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@@jonathanmosebach2921 Thank you for watching the video! It was such a fun show to play especially this song where I got to play ALL the gongs and timpani. I really hope you get to play it one day!

Thank you for watching! I only have a memo / sketch for myself and not very formal.

Hi @vickyoneill5574 Thank you for a great question! Your situation would be challenging for any timpanist, so I sympathize. If the piece requires two pitches, the solution is simple. You get a tuner or use your ear to tune the timpani before the piece starts. If the piece requires you to retune the drum in the middle of the piece, you can bring your ear very close to the drum during rests (assuming you will have some rests between note changes) and use your relative pitch to find the new note to tune the timpani. So for example, if you need to tune D to E, you sing a major 2nd or whole step in your head to find the E from D. I hope these tips can help!

@mikehamnett9336 Thank you for listening and for the suggestions. I did not write this arrangement so I’m playing it as written. I’m sure it could be arranged in a different key, but I believe the arranger wanted to make sure he can utilize the marimba range as you said.

Hi @Piglut008 - Thanks for watching! Yes, anyone who plays outside of the pit wears a wireless in-ear monitor (headphones) to hear the orchestra, singers, and a click track. It was wireless so that I could move around without worrying about having a cable. I also had multiple tiny TVs to look at the conductor in all directions. It's quite common that percussionists and/or drummers don't fit in the pit on Broadway musicals, so this is the common practice.

@@Chihiro-Percussion thank you for nice answers, because on the video I only heard the percussion, if that you would be a magician for me😅 I am also a percussionist, so your videos are very great for me to observe! (Both educational and entertainment)

@@Piglut008 Hello, fellow percussionist! You are welcome, and glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you for watching! Yes, Wicket has a massive percussion set up, too. I’ve had a chance to observe the percussionist in his separate room full of instruments - Bass Drum and others hanging from the ceiling!

コメントありがとうございます！そうなんです、思ってもいないところにある洞窟で演奏してました。笑) パーカッションパート弾いてて楽しかったです😆

@@Chihiro-Percussion ミュージカル界のパーカッションの中で使う楽器の種類が多く1番難しい作品だと私は思うし、どの音をどの楽器で鳴らしてるのかとても興味があります！アジアっぽい音ってあまり見ない楽器で鳴らしてるのでどんなものか、、とオケピに行っても見えず、、とても貴重でありがたいです💫

Thanks for asking! I think you are asking about Peking Opera gong - it has a pitch bend after striking. They are the two gold ones on the right. I hope that’s the one you are talking about! (If not, please give me a min: sec of the video when I’m playing it so I can identify which one - I do have MANY different gongs in the set up)

@@Chihiro-Percussion thanks so much - thats exactly the one. And on the score there's an instrument called 'kin' is this like singing bowls?

@@joshuanesbit yes, that’s right!

Yes, we were quite far from the pit! Perhaps your production has less musicians total or have larger pit? We couldn’t have fit in the pit even if we tried! lol

@@Chihiro-Percussion yeah its all of those. Big pit, fewer musicians, less percussion (were doing birdie), lower budget, etc

I'm glad you found the video helpful. Thank you for watching! That is definitely challenging for any timpanist, so you are not alone. For that situation, you can study the score and see if any instrument easily audible will play the note you need to change to sometime during some rests (if you have any!). If you are playing a classical piece with some kind of "key", chances are, you (timpani) are playing the root of the harmony or the bass note of a chord. So, see if double bass, tuba, or trombones might play the note you want to tune to. For more contemporary pieces, that might not be the case. For that situation, I've taken extra time to make sure my gauges are accurate using a tuner before rehearsal/ concert so I know the approx location of each note on each drum. Hope that helps!

@@Chihiro-Percussion that is so true. I had a gig the other night and the gauges were accurate and saved me plenty of headache. thanks for sharing

@@yarddriver Glad it was helpful!! Thanks for watching.

Thank you for the kind words & apologies for the late reply

@@Chihiro-Percussion No worries. Just keep up the cool music.

Thank you! It's 98% practice :-)

ありがとうございます！

Thank you!

Thank you, Zach! Appreciate your support! 😊

Thank you! Yeah, I was excited to find the cloning trick in video editing. I plan on making more!

@@Chihiro-Percussion please do.

Thank you for watching, Kaya! :)

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!

Thank you!! I posted a Bach Prelude video playing the same instrument, so please check it out for a more enjoyable listening experience than the chromatic scale :-)

Thank you for watching & yes, will keep playing! :)

@@Chihiro-Percussion I'm glad to hear.

Thank you so much for watching. Glad you enjoyed it! I was super excited to receive this beauty and I really enjoy practicing & playing it.

Thank you 😊

Once it was out of the boxes, it probably took 20-25min, but it's certainly a 2 people job!

Thank you Joel! They are called mallets and I'm able to adjust the distance of each mallet as needed. Sometimes I need them to be wide and sometimes narrow, depending on what harmonies I'm playing.

Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you so much Yuri san!

That’s exactly what I was gonna say lol すごい上手 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@@noahhcams haha! Thank you Noah!! :D

Thank you so much! Yes, it's a great instrument!

Thank you!!

Thank you for watching! It might surprise you that I’m so remote from the rest of musicians, but with recent technology I am able to listen to the rest of musicians, actors on stage, watch conductors from little monitors ALL real time. In Miss Saigon, there was only a few songs with click tracks (this one included). That means I was making music just as I would if I were on stage. This remote performance is largely due to the small size of the pit, or the theater. If you’ve been to NYC, or other big cities, buildings are so close together, and getting large space is difficult. Many of Broadway theaters are old, too! I know that Wicket the musical have more individual rooms for musicians. In some cases, pit is entirely unavailable for musicians due to staging, so all musicians are in a few separate rooms. I also love performing on stage in concert black, and I understand why you might feel this is weird, but this is quite normal for Broadway shows. We played every show live, and I never treated pit playing less special than the ones I’m on stage. :-) Alternative to this situation is that some instruments are replaced by midi keyboard, which we don’t want! (Musicians on Broadway historically fought against producers trying to save money by reducing numbers of musicians in the pit) Hope this helps you understand the situation better!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much! Makes me happy that it inspired you to play again. I hope you do! :-D

Thank you, yes, I agree! It was a fairly large orchestra with rich orchestra sounds.

Thank you for doing the caption!

Thank you so much!

@@Chihiro-Percussion You are very welcome. We sent you an email about a music opportunity. Do check it. :DD

@@Chihiro-Percussion hopefully I could just get a timpani from my dad. Hopefully I can be the 1st timpani kid.

@@nikoschannelforall.9815 That sounds like a great idea! I wish my dad had timpani!

@@Chihiro-Percussion YEAH!

Thank you for watching!

Hi Felix, thanks for the kind words! That's awesome! What's your favorite piece you've played with them?

@@Chihiro-Percussion hmmmm probably the Borodin polotsvian dances! My drumset teacher is John ostrowski!

@@Felix-kz6bu That's a great one. John is the BEST!!

Thank you for watching! Yes, that's why I wanted to document how we performed :-)

Inga Ulokina thank you!!

@@Chihiro-Percussion youre welcome

Albert Garzon Thank you so much for watching!

Thanks Kate! Yui (the composer) does everything! :-)

DW Yang > thank you so much for watching! I’ve always loved to draw. Working on combining both music and drawing now!

yes, totally! I think that was probably the first piece I saw with flower pots!

JiLUS Ztudio thank you for watching! Yes, this is just a pause, not a complete stop!