Xylophone Rags of George Hamilton Green

Great music book with separate boonfor xylophone included inside.

Perfect

Fun pieces, about Grade 8 standard, with included piano accompaniment.

These are fun xylophone standards to play. I play these on my marimba with hardish yarn mallets and it sounds fine. The range of the music is of course only about 3.5ish octaves, so it will fit on most instruments. Don't be fooled by the preview, there are full size sheets of xylophone-only music included. The print size is fine and easy to read. each solo is 2 pages I believe, but you are supposed to repeat sections like crazy. All of these sound good and contain the obligatory sections expected of ragtime music.I wouldn't consider this appropriate background music to perform at a function, though, it is a little too attention grabbing. All the pieces are two mallet, but technically not too difficult. The only difficulty lies in getting them up to the recommeneded tempos, but I think most people would never know if you were only playing at 3/4 speed.

These xylophone rags are so much fun to play on the xylophone! They are easy to learn, and fun to play.

This collection contains famous xylo ragtime pieces. The piano accompaniment make it easier to play without marimba quartet accompaniment. The given chord changes are the greatest one that this book gives. It helps so much with the improvisation.

There are a lot of complicated songs in this book. I've used them to help improve my sight reading and learning them is fun.

A book that every serious mallet student should own. Make sure to use authoritative recordings to perfect style. There are some by George Hamilton Green himself out there.