Grateful
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Difficulty: Elementary
Duration: 00:02:00
Cost: $5.00
Instrumentation
Description
Grateful is a representation of the feeling of gratitude and warmth as you appreciate what you have, such as reflecting on your life or feeling content with something that you have done. Its fast and floating nature represents the journey away from things that have already happened and a mix of contemplation and anticipation, with some excitement in the melody. It is also represented by its position as the last work in the [ FEELINGS ] collection, having experienced the other feelings of Wistful, Cheerful and Peaceful before it.
Grateful is a solo that can be used for both developing students' technical coordination as well as a short melodic interlude in a typical recital program consisting of more advanced pieces. The key technique used in Grateful is fast arpeggiated broken chords, which is a difficult technique not only to play as-is, but to also add voicing at a fast tempo. I find Grateful to be the most difficult work to play in the [FEELINGS] collection at its fast tempo, but you may also choose to play it in a slower, more laidback manner.
Grateful will allow you as the performer to not only improve your skills in all kinds of mallet repertoire, but also understand how to control voicing whilst playing elegantly at a rapid tempo.
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba Works
Autumn (Tan)
Dream (Tan)
Grateful
Honest
Hope
Lotus
Moon
Path
Skyward
Spring (Tan)
Summer (Tan)
Sunflower
Together (Tan)
Winter (Tan)
Vibraphone Works
Percussion Ensemble Works
Beautiful World... Of Dreams And Wonder
ENERGY 7: Adventures of a Front Ensemble
Flying Colour - Mallets Duo
Little Things
Meet Again - Marimba Duo
Sword Shield - Mallets Duo
We Are Heroes - Percussion Trio