塚越慎子【Marimba solo】Rhythmic Caprice (リズミックカプリス) / Leigh Howard Stevens

[@BeachDreams75]

coolest sounding marimba piece of ever heard, getting shivers

[@nickrothouse]

great job!!! beautiful instrument and playing!!

[@WanSwarz]

I would love to play this piece!! You did amazing Noriko!

[@JDD_Music_Press]

Great job! Very well played.

[@standardannonymousguy]

Entertaining! I like your innovative alternate mallet handling posture near 2/3 of the way through it. Thanks for sharing how you create those unique tones. :-)

[@gangstadudey]

i think i was just inspired to practice a whole lot more. this was amazing

[@cupcake0393]

love the way you play :)

[@清原修志]

ultimate!!

[@PeaceLovePercussion]

Omg... this... is so great. :)

[@wadoryu2u]

I'd like to play this piece someday. I'm a freshman percussion major and a guy in my studio who's a junior played this perfectly somehow lol, hopefully I'm that good in a couple years =)

[@xTaylorCrazyx]

so I guess after you learn this piece you get a gold marimba to play on? That's cool haha. Great job!

[@eflores87]

Wow.... Marry Me! haha :) You play amazing! I just started working on this piece. You play it great :)

[@eyebalie]

Fantastic, Noriko!!! See you later today to play some Lyle Mays!! :)

[@cirkuzfreak]

Nobodies born with these talents. They come from intense practice. The only difference with Asians is that they're usually less lazy when it comes to that practice therefore making them successful in the end.

[@BeakismEIU]

btw the 5-note slaps are a lot easier if you lift the end of the mallets without the heavy weights on them.

[@dylstick3]

@drockwilliams Cross Grip it looks like. (Essential Burton grip, just with the mallets switched around)

[@prodegyX7]

this video is just fucking amazing... svet stoyanov did this song... im a big supporter of him... honestly you did it much better

[@alxjones]

The talent of hard work and hours of practice a day?

[@aaronjf0]

She's using traditional grip, but Burton's.

[@REGILUE]

What mallet choice would be great if you would tell me? Your so amazing on marimba!!!

[@timonicmusic]

Excellent articulation! Passionate execution! When are you playing in the states?

[@americanman81]

Its impossible to play this with anything but Stevens, that's why everyone was freaked out when he played it for the first time (they all called him crazy when he started developing the technique.)

[@anjagoller]

Looks like you're wrong... I heard this piece live last week in Bamberg and the young lady also used Burton-grip and it didn't seem as if she had huge problems with her grip.

[@Badumdumcrash]

The wealth of incredible marimbists playing everything with every grip nowadays should show you that you can play pretty much anything with your chosen grip, all you need to do is practice your ass off

[@dylstick3]

@drockwilliams essentially*

[@americanman81]

The guy who invented the grip and technique used to play this and wrote it was an American

[@BeakismEIU]

Ouch tough break in the section with the RH slapping the 5-note chords - the one part of the piece where wrong notes stick out so much. You did a good job not making faces when you hit the bar posts early on - sorry that sounds pithy but that's really hard to pull off. I ALWAYS make a face if I hit something other than a bar lol. You are also a little tall for this piece - LHS is not a tall man - you would be doing your back a huge favor to raise the height of the keyboard. Nice job!

[@PercPhreak]

@Benefit1970 READ THE FRICKIN DESCRIPTION WOMAN!!!

[@kramermilan]

What kind of marimba is this you're playing on? looks beautiful!

[@anjagoller]

sounds like Adams

[@KristaViveiros]

Traditional Grip?

[@JUSTONEEEE]

@turtlewings Reddit sent you?

[@darkamaru13]

No, no, with Steven's, he/she said. Which I think she was using, or I may have just been not paying attention, but IF SO, the comment is almost valid. Though it could probably still be played with a Burton's Grip or Musser's, or by stapling mallets to your hands. Except for that last one, that one would require a true pro, and someone who has little sanity, and a lot of boredom.

[@Benefit1970]

Timing is off.

[@REGILUE]

Might have used rubber ones until she could play it all the way through

[@thisistides97]

What annoys me more than that is that Asian includes every "asian" ethnicity but also a huge portion of russia and india. It's such a lazy term! Noriko is Japanese. Pius Cheng has Chinese roots, but is American. The "i wish i was asian" joke isn't just old, it's offensive to say the least. Also this piece isn't actually that crazy! It's hard but if you really think this is a sign of "asian" culture dominating, you're crazy.

[@TheJMusicNow]

I hate to hear people say that. There was once a time when non-asian people were badass on their instruments as well. It was called 30 years ago. Now white pepole, (Yes Im white and also hispanic) only wanna be average because it involves less work. well Im sick of it! I have sworn a strict practice routine against the asians to prove that non asian people can play just as good. Look at Thad Anderson, Evelyn Glennie, Gwen Burgett Thrasher, Ian Rosenbaum, Thomas Burritt etc. are they asian? XP