Etude For Long Arms

This is the first etude for a series that I will be writing for 2 mallets and 5 octave marimba. The name comes from the music in that most of the time the hands are not any closer than an octave and sometimes at points are more than 2 octaves apart from each other.

Nice stuff. I couldn't decide whether it sounded like a good soundfont or a live recording, but I'm guessing it's a soundfont? Awfully mechanical was my hint. Anyways, the only criticism I have is that in bars 13 and 14 you could have written straight 16th notes like you did in bar 15. I think it makes it easier to read and it wouldn't imply that it's to be played any differently on a marimba. There are a few other places in the etude that this little rhythm goof occurs.

Dynamics and stresses/accents are well placed - the mixed meter patterns work very well for this piece, it has a nice groove without being too hard to sight read/learn somewhat quickly. Not a bad use of the lowest octave, either. Keeps mostly in that range so that you can use the same mallet for the whole piece (there's no time to change anyways! xD)

Good work! =]