I want my life to be as beautiful as this piece is.

I am now in love with Ivan Trevino's writing. I love this duet, Catching Shadows, and 2+1. I really want to start learning some of his pieces. They're just stellar, and amazing players too!

That's my schools percussion instructor! My friend sent this video to me because he just clicked on it and saw who was in it...hi Mr. Blackard

2:30 makes me feel at peace I'm in high school and this by far is the best piece I've heard In a while

I love how you can hear the attack of the mallets but it's still soft and pleasant. Awesome recording!

Sounds like a remix of Catching Shadows, this is beautiful and love the chemistry guys

God, not only is Ivan Trevino (the composer), amazing at writing good pieces, but their interpretation of the music is so perfect for this piece.

I swear to god this is one of the best marimba diets I've ever heard

By far the best recording of this piece I have seen so far

Beautiful piece, wonderful performance and superb recording! I want this piece to go on forever.

Lovely!!!!! thanks for posting!

even tho i’m not in percussion or band anymore this duet still slaps

It’s so weird how the fact that this piece was played on marimbas and not a piano makes it so much more mesmerizing

I strive to achieve this level of skill

Love the dynamic contrast!! You two really sync well with other. Congrats on the work. :)

Gaaaaa so tempted to ask my band director to buy this for me and my friend to play. This is great. I listen to it every night while I do my homework.

This is seriously just art.

Just started working on these piece with my colleague. Can’t wait to get it this good!

I don't know what it is about this piece but its just great. Although it does make it better to have to very capable musicians playing it the interpretation was lovely.

Congratulations, you play very good! I really liked it!

Around 1:05 is where I feel like I'm weightless. Well done guys

Great job guys!!! Love it.

You guys play so beautifully together and everything grooves so well and sounds great. I have been working on this piece with a student, we hope to virtually record it together and I have listened to and watched this video many times. It never gets old. Great playing, thank you for sharing it with all of us.

This is beautiful

Great performance, congratulations.

Awesome!

wow loved it!

I’m just now realizing this is brant blackard and he came and helped teach a marimba camp at swosu in 2019

Ridiculous!!!!! So good.

Awesome!!!!

Amazing

Blend sounds real nice!

This is very good!

great video!!

Beautiful playing! I'm wondering if you could explain a little bit about your mic set up? Sound quality is fantastic and I'd love to know how you achieved it.

Dang! I bet the sheet music looks black with all of the notes they're playing

love it!

1:04 I feel like I'm actually flying..

speed this up to 1.25 and it sounds really freaking cool

Very Nice

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Beautiful piece, beautiful playing, beautiful audio - but what's the story on the video quality? I don't tend to fuss, but this looks like it was shot using the NASA mars rover or something. I watch classical guitarists and other similar things sometimes and it's just simple and elegant. This music and performance deserves the same....

My main man Brant

Excellent performance! Quick question, how do you find the Burton grip compared to the Stevens grip on Marimba?

What Mallets are using? You and your friend. It's an amazing interpretation of this piece, AMAZING!

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Ahhhhh what mallets are you guys using???? I love this piece so much :)

nice

what mallets are yall using because they make the music sound phenomenal

Anyone else hear “catching shadows” in this piece?

I just noticed, did McM use a modified version of the phrase around 0:55 in their 2014 show?

brao

Stupid Question: Does this have to be on two 5 octaves, or can it be on two 4.3's?

4:20, brown hair switches technique. Are thumbs supposed to be inside the the stick or on it?

does anyone know which part in this is easier?

An amazing piece for sure, but heres a hot take.. This is 2+1 pt.2

what type of marimbas are these???

nobody noticed this is windows to the soul from mystique (i know they used this not the other way around)

hmmm nice�

One is using Burton grip, the other is using Stevens grip. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

What grip is the guy with the brown hair using?

Are those padauk bars??

kop

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After playing this myself I feel like it's safe to say that the balance between you two was not as good as it could've been. So much low marimba, not enough of the high marimba, even though that's the part that usually has the melody.

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nice