Tempest

Marimba Unaccompanied

By Todd Ukena

We are playing this song in our intermidate class at ball junior high. WE are gonna play this song on our spring concert.

This piece is very easy to play, as a beginner band in Junior High can play it, but is very fun to play and the listener will enjoy it. It is diffucult to play at first, but once it starts to get put together it is a very enjoyable piece...

. (Also very easy to remember!)

I give this peice an A+ my band played this and we won many awards. It is intense yet in concerts it leaves you sitting on the edge of your sea for real so i by far give this peice a 10 out of 10.

This solo is very repetetive. The same phrase is repeated in a single measure about 4 times. the same pattern is repeated all through the first page and again on the last part of the 3rd page and through the 4th page. This solo is fairly easy to learn, but...

does require some skill in playing two sixteenth notes in a row on the same hand. This solo does get boring after a while because of its repetetive chords. It takes some time to learn the solo, which has running sixteenths throughout the piece. It is boring for the listener but a challenge to play.