This video really impressed me. That’s what I call a true one-man-band, or…..one-woman-band……or…..one-person-music. Not the players who do runs up and down the board. They’re technicians, not music makers. This lady is a “music-maker.”

Anyhow, I have some questions if some of you can answer them.

1) who is the lady……I did a Google search and couldn’t find anything for maru (is that her name?). And…..I’m assuming she’s Japanese?

2) Is this her own arrangement, or is it the actual score from the movie?

3) Is she using a Roland Star Wars “style/pattern?” Is she playing on top of a MIDI file? If so, did she make it herself?

4) I hear lead (right hand), background (left hand), bass notes, individual drum beats, and fill-ins (where I don’t see her fingers move). What’s playing what? I’m watching her left foot but I can’t quite make out what she’s doing with it (my guess is she’s playing “accompanying” drum beats).

5) She did the “gliss” with her left hand. I’m assuming she’s left handed and that would account for a lot of her left hand dexterity?

6) Anyone know where I can read about her?

I really like what she does!!! That’s something to shoot for.

Lucky