I remember playing this last year for county honor's band. all I could think of was afterwards, " there needs to be a shirt with ' I survived playing clarinet on metroplex'" good memories.
I was first chair alto sax, so I had the two solos in the opening and jazz section, plus the hot mess runs in the last part...my chops and fingers were done...and it was only the third song out of six in our concert lineup ;(((
When I saw the inside pages for the flute part, I could only glare at my director and kept saying that he hated us. A bunch of sevenths and sixths and just....ugh! I find them hard to play. But, overall, this song is very pretty and it sounds like something that could be in a movie
I played this in HS, and every single time we got to 3:42, I ALWAYS thought it sounded like "The Knight Bus" from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Randy Brown I’m a sophomore in high school playing tenor sax. Boy, I’ve got my work cut out for me but I’m sure the song will make me a much better musician.
I absoltely love this piece! It's true that since it is the first movement in our marching show, it wont be the original, but it does capture the basics of it. We do still have those awesome runs though! CLARINETS RULE!
I remember back when I was only a toddler I was accepted into the Tokyo kosei wind orchestra to sightread this piece after their first chair clarinet dropped out...of course I aced every note and had never even held a clarinet before but after that I played it with my 3rd grade band again and got straight 1’s with my double A rating at contest.
in first grade my schools wind symphony went to states competing in double A. after or performance of Armenian Dances, incantation and dance, and Slava! we got the the sight reading room and they passed out this. I nailed the ending! it was so fun and easy on my piccolo but so much fun!! i love this song and such a hard sight read. we played it much faster though :/
we were in nyc for the band of pride tribute for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 then we played in the veteran's day parade, since metroplex was our marching show we played it in warm up, can i say EPIC!!! : D
I remember watching our Wind Ensemble perform this my freshman year of high school. They premiered it at Carnagie Hall in New York. We performed this piece for marching band my sophmore year.
my band played sheldons other song Iberian Escapades an the songs are so similar nice broad beginning, slow and shooting middle and big finish . We got a 1 at contest
Was supposed to play this back in 9th grade but COVID happened but I still play the music when I come across it the solo is so much fun to play to this day
My band is doing this at IMEA..Can't wait the bluesy section sounds so amazing, our bass clarinets are awesome at it, and our saxophone soloist is so amazingly good at it
First horn for this freshman year of high school. A crazy way to indoctrinate a new horn, haha. It's one of my absolute favorite piece's I have ever played. Put it up there with Into the Raging River, American Overture for Band, and American Elegy.
I can't listen to 2:23-2:40 without laughing to myself. My band director told us, "All right, everyone. At measure -insert measure number here-, the clarinets are like the chords on a piano. And the trumpets.. the trumpets are the fat ladies jumping out of a cake."
@laurenkaye17 My band is currently playing Metroplex, and American Elegy is one of my all-time favorite pieces to play. I played it at an honors band and almost cried :)
Those runs in the last section are quite nasty. They are not nice on the fingers in the slightest. The sound good when played right but thats a tough condition. lol
@fallchild00you did!!!!!! omg i hate you! i did this in honor band. i was chair 1 clairnet. when the runs came along, i was like, "hell yes!" it was so much fun. =) did you have the runs in the marching show?
Lol... Most of our band doesnt think drum majors are necassary, cus we dont even look at them except for the beggining countoff. Plus all they do during practice is tell us we're doing things wrong when they cant even do it. You should rejoin the band, its much more fun than being in the hand waving club!
I remember playing this last year for county honor's band. all I could think of was afterwards, " there needs to be a shirt with ' I survived playing clarinet on metroplex'" good memories.
Omg same here. Just played it for my district assessment for symphonic band.
Playing this for community band and have a month to learn this song.
laddybug3 Were playing this tomorrow night and we've only had a 5 days to learn it alongside many other pieces. Cool piece.
Try flute. Oh boi.
You're lucky. We only had 2 full band rehearsals to play this. It was for Regionals. We had 4 pieces in all. I love the piece, though.
RIP to the woodwind section
As the Piccolo I can confirm this
I was first chair alto sax, so I had the two solos in the opening and jazz section, plus the hot mess runs in the last part...my chops and fingers were done...and it was only the third song out of six in our concert lineup ;(((
Matt Thompson I'm first chair in this piece right now (alto sax)
The solos were easy but the runs are awful.
No english horn? What a shame :(
I love the crappy zoomed in jpegs of nyc
That bluesy section though, so beautiful and so fun to play especially on trumpet!
Yeah I’m not gonna do that anymore lol lol I don’t know if it’s a problem
I'm a flute player and my high school band is playing this for our spring concert RIP ME OHMYGOF
same here man
@@haileysteeves9880 Ik this comment was 3 years ago but same
time repeating its self six years later and my band is doing the same thing 😭
My band played this last year and now anytime we get something difficult we're like, "we survived metroplex so this is a piece of cake"
This piece makes you get better FAST.
When I saw the inside pages for the flute part, I could only glare at my director and kept saying that he hated us. A bunch of sevenths and sixths and just....ugh! I find them hard to play. But, overall, this song is very pretty and it sounds like something that could be in a movie
-Katie- -Zelda- It sounds like it belongs to the Ratatouille movie.
I think it's been used in a movie
there is a movie
I played this in HS, and every single time we got to 3:42, I ALWAYS thought it sounded like "The Knight Bus" from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
The first time I played this was conducted by Mr. Sheldon. Interesting guy. Awesome piece!
sexiest sax solo ever
Wow, I got to play this amazing piece at Rowan University with the man himself. I was the ONLY tenor sax. I can see the music now haha.
Randy Brown I’m a sophomore in high school playing tenor sax. Boy, I’ve got my work cut out for me but I’m sure the song will make me a much better musician.
Hmm, music representing a crazy taxi driver... Asphalt cocktail, anyone?
Oh my god I'm 12 years late but I LOVE asphalt cocktail John Mackey is a crazy genius
That English horn solo tho love that low B 😍
Mark Bernard Im in love with the solo and im so glad i get to play it for this concert cycle :)
Why’s everyone saying ‘rip woodwinds?’ It’s not even that bad-
*_oh Jesus Christ never mind_*
Mhmm
I absoltely love this piece! It's true that since it is the first movement in our marching show, it wont be the original, but it does capture the basics of it.
We do still have those awesome runs though!
CLARINETS RULE!
I hate and love this song. It's frickin' hard as hell, but it helped me get good fast.
same. i did this freshman year, and this song toughened me up (and i did high-hat)
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この曲大好きです💕✨
I remember back when I was only a toddler I was accepted into the Tokyo kosei wind orchestra to sightread this piece after their first chair clarinet dropped out...of course I aced every note and had never even held a clarinet before but after that I played it with my 3rd grade band again and got straight 1’s with my double A rating at contest.
And everyone clapped 🙄
My schools playing this. I loved the part where its chaotic and few measures before that. That's my only favorite part from this piece.
Skull Shadow Master cyber shade same
I played contrabass clarinet in this song in high school symphonic band probably one of the best musical pieces I’ve ever played so beautiful!!!
Played an faster arrangement of this when I marched in DCA in 2011. It was fun!
BobbyC1986 me too ;)
What corps?
clarinet person, but I have to say that my favorite part is when those trumpets are blasting!! I'm also in jazz band so that's the reason why.
in first grade my schools wind symphony went to states competing in double A. after or performance of Armenian Dances, incantation and dance, and Slava! we got the the sight reading room and they passed out this. I nailed the ending! it was so fun and easy on my piccolo but so much fun!! i love this song and such a hard sight read. we played it much faster though :/
Whose playing this version? It's really pretty.
The flute part fro this is hard....I love this song
Heck yeah bass clarinet! I love our part ;3
Hell ya
Percussion all the way! \m/
YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
WOOOOOOO
We played this song last spring. This is a perfect song to portray New York City.
I got the trumpet solo in the bluesy section in 8th grade, it was pretty epic.
such a great piece. played a little while back on tuba at all district band. awesome and fun piece.
I think this is the first piece I've ever played that I LOVE to listen to but HATE to play. The trumpet parts are so boring :(
You wouldn't want to be a woodwind for this
Everything except for woodwind and tuba are boring, maybe trombone as well.
do you wanna switch parts? LMFAO
clarinet player here.
we were in nyc for the band of pride tribute for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 then we played in the veteran's day parade, since metroplex was our marching show we played it in warm up, can i say EPIC!!! : D
I remember watching our Wind Ensemble perform this my freshman year of high school. They premiered it at Carnagie Hall in New York. We performed this piece for marching band my sophmore year.
I loved how easy this piece was
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I am going to be playing this for my high school band competition,and of all of the songs we are going to be playing this is my favourite.
my band played sheldons other song Iberian Escapades an the songs are so similar nice broad beginning, slow and shooting middle and big finish . We got a 1 at contest
played this at carnegie hall (clarinet player)
Will be playing this for our Spring Concert with the composer as a Guest Conductor along with more of his pieces! Lookin forward to it!!
Was supposed to play this back in 9th grade but COVID happened but I still play the music when I come across it the solo is so much fun to play to this day
My 8th grade band played this for our assessment and this one guy passed out playing it lmao
Tristan Curtis 8 grade? Dear lord.
My band is doing this at IMEA..Can't wait the bluesy section sounds so amazing, our bass clarinets are awesome at it, and our saxophone soloist is so amazingly good at it
For those complaining, this is a level 4.5
I love this piece.
You had one spelling error. It's spelled s-a-x-o-p-h-o-n-e not c-l-a-r-i-n-e-t
Lmao rip
First horn for this freshman year of high school. A crazy way to indoctrinate a new horn, haha. It's one of my absolute favorite piece's I have ever played. Put it up there with Into the Raging River, American Overture for Band, and American Elegy.
playing this right now, going to do a concert in new york with it
Gotta love that English horn solo at 1:26
i played high-hat :D
update: the high hat broke during the performance!
update: I still love this piece though lol
omg we did this at all county honors band,,,, it was SOOOO much fun!!!!
I can't listen to 2:23-2:40 without laughing to myself.
My band director told us, "All right, everyone. At measure -insert measure number here-, the clarinets are like the chords on a piano. And the trumpets.. the trumpets are the fat ladies jumping out of a cake."
Listening to this at double speed is absolutely hilarious.
+MrTorterra111 The slight stuttering makes this sing (especially the jazz section) sound like an old disney movie
+MrTorterra111 OMG posted that ^^^ when i was on the jazz section, it got to the next section and I started dying of laughter XD
I play alto for this..and I love the blues part
alto clarinet?
played it 4 years ago freshman year, i had the solo of course. One of my all time favorites :)
I played this senior year of high school back in 2008
Just read this. The runs are run for a flute but breath support will make or break you.
i have to play the english horn solo, i cant even come close to the recording -.-
Playing this peice Saturday. Stoked. :)
A band I that was in played this at a concert. It is so hard. -.-
Everytime i play this (flute) i start bleeding internally....
I'm playing this in our Wind Ensemble. Fun little piece! :P
@NorthPride2014 I played this with my band in high school, the last fast part was difficult but very fun to play!
kid y'all not we played this in middle school. my middle school was crazy.
I’m actually a professional trombone player and when we sight read this everyone was like how the hell do HS’ers play this…
we did this for our show this year too
I'm a little intimidated to play first clarinet on this piece o_o
when ur only second yr on ur instrument...the seond page of this is rly intimidating -.-
awesome! mine played it last year at IMEA!
epic
I'm pretty sure flute doesn't start with "s".
my condolences to the woodwinds
I had that vibe part at first but I sucked at reading the bluesy part so I switched with my friend on timpani (who’s amazing on mallets).
AYYY I PLAY THE VIBES FOR THIS
@laurenkaye17 My band is currently playing Metroplex, and American Elegy is one of my all-time favorite pieces to play. I played it at an honors band and almost cried :)
I see McDonalds.
Dude that awesome ! :D
Anyone here from Anderson’s band from BHMS?
My HS band is playing this year and i have the trumpet solo
Love this song so much, love its style love its imagery, but wowie is it gonna be a bitch to play
Those runs in the last section are quite nasty. They are not nice on the fingers in the slightest. The sound good when played right but thats a tough condition. lol
AMAZING!!!!
Why yes it is! :) I'm guessing your in the symphonic band?
dude... bassoons
If you call a high G above the G above the staff "awesome run." Then I don't want to see your version of hell
@oktoberpanik got a concert tonight as first clarinet.. LOL
Imagery is a little confusing, considering the song's named after Metroplex, Michigan I'm pretty sure
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go tubas!!!
Did this song for marching contest!
Dat string bass
so where in this video do we see a city turn into a robot?
Pride of baker played this this just search pride of baker band mobile,Al
I played this in the womb
1:39
@fallchild00you did!!!!!! omg i hate you! i did this in honor band. i was chair 1 clairnet. when the runs came along, i was like, "hell yes!" it was so much fun. =) did you have the runs in the marching show?
Sick
I have the solo for Trumpet in this
@cj614 I'm Harry, I was the first second part Clarinet
we played this for an all county did not go too well
Tell me bout it, pretty pumped
it stopped before the end...
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I am still to this day, not happy that clarinets are used in marching bands. Luckily there was drum corps to remedy this.
Lol... Most of our band doesnt think drum majors are necassary, cus we dont even look at them except for the beggining countoff. Plus all they do during practice is tell us we're doing things wrong when they cant even do it. You should rejoin the band, its much more fun than being in the hand waving club!