Marimba: four soft yarn mallets used to play bars of resonant rosewood; sounding a work originally written for guitar

Secret Song

A free-time, improvisatory rendition of many tunes you recognize as popular or classic.  I like to put my own spin on things to make it fit into the 'background' of an event...


Norwegian Wood - Solo Piano

This is a brand new piece that was commissioned by Ryan Brumbaugh and the Adna Pirate Percussion Ensemble.  Played live by the Adna Percussion Ensemble themselves!

Spaced In

A new EP from Raul Bonde & Mike Neumeyer!  Raul had written tunes for guitar duets that we made into marimba & guitar duets; while we were at it we wrote three tunes that have a little different flavor.  These works are short and just tease you with thematic material, leaving you wanting more...

01 - A Cool Breeze - Five Short Works For Marimba And Guitar - Raul Bonde & Mike Neumeyer

Here is a peek at what kind of music is on the new set of albums, "Comprovisations: Marimba Music for Relaxation"  This project was completely improvised; during each track I am always grasping for themes and motives to create in a cohesive way.

"Stutter" from Comprovisations - Vol 1: Fantasy

Mike Neumeyer's Electronic Remix of the underworld theme from... Super Mario Bros. Three and further... (I think the original SMB#1 was in 3/4... but I need to go play it to make sure!)



Super Mario Bros. - Underworld Theme (REMIX)

Just another arrangement of a previously written marimba solo called "Tension Relief"... ELECTRONIC REMIX STYLE

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Tension Relief

Flute & Clarinet Duet, includes beatbox techniques in flute and a hip hop groove to play with.  This movement is technically for performers and "tape"

Pardon the digital... I'll post a live recording when it is done! :)

Cool Duets, Mvt. 1: Blunk & Flues

More of a traditional (yet not) approach to this duet.  No track to play behind the players, but that may be in the works for the future.  (not to mention maybe other movements!)

Cool Duets, Mvt. 2: Slowdown

This marimba trio was written right after working with Colin O'Day, Jordan Kamps on Ivan Trevino's new marimba trio called "Open Your Eyes."  Such an inspiring experience to play the music and work with the composer that I had to write one!

sorry for the quality of the sounds, just getting into VDL!!!

"Drive" for marimba trio

This marimba trio was written right after working with Colin O'Day, Jordan Kamps on Ivan Trevino's new marimba trio called "Open Your Eyes."  Such an inspiring experience to play the music and work with the composer that I had to write one!

a percussion ensemble work for 9 players that will introduce players to blues scales and fast rhythms right along with african rhythms and hemiola :) :)

Boom.

"Spaced In" for percussion ensemble 9 players

Eclipse

Percussion Quartet for Intermediate level :)
Cool grooves and different use of drums and rudiments!

GROOVES - Live Recording

The midi version until I can find the live version done by Youth Percussion Ensemble of UW-Milwaukee!

Mega Trio - percussion trio

Dedication is a marimba solo written for and dedicated to Sam Pavel.  It is a journey of happy and elated themes that move into more driving and unhappy motives and rhythms before returning to happiness.  This work can be represented well by the short following narrative:
It is a summer day and there is a perfect wind behind us; where there is nothing to stop us.  Life is really great and full of the simple, yet such enjoyable things that make us happy.  This reminder of the good in this world helps us persevere through the dark times.  Dark?  What?  Yes, when everything is going very well, there may be sections of life where we will have to push through hard times.  Keep solid ground and watch every step through sometimes ragged terrain and we will prevail.  Right when we think things couldn’t get worse or would stay dark forever, the sun suddenly comes out and we are in the perfect summer day once again.  Nothing can stop us!  Simple enjoyable things make us happy!  Thank you for these things and for our ability to get through the dark, with perseverance and dedication.

Dedication

Just starting to experiment with recording again and here is a very rough take of a tune of mine called "Life"

Life - marimba and vibraphone

This is just a midi track from Finale, so it does not capture the muting effects and advanced techniques requested in the work, but it is a reference until a video is done :)

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