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 Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:08 pm
Are vibes really that hard to learn how to play?
Hmm . . . . I learned in maybe five minutes my rookie year of Marching Band, the first time I'd ever played mallets. But then again, I'd had six years of piano lessons before that.
vibes are fun, but i like Marimba better. We have a five octave marimba at my college, and it is amazing!
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:01 pm
Eh, if you're a professional, the timing for the pedal is like, crucial.
Five octaves? Cool.
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:05 pm
Haha,
This year was my freshman year in band,
even though I'm a sophomore in high school.
The last instrument I played was a violin in 6th grade,
yet they stuck me on the 8 octive grand marimba (maybe it was 5 octaves? I don't really remember. =.=;; )
with 2 solos, a run, and a 4 mallet part.
And I still don't know how to read music well.
>///<
I really want to play the vibe next year though.
They're so shinyyy.
@.@
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:22 am
I'm a current percussion senior and probably the best in my school's band. For that reason I'm always the one stuck on anything mallet. It gets annoying sometimes. Like just before break we sight read a piece and I had to run from the chimes to the bells to the xylophone and back to chimes and then back to bells....
But anyway, vibes, not that hard. Though I will agree that pedal timing can lead to life and death situations. It's the same way with piano. I had a piano solo last year and I had never really played piano.... Except for the song Earth Angel. It only consists of like three maybe four chords.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:30 pm
juss thought i add this...lol
one of the many rules of percussion:
u can never seemto find a matching pair of mallets/they mysteriously disappear and reappear...lol
dramallama
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:41 pm
for some reason, our band director didn't want to take our marimba or xylophone or bells out to the field except for homecoming 'cause he was afraid they would be stolen.......i dunno.....so they stayed in pretty fair condition unless we were playing them. We'd forget the whole "slow in fast out" thing and just play the hell out of the mallets, we ended up breaking a few of the fiberglass ones...it'd play A, B, C, D, and KLUNK the rest of the way up. We ended up taking two glockenspiels and an orchestra bell set to almost every game mounted on piano stands...we didn't even go to the field...
Edit: Our vibey sux too. Where the plug is supposed to be (it's electric)...what plug... just two wires straight into a socket. You'd better hope you got the wires right, it was obviously polarized lol.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:16 am
I remember having to play the vibs in the middle of winter and it was rainy too. So on top of the vibs being wet and cold they stuck! I had to pedal twice as fast then normal to keep them from sticking.
Too bad my college band is small. Otherwise I would join band again.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:31 pm
We have marching bells. Makes for the heaviest marching percussion instrument. Heavier than our largest bass drum, heavier then our quads/tenors. I love my instrument, though. We don't have a vibraphone, though were planning on getting one. We have an out of tune xylophone (all those years of drummers running their sticks across the bars), and a marimba I've never used yet, but that's 'cause I'm a freshman. Our drummers and mallets don't mix instruments, though.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:15 pm
Vibes = sucky.
Marimba/Xylophone/Bells: So muchhhhh fun heart
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:16 pm
-previous percussionist now completely mallet percussion-
I play the bells/mallet percussion (< heart
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:35 pm
last year i marched clarinet then for concert i switched to trumpet then this year for marching i played in pit when i found out from my doctor i wasn't allowed to march it sucked cause i LOVE to march!!! but so i learned vibe and i had never touched a percussion instrument once! i hadn't even really played on the piano so i had to casually look at the underside to remember what note i was on...our vibes broke right before a foot ball game...well the resenators fell out...anyways we had to fix them fast!!! luckly i didnt have to plug in a mic that night casue we lost one and i gave mine to another player becasue i knew i could play loud enough to get heard infact i was louder than those with mics...but we have 2 vibes but were borrowing one from another school and 3 marimba's 2 xylo's 1 chimes 2 synth, 1 bells, 4 timpani parts so 1 set, and the rack/bass drum and gong...then in the drum line we have 4 sets of tenors, 5-6 snares, 8 basses...i think but thats not how many people we had in either thats just the instruments we had 11 in pit this year and 10 in battery(drum line) for winter percussion i play vibes agian vibe one once agian and my instructor wrote our music...i'm playing four mallets for most of the music...for concert i'm playing french horn...our instruments for percussion are sooo crappy!!! we only have one good xylo which we never use and one good marimba which our FRESHMAN section leader uses...our section was sooo pissed when we found out a freshmen was gunna be section leader...i was fine with it he is a really good player! there is soo much drama in the percussion section! one of the tenor players has dated 4 girls and dated each multiply times!!! i dated him...more than once...and now i've fallen for the other one...crap i hope he doesnt read this...whatever...anyways i'm soo glad i went into percussion it is worth having the best friends in the world!!!
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:05 pm
I've played on my share of bad pit instruments. At the college I'm at now, we have a marimba thats literally fallen appart 7 times. I've delt with frames that had messed up wheels or bent and the keys kept popping off. This year, my high school got three new marimbas and two new vibes. I love them ^_^
I think learning vibe can be hard if you're going for perfect tech. and perfect timing with complicated pedling. I tend to really like the vibes b/c you can hold notes and make really pretty slow songs. But then again, I love playing fast and rolling on the marimba.
I don't really have any favorite pieces to play but I'm learning Yellow After the Rain, Puprle, top marimba for Flight of the Bumble Bee (a certain rendition that has 4players on 1marimba x_x) and top marimba for Metric Lips.
Purple is giving me the hardest time. Those split parts are crazy >_<
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:40 am
Oh the vibes. They're my baby. =]
Our school has one set of "good" vibes and a crappier set. Lucky me, being the best player on the vibes, I get the extra set at my house.
I've been playing the vibes since last years marching season and so far in mostly everything(new marching season, two indoor seasons and lots of concerts) I've been the main vibe player.
By far, the most fun thing I've ever done on the vibes is chords...and the Can Can!
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:46 pm
I play marimba, glockenspiel, vibes and cymbal. My band director basically had me running around to all the differant instruments during the songs. gonk It's hard being a first year pit percussioninst and being thrown into the section leader role at the same time! >.<
Any other section leaders here?
(Btw, my cheap school has crud vibes too.)
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:09 pm
~Si!~Chan!~ I played flute for marching band, but I'm in Front Ensamble (pit) for indoor percussion. Though I play piano for indoor,the front ensamble captain is making me learn vibes as well. Any tips? LIKE DUDE WHERE DO U FIND AND MAKE THOSE KINDS OF PICS
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