Can I compose a marimba solo in ONE HOUR?

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I think this is the craziest idea yet... writing a semi decent marimba solo in one hour is sooooo hard! But I gave it a try and definitely found that when the pressure gets to you... it really gets to you hahahaha. Anyway, if you want to suggest any more challenges for me to try (I think I'm better at speed learning lol) follow me @thestudiofamily and send me a message!
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@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Yes we're back with another challenge... this time it's the #SpeedComposingChallenge! Thanks to everyone who gave me this idea on @thestudiofamily! So now I'm curious - have you ever tried to write music in an hour? Let me know down below! #TheStudioFamily

@Infinitlylaconic 5 жыл бұрын

Adam Tan, I've tried writing music, but it never turned out well. On the other hand, will you ever release the sheets for this piece? I love the way it sounds and would love to play it!

@jacobbass6226 5 жыл бұрын

Adam Tan It’s great to see you struggle like this. ESPECIALLY in the same areas that stump professionals. Your definitely on a solid path towards something. If take a class or two I think it’ll expand you compositional prowess.

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Dylan Ford Thanks so much man! I’ll probably release it when I redo it a bit better :)

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Jacob Bass Thank you man! I’m always open to learning more :)

@roguenetwork27 3 жыл бұрын

I just realized this piece would make a great vibraphone solo Well if you can fit it on one lol

@uhhhd1157 5 жыл бұрын

6:10 is the lick

@bendrummond9876 5 жыл бұрын

adam: “i don’t want to bring out the big guns with the handed rolls super early” moon chasers by mark ford : *exists* me: 🤔

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha TRUE

@giovanniquinones8968 5 жыл бұрын

IT ALL SOUNDED LIKE MOON AHHHHH

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

RIGHT???? aw man

@pascal2686 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha so true, everytime he played something I heard Moon!!😂

@nickloughner7512 5 жыл бұрын

5 mins into the challenge and it sounds AMAZING. The first idea was nice. Loved it

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Too kind Nick! Wish I actually remembered half the things I wrote when I performed it haha

@dillonstephenson1539 5 жыл бұрын

I WOULD LOOOOVE a pdf!!! This sounds dang good for one hour

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I will probably rewrite it sometime soon and release it as a proper thing :)

@dillonstephenson1539 5 жыл бұрын

@@AdamTanPercussion YESSSS

@steampunkhulk5559 4 жыл бұрын

@@AdamTanPercussion has this happen yet ? Or is it still not out

@joshuawesterman6097 5 жыл бұрын

This was literally insane, I thought it was so cool and fascinating to watch, you gotta try to make another one of these

@itzelroman3487 Жыл бұрын

This video is very helpful and inspiring!! I myself and working on my own piece just for fun as a way of expressing myself. Love your content!! 🥰🥰

@rileygiesepiano 5 жыл бұрын

This is very cool to me! I’ve always struggled to write music because the ideas I have in my head never come through when I try writing it. Especially the bass notes, I always struggle making them compliment the top part. I’m going to try to borrow my school’s 5 octave over summer and write a solo though!

@eveweymeersch5874 5 жыл бұрын

AH MY GAAAAAD I LOVE THIS PIECE SO MUCH!!! ❤️ YOU did an amazing job! Congratulations 🎊

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@pawnstarsofficial9083 5 жыл бұрын

I’m totally going to Try this

@nickloughner7512 5 жыл бұрын

Same but on a vibe instead

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes ;)

@thomashendricks5810 5 жыл бұрын

You’re nuts... that was awesome and I’m sending it to my brother! I definitely improv a lot and make stuff up when people are watching but I’ve never tried to write anything in such short time... do you think you might write and publish a piece with a similar melody? Also have you ever tried to write different types of music? By types I mean like how you know a piece is by Ivan Treviño without looking up the author, I feel like I’d know a piece is by Adam tan when I hear it (in a good way, like I dig ur music, I’m not trying to say it’s all the same but that there is a common style which I think is important)

@jasonhsu7330 5 жыл бұрын

ADAM WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RELEASE THIS

@quincyrobert691 5 жыл бұрын

that's amazing

@zoeko5654 5 жыл бұрын

you are so talented

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Zoe! You are too kind!

@lumberjackpercussion3751 4 жыл бұрын

That was pretty cool for an hour! I’d like to for you to compose something with a funky bass line. Channel your inner Rick James 😂

@percussionpro8607 4 жыл бұрын

This pice is super good. If you continue to work on this it might be a good song to publish.

@noahcook241 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this right after watching Moon and was doing a double take to make this came after it🤣 thinking maybe you accidentally wrote Moon in this video🤣

@caseybedney 5 жыл бұрын

Cool

@varixalint 5 жыл бұрын

So when you composed your original solos, did you have a theme in your head initially before you started plotting everything down, or did you just pull up to your marimba and played something that sounded good and went from there?

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Some of them I had a theme in my head (Path, Moon) and some I played a melody I liked on the marimba like in this video (Meet Again, Lotus) and then I went from there :)

@Marimbalogy 5 жыл бұрын

This is super inspirational! Love it! I was curious if you have perfect (absolute) pitch?

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Marimbalogy Thank you Charlie! I don’t think I have 100% perfect, but when I was younger I kind of worked out a relative pitch alternative myself that’s been pretty close!

@dipitous9647 5 жыл бұрын

@Reid Metoyer I've done something similar. My method was to get familiar with each of the 12 pitches in a way that sticks out (much like how string players know the sound of an A, their tuning pitch, as do wind and brass players with their Bb, and many fans of My Chemical Romance can recognize a G4 with ease [Black Parade]). It's all about the repetition. I hope this is somewhat helpful :)

@noraj4149 4 жыл бұрын

I like the theme

@sethkeenan594 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, I've been wanting to save up for a marimba because I want to have a 5 octave that I can play at home, I've been looking around for a while and even considered trying to build my own. My budget is also fairly small so that's not very helpful.

@nakeddancer2000 4 жыл бұрын

Not even a marimba player he’s just so nice to watch and his accent

@zackedrums7224 5 жыл бұрын

It should be called By the Hour

@ru8347 5 жыл бұрын

nice.

@mickberkelmans3500 5 жыл бұрын

Adam. Please. For the love of God. Let us download the PDF-file. For a one-hour composition, it truly does sound amazing, so please share it with us! :) Also, yes, I once did a 15-minute composition..... It sounded like complete 💩, but hey, at least I had something to show! 😅

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha I'm thinking of rewriting this piece into a more polished version... then I'll actually publish it ;) right now as it is in the video it's not something I'm that happy with yet! And hey at least you did something in 15 minutes yes! Always good to try these things haha

@tortilla2187 5 жыл бұрын

Yay! E Minor!!!

@malharlakshman 5 жыл бұрын

Do you have a passion for pentatonic scale pieces? I feel like a lot of your compositions use those elements. If so, is that because the notes in those scales go well together? Ps: jealous you can play moon that fast :P

@jacobsingson12_ 4 жыл бұрын

The title should be something with hour in it like “Hourglass” or something along the lines

@7ainiko 5 жыл бұрын

what mallets does adam use?

@ollie2901 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Adam, I don't know if you'll read this, but I just wanted to ask you on some advice on what I should learn/study in terms of music. I wanna study music when I'm older, right now I'm a freshmen in high school and I was wondering what I should do to get better at Marimba and just learn about music in general.

@ollie2901 5 жыл бұрын

Great video btw!!

@kvngvastro 2 жыл бұрын

If you could name this solo anything, what would it be?

@masonmcwest3544 5 жыл бұрын

That was pretty hot

@thomaspate9328 3 жыл бұрын

It surprised me that he went to the harmonic minor first.

@mrman7361 3 ай бұрын

0:26 bro thinks hes in a anime

@mrman7361 3 ай бұрын

hi adam

@thomaspate9328 4 жыл бұрын

You know you can create a major melody from any minor scale, right?

@BigDaddy-vp5iv 4 жыл бұрын

The first one was literally moon

@notpieceoftoast4269 4 жыл бұрын

You should call it “our peace” for play on words

@RDMusicStudios22 2 жыл бұрын

This kinda reminds me of Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto.

@noahnichilo6784 5 жыл бұрын

where is patrick when we need him

@KaboomPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Notification squad represent! :D

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

I AM YOUR BIGGEST FAN

@FollowJesus777-KING 4 жыл бұрын

How does he even remember what he played? I would forget what I played every 20 seconds and it would end up taking an additional 2 hours

@calebjsmith727 5 жыл бұрын

*I need help* There are so many advanced mallet solos, that it's impossible to find an easy solo for practice. I'm not that good at writing. *Please help!!* -Caleb Smith P.s, I can't play 4 mallets yet

@gradyking4739 5 жыл бұрын

Well you probably need to get a mallet technique book, so that you can transition to 4 mallets with that book.

@calebjsmith727 5 жыл бұрын

@@gradyking4739 Thanks, I completely forgot about those, there are some at the school. Lots of help!!👍👍

@xCentauri 5 жыл бұрын

Caleb Smith I recommend Ghost Garden by Adam Hopper, very easy patterns and it helps build your lateral strokes up

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

I reckon if you use something like method of movement or ideo-kinetics to get you started that might be good! Or something like robert oetomo's album for the young/fantasies collection :)

@SergioGarcia-mz7tl 5 жыл бұрын

I composed reggreton in just one minute 😂😂😎

@bananaman7208 5 жыл бұрын

hmm maybe moon is close to e minor then?

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Yes I think that is what it is haha... that key will always be associated with moon :(

@gwiggy 4 жыл бұрын

For those watching this now that can play by ear. Do you ever have something in your head then you have to figure it out, like you feel forced to. That happens to me so much. Ill be playing an etude and it will just have a single D with a F# and Ill be like shit! That sounds like the Wii theme! Then completely discard my etude and figure most of it out.

@ru8347 5 жыл бұрын

notification squad be like 😳🤝😯

@tonicaleca 5 жыл бұрын

does anyone else think this sounds like the main theme from Spirited Away, but thats not entirely bad, it sounded pretty good for only an hour! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptqnlr1mnJrGnKM.html

@elias833 5 жыл бұрын

Moon No.2 Op.4

@kayleon 5 жыл бұрын

hypebeast?

@AdamTanPercussion 5 жыл бұрын

Hypebeast...!

@Centttttt60 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, this challenge is way harder than to simply write a marimba piece! You don't write anything down and have to memorize/learn everything as you go. That is super difficult! 🙀🙀🙀