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Beginners Music Theory/Six-Mallet Percussion

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Six-mallet percussion

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Mallet identifications:
1 = Far-left mallet
2 = Middle-left mallet
3 = Third-to-left mallet
4 = Third-to-right mallet
5 = Middle-right mallet
6 = Far-right mallet

Numbers for six-mallet percussion may be reversed as well.[1]

  1. Paterson, Robert (2004). Sounds That Resonate: Selected Developments in Western Bar Percussion During the Twentieth Century. Cornell University: UMI Dissertation Services No. 3114502. p. 182.