Grip

. . . . . This article and its videos walk you thru the concert/clinic we gave at PASIC 2021. Brian Casey, bassist, and I used seven tunes to demonstrate our performance concepts. The article explains and expands on those ideas. Here's to more jazz on marimba ! ! !

Hi all,

The first of a few technique lessons I will be doing, this is on the grip I use, and why I think it is the best one.

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Just me talking about grips.

This is a project I've been working on for a long time. I'm offering it up as new practice material while isolated due to Coronavirus Lockdown. It's about 1/3 complete but it's a LOT of practice work.

I came up with the idea about 35 years ago, then put it out in a very rough form with intentions of someday making it more user friendly. In the past few years, I add to it it when I feel like messing with it. It's great practice material and is very challenging. I thought I'd add it to the mix here at VW for folks looking for something different to work on while held up at home.

Here's a short video of me playing the 11th dampening etude from David Friedman's book.
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