Giovanni Hidalgo performs a solo from from his home in Kissimmee, Florida. Seeing Hidalgo live was a jaw-dropping experience. If you have seem him play in person please share your thoughts. If not, what are your observations/reactions to this video? Leave your comments below.
Originally posted on DrumChattr on December 12, 2010.
How important is it to work on how you move/how you look behind the marimba? Today we discuss two things you can do to deal with the almost 8 feet of rosewood in front of you!
How important is this issue? How do you deal with the difficulty of moving around such a large instrument? Is this area of our pedagogy underdeveloped? Leave your comments below.
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Originally posted on DrumChattr on December 10, 2010 by Thomas Burritt.
How do we deal with the many challenges of getting and keeping work in the arts? Well, I don’t claim to have all the answers but I can encourage you to do one thing that you can actually control: work your face off, always! Check out the video for more.
Is work ethic underrated? How important is it to work harder than EVERYBODY else? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Originally posted on DrumChattr on December 9, 2010 by Thomas Burritt.
This video features Steve Gadd with Sadao Watanabe in a live performance in Japan from 1984. What are you favorite Steve Gadd live performances? Leave your comments in the Chattr Section.
Originally posted on DrumChattr on December 6, 2010.
Setsuko Kutsuno performs The Source (Toshi Ichiyanagi) This performance is from Setsuko Kutsuno’s Marimba Recital on August 6th, 2010 @ Aoyama Music Memorial Hall (Kyoto, Japan).
What is your favorite Japanese marimba solo? Leave a comment below.
Originally posted on DrumChattr on December 5, 2010.
This video comes from the documentary “Touch the Sound – A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie”, by Thomas Riedelsheimer. Few percussionists have brought our art into the mainstream like Evelyn Glennie. Evelyn has an impressive diversity of accomplishments in her career. Which of these do you think is most important to our art and its continued development? Leave your comments below.
Originally posted on DrumChattr on November 30, 2010 by Dave Gerhart.
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