Mallets Solos


With piano accompanment unless otherwise stated.

Absolute Journey Music - Robert Bridge
Grade: 6     Features: Mallet Solo

VIBRAPHONE, UNAC   Item: 13742   Price: $8
This new grade 6 work for solo vibraphone incorporates rhythmic grooves and some non traditional techniques with beautiful harmonies and melodies. Written by new Kendor writer, Dr. Robert Bridge, Associate Professor of Music at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse (NY). Duration ca. 6:30.

America, The Beautiful - Ward / Houllif
Grade: 4+     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13744   Price: $4
Here's one of our most resplendent patriotic songs in a novel arrangement for unaccompanied vibraphone. Featuring the jazz harmonies of piano legend Bill Evans, chord symbols are provided in the expressive first half for players wishing to improvise. Four medium yarn mallets are required, and the motor is off throughout. A perfect closer for recitals and even professional club dates.
Bach For Marimba - Bach / Moore
Grade: 4-6     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
MINUET IN G; AIR ON THE G STRING; A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD; CHORALE/KOM SUSSER TOD; PRESTO/SONATA IN G MINOR; JESU JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING; CONCERTOIN A MINOR (MVT. 1); FUGUE/SONATA IN A MINOR; TOCCATA (TOCCATA & FUGUE IN D MINOR); BRANDENBURG CONCERTO   Item: 13940   Price: $10

Bop On The Top - Houllif
Grade: 4+     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13747   Price: $4
Great for recitals, juries or contests, this solo for unaccompanied vibraphone was inspired by the rhythmic bebop jazz of pianist Thelonius Monk and the bluesy melodic lines of vibist Milt Jackson. Featuring three-mallet technique, the duration is 3:15.
Casper's Dance - Houllif
Grade: 5+     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13750   Price: $5
Contest Solos For The Advanced Mallet Player - Houllif
Grade: 5-6     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
SWING-SONG; MONTERREY; CASPER'S DANCE; WALTZ OF THE SCARECROW; CHROMATIC RAG; RIO NIGHTS   Item: 13958   Price: $9
A continuation of the popular Contest Solo series, these 6 solos are perfect for recitals, contests, juries or auditions. All of the solos are playable on a 4 1/3 octave (low A) marimba. “Waltz Of The Scarecrow” is also playable on xylophone. These solos will challenge any grade 5-6 mallet player.

Contest Solos For The Intermediate Mallet Player - Houllif
Grade: 3-4+     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
ROYAL MARCH; A BLUEGRASS WALTZ;NO SOUP FOR YOU!; DOS AMIGOS; A WINTER SONG; ROCKIN' MY SOCKS OFF; BACH-ISH; POLKA IN A; THE JIG IS UP; BAR TALK   Item: 13959   Price: $8
The solos in this set may be played on bells, xylophone, vibes or marimba with equal success. Diverse styles include rock, jazz, Latin, bluegrass waltz, march, polka, Baroque, 20th century contemporary, and a lively 6/8 dance.

Contest Solos For The Young Mallet Player - Houllif
Grade: 1-2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
A MINOR-MAJOR CHA-CHA; LULLABY; THE BULLFIGHTER; WALT'S WALTZ; SCHOOL DAZE MARCH; CHROMATIC CAPER; DOUBLE PLAY; LOU'S BLUES   Item: 13960   Price: $7

Festival Piece/Mlt/V2(New) - Smales
    Features: Mallet Solo

Collection Contains:
CARIBBEAN CARUMBA; REFLECTION; WHEN THE CHIPS AREDOWN; OPEN UP; CELL PHONE; MYSTERY MAN; MOVIE MAGIC; AUTUMN SON; BAROQUE DOWN   Item: 13965   Price: $0

Festival Pieces For Mallets - Smales
Grade: 2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
LAZY DAY; SLIP KNOT; TWISTER; T.Z.; SUNSHINE; FRAGILE; MAGGIES MARCH; SOUTH OF THE BORDER   Item: 13964   Price: $10
This collection contains 8 keyboard solos for grade 2 percussionists. All contain catchy melodies, and are very approachable for performers. A perfect addition to the repertoire for recitals, contests and festivals. Titles include: “Lazy Day”, “Slip Knot”, “Twister”, “T.Z.”, “Sunshine”, “Fragile”, “Maggies March”, and “South Of The Border”.

Festival Repertoire For Mallets - Houllif
Grade: 3-5     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
CRYSTALLINE; THE LEAVES OF AUTUMN; MEXICAN HOLIDAY; FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE; HEAVY METAL BLUEGRASS; NAIROBI BLUES   Item: 13776   Price: $9
This collection of six grade 3-5 tunes is perfect for lessons, recitals, contests, juries, or auditions. All pieces require four-mallet technique and are playable on marimba, vibes or xylophone. Styles include jazz, Latin, rock, contemporary-classical, bluegrass and country.

Good Vibe-Brations - Riedhammer
Grade: 6     Features: Mallet Solo

VIBRAPHONE, UNAC   Item: 13795   Price: $7
This month we are happy to introduce Arnold Riedhammer, solo percussionist with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, to our family of writers. A grooving jazzy vibraphone solo with 4-mallet technique, this grade 6 piece will be challenging for students and professionals alike. A commercial recording of this tune is available on Arnold Riedhammer’s CD “Percussion Goes Pop” (Koch Classics #3-6413-2) and can also be heard on his website www.arnoldriedhammer.com. Duration 4:15.

Grand Ballroom Waltz - Schinstine
Grade: 2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13800   Price: $4
Greensleeves - Traditional / Tom Brown
Grade: 5     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13802   Price: $4
This haunting, rendition of the timeless favorite is scored for unaccompanied vibraphone soloists. Based on his own extensive performing experience, Tom Brown employs such idiomatic elements as pedaling, independent malleting, modern voicing, and damping, all with outstanding results.
Juniper - Mcguire
Grade: 5     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13806   Price: $6
This delightful four-mallet marimba solo features a playful style and is ideal for high school or college recitals and competitions. The required techniques are idiomatic for marimba and will develop and reinforce essential skills such as ostinato/melody combination and chorale style rolling.
Mallet Magic - Schinstine
Grade: 2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13820   Price: $4
Mallets In Mind - Tom Brown
Grade: 5-6     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
TIME HAS COME; SAMBA SONIC; ALONE; SUNDAY TROLLEY;INAGUA; LATIN CHIFFON; CUERNEVACA; RHUMBALLADE; SUMMER SCENE; MARIMBATO   Item: 13970   Price: $9

Marimba Bossa Nova - Tom Brown
Grade: 2+     Features: Mallet Solo   Item: 13830   Price: $6
Mixolydia - Mcguire
Grade: 2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13853   Price: $5
This mallet solo is set in the mixolydian and dorian modes. Simple ostinato patterns are used in both the left and right hands, which is designed to develop independence and strength in the left hand. Duration 2:15.
More Contest Solos For The Intermediate Mallet Player - Houllif
Grade: 3-4+     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
HOMAGE TO HANDEL; SHIVER ME TIMBERS; SCHOOL DAY BLUES; MAIN STREET MAMBO; THREE-MALLET WALTZ; RAGGEDY ANN; HORA DANCE; TON O'ROCK; DOUBLE-DUTY MARCH;REACHING FOR THE STARS   Item: 13984   Price: $8
Here's a winning collection of 10 original solos for marimba, vibes, xylophone or bells. A variety of styles includes Irish jig, blues, Baroque, Latin, jazz waltz, ragtime, rock, march and more. Mallet choices and stickings are left to the discretion of the performer and/or teacher.

More Contest Solos For The Young Mallet Player - Houllif
Grade: 1-2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
TRYING TO B NATURAL; THAT GOOD OLE COUNTRY WALTZ;COWBOY TUNE; A MINOR INCIDENT; BACH AROUND THE GLOCK; THE CAMEL; SOMBRERO; SKELETAL; BOSSA NOVA CASANOVA; THOSE BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES   Item: 13985   Price: $7

Music Of The Day - Molenhof
Grade: 5-6     Features: Mallet Solo

Collection Contains:
MUSIC OF THE DAY; VISUAL IMAGE; WAVE MOTION; PRECISION; WALTZ KING; MAYFLOWER   Item: 13990   Price: $10

New Works For New Times - Molenhof
Grade: 5-6     Features: Mallet Solo

Collection Contains:
JUNGLE TALK-WASTED TALK; BEACH STREET YEARS; THE MOUNTAINS REMAIN; FOREIGN FILMS; UP FROM THE ASHES;SO FAR TO GO; FAMILY OF TEACHERS; AMAZING SPIDERMAN   Item: 14000   Price: $9

Perpetual Commotion - Tom Brown
Grade: 4     Features: Mallet Solo   Item: 13860   Price: $6
Pink Panther, The - Henry Mancini / Schinstine
Grade: 3     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13870   Price: $4
Progressive Solos For 3-4 Mallets - Houllif, Moore
Grade: 2-4+     Features: Mallet Solo

Collection Contains:
MINUET; COME BACK TO SORRENTO; LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG; LES PRELUDES THEME; GERMAN DANCE; LIGHTLY ROCK; SHORTNIN' BREAD; MORNING PRAYER; LOCH LOMOND; TRAUMEREI; I DREAM OF JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HA IR; NEW WORLD SYMPHONY THEME; PAVANA; LIEBESTRAUM; ES   Item: 13873   Price: $11
This collection of 19 pieces are arranged for mallet solo - 4 utilizing 3 mallets and 15 utilizing 4 mallets. They offer the mallet player the opportunity to develop and improve skills and techniques such as the legato roll, independent voice movement, phrasing, dynamic contrasts, and pedaling (on vibes). All solos are playable on a 4-octave marimba, and some can be performed on vibes or xylophone.

Puerto Vallarta - Tom Brown
Grade: 6     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13875   Price: $5
This unaccompanied vibe solo is an appealing mix of Latin rhythms and jazz harmonies. Since chord symbols appear above the written voicings, players have two performance options--they can play the piece exactly as written, or they can combine written passages with those they wish to improvise.
Puttin' On The Ritz - Berlin / Tom Brown
Grade: 5     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13877   Price: $5
Here's the familiar and exciting Irving Berlin song scored for unaccompanied mallet soloist by expert Tom brown. Complete with the swingin' syncopation and snappy tempo for which this song is known, this piece is an effective mix of single-note passages and full-voiced cords for four mallets.
Simple Solos For Mallets - Tom Brown
Grade: 1-2     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
LONESOME RHUMBA; BACH TRACK; WISH ONE; SUNSET SONG; BELL TONES; JAZZY-Z; LATIN RONDO; CLOCKWORK; ONTHE WAY; SHADOWS   Item: 14010   Price: $7

Tunes You Know - Various / Molenhof
Grade: 4-5     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)

Collection Contains:
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC; AMAZING GRACE; LONDONDERRY AIR; TURTLE DOVE; GREENSLEEVES; O SHENANDOAH   Item: 14015   Price: $8
This fresh collection presents six familiar favorites in jazz styles: O Shenandoah, Amazing Grace, Londonderry Air, Greensleeves, Battle Hymn Of The Republic, and Turtle Dove. Any or all of these will be a welcome change of pace in concert programs, especially when the other music being presented is new to listeners' ears.

Vibe Cycles - Molenhof
Grade: 4-5     Features: Mallet Solo

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Collection Contains:
LINE RIFF SONG; ALL YOU MONK FANS; ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN'; SOMETIMES I'M A MANIAC; MOTORCYCLE BOYS; LOST TIME REVOLVING; FALLING TREES   Item: 14017   Price: $17

Whispering Woods - Schinstine
Grade: 3     Features: Mallet Solo (Unaccompanied)   Item: 13920   Price: $4
Wish, The - Mcguire
Grade: 4     Features: Mallet Solo   Item: 13925   Price: $6
This grade 4 two-mallet solo with piano accompaniment has beautiful harmonies and a poignant musical message. The challenges for the mallet player include double stop rolls, arpeggiated patterns, and musical expression. It also contains an easy 5 measure section that utilizes 3-mallets. “The Wish” may be performed on xylophone, marimba, or vibes, and will give the mallet player a chance to work on ensemble playing and expression. Duration ca. 3:00.

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