My pit tech kept saying alot that I have to bring the heights of my mallets lower to the keys on the board. Like metro to mezzo piano loud. And every time i do that he thinks its too loud and i honestly cannot hear the difference in that. so I spent an hour on my free weekend about 2 weekends ago rehearsing by myself in my basement with the marimba trying to get the dynamics right. I have no mirror to watch myself what i'm doing with the mallets with the heights of it, so thats a little bit more difficult. I have to figure out a way to find some room to put a mirror down there.
Some of my band friends have tried to help me, they tried showing me on their board with the heights. And I attempt to mimic them with the heights, its either a little or way too much. Personally, theres a guy in the pit whose in the marimba line, a sophmore, everytime my pit tech is wondering who keeps messing up the music the sophmore in my line blames it on me every single time because i'm deaf. That's also another rant that is happening in the front ensemble. UGH!
