I'm not sure I ever mastered it, but it took me about 4 days to memorize around half-tempo, and then about a month to feel good with the piece, and about 2 months to get it to "recording quality." Great question!
I played this at a concert and while I was waiting for my turn, I forgot how to enter a specific part in the piece. I watched your video upside down as if I were playing it and remembered again, the concert went great! You saved me, thank you so much!
I usually try to match the tuning of the directly opposite tensors, listening to them from the same distance. What really bothers you when it comes to adjusting your skin is the sound of the other parts of the skin. Once this is done, it is about matching these diameters between them.
Hey bravo you guys for this Live-Performance. Especially the 7th movement is NOT AT ALL easy for the marimba (I can only speak for the marimba part). It's over all played very musical and I really appreciate the sax-players sound. Really diverse, bravo. And Brad, you just grooooove man! Also really musically on the marimba. Cheers to the both of you! I enjoyed it.
This piece has transcended a mere performance into an actualized masterpiece. If one was to tell me that music itself was nothing more than notes on a piece of paper read out like a book, I would show them these pieces performed by the most endearing and handsomest lad. The integration of discord notifications, the fast-paced cymbal on the drum, the angelic taping of the steel pan, the rough and basilisk-like playing of the timpani’s! Oh! And don’t even get me started on the marimba playing! The marimba reminding me of the jungle gym again when I would play tag with my elementary school mates. And the timpani piece lets me know if Godzilla has a theme, that would be it! And the steel pan felt like I was floating away to heaven in its rapture! Further, that last piece! It was its own beast! Reminds me of the yin and yang between music and noise! It reaches such a beautiful chemistry of what is known in the world and what we still have left to hear! So much of what we thought we knew about music went into it teaching us all the lesson that what we create is not just devices for human consumption or experience, but for the arts and music which transcends time and place, despite their brutal or mundane aspects! Transforming the cooking pans we use to eat and the beer barrels into tangible and rhythmic sounds that one could only be classified as art! The incoherent monkey screaming and the exiting slide whistle along with the slapstick commentary at the end gave me whiplash that even now days after the performance I still have yet to comprehend! What a performance Perfecto Aleman has done. And all I have to say is he has done it again! A true masterpiece! Bravo my dear boy! 🎉
Oh wow that was amazing! Marvelous performance 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 incredible technique and attention to dynamics. I’ll have to try this one out one day for a recital
How do you keep your cool when performing these technical pieces? I get overwhelmed while I’m playing because there’s so many notes and my brain is trying to keep track of where I am
Just try to breathe deep and slowly as you get nervous, and remember to perform to "impress the audience" and not to only "play it right." I'm sure you'll do great!! Best of luck!
