"Light" by Kevin Bobo, for solo marimba

[@tanner1548]

Finally finished putting all the pieces of this one together (after getting the Permutations book a couple years back...at your suggestion, actually, if I remember right--pretty sure you recommend Mark Ford's Intermediate book to me, too!) and wanted to see someone playing it well. Not surprised that your performance came up :) Great playing! It's interesting, because mine is on my Mode 5, so I'm using M112s for 3&4 and IP 703s for 1&2 in order to get a warmer sound of the glass-ish bars. (which like... I really feel the weight of those 703s by the end of a run of this piece!) Definitely glad I found your recording, though, because I think I was doing 2 repetitions of one of the bits at the beginning vs 3. You also accent the part before going back to the D.S. a lot better than I've been doing and bring the piece out a lot better, so it's really been instructive! :D

[@NaokoTakada]

I love this movement!! Thank you for sharing. It is so lovely!!!

[@faincanaan]

amazing! had yet to hear this solo

[@nellmusic1]

Amazing performance!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@madelynkunkle3924]

Do you know if a lot of the solos in that book can be played with a 4.3?

[@Marimbalogy]

Most of the book is exercises with some etudes at the end. I think almost all the etudes are for 5 octave. I'll have to look :)

[@RyanBischoffPercussion]

This movement is playable on a 4.3 except for the very last note is the bottom C. soooo.... play that C up an octave to remove the need for a 5.0 on this movement.

[@RyanBischoffPercussion]

just checked through all of "Seven Days"... I: Land -- as I commented previously. Good except for the very last note is the bottom C. soooo.... play that C up an octave to remove the need for a 5.0 on this movement. II: Water -- good. III: Land -- good except for final double stop has a low G. (also, there is a time signature that was missed when hiding all the time signatures.) IV: Expanse -- good except for final double stop has a low F. V: Beasts of the Sea and Air -- needs a 4.5 VI: Beasts of the Field -- good. VII: Rest -- good.