And I was just starting to like spotify…. So apparently Spotify enters into NDA’s with record labels that allow them to take a huge cut of the artist’s money without the artist knowing about it before hand. Check out this link below
Recent Spotify commercial: “Every time you stream a track, money gets paid to the “rights holders”", notice they didn’t say artists…..
Today is Christmas Eve and thus marks the 2 year anniversary of my website! Yes ladies and gents, we started this thing Christmas Eve of 2009. Lots of crazy career turns later I’m happy to still be involved in the community!
As a thank you to all of my awesome followers, I’m offering a pair of ZJZ1 Bass Mallets to one lucky winner on January 1st. Just tweet “Huzzah for 2 years of @marimbalogy #marimbalogy2years” and a Random Winner will be notified at new years! These are my favorite bass mallets worth 40 bucks! Get tweetin!
As an extra extra bonus, here are some fun and quarky Christmas tunes that me and some friends laid down with some ghetto recording equipment back in college. (Maybe 2005?) Hope you enjoy.
Pius began by asking the audience to take a minute of silence to clear out the busy bustle of pasic. As we fell silent we could hear a large amount of chatter from some kids outside, oblivious to the musical treat that was about to occur. Pius asked if someone could shut the door and I bolted over to close it. Then as we all closed our eyes and let silence soak in, Pius began to play his Etude in F.
As usual, I was completely awestruck at his musical sensitivity and ability to let silence enhance his musical phasing. One thing that I noticed is that where other marimbists would roll to hold out a note, Pius would instead use gestures to show note length. The effect was dazzling. This style of playing really keeps you on the edge of your seat! His final note was met with thunderous applause.
The title of this clinic was “Colors – The Art of Tone Production”. I wasn’t really sure how he would approach it. I thought he was going to cover a wide variety of articulations or perhaps some scholarly research. Instead he sort of drifted from topic to topic ranging from how to hit one note with your whole body to greater meta-psychological topics in musical performance.
To be honest, I was lost numerous times during his discussion. There were so many lists of things that it was hard to get the big picture of what he was trying to say. Not to say that I didn’t enjoy his talk. Pius is quite charming and fun to listen to, however I didn’t really understand the macro of what he wanted to share until I bought his book later that day and could see everything listed out. Perhaps a visual aid could have enhanced the session.
I’ve love to review the book later but in a nutshell it talked a lot about the four stroke types and how they relate to the marimba as well as each muscles’ roll in playing a particular flavor of note. There was also discussion on how your gestures after a note can effect the mood of the stroke, for example if your mallets hover over a note before coming up it portrays a darker feel than if the mallets come up immediately after the stroke.
After a short written section are a number of etudes designed to practice each muscle group’s ability to portray different types of sounds. The book concludes with a suite for marimba in which each movement employs one interval in the hands, but in varying musical contexts. I can’t wait to learn it!
So in short, the session very non-linear but fun and informative. As always I wished there was a lot more playing because I could listen to him all day I would definitely recommend his book for anyone who’s tired of practicing interval changing exercises and want to practice music!
I would definitely recommend his book for anyone who’s tired of practicing interval changing exercises and want to practice music!
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