Laurel Black Music

Hi, friends! As announced last week, here is the first of two articles to appear in Rhythm! Scene , the online publication of PAS.  You can find my contribution on pages 18 and 19. Rhythm! Scene is edited by  @ percussion 's own Megan Arns. If you aren't the reading type, you can check out the demonstration video that accompanies the article below. I take you through some discovery exercises about how it really feels to move the wrist in different ways. Thanks for reading, everybody. More body info coming your way soon :)

Chamber music involving marimba is my favorite kind of music to perform. Last December I performed Samuel Adler's Four Dialogues   for euphonium and marimba  with Joel Collier , a doctoral student at James Madison University.  Our video is now live on YouTube , recorded with three mounted GoPro cameras: two on stands, and a third attached to the upper end of the marimba, which provided some really interesting shots! Mallet Choices All mallets are made by Innovative Percussion . Movement 1 Janis Potter series (IP403) and Casey Cangelosi series (CGL3) My Potter mallets are really worn out, which works well for the opening high B tremolo.  That pingy timbre mixed well with the deeper sound of Casey's mallets for later chords. I alternated the mallets in my hands [CC, JP, CC, JP] to facilitate the opening and closing tremolos. Movement 2 Casey Cangelosi series (CGL3) The weight of Casey's mallets complements the euphonium's rich sound, even th...