Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of 14 well-known melodies are featured in this collection for beginning instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks! Songs include: All of Me ? Evermore ? Hallelujah ? Happy ? I Gotta Feeling ? I'm Yours ? Lava ? Rolling in the Deep ? Viva la Vida ? You Raise Me Up and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK amulti-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

The hymns in Church Hymns For Marimba are drawn from traditional European melodies American tunes and African-American Spirituals. They represent some of the most recognised tunes in Western music.Many of these hymns have been played during important events in history from funerals of American presidents to royal weddings and coronations. Some have even become the subject of legend: Nearer My God to Thee was allegedly the last hymn that the band played on the RMS Titanic before it sank.The four-mallet arrangements are all playable on a 4 and 13 octave low A Marimba. The hymn tunes and two-mallet arrangements can be played on Marimba Vibraphone or a standard set of orchestra bells.

Accidental Flight was expertly composed in 2000 by Sadie Harrison. This piece was first performed by Simon Limbrick at the Warehouse London in November 2000.Australian bornfreelance composer and performer Sadie Harrison’s unique fusion of elements from indigenous Lithuanian music and poetry with her own modernist often abrasive style have led her to be compared with Bartok butwith her own warmth and grandeur. Since 2012 Harrison has been working along side a long list of well accomplished musicians; Paul Carey Peter Sheppard Skaerved Sergej Okrushko Alex South DuncanHoneybourne are among many who have had the privilege work with Harrison so far. Performances of Harrison's works have been given across the world by Lontano London Chamber Symphony MusicProjects/ London Ixion Okeanos Bournemouth Sinfonietta Kokoro and the St. Christopherus Chamber Orchestra and many others.