This photo of Hotel Marina Copan is courtesy of TripAdvisor
Hotel Marina Copan Photo: Vintage Marimba and Bass Fiddle are in the common areas on the way to our room.
I like playing this tune because the melody sits at the upper end of the vibes, which gives you lots of room down below to put your accompaniment. The syncopated rhythms provide a nice momentum too, and the familiar chord changes are a lot of fun to improvise on,
Hey guys!!
There is a piece by Dimitris Angelakis called "ALWAYS" and played by
DIMITRIS ANGELAKIS, vibes
ISRAEL ARRANZ, marimba
at the Atrezzo Café, Burela (Galicia, Spain) 13th July 2013.
VI Jazz and Modern Music Seminary of Burela (15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 July 2013)
I hope you like. Please, write your impressions, thanks guys!!
Israel Arranz
P.D.: How many times happens that playing in a duet, vibes´ tuning is A=442hz and marimba´s tuning is A=440? Well, this is one of these times. Can you hear it? :)
I was fixing up one of the rooms in my house to be a dedicated room for drumming. As I started building the sound baffles to help control the sound, I realized that this would be a great "Quick Tip" video to share with others. So, I started recording and explaining as I went. I spent the day putting this together. It's only my second video like this and I learned a ton about editing and camera placement (I learn from mistakes seen here). Regardless of the clamp above my head, the poor editing and camera work, I hope it's useful. It was definitely a great practice video.
All consumer video recorders, or camcorders, produce good to excellent video, but usually terrible audio. I have an inexpensive Kodak Zi8 camera, which has an external mic-in port. I can get sort of ok audio when I use a good condenser mic plugged into the camera, but I've been hunting for an inexpensive way to improve that even more.
Bela Fleck traveled to Africa to make a film and perform with local musicians. This excerpt features a giant marimba. The resonating chamber is a hole dug in the ground. The enormous hand carved bars a placed over the hole. I've never seen anything like it!
Last May I had to do a presentation for my job, so instead of a boring lecture I decided to have a recital and talk about my work in between pieces. It was a great success!
I finally uploaded the videos onto my computer, so I'll attach some of them here. Enjoy!
Some info:
1) An excerpt from Bettina Dreams of the Garden of Elves by David Friedman: David, I would love to hear your feedback on this one. I have my own constructive criticism but let me know what you think...
http://youtu.be/N5oZYzuaS-o
Hello again,
i just finished another Video of M-Dur.
This is one of our "evergreens". We arranged it in the summer of 2010 i think and we play it in every concert i guess. Always the last tune before the encores. ;)
I love to play it! It's quit hard to don't miss a note in the last part, but it's a lot of fun!! ;)
I hope you like it as well.
Hauke
Hello again,
here is another video of my Duo M-Dur.
The great song Bohemian Rhapsody from Queen. I hope you like it. :)
vib - Hauke Renken
mar - Patrick Stapleton
best greetings,
Hauke
Hey Mallet Players!
A new Video of my Mallet Duo M-Dur.
In this one, Patrick and me have a little musical fight about the interpretation of Mozarts Rondo Alla Turca. We call this Arrangement "Rondo Alla Blues"
I hope you like it. :)
regards, Hauke
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