So this is how it's supposed to sound...

Playing this as my first four mallet piece ever at solo and ensemble tomorrow morning! Wish me luck!

Dynamics are so clear and on point. My hat dips to this prodigy.

Excellent playing, and beautiful technique!

This was my first 4 mallet solo (freshmen year) and boy them blisters..😅 I feel like I made a pretty good leap in skill after that as my sophomore solo was Paul Smadbeck's Rhythm Song and for my junior year I chose his Virginia Tate, which was one of my favorite pieces. That piece gave me some serious blisters lol. The next school day, the head director of my high school calls me into his office and tells me he drove my judge back to the airport (the next city over) after all the performances were over and that all they talked about for the entire drive there was my performance of Virginia Tate. He said I "alone made his trip worth it." My senior year I played Eric Sammut's Rotations II and IV. I practiced those songs until I could play them backwards and blindfolded. I went in for my performance with nothing but my mallets and the knowledge that I was about to knock it out of the park. I totally blanked during the best parts of BOTH songs and got my first and ONLY division 2 ratings of my music career. And that's how I would leave my last year of high school percussion. I was so wounded, I never recovered.

Damn. Very impressed by her four mallet rolls. Very fluid and almost not space between. I need to work on it til I can roll like that.

The solo that literally every marimba player jumps to lol

This is my first 4-mallets piece. Literally peeled the skin off my hands 🙄

Her dynamics were amazing!

Yolo after the Rain

thank you for doing this series! a lot of this kind of stuff wasn't available for reference when I was studying.

Played this piece last year at solo and ensemble my freshman year and got a 2 at state. The last page is difficult to master, but overall it's a wonderful piece to perform!

My band teacher recommended that I watch your videos. He told me you have some great practice tip videos for percussion. And I'm in percussion, so here I am! Thanks, Mr. Ziegler!

I heard this 3 years ago from one of my favorite percussion members and it’s stuck with me all the way to now, the memories are insane.

that marimba sound is so beautiful! excellent playing also!

I played this piece for my CASMEC All-State Orchestra audition, as well as many others such as college at CSULB. This piece when phrased right is a good choice to get places. Memories!!

I was 14 when I learned 4 mallets and it was to this! I made Texas All State the next year as a sophomore. I miss the flow!

this song was the soundtrack to lunch in the band room because there was always one kid in front ensemble playing this instead of eating

I'm playing this song for my solo and ensemble piece in Texas! I love it so much and I am constantly watching this video for inspiration.

If you have never played this song then who even are you.

I'm learning this. I got my first four mallet blister ever :(

Played this for my Grade 8, such a great piece of music!

this series is so helpful! i would like to thank you so much! if i think i’m doing it right i always reverence back to your videos so that i can get it right before playing it for my percussion instructor. sometimes i think i’m playing it right but i’ll be in a different octave, wrong chord, etc so keep making the videos :)))

a senior of mine played this for all district or something and literally every one In my percussion plays this and it gets annoying after a certain amount to of times

My friend played this when she was in 7th grade back in 2014 and EVERYONE was impressed

Was that yellow after the rain I think. I love how it sounds

~Great song, great musician!

Dang, that Musser grip looks epic.

I learnt this 2-3 years back, beautiful piece and beautiful playing! Learnt it with burton grip though(not stevens as shown in video)

Im having so much fun learning this!!!! ❤️‍🔥🙏🏾🙌🏾

This piece and the Rain dance are very imoprtant in the first year!

This is really nice. My only comment is that by placing the single softer mallet in the bass, it shifts the phrasing particularly in the ‘lateral’ section and the top voices pop more. I’m not sure this outcome was intentional, and I think it can be phrased organically with four equal hardness mallets, so the bass notes have the same clarity and don’t shift the agogic feel of the pattern. Great job though! 👌🏻

It really helps me this stuff! Ty Vic

This was my first ever four mallet piece I did as an eighth grader. It wasn't so hot back then but I'm hoping to try it again soon

all my nightmares come true

this and rain dance are probably the two “everyone plays this” solos that the judges will judge harder on that being said, my freshman year last year when we were picking solos for S&E a senior told me that and so instead i played etude in c# minor and got a good lol but this year i’m stepping it up with afta stuba (he played stubernic last year so that’s cool) and rhythm song and now i’ve finally heard this song and i can see how it would get annoying to hear this all the time, although it’s a good piece

Great, about to do this as a solo and ensemble piece, seems fun...

I’m learning it now! I’m in 8th grade

Am I the only marimba player who hasn't played this before?! 😂

My friend played this for a solo last year and it sounded just like this

Very nice dinamics!

미쓰없이 깔끔하게 잘 치신다

playing this for an audition next week!!

This was one of several obligatory pieces to learn as a freshman in college back in the day. The Musser Etudes were also in the mix along with others. Memories! We got sick of hearing this played by so many people. It was kind of a running joke about everyone playing this. Thanks for posting though. Nice rendition.

What is the piece in the intro of every video in this series?

So many people have played this as their first four mallet but I did a version of Under the Sea that I adapted from piano. It was...interesting.

Trying to get this down for my junior year solo, I’ve never played marimba before as I’ve only played snare and set but it’s about time to annoy everyone in my band room

aw yiss yellow after the rain!!!!11

I'm 8th grade. I'm starting to play 4 mallet and I'm starting of with vertical waltz does anyone know of a video if someone playing this.

My teacher picked this song for my solo and I’m gonna have such a hard time rolling with two mallets in one hand🤦🏿‍♂️

Library entry#1: Yellow. Yep.

doing this for my EKU music audition in a month, let's hope i do it as well as this person does

Wow this woman is God tier!!

those double laterals tho!! i wish mine were that good and not shaky, but that’s what practice is for lol

Ending was always my favorite though

I'm about to start playing this. Any tips?

I'm performing this as my solo

Okay I got 2 pairs of mallets coming in! Hopefully I can learn this in time to audition for transferring in the fall :,(

Gonna have to do this for Percussion Finals. I can read notes and shit by my hands are NOT prepared. I can’t even rotate stroke properly

i’ve played teardrops and sea refractions, but not this lol ...why are so many of peters’s solos named after water :/

I am 10 years old but this song is quite easy and it is a good song to learn!

I started 4 mallets on Rain Dance last year. But I feel like this would have been fun as well.

I gona play this music now 😉

my friend asked if he could record me for his recording class and i now have to learn and perform this song in 3 hours... wish me luck.

What marimba is being used? I didn't see it anywhere in the vid or description, but I'm sorry if I missed it and it was posted somewhere.

I’m in seventh and I’m struggling on the sixteenth notes ughhh

I had to learn the first bit of this for my percussion methods class. I'm a wind player, so it was really weird and frustrating. Luckily, though, we only played through the part where there's a F and a Bb in the left hand.

I’m playing this solo for my schools spring concert and I’m not going to lie, I’m scared

My band director gave this to me 2 months ago and i just now stumbled upon the video of it. OMG ITS AMAZING!! I didn't work on it because it looked really hard but now i see its a lot of repetition and that I can play this

0:18

I’ve played Suenos, Mystic Fire, and Ghost Garden. Is this a good piece to move on to?

Thaaanks I love the marimba 😍😍

После танца дождя идёт солнце после дождя

I actually did this piece for a music event in high school and it was HARD. I still managed to make a 1 on it though 😁

So I'm a second year percussionist and I'm gonna play this for my first percussion solo at my solo and ensemble competition LMAO.

Im screwed

That last page thoooooo

Like it 🙂

my best friend is 1st chair percussion (im first chair tuba) and he gets mad at me cause i keep making him play it

What's the reason for using a different mallet for mallet 1?

Going to state for this tomorrow

I played rain dance in 7th grade I’m in 8th now and I think I should play this

it looks like a studie can become a real piece of music to me

This is the one solo piece I never played. I got harder ones. I’d say I was pretty decent but for some reason they didn’t let me play this one and gave me solo pieces that required more lateral rolls and a bit more complicated pieces. Then one day I just decided to try this piece but didn’t have the sheet music so I just listened to pieces online or would tune in on someone else playing it and learned it that way. No sheet music just mimicking. This song was so easy for me but It had to do with the other solos. I got pieces like from Casey Kangeloski. Dude had some fun hard pieces . Etude in E minor, White knuckle stroll. It was fun

I'm learning up to E for my college audition

this was my freshman year solo XD

Omg I’m playing this for my solo in like 8 weeks I’m so nervous 😂

Very good control on the sixteenth note parts and good job with the dynamic contrast and phrasing.

What is the intro song called?

can someone throw me the notes of this play? In VK

How many octaves does this song span?

Welp I have to play this at my Honors Area Audition tommorow morning... I'm already freaking out. I've been practicing this for like about half a month mabye a month.

This is like everyone's go to lol

I flexed on my whole class and played rhythm song for comments only

This was my brothers solo

Piano players: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

I swear I have heard this somewhere before that's not percussion related

Does anyone have suggestions on how to learn double mallets without a teacher?

잘한다

this hits different at 1.5 speed