Michi, composed and played by Keiko Abe for 4 mallet marimba
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Marimbaist, Keiko Abe, played her famous 4 mallet marimba piece, Michi, in her master class in 1998, Taiwan. There is no doubt that this is a must see performance for all marimba players and fans.
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My left ear is really enjoying this
on my phone, I just turn on mono then turn it off when I’m done (; it helps
I just want to give a shout out to Abe's outfit here. Love the pants and the top, the earrings, the watch and necklace!
She does sooo much improv. Seriously. And it's great.
Brilliant!
Wow. That was GOOD, GREAT, AWESOME, OUTSTANDING, AMAZING!!
What. A boss.
thanks for uploading this
She uses harder mallets for upper octaves and softer for lower octaves. She understands the sounds she wants our of the instrument so she specifically chose each mallet to correctly translate the musical genius in her head for us to hear.
that's just a basic thing most marimbists do
The sound quality on this camera is horrible. It's a shame cause this is the only vid of keiko playing this piece.
Yeah it's kind of frustrating, huh. I'm still very grateful for the footage though.
@westlacson1 In the score at the bottom it says that you can improvise the beginning however you wish with the notes she gives you.
@singerguy93 Haha, I know, dude. I improv-ed at the beginning too. Her improv just had way more balls than mine, and that's why I was so surprised. I'd just never heard it played anything close to that way.
@westlacson1 thats because alot of it was actually left to be ad lib.
@Klaus126 No, no, I knew that. I did the same thing, like just sorta making up notes in that same vein that fit the character of the piece, but I thought you were supposed to do it around the little combination thing, not just ignore it all together. But I guess she wrote it, so she can pretty much do what she wants, haha.
I did a similar thing, and eventually, I had changed it some myself. Tsk tsk tsk, I know:)
You know, having to learn this piece for S&E, I gotta say, she performs it WAY differently than how she writes it. I mean, the first part with the 4132 combination in the low octave is pretty much nonexistent in her version, but all over the place in the written solo.
Granted, her version here beats the heck out of mine, and it's amazing, but just saying. It's WAY different than how she wrote it.
Kinda the beauty of improv
there’s a note on the first page of my music that says the player may improvise (: at least, in the beginning, but Keiko does improvise plenty of bits. It’s like she’s playing the idea of the piece and not what’s on the page. It’s great interpretation.