Kudos for sharing this! We've all been there, but the experience of working together-whether performing solo or in a group-will add so much to your life. Keep it up, enjoy playing music, and make friendships and connections. This will be a part of your life that you'll look back on as a sweet memory! :)
thanks! our symphonic band has seen a lot of improvement over the past couple of years. we have a lot of stand-out players, it’s just hard to get the group to mesh together
rest in peace the soloist 😭 im debating on asking my band director if we can play this for our spring concert since its in our bands skill range although itd still be really difficult too 😭
Wow, that would be amazing! I totally get how challenging it could be, but it’s such a beautiful piece-it’d be so worth it! 🙌😭 I’m sure your band director would be impressed with the idea. Best of luck if you decide to bring it up, and no matter what, I’m sure your performance will be incredible! 🎶💖
@SunnySide84 that’s awesome! we often have mallet players do oboe or bassoon parts in our band too, although we finally got an oboe this year which is exciting
usually if a senior wants a solo they can have it, and I was already playing an entire solo song. technically I am first chair but we don’t have official chair placements at my school
@@elizabethwatkins7567 Girl you shoulda gotten that solo😔😔😔 Save for the *one* or two parts (which was pretty difficult) you played the song SOO good. You better get the next solo whenever one shows up in the future
Are you from USA? Btw i think that it would be enough to tune the instruments before playing and ask the conductor if they are in tune because he should be the one to tell you that, it would probably help with the rhythm if you looked a little more at the conductor instead of at the notes, or if each student practiced their part at home with a metronome :). As for the more difficult moments that you are not sure about, practice them at home and try not to practice those specific 5 notes, but take for example 3 bars before and start playing from there and practice in that way. Apart from that, you all played nicely :) Also in measure 64 why do the saxophones play the horn parts? I assume it's because there aren't enough horns (typical) but at first it seems to me that there are those two horn players and there's no need for the saxophones to play their parts. Another thing is that i think that you should play the flute solo in measure 30 since you play in my opinion the best of all flutes, I know that you may probably not be very keen to play it as a soloist because you are afraid that you will fail, but remember that each of us must try to do things that are not easy, otherwise we would not develop. Greetings from Poland as a fellow horn player :D
Thank you for all of the amazing advice! I am from the US. The reason the saxophones play the horn cues is because we only had one horn player last year, and he was also our best trombone player, so he was able to play some of the parts that were important for horn, but if they were happening at the same time as an important trombone part, he would opt to play trombone. For this concert, I am pretty sure he was actually playing french horn, but usually he would just read a french horn part, transpose it in his head, and play it on trombone. He’s very talented!
Hey girlie just wanted to let you know for the future, no hate but you are trilling the C wrong. It should be the other small key not the one that you were using. (:
@@elizabethwatkins7567 You were actually using the correct trill key! The first trill key is used for a C on the stave, but you use the second trill key for a high C.
the senior flutist messed up that solo so bad 😞
He was very nervous! He was playing it alright up until the concert :(
Kudos for sharing this! We've all been there, but the experience of working together-whether performing solo or in a group-will add so much to your life. Keep it up, enjoy playing music, and make friendships and connections. This will be a part of your life that you'll look back on as a sweet memory! :)
thanks! our symphonic band has seen a lot of improvement over the past couple of years. we have a lot of stand-out players, it’s just hard to get the group to mesh together
We played this song when I was in 7th grade and we absolutely butchered it at the concert, I will never forget how bad we did
Hey, we all have those performances!
@ Yes yes yes! I’m so much better at the flute too, I’m First chair piccolo and Flute and I made region for our school so I’m definitely improving
I have the same piece with my band ❤
You will have so much fun playing it!
rest in peace the soloist 😭 im debating on asking my band director if we can play this for our spring concert since its in our bands skill range although itd still be really difficult too 😭
Wow, that would be amazing! I totally get how challenging it could be, but it’s such a beautiful piece-it’d be so worth it! 🙌😭 I’m sure your band director would be impressed with the idea. Best of luck if you decide to bring it up, and no matter what, I’m sure your performance will be incredible! 🎶💖
Yall still did good! Feel bad for that senior soloist, hope they were alright!
Aww, thank you for the kind words! 😊
Playing this song for our trip to Disney Land(Flute)
That’s awesome!
Playing this song with my band (alto sax)
same
it’s so much fun!
My band director gave us the music for this and I’m playing the bassoon music on marimba.
@SunnySide84 that’s awesome! we often have mallet players do oboe or bassoon parts in our band too, although we finally got an oboe this year which is exciting
@ fun! We have two oboes who play alto sax in marching season and are doing oboe for concert band.
the clarinets at 3:27 D:
we had two who knew what they were doing and the rest were just… hanging on
@@elizabethwatkins7567Average clarinet experience during a concert.. (but usually only about 5 are doing it right)
Played this with my Freshman band 😭
It was really easy 😭
What part did you play?
@ T sax 💃
I really need the sheets
Is the senior 1st chair or do they just get to solo because of seniority?
usually if a senior wants a solo they can have it, and I was already playing an entire solo song. technically I am first chair but we don’t have official chair placements at my school
@@elizabethwatkins7567 Girl you shoulda gotten that solo😔😔😔 Save for the *one* or two parts (which was pretty difficult) you played the song SOO good. You better get the next solo whenever one shows up in the future
I already have at least one for this year’s winter concert!
Are you from USA? Btw i think that it would be enough to tune the instruments before playing and ask the conductor if they are in tune because he should be the one to tell you that, it would probably help with the rhythm if you looked a little more at the conductor instead of at the notes, or if each student practiced their part at home with a metronome :). As for the more difficult moments that you are not sure about, practice them at home and try not to practice those specific 5 notes, but take for example 3 bars before and start playing from there and practice in that way. Apart from that, you all played nicely :) Also in measure 64 why do the saxophones play the horn parts? I assume it's because there aren't enough horns (typical) but at first it seems to me that there are those two horn players and there's no need for the saxophones to play their parts. Another thing is that i think that you should play the flute solo in measure 30 since you play in my opinion the best of all flutes, I know that you may probably not be very keen to play it as a soloist because you are afraid that you will fail, but remember that each of us must try to do things that are not easy, otherwise we would not develop. Greetings from Poland as a fellow horn player :D
Thank you for all of the amazing advice! I am from the US. The reason the saxophones play the horn cues is because we only had one horn player last year, and he was also our best trombone player, so he was able to play some of the parts that were important for horn, but if they were happening at the same time as an important trombone part, he would opt to play trombone. For this concert, I am pretty sure he was actually playing french horn, but usually he would just read a french horn part, transpose it in his head, and play it on trombone. He’s very talented!
This piece doesn’t look easy at all.
it wasn’t too bad, but definitely a challenge for our band!
It is easier then it looks. I've played it with my band
Yea same
Hey girlie just wanted to let you know for the future, no hate but you are trilling the C wrong. It should be the other small key not the one that you were using. (:
thank you so much!
@@elizabethwatkins7567 You were actually using the correct trill key! The first trill key is used for a C on the stave, but you use the second trill key for a high C.
I'm pretty sure there are two ways to trill C guys
@DancingGirlz4evs yeah except one is more in tune than the other
My senior band played this way better. I'm in pain.
This is a high school 9-12 band!
@elizabethwatkins7567 oh sorry. My bad. Still, the senior who did the solo should have practiced more.
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