Xylophone - [Previous Past Life] Playing
165 views · Organized by Susan on 2022-02-25
"Previous Life" is a song sung by RADWIMPS, written and composed by Yojiro Noda, and the animated film "Your Name". ” theme song, the movie version (movie ver.) was released with the movie soundtrack on August 24, 2016, and the original version (original ver.) was included in the RADWIMPS studio album “Blooming on Earth” released on November 23, 2016 , the English version (Zenzenzense) was released on January 27, 2017.
On October 3, 2016, the song won the Billboard Japan Top 100 Singles Chart; on December 20, the song was certified triple-platinum digital download song by the Recording Association of Japan. On March 1, 2019, the song won the Heisei Animation Song Awards 2010~2019 Movie Theme Song Award.

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Hiroto, a video blogger of Youtube video site, has accumulated 4,250 subscribers. His videos are mainly percussion music, including the performance and teaching videos of instruments such as taiko, xylophone, and snare drum. Its representative work - [Xylophone/Previous Past Life] Your Name's theme song has been played by 2.77 million and has been widely praised.
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The xylophone (pinyin: mù qín) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of small rectangular wooden blocks. According to the length of the wooden blocks, these wooden blocks are arranged in a certain order. When playing, two wooden mallets are tapped on the wooden block, making a dry percussion sound that is slightly like a bone. The sound quality is strong and harsh, and it has extraordinary penetrating power.

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Organized by 小小瞬 on 2022-02-08
The origin of the xylophone is very early. According to legend, there were xylophones in Africa, Java and Indonesia in the 14th century.
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Organized by 蕾伊 on 2022-02-08
The xylophone is played with two-handed small hard or soft hammers. When played with a hammer, it can produce a woody, hard and cold, less reverberating, high-cold, crisp, and granular sound, which is very suitable for playing various forms of scales, arpeggios, glissando, vibrato, rolls, doubles. Tricky phrases for pitching, jumping in, and even jumping in from a distance.
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Organized by 关谷奇迹 on 2022-02-08
At present, the xylophones used in our country can be divided into two types according to their shapes: one is called trapezoid or grand piano, and the other is called horizontal row Qin or marimba. The arrangement and playing methods are quite different. A brief introduction is given below.
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Organized by 拙 on 2022-02-08
The basic structure of the xylophone is composed of several long and short hardwood sound bars arranged in parallel on a shelf. Band xylophones come in two forms. The more common one is the vertical type. That is, the sound bars are arranged in two columns like the black and white keys of a piano, and there is a metal resonance tube under each sound bar. The sound range is generally C(4)/C(8) or F(4)/C(8), and the real sound is an octave higher than the notation.
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