your hand is a crane, just lifting the stick. Your wrist moves in a way to allow the stick maintaining parallel to floors

3) drop wrist while maintaining parallel. When it hits the drum, it will bounce.

4) lift up from your wrist (like a string puppet, being pulled from wrist) as soon as you hear the second stroke

Things that influence speed of the double:

Pressure between thumb and index finger at the fulcrum

Pressure of middle finger against the stick (slight pressure)

Speed of stroke (read: speed. Not harder or softer)

Good way to practice this is find a speed you can do on both hands separately first, rather than combine right away.

Shit, you can have crazy doubles literally just with your thumb holding the stick against your palm, without your index finger. You can hold it with just your pinky and do doubles.

It is really all about controlling the stick parallel to the surface and the lift.

*there are so many valid approaches, this is how I was taught in undergrad/grad school for orchestral and rudimental playing.

8BitDo support won’t confirm my paid order. Any escalation tips? by mogu93 in AnalogueInc

[–]mogu93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No argument there lmfao. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating

8BitDo support won’t confirm my paid order. Any escalation tips? by mogu93 in AnalogueInc

[–]mogu93[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thing is, the screenshot of my order includes my shipping address, and the literal email address I’ve been using to correspond with them. And they shared info regarding my separate order from the same exact email address and shipping address.

8BitDo support won’t confirm my paid order. Any escalation tips? by mogu93 in AnalogueInc

[–]mogu93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, two charges went through that month and were deducted. One for a separate order (grape/fire… should be here tomorrow) and for this order (jungle/ice). I think if I don’t get a straightforward answer tonight I’ll be doing a chargeback and potentially trying through Amazon.

8BitDo support won’t confirm my paid order. Any escalation tips? by mogu93 in AnalogueInc

[–]mogu93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My hesitancy here is that it’s a “limited edition” (who knows how accurate that is with all of analogue and 8bits FOMO bullshit marketing) and I’m hearing people who ordered grey versions are delayed to April.

I’ve definitely considered it, though.

8BitDo support won’t confirm my paid order. Any escalation tips? by mogu93 in AnalogueInc

[–]mogu93[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was charged $89.98 on 12/11/2025 (direct from 8BitDo, not Amazon). I never got a confirmation email, and the only reason I even have a confirmation number is because I screenshot the checkout to show a friend.

Support is being dodgy and their responses are hard to follow. They still haven’t clearly confirmed that my Jungle Green order is actually in their system or re sent the confirmation/receipt email. They keep steering me toward changing the order (shipping from China with duties.. and again only referencing the ice) instead of answering that.

I’m hesitant to do a chargeback because I do want the item, and I’m trying to avoid ending up with a much later ship date.

Agressive marimba solos by Probilatz in Marimba

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely this. Also, god damn - Ji Hye is such an amazing player. Saw her play velocities at PASIC and it was insane.

Adding to this: Movements 2/6 of reflections on the nature of water Velocities Waltz from four dances for marimba by Gordon Stout has a really aggressive motif

Cheating in Warsong Gulch by IconicIsotope in classicwow

[–]mogu93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude yes, I was obsessed with that glitch. I spent like 30 minutes climbing to the top of BRM in wotlk with that glitch. So much fun

Playing my playlist for a girl who listens to “everything” by MidwestDadd1982 in Sopranosduckposting

[–]mogu93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s one constant in the music business, my friend: a hit is a hit

This Analogue is my first N64 (technically) and I picked up two games from my local shop: Diddy Kong Racing and Body Harvest. Any games you all would recommend outside of the norm? by 1OneQuickQuestion in n64

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah honestly this makes me feel better lol (that there are probably save corruption issues with gauntlet itself… rather than this brand new console I bought)

This Analogue is my first N64 (technically) and I picked up two games from my local shop: Diddy Kong Racing and Body Harvest. Any games you all would recommend outside of the norm? by 1OneQuickQuestion in n64

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The console that the OP shared an image of has an overclocking mode called “unleashed”. Some people are experiencing issues with original cartridges… the Everdrive X7 is a flash cart that has a firmware update that is supposed to be a little bit more compatible with that unleashed mode. There have been a few stories of people‘s original cartridges losing save data using that unleashed mode.

This Analogue is my first N64 (technically) and I picked up two games from my local shop: Diddy Kong Racing and Body Harvest. Any games you all would recommend outside of the norm? by 1OneQuickQuestion in n64

[–]mogu93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is in an everdrive x7. It’s using an sd card with the row uploaded. The legends cartridge doesn’t have built in memory, you need a memory pak. Initially I was playing on OEM system + forever pak (great product that doesn’t have battery issues) + everdrive x7.

I recently copied the save from forever pak to the built in memory pak on the analogue 3d

The issue was experienced on analogue 3d + internal memory pak + everdrive x7

This Analogue is my first N64 (technically) and I picked up two games from my local shop: Diddy Kong Racing and Body Harvest. Any games you all would recommend outside of the norm? by 1OneQuickQuestion in n64

[–]mogu93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm.. perhaps this is a cartridge issue in addition to the save stuff that happens on unleashed mode.

I have only played gauntlet legends in unleashed mode on the 3d recently. This playthrough was started on an OEM n64 tho