First Look Inside (Kalimba Video)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This is "First Look Inside" by Mark Holdaway.
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This Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba is lower and fuller than most other kalimbas.
And you can learn more about this kalimba, including the tuning, at
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i remember when i first saw this more than a decade ago... still sounds as magical as the first time i heard it :) gives me avatar: the last airbender vibes.
I have been playing half my life, and I taught myself. Now, I write books to help other people play the kalimba. AND these videos are good too to help people learn to play. MANY of my kalimba songs on RUclips have tablature available for them.
-Mark
I came here on accident, looking for the song 'Kalimba' that comes on Windows. Best accident ever.
Yes - look in the description and follow the link - Mark
.. I have a full on beard and everything since I posted this comment! ;
This was the best accident in my life, almost as best of an accident as when i accidentally ran over that prostitute who was pregnant with triplets.
Best. Accident. Ever.
The sound is so magical, I want one.
I want thaaat.
I made my own kalimba, in its own shape, key and tone. This is one of my favorite kalimba songs out on youtube!
This is the Alto Hugh Tacey Kalimba - this one was my favorite kalimba for about the first 20 years I played kalimba, and I recommend it highly to many people. -M
Found one of these for $5 at a thrift store, and my roommate and I were completely enchanted by the sound.
$140 discount... not bad... but to us this thing is priceless.
WreckTheReckless Holy sh*t! That discount mate!
$140
Every time I listen to this I feel like my spirit goes on a journey. This is purely amazing.
Sounds like its raining. I love it
Yes, it is a good way to meet cool and interesting people, by walking around and playing. I rode the bus for 10 years while playing kalimba, and once a woman asked me to stop because "that music offends me" - I didn't know what that was about, but I did stop that day. I usually played very quietly on the bus, and much louder while walking.
Glad you enjoy the kalimba!
-Mark
I really, REALLY like this instrument. Just discovered it yesterday, quite by accident, when I viewed a Korean jazz singer (Youn Sun Nah) using it to accompany her minor key rendition of My Favorite Things. I'll be buying myself one as soon as I can identify which kind will suit me best. Amazing sound!
Yes, I am familiar with Youn Sun Nah's video - she uses a Hokema Pocket Sansula (A minor).
My first kalimba was actually a Treble (17 note), but I didn't like it - then I got an Alto and everything was great. After 20 years, I finally went back to the Treble and modified it to be more like the Alto (with the root note in the bass - that is how the Bb Treble was born) -- SO, enjoy the ALTO, I recommend it to many people. -Mark
This is an amazing instrument.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time
Thank you so much -Mark
beautiful!
Im still amazed after all these years!
Avatar the last airbender soundtrack brought me here, awesome instrument
Wow, it is SO GREAT when someone else understands what I am doing! Thank you so much for your enthusiastic comments!
-M
i have at least 20 in my house lol, my dad and close family friends are in a sudanese thumb-piano group called kojo.
you´re a lucky guy
This is the video that introduced me to the kalimba about a month and a half ago. Surfing the net one day, I happened across Mark's web site (I don't remember what brought me there), and discovered this video. It blew me away, and it still does. After seeing this, I just HAD to get a kalimba of my own. So, I ordered one from Mark. I've now been playing mine almost every day since then, and am thoroughly enthralled with it...
very inspiring for a beginner like me...
how a simple instrument makes a beautiful tone!!
Reminds me of Avatar:TLA
+inFAMOUSBlastshards Definitely! Love it.
Same instrument
I don't know what it is about instruments like this and the cajon that fascinates me so much...
Is there an instructional video for this please, get enough likes so he can make 1. i really want to learn this.
mase ofspades Mase, If you look in the "show more" information below the video, there is a link to a web page with tablature for this song, broken up into little bite sized bits. - Mark
kalimbamagic It is so confusing though, kalimba tab aint the easiest.lol even just a video of it played slow would be cool.
use the youtube 'slow playback'
function
@@joonks7373 good idea
What a fantastically whimsical instrument; this particular style I find myself especially fond of. I can just imagine this in use with a glass armonica and perhaps a mandolin.
hey dude i want to get one kalimba to play songs to my baby, do you know where can i buy a great one?
I import them from Africa (this is the Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba) and ship them all over the world.
Visit us at Kalimba Magic on the web. The coupon code CAT13 will get you 13% off.
Any decent music store such as, Guitar Center, Sam Ash Music, Woodwind & The Brasswind, & Sweetwater should be able to order you a Kalimba . I used to have 1, I bought from Sam Ash, I even had it signed by Earth, Wind & Fire after a concert, but my nephew stole it ! I have no idea what he did with it, or who he sold it to .
+mrinnervisionz thank you and im sorry for your Lost Kalimba 👍
Francisco Torres, Yeah' it was dear to me, because EW&F had signed it for me . I can always get another Kalimba, but having them sign it is another story . Btw they can cost from 35.00 to 80.00 + . Good luck & enjoy the music .
you can buy one off of amazon
Come back to relisten every so often, still a beautiful melody
your legs seem to enjoy the music :)
This was the first and last song I learned on the kalimba 9 years ago... after not picking up the kalimba in all that time I still remembered how to play it.
It's the perfect instrument for the "texting savvy" world, you've been practicing every time you send a text! :)
Its really nice. What is the tuning?
Standard G Major, though this place is in a B minor mode. That said, for the last 5 years I have had this kalimba tuned down to F.
I'm addicted to this sound. I listen to it almost every day. Greetings from Poland!
At 1:46 I lost my mind.
Sounds like avatar the last airbender after some of the episodes :3
Nerd.
Just kidding 😉
Gabriel Kerr What about it?^^
Dont see anything with being a nerd of any sort :3
It is a Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba, I bought it from a music shop 20+ years ago, but I am now blessed to be in the position of importing these kalimbas - my favorite instrument in the world - and selling them. -Mark
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2019 *_Anyone_*
Recently, my friend Ellen Wu bought me a kalimba from your online store, now my son is crazy for it! He almost wants to play kalimba every second!
Thanks for sharing and introducing so wonderful music!
For an experienced musician, the Hugh Tracey Alto (this kalimba) will probably be a great instrument for you - unless your hands are small, then the Treble will fit your hands better. If you are on an economy budget, I can recommend less expensive instruments (Catania 12 Note Gourd kalimba comes to mind). - Mark
Hi; I'm a Dza VaDzimu player and happened upon this . Beautiful song! All mbira's have their own magic
Wow that's soo cool how you get such a rain forest vibe from the sounds it creates
this video made me play with my sansula the whole sunday afternoon and order one of those kalimbas. HEAVEN
I listen to it all the time... Wish I had a kalimba and play like this...
I am absolutely in love with this instrument. Ive been watching videos and I just adore the way it sounds.
Best part is its so portable! I can take it with me anywhere. Im sure people will love me on the long rides to and from work on the bus with this thing. Even better, is that its an instant conversation piece! Its so unique.
I love the song and the sound of the kalimba. You make playing it seem effortless.
Yes, it is like instant nostalgia for some people who had a music box when they were young.
wel sir the first time i saw u'r videos was about 12 years ago... now major artists have used the kalimba.. i always felt this was going to be something big
This is the worlds first Game controller...i bet this would be good therapy for video game addicts...such a great instrument
I have been looking for a new instrument to learn. It only took you the intro of this song to show me my search is over. Thank you.
I just made a great discovery. I played my kalimba on top of my natural wood dresser and the sound resonates through the whole dresser! the sound fills up the whole room.
One of my favorite examples of how to use the instrument!
Jim,
This is by far my most popular model of kalimba, and for 20 years was my favorite as well. -Mark
I love this piece ever since I heard it in my Ethnomusicology class. You truly are an artist at this. In fact, I've shown it to many of my friends and they agree!
I hope you keep on making awesome music, Mark :)
Listened to Bonobo > Discovered the Kalimba > Stumbled on this video > Found you're based in Arizona > Now waiting for my Kalimba to arrive. 10/10 day
I love how you tap your feet so passionately with the rhythm
After watching this video a couple months ago I decided to make my own Kalimba. Although mine is low quality I have been completely hooked. This video alone has completely inspired and got me hooked on an instrument that is all to easy to overlook. I cant thank you enough for the upload. Keep up the amazing work.
What an adorably small instrument.. and it plays awesome. Reminds me of a music box. I want one!
@kalimbamagic Never mind!! I think I have fallen in love with the Thomas Bothe 2B 14 Note Kalimba!! Now I just need to save the money. Thank you for the beauty you bring to the world by sharing these mediums of heaven.
I watched this like 3 years ago... I fucking love love this. The bouncing knees just tells you hes groovin. big up dude
5 stars! words can't express how I feel after hearing this.
Swing is easy on kalimba - if you are doing
a strick R-L-R-L-R-L pattern (or leaving out some of those notes), swing is achieved simply
by shifting the global timing of the L w.r.t R.
I use the thumb flesh to dampen a ringing note
before striking it again - the "click" of attack is, in part, the sound of the thumb nail slapping back - that can be reduced by having shorter thumb nails or stiffer nails
(super glue).
Enjoying this 14 years after it was first discovered and saved
This song got me into playing the Kalimba! I hope one day I will be able to play it. My video response nothing in comparison, just a token of appreciation with music.
Thanks!
Thank you! This is the Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba, which is my best selling kalimba. -Mark
The "swing" is the key -- it is a subtle swing. If "playing straight" is signified as "50", this is swinging at about 56 or 58. 67 is a shuffle
(12 3). Some drum machines quantize swing this way, from 50 to 100 (100 meaning the second note
in each pair gets no time at all).
Well, it IS a musical instrument.
The paradox - anything you play will sound nice, but if you are willing to work, you can spend your whole life getting better each day.
But attaining the skills - that is what my Kalimba Magic web site is all about.
-Mark
Yes you can retune. Currently this very kalimba is in the key of F (every tine was pulled down a whole step). You can also retune by going around the cricle of 5ths - ie, add a sharp to change from G to D.
Search RUclips for: "Kalimba Tuning"
... I'm actually trying to learn this song, and can now play the first 45 seconds of it fairly proficiently. Just today, I had a bit of a personal breakthrough, and got the "swing" of the more complex central part of the song, and have been improvising on it. It's a blast just tinkering with this instrument. It's easy to play something right off the bat that sounds pretty nice. My 4-year-old son (who now hums the tune to "First Look Inside") doesn't even sound bad on it...
What a pure sound... amazing.
This kalimba is tuned to G major, with F#.
BUT this song is being played in B minor -
(the very first note of the song is a B). B minor
usually has a C#, while the kalimba in G has a C natural. The C tines are avoided for most of the song, but it is played sometimes, like in the intro, the 3rd note played on the left side (the 7th note of the pieces) is a C.
-Mark
This is the standard tuning - two octaves in G major, alternating note layout. I am playing in B minor (phrygian, though I stay away from the C most of the time), a mode of the G major scale.
The painted tines help me navigate the notes mainly - will send you a link to a recent newsletter article!
-mark
Very nice and peaceful.. love it.. Kept hearing it in Earth Wind and Fire tunes and had to find out more. thanks for sharing.
That is true - this issue is addressed in the Kalimba Magic newsletter article that provides the tablature for this song.
Basically, I am an improvisational player, so even on a song that supposedly has a "correct way" for me to play, I can't help making new things up - and those one time new things are then difficult to capture identically in the tablature, as they are more or less irreproducable. -Mark
I have watched this video every day...
Pure genius!
Agnes from Poland
very haunting and yet melodic and harmonizing at the same time!! nicely done!!
One of the first kalimba compositions I heard on youtube, the fifths and the wah-wah really made me fall in love with the sound :)
wow its the most beautiful instrument ive ever seen i want one!!!!
I just scrolled through 5 years of RUclips history because I didn't know what this was called. I'm gonna learn to save videos some day
I use my nails as a pick. I first touch the tine with my thumb flesh to deaden any vibration that might be still going on, and then slip my thumb nail off the edge of the metal tine. You can also do a glissando (drag the nail across the tine).
You should be aware that not all kalimbas are created equal - the Hug Tracey kalimabs are really fine.
- Mark Holdaway
My first was a TREBLE, but I didn't connect with it. I got an ALTO and loved it - it has lower notes, a mellower sound, wider tines (easier to play), and exactly 2 octaves in G major, starting on the root (easy to wrap your head around).
Now my favorite IS a TREBLE (ie, Christmas Medley) - but altered so the root is in the bass. The higher pitch soars over guitars and DRUMS.
I recommend: start on ALTO, unless you have small hands.
Another great example of your expertise with the kalimba! Your awesome!
Brought tears to my eyes. thanks
Absolutely beautifal sound. Ive realized that alot of foreign percussion instruments sound better than most conventional American band instruments and their alot easier to learn how to play. Lol this is much simpler than my saxophone:)
Its worth learning how to master.
Magical, mesmerising. So many unique instruments, so little time.
The Chromatic can be set up in two ways (well, MANY, but I sell it in two standard setups): the C setup with key of C on the front and Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb = F# on the back - some musical purists prefer it this way. The G setup with key of G on the front (G A B C D E F#) and "flats" on the back: F (the flat of F#), Bb, Eb, Ab, Db. SO the G setup plays First Look Inside just fine. I sell 75% G and 25% C.
Look at the way he holds it, it's just like a video game controller. Makes me wonder why this instrument isn't more popular.
My mind is blown. I didn't even know this existed! That sound.... the wavering notes are GORGEOUS. o_o
2018, still lovely.
Ah THANKS Patti! You are so sweet!
of course, you are well on your way to
master-hood yourself. Of what I have heard, you are the person who has taken the Array Mbira the furthest. I know in the fullness of time, you WILL certainly be the best player of that instrument.
such a beautiful sound and well played! Reminds me of some ancient African ritual we all missed a few centuries ago :)
This is the standard G major tuning for the Alto Kalimba, but I am playing in a B minor - the very first note is B (B F# D A) - the third arpeggio starts on G (the lowest note - G D B F#). -M
This is really cool! My friend actually showed me this video. She made her own kalimba and learned how to play this song on it.
this will be my next instrument, definetly. I tried it on the music shop.
I like this song. Great.
its nothing to say ...ilove this song!! this is GREAT!!!
It is the Alto, made long before the pickups were added by AMI - no electronics were used in the creation of this video..... outside the room lighting, video camera, the computer, the internet, background refrigerator noise, etc!
Thank you ! I first heard a finger harp on King Crimson's Larks Tongue in Aspic, 1972.... I am going to make the kalimba the gift for my friends. Maybe more people could put down the video games and play this instrument and find they have a soul!
This is a Hugh Tracey ALTO Kalimba - we bought it from a music store in New Mexico about 1990. However, I now make my living selling kalimbas, including this one. You can find me online by searching for Kalimba Magic. Oh, and if you place an order, you can get 10% off with the coupon code CAT10
-Mark
The Hugh Tracey ALTO kalimba 15 cm x 20 cm x 5cm - though the same notes come in a board-mounted version which fits into a box that is
14cm x 19 cm x 3cm. That one is the "Hugh Tracey Celeste Alto Kalimba.
I had no idea it's possible to achieve wah-wah effect on kalimba! It sounds great!
Beautiful song, I love the thumb bends you throw in there, just awesome.
MY dad played the Kalimba and this brings back some great memories, thank you!
I'm inspired to get one of my own and start practicing!
Play on! Love and Light
I just ordered my first kalimba ...and I can't wait!
A contact pickup works. It will not capture the air vibration modulations you get when you cover/uncover the sound hole. For the reason I prefer using a mic. On the other hand, a contact pickup or drum trigger will be great if you want to play with a loud electric band or drums, and it is wonderful fun to play through digital delay.
THE TUNING is the standard G major tuning. The song is in B minor, but requires no retuning from the standard tuning.