okay so u know how the whole marimba gig is just making hard things look easy? well you sir.... GOT MY ASS because i’m playing through this, the first like 2 lines are a breeze and then i try adding in the melody and then am like “oh shii different sticking” and now i’m just watching this and am STUNNED because you stiLL make it look easy and i cannot.

@stevenaestrada1163

3 жыл бұрын

😳hehe yeah

@22scams32

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenaestrada1163 your probably not still working on this solo but it looks like he almost treats them as chords instead of individual notes

@ThouBeanyOne

2 ай бұрын

actually i got baited

Congratulations on winning the comp man, sounds awesome!!

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam, I’m really looking forward to your new piece too!!

@christopherpinckard176

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I can not wait for that new piece from Adam and also anything released by you two is always so beautiful and complex and moving thank you for doing what you do.

@canadiankazuman156

Жыл бұрын

ITS ADAM

My eyes widened when I read the description and realized you had no formal education in composition. You have made me want to try to make a Marimba piece myself.

@jacobhughes574

3 жыл бұрын

Hey just wanted to let you know that your're a nerd.

@manassehjohnson9029

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhughes574 :(

@charlieandme9207

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhughes574 imagine not being a nerd

@timmitny6310

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhughes574 Nerds are cool. Especially nerds who can appreciate good music like this.

@thomascrosthwait4842

3 жыл бұрын

@@timmitny6310 hell yeah

2 years since i found this marimba solo and it still stand as my favorite solo composition for marimba. You are the next big thing man.

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to this. So beautiful. The chords, the story it tells, the wave of emotions. Thank you for this. Incredible performance

@samebaugh7337

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, Arnor is damn good at writing music

That melody in the middle is absolutely amazing! And oh my god that left hand is so crazy busy but doesn't stick out. The concept that if I didn't play marimba I wouldn't have noticed anything was up while you were flying around the marimba like that is insane.

I like the slightly eerie undertone of this peice in the beggining. it's so cool how composers can put things like that into music.(atleast that's what I got from it) I wanna learn this some day

A beautiful composition, and you play so incredibly musically too 🙏🏼

woooo amazing! can’t wait to see more in the future

這首聽了心情莫名的會變好， 而且有種不畏艱難勇往直前的感覺！ 前半段小調（是小調嗎？）讓人感覺身處奇幻世界，而且漸漸感覺像是被阻攔，正在對抗什麼的感覺；後半段感覺像是斬斷荊棘，黎明到來充滿了希望，變得輕快激昂起來；然後最後終歸平靜，細細品味一路的冒險。半夜讀書聽真的可以一直循環播放耶！❤️

I love this piece so much, the second half gets me every time. This could be expanded into its own full band arrangement, with movements expanding on the melodic ideas.

Such an incredible, beautiful piece, sends shivers down my spine

This is incredible, keep it up!

you flew around that thing!!! this is beautiful. well done.

Oh wow! Amazing! Superb rythmic motifs and abilities!!!

Probably one my favorite marimba pieces that I have ever heard! Keep it up my dude!

You this song kind of encapsulates my depression as a whole, starting as an innocent child and things start to spiral down hill or become more rambunctious. Eventually leading to darker tones symbolizing the struggles and concluding with a glimpse of hope

@jazzman1954

Ай бұрын

There is always hope!

Great marimba playing ! The music is beautiful.

Beautiful piece, great mallet choice, all I need in life

Amazing, Arnor. Making music is just great!😊

Now That's What I Call Music

thnaks for making this i was struggling to find a solo and now i have thank you

Absolutely amazing

I love the blooper at the end, I have countless videos in my phone raging because I couldn't get a good take😭

Soothing & beautiful composition

Absolutely beautiful.

seeing videos like these makes me really miss playing the marimba, great stuff brother keep it up

Absolutely beautiful

Thank you! Beautiful!

This is gonna be a must learn for me!!!

I always forget how huge of a range marimba has. Sounds awesome!

Wow this is awesome!!

Best pitched percussion instrument, great job Arnor!

Great performance, awesome composition, congratulations.

good for you man! well done!!!!!! well done!

Very nice piece and performance! Congrats!

teary eyes

Imma play this as a solo for my senior year wow I have a lot of work what a nice song play by a amazing artist

Amazing

great piece and excellent performance!

I dont know how people disliked this lol this is beautiful, great job!!

Man I'm gonna have a hard time picking between this and Seeking Paradise for my solo next year!

best instrument, no cap

This man is flying around the keyboard.

非常棒！

well, I can't do that...So, great Job!

Saludos desde Guatemala cuna de la Marimba

学校の友達が演奏してて素敵な曲だなと思って聴いています。この曲がとても好きです。

going from ghost garden to this is NOT easy but watching you makes me wanna keep trying 😼

Wow

I'm learning this now as a freshman in highschool and it's definitely extremely hard as expected but still really fun and cool to play. Thank you so much for this, it sounds amazing. Keep up the great work👍

@rambunctant556

2 жыл бұрын

How did it go? Thinking about playing it

@Myopus2

9 ай бұрын

Freshman huh, did you learn it?

@artsandstuff9159

8 ай бұрын

I can’t really see a freshman play, possibly a senior or possibly a junior, and that that’s if they hell of practice. So, if you say that you did this song as a freshman… then your doing places to world of a percussionist!

@Myopus2

7 ай бұрын

currently learning it right now, wish me luck. ima need it 😂

@artsandstuff9159

7 ай бұрын

Good luck 🫡

I'm only in middle school for my second year of Percussion but i'm starting to try to learn

*applause*

Im very impressed. Show me more.

Do you think you could make a 4.3 adaptation to this solo? I'm sure many people would love to play this but it's not really an option for us.

@Reactions4You

Жыл бұрын

I’m playing it on a 4.3 just got to invert some thing, and you can’t tell the difference

@Vosian

Жыл бұрын

Yo I’m not sure if you’re still looking for this but he just uploaded a 4.3 adaptation of this piece today ::)

한국분이시네요! 저도 작곡가이면서 타악기연주해요 반가워요! 곡이 너무 좋아서 저도 연주해보고 싶어졌어요:) 구독하고가요👍

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

감사합니다, 반가워요! 사실 전 한국인 아닌데요...ㅋㅋㅋ 이제 미국에 타악기 전공하고 있는데도, 한국에 너무너무 가고싶어요 :)

I’m getting Zelda vibes for some reason. Nice work!

I want to play the marimba

After dawn, all the struggles and contradictions melted away and we started from scratch.

wish me luck! imma try and learn this bad boy by february for i&e 😩✌🏼

@belle8360

3 жыл бұрын

^^^aHa i typed this and accidentally bought drift away because i don’t read sksksk it’s okay though because now i have fOuR out of the however many pieces by you, and i will with nO hesitation give you all my money, because you are living my dream and everything i hope to be doing in the near future. also i noticed the NAVER email... ahhhh are u korean bc that’s dope!! me 2 c:

the sound of the marimba compliments the piece beautifully!! it sounds like something that would come from a studio ghibli soundtrack, well done!

Good

I'm going to do this for solo ensemble :) beautiful piece. ❤️ 😊

@Agatemantis

2 жыл бұрын

fun fact, I bought the music and still haven't learned it 😂

@willfowler8540

2 жыл бұрын

You learned it yet?

@Agatemantis

2 жыл бұрын

I still haven’t no 😂

@willfowler8540

2 жыл бұрын

@@Agatemantis lol

@Agatemantis

2 жыл бұрын

You want to know another fun fact… still haven’t learned it and idk where I put the music 😭 😂

Possible transcription to a 4.3?

The last solo I played was Gitano by Alice Gomez, would this be a good piece to move on to? I love it :)

Beautiful, romantic and amazing skills for you or anyone to play this with two of those sticks in each hand. I would have a hard time with one in each hand and making clean contact lol. Thanks for the upload. Love Chris

Hey Arnor. Just curious (while watching this again). Is there any story behind the making of this piece? I mean, it sounds like when I listen to Thomas Bergersen stuff, like it goes with a film or story of some kind. (Honestly I could totally see it in a How to Train Your Dragon movie :D )

came here after googling for marimba from yt shorts, one of the best thing ive ever done

I dont know if you still read any of these but would i be able to play this for my solo and ensemble at my highschool? Has it been put on the list of solos i could do? i live in texas for reference

What mallets are you using, I have been looking for a new pair and these sound fantastic, also I am learning simple song right now and I absolutely looooove it.

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate it! The mallets are in the description as always.

If this could be in the prescribed music list for texas before june 1st that would be optimal :D

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I’m not from Texas so I just looked up what that is, and unfortunately the submission period has passed for this year. Sorry!

@Josh-uq8yx

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic Damn, thanks though, ill see if i could play this onr next year then

@crashpandercoot

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic what about this year?

@ArnorMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@crashpandercoot Unfortunately, it looks like the next review for percussion isn't until 2023 according to the website :( Unless there's another way, it might be a while.

@luvvjocelyn.3

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic this piece is amazing, i’m a sophomore learning this piece and i can’t wait to perform it senior year when i 100% have it perfected. This piece is truly why i will continue to learn and have fun with music on marimba! such a beautiful instrument

2:41 😱😱😱

@howie.danielwoods2965

4 жыл бұрын

matthew lim that is my favorite part omg

I have just finished learning this piece and it’s really great, but i noticed certain parts in the music are written slightly different. For example in the video he plays the left hand different in 3:41. Anybody have any advice for what to do?

好好聽！！！謝謝分享！！很棒的作品

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

謝謝！

Love U

god, I'm really tempted to skip a group 1 solo for my high school sophomore year to play this

@rwbytheassassin9942

3 жыл бұрын

I wanna play this so bad this year for the UIL comp but it saint on the list T_T

@ArnorMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Rwby The Assassin I’m not from Texas so I had no idea what the UIL list was- unfortunately it looks like it will be a while before I can get it on there :( I will try, though!

@rwbytheassassin9942

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic I'll probably just learn it for the heck of it I freaking love this solo so much.

Can I have a note for this piece .....?

Wow masterpiece bro 🎉 can I sample a lil part of this bro ?

muy buena la rola me darias permiso de hacer un sample con un fragmento de tu cancion ???? plisss salud2

1:52 is my favorite part

What sticks are those?

What would be good alternative mallets to the ones you used? I don’t think I want to pay $160 for three different pairs of mallets if I’m only going to use 4 of them. Would the M122 in the 1 and 2 position and M123 in the 3 and 4 positions work?

@ArnorMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I would recommend looking into some graduated sets in that case, there are a few different available. The Pius Cheung series comes to mind, and though I've never personally tried them, I'm sure they would be just fine.

@christianshaffer3723

2 жыл бұрын

I use WWB3 mallets for my marimba playing, hey are more on the expensive side but the sounds is superb. You can get either a nice warm feel for playing softly or if its a piece that involves more articulation it offers that too when you bite into the playing. Just a good overall set of mallets that will last you if you take care of them

I just realized the microphones are pointed at the ceiling. I was wondering why this marimba sounds so ambient.

@Z6D4C4

9 ай бұрын

They are actually pointed at the marimba.

Hey, love the price and was wondering how hard this would be to play if the only price I have played is yellow after the rain. It looks hard but learnable

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! As the composer of the piece and a percussion performance major, this piece was not easy, even for me. Unfortunately I would not recommend this piece for you as there are some deceptively tricky techniques that require a very strong foundation first. Best of luck!

@fdeleon720

4 жыл бұрын

Arnor Chu Music just bought this solo... very tricky stuff 🥵 I love it though!

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Deleon Yeah, some parts are deceptively tricky! I spent maybe 3 months practising it after I wrote it before even attempting to record it- you can still hear some parts in this recording that don’t sound too hot...Thanks for your support and I hope you have a blast playing it!

What mallets are you using? And are they staggered?

Awesome!!❤❤ I play marimba to. But I just need to know. Is this a wrong note? 3:55. I mean that B.

@ArnorMusic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, either one is fine. Up to you!

I bought this peice and I have a question. What is the bottom cleft called? It looks similar to bass but i've never even seen it before so idk what notes they are lol

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s just a bass clef, just in the older style. No reason except I like it swirly :P

@ohok180

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic ok lol. I 've never seen it written like that. I had to message my band director from when I was in highschool about it. Didn't even find it online. That's cool though. This is one of my favorite 4 mallet peices and the fact that you have no education in composition is amazing and inspiring. So bravo 👏👏👏👏. Also i'm relatively new to 4 mallets. Do you have some quick tips about this peice or in general that you can give?

@christianshaffer3723

2 жыл бұрын

@@ohok180 When it comes to 4 mallet playing by professor always said play everything as big as you can play it to build muscle memory, I just started playing 4 mallets 6 months ago so I am sure you have more experience with it but still, always nice to play everything nice and big

This is the bee's knees, the biscuit's business and the proof of the pudding is in the tasting and this tastes hot.

2:23 at 2x speed is crazyyy

What mallets??

In terms of difficulty compared to something like Libertango where would you put this? I'm thinking about playing this but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I have played Eric Sammut’s arrangement of Libertango and I would say this piece is quite a bit more difficult in my opinion. I don’t know about other versions, though.

@danieldavis2049

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic So I still got a ways to go huh? If you don't mind me asking, how would you rate both on a scale from 1-100 with 100 being the hardest piece ever created, and 1 being the c major scale?

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be able to answer that because difficulty is very subjective, all depending on the player's strengths and weaknesses-I mean, obviously I'm not a great performer, so it wouldn't be an objective assessment either. For me, I think the phrasing and expression are very straightforward for this piece; however, technical things like note accuracy, consistent sound quality and timing are what I struggled with the most. I actually spent a lot of time getting this in my hands (my own composition too...!) You can even hear some places in this recording where I struggled with these things, especially in the second half. I hope this helps somewhat.

@danieldavis2049

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnorMusic It does, thanks for the reply!

@ohok180

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh I always bite of more than I can chew and I always stress myself out 😂. And this one is pretty difficult for me especially because it's in 6/8, 7/8 and I think I saw 8/8 in the music. I don't have a lot of experience with any of those. But im saving for a marimba to keep at home so I have all the time in the world to figure it out.

We love it! Keep it up. Hope you'll start composing for other instruments too...this music is expansive :)

For my own use: 25 at 0:50 50 at 1:52 98 at 3:42

ok so basically,,, I'm ordering this for college auditions

Is there a way you can play this on a 4.3 octave marimba?

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no, at least not without some major revisions. It is possible on a 4.5 octave, though.

@ruski7668

4 жыл бұрын

Arnor Chu Music Ah I see

Where can I purchase this solo?

@ArnorMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Available on my website at arnormusic.com

1:52

3:00

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