Technique & Musicianship with Four Mallets: LESSON ONE

A FRESH APPROACH to Technique & Musicianship
with FOUR MALLETS by DAVID SKIDMORE
LESSON ONE
Double Vertical Strokes (Perfect 5th)
Shifting, Dynamics, Phrasing
Etude 1: Hello Song
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Grammy Award-winning artist and composer David Skidmore introduces each of the fundamental 4-mallet skills step-by-step in 24 progressive lessons. Exercises in each lesson provide not only technical training, but also teach valuable musical phrasing concepts. Each lesson culminates with a short solo that develops the techniques and phrasing concepts from the lesson into a musically meaningful piece. Individual solos or combinations of solos from the book are perfect for performing on recitals, solo contests, or high school and college auditions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David Skidmore is a Grammy Award-winning percussionist and composer. As a member of Third Coast Percussion, he performs over 100 concerts each year on tour throughout the United States and abroad. David taught on the percussion faculty at the Peabody Conservatory for 4 years, and was a member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and Ensemble ACJW. His compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and universities all over the world. David holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University, and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music.

[@yangshuangcn]

Man what a great lesson!!!! I couldn't play marimba and now after 1 hour of your exercises I can play pieces like moi jeu! Thanks man! Keep it up!

[@rainaliao8513]

can’t believe i found this it’s an absolute treasure

[@MarimbaMaurice]

This is really great!

[@c_farther5208]

I love your videos and this instrument is way out of my price league and space as well. Why can't someone put out same information and music out on youtube concerning the xylophone, it's 30-32 keys. I am sure you can play some kind of Latin marimba songs and jazzy things. I just ordered a xylophone, and cannot find a dang thing except some opportunists out there. Surely, you can make chords, couldn't a person double their mallets like this also? I am just stunned there are no brilliant people like yourself who can't come to all of us on a budget and live in less space.

[@Someone-hx5cr]

You can definitely use 4 mallet technique on a xylophone. The only difference is the type of mallets you use. For a xylophone, you need harder rubber mallets. For the marimba, you use yarn mallets. The same technique applies regardless of the type of mallets used. There is also xylophone music because it was popular before the marimba. Yes the xylophone can make chords. The only issue is that with the marimba your chords are prettier because they’re more sustained, but on the xylophone you won’t be able to sustain chords for very long because the instrument is so articulate.