Berg-Mallet Ensembles vol. 2 (SP)-B/2V/M/P/CB

As many kids, I started to play drums and later in the teens I got in contact with the melodic percussion… and I was stucked! With the songs in Mallet Ensembles I have an attempt to awaken a young drummers curiosity for marimba and vibrphone. Therefore I use repeated technical patterns in the chord parts, quite easy to learn, but a little bit tricky and fun for a drummer to play.

These three songs are orchestrated for a couple of mallet instruments – to get a rich and "fat sound", please double each part on both marimba and vibraphone in several octaves. The glockenspiel part is grade as easy, melody part is a little bit harder and chord parts intermediate.

Index:
Don't stop the groove!
Tellus
Ride the Wind

- Daniel Berg

Number of players: 6
Difficulty: Elementary/intermediate

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Marimba (4 octave)
Player 5: Drum Set
Player 6: Bass