Five Pieces for Vibraphone

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Jon Metzger

General Info

Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Series: Step-to-Step
Difficulty: Elementary to Intermediate

Instrumentation

Vibraphone

Description

The Five Pieces for Vibraphone focus on gaining control of the instrument's ringing bars for clarity of the various musical lines contained in each composition. This is accomplished first through two-mallet long and short tones (with and without the pedal), then with pedaling that corresponds to meter. Next, the pieces include dead strokes as a technical precursor to subsequent stick dampening, and finally culminate in a four-mallet composition that combines all previous dampening techniques.

Recent Performance

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Books for Percussion by this Author

Five Easy Pieces for Two-Mallet Marimba
Five Pieces for Timpani
Five Pieces for Vibraphone

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