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Post by 1frodos1 on Mar 19, 2008 19:56:28 GMT -5
Had to play "What time is it?"(High school musical)for a hiered performance-five performances in 3 days*shudders*
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Post by claribeth on Mar 22, 2008 17:55:06 GMT -5
IM A BELIEVER-EVERYBODY in the band despises that song. i played it for my beginning band concert last year and its our longest football game and pep rally song and what really stinks is that we played it so much that i have it memorized JUST FROM PLAYING IT!!! if you practice this in the morning you WILL get evil glares
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Post by 1frodos1 on Mar 22, 2008 23:59:04 GMT -5
Some chuch songs.I come from a small church so i play every sunday i love most of them but theres always one no one can sing at tempo
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Post by oboehorn77 on Mar 23, 2008 12:16:13 GMT -5
Hey, I happen to like Variations!! My list of awful band songs - American Elegy, just because. As Winds Dance Stand up and get Crunk (worst pep band song ever) Achievement Chorale and March (6th grade stupid band, gah) Fire Dance (awfulness to the max) there's so many others I can't remember. American Elegy? By Ticheli? Really? I thought I was the only one who didn't like that one... but the only reason was the second oboe part being almost completly rests. I might have played a couple notes in that piece. I forget. I mean, it's actually a really good piece as I recall, but he never wanted more than one oboe playing at a time. >.<
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Post by stickshifty on Mar 23, 2008 14:33:52 GMT -5
- Variations on a Korean Folk Song - Pomp and Circumstance - Rush (Sam Hazo-- who composed Rush as a sequel to Ride) - SLEIGH RIDE x.x
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 23, 2008 16:20:56 GMT -5
I don't like fire dance much either. 2nd band played it last yr. It was annoying.
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Post by the_sousabone on Mar 24, 2008 21:01:46 GMT -5
I love Variations on a Korean Folk Song.
There's only one song I've ever hated. And it was: The Lion King: Broadway Selections
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Post by Clarinaut on Apr 1, 2008 15:56:09 GMT -5
We have to play this song at football games called "Mississippi Mud". We always play it when the cheerleaders do a hand routine. Everyone hates it, but frankly, I don't see what's so bad about it. I mean, it's just a song...
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Post by Marine. on Apr 1, 2008 16:20:10 GMT -5
The concert piece "Band Of Brothers"
I have an 80 measure rest in that song.
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Post by Clarinaut on Apr 1, 2008 16:23:37 GMT -5
In that amount of time, you could probably get a cup of coffee and get back in time for you to come in!
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Post by Marine. on Apr 1, 2008 16:30:10 GMT -5
In that amount of time, you could probably get a cup of coffee and get back in time for you to come in! Yeah lol. When we got the piece, i leaned over to the trombonist next to me and said: "Hey, we could probably go to mcdonalds and be back before these rests are over!" I even wrote on the piece (IN PENCIL OF COURSE) 80 measure rests suck.
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Post by Clarinaut on Apr 1, 2008 16:33:02 GMT -5
My last band director played in the Tacoma Symphonic Band, and he once did a piece which had a 240-measure rest. Then, after that long rest, he only had to play one note!
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Post by tromboneking87 on Apr 1, 2008 16:58:41 GMT -5
Back in high school it was YMCA, our arrangement was horrible, and we hated playing it. But then one time the Cub Scouts came to a B-Ball game and requested it. Drat... Right now, we're reading a piece that we'll be playing in a month. I won't say the name/composer, because I don't want this to get back to him (he was my music theory/aural skills TA). It's about 12 pages of atonal. And it isn't the kind of atonal you can make sense of. It's the kind that even the director has no idea what the composer was thinking. Some of the parts are barely physically possible. It's only redeeming quality is the end, where the whole band just holds out a big chord and the trombones are instructed to "fluctuate pitch wildly" at quadruple forte. So we do that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2008 18:23:21 GMT -5
^The saying "Don't look at the trombones, it only encourages them", comes to mind, only, modified:
"Don't give the trombones random notes at quadruple forte, it only encourages them"
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Post by SaxGirl on Apr 1, 2008 19:54:50 GMT -5
Oh my God, 1frodos1, you took me back in time! I remember Sawmill Creek being the TOUGHEST SONG EVER on sax. The Tempest was great, too. If you want a flashback, look for a piece called "Onward" by Gary P. Gilroy. It sounds almost identical, yet we used it as a warm-up piece for adjudication this year. Stand music sucks. Period. So do these pieces: Be Thou My Vision - John Gillingham? Nothing like resting for 80-some measures. *yawn* A Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol - Percy Grainger... ACCCCCCK. On Wings of Magic - Nayoa Wada. That was ABHORRENT last year. I'm beginning to dislike James Swearingen, too. All his pieces sound the same, and I've played so many (Novena, Invicta, Dawn of a New Day, Covington Square, Make a Joyful Noise, Aventura - all of those in 4 years). It only gets worse when he rearranges Karl King marches - they're tremendously repetitive (Peace Jubilee, Gallant Marines, Emblem of Unity, Free World March, etc.).
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