Virginia Tate (Marimba Solo) by Paul Smadbeck

Facebook:   / ainspandrums   Twitter:   / drumsetdan13   Website: http://danainspan.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Virginia Tate" written by Paul Smadbeck. Been working on this for awhile now, so glad to finally perform and record it. Beautiful piece and a lot of fun. Big thanks to Professor Andris Balins and his Audio IV class for engineering and recording. Check out the song notes below: "In the summer of 1995 I received a call from Dr. J.C. Combs, professor of percussion at Wichita State University, inviting me to come out and perform as a guest artist with the WSU Percussion Ensemble. I was delighted for the opportunity to play marimba in public once again, and in preparing for this visit I was inspired to return to composing after a long hiatus. The result was an early version of a one movement work for solo marimba which I subsequently completed and named in memory of my wife Lois' mother, Virginia Tate, who passed away tragically in 1986 at the age of 52. In all of my compositions for marimba, I tend to utilize an arpeggiated style of playing which brings out both the percussive strength of the instrument as well as its legato capabilities and richness of tone. Virginia Tate is consistent with these compositional goals. Musically, I wanted to initially create for the listener a mood of quiet reflection. The form is a fairly simple AABC Coda, prefaced by an introduction in c-sharp. The primary melodic theme, also in c-sharp, is stated twice and leads to a rather forceful section in f-sharp which develops fragments of earlier material. This is followed by a contrasting dolce in G, which builds in intensity and leads to a coda. Here, the listener is teased into an expectation of a return to the primary melodic theme when, instead, the material from the introduction is used in a downward cascade of chords, ending in a quiet echo of the opening theme." -Paul Smadbeck September, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay tuned for some more drum covers! This was recorded in Studio A at SUNY College at Oneonta Drums: Dan Ainspan Cameras: Amy Leonard, Kaitlyn Levine Recording: SUNY Oneonta Audio Production IV Class Editing: Dan Ainspan Filmed with 2 Canon T2is Edited using Final Cut Pro Questions, comments? Feel free to message me or comment below. *Copyright Notice* I do not claim ownership of this song. All material is the copyrighted property of its respected owner(s).**