Six Mallet Marimba solo

Hello Everyone,

This is a six mallet marimba solo. This video is from a tour about 2.5 months ago. This show was at 11am, and I did not feel the greatest, staying up all night before, typical tour! We were abit late getting to the place so we only had 25minutes to unpack. No time for warmup of any sort.

I find tours very interesting. You have to play your best no matter how you feel warm or cold. I think it's a very good experience touring it really forces you to be on your A game.

I also think 6 mallet technique is often thrown off as "Garbage" to alot of 4 mallet players. I think it has alot of interesting opportunities. I think depending on the application it is valid to play with 2, 4 or 6 mallets. In this piece it really gives more meat to the harmony and makes the sound nice and full. I do think that 6 mallet technique has alot more application on the marimba then on the vibes. Robert Paterson has created some very interesting 6 mallet marimba pieces and has developed his technique to have each mallet very independent. If anyone is interested check out his piece "Komodo" It is very neat!

hope you enjoy.

Joe