Hello readers and viewers!  I want to thank you for your patience on the Marimba Progression Project.  I had a bit of a slip up here between the posting of Episode #1 and the recording of #2, which is not a good thing.  I had originally planned a video documentary of my Dubuque Residency, however I had some horrible technical problems with my video camera.  When I got home I then got the most wonderful news.  After years of waiting, I finally had a five octave marimba.

Since the arrival of my five octave I have been obsessing over it and practically never leaving its sight.  However, it’s time for me to return to the blogosphere with the continuation of the MPP:

This first episode is based on a Collaborative Process question I received from Brian. In that blog I responded to his question about mistakes that young composers make when writing for the marimba. In this video I expand on the idea that some young composers write for the marimba as if it were a piano.

Here’s the Collab Blog post I mentioned in the video. As I mentioned, it lists examples of pieces that are well written from both a technical and musical point of view. To all other percussionists: if you come up with any other examples to help young composers please feel free to post them here!