Thanks so much!

Thanks so much, Scotty! Much love to you!

Thank you so much!

I know I'm a bit late to this but I love the sound! There's an almost Moorish/Spanish flair there that I absolutely adore, and that I think you pulled off superbly

Thank you so much, Kai!!

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Caleb Pickering is the composer. Gage Kroljic is the performer.

I’ve played this piece with both cut and uncut mallets and it doesn’t really make a huge difference to me. If I’m not cutting the mallets, I’m still choking up to where I would hold them if they were. Cutting them makes a difference in the weight of the mallet and I feel like it really helped get a bit more natural rebound since. But really, cutting them also just gets rid of everything your not using so it doesn’t get in the way at all. There’s definitely a bunch of mallets that would work great for this piece-theses ones just sound the best on the instrument through the mics and feel the best for my hands.

@@gagekroljic kk, thankss

@@gagekroljic Wait are you using the medium hards or the mediums softs?

Medium hards I believe-they might have changed them up since I bought them years ago.

These are Innovative Percussion RS30Cs that I cut a couple inches of the ends of to maneuver a little easier around the keyboard

Thanks for letting me know!

You can purchase a copy here! c-alanpublications.com/drift/

I felt these mallets had the right balance of tone and articulation to get the fast rhythms to speak clearly, but still hear the harmony through dense sections like 5:14. My thought process here was most of the attraction of the piece is in the rhythmic vocabulary--and finding a mallet that sounds good in every register of the marimba is always a challenge.