[Music] LOL Here's my playing the xylophone

During one of our wind ensemble's many recording sessions. This is my favorite song we've done all semester. Maybe even since I've been there, it's pretty awesome.

It's also an incredibly difficult piece, with many odd time signatures, key changes, and hemiola. Many times it sounds like it's in 7/8, when it's actually in 8/8. You can even hear me mess up in this recording, at about 15 seconds in, I'm supposed to play that run with everyone else, but I dropped a mallet LOL.

Anyways, just thought some people might be interested in this.

Silverline showed me this before, and I liked it a lot. Who is the composer again? You've told me, and I blanked on the name. It sounds like the style of someone very familiar. i remember discussing Holsinger, but I think you said this was someone else...

Yay at large-ish (couple of MB+) attachments working FINALLY.

you know I like this ^___^

You should tell whoever records these to use a higher bitrate when they encode the mp3 ;___; Lots of artifacts ><

This is still awesome, I'd feel so proud if I made anything even half as good =) When listening specifically for xylophone playing, some of the stuff does sound pretty complex =0 Good job. I'd have never of noticed any mistakes if you hadn't have pointed them out either =p

I did hear a  xylophone...


























... what a  xylophone?

Uh guys, if you notice, HoTS said he dropped the mallet, that's why you didn't 'hear' him mess up. :wink: Lol.

Awesome.

I winced at what I'm assuming is the French Horn part. The 32nd (or was it 64th?) notes sounded ungodly hard.

You did a great job though. It was pretty rocking.

Uh guys, if you notice, HoTS said he dropped the mallet, that's why you didn't 'hear' him mess up. :wink: Lol.

Awesome.

I winced at what I'm assuming is the French Horn part. The 32nd (or was it 64th?) notes sounded ungodly hard.

You did a great job though. It was pretty rocking.

Depends on the tempo, but according to the score, it's 16th notes. The tempo is supposed to be 167. The piece is a Grade 6 LOL.

Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure which part you're talking about. At first I thought you meant the rhythm played at the very beginning, and then throughout the song, but the french horns aren't playing that. Then I thought maybe you got the alto  saxophone solo mixed up with a horn, but that's just stupid (but that solo is amazingly difficult), but just to settle everything, it's all fast, and everyone has 16th notes at some point.

Yay at large-ish (couple of MB+) attachments working FINALLY.

you know I like this ^___^

You should tell whoever records these to use a higher bitrate when they encode the mp3 ;___; Lots of artifacts ><

This is still awesome, I'd feel so proud if I made anything even half as good =) When listening specifically for xylophone playing, some of the stuff does sound pretty complex =0 Good job. I'd have never of noticed any mistakes if you hadn't have pointed them out either =p

Yeah, I don't know what the deal was, usually the recordings are a lot better than this, but whatever.

I bought the score to this, and even just looking at it makes me want to quit composing (almost) because I'll never write anything this good.......... maybe.

Although actually the xylophone part is fairly simple - relatively. It's just the weird meters and hemiola that throws you off. The xylophone music itself is rather easy, sans a measure here and there.

Silverline showed me this before, and I liked it a lot. Who is the composer again? You've told me, and I blanked on the name. It sounds like the style of someone very familiar. i remember discussing Holsinger, but I think you said this was someone else...

It's Samuel R. Hazo. The other song I sent Silverline was by Holsinger.

I'm refering to where they do like a scale going up really fast.

Man, that was pretty awesome.