Get it French Horn!!!! We just got this piece in concert band and I get to perform the horn solo in Defying Gravity for my senior concert! I'm so excited!
+Joy I go to school in the UK. I am in year 11 here. I will start ny IB this September... The concert went well! 😊 There was no major errors and I personally had a lot of fun!
That's great! Glad to hear it. Unfortunately for my band, my director decided that we wouldn't be ready to perform it for our concert. We no longer are playing it :(
This director managed a solid and well balanced tempo throughout the piece. The brass sections in this concert band are very good. The director handled the dynamics of the brass section very well. The attacks and rhythms are clean, by comparison with many of the other Wicked recordings on RUclips. Those who are complaining about the loud brass should remember that this is a brass piece supplemented with a few token flute and clarinet parts. If you were to remove the clarinets and flutes you'd still have a great piece of music.
Many people may trash this performance, but honestly, its pretty great. Now, coming from a general perspective, yes; the lead trumpet and the low brass have a very spready and "brassy" tone, which is good for some parts of the piece, and not so much at other parts. That aside, the only way to really critique it is from a very very, VERY detailed standpoint. The attacks are not always, but mostly together. Releases are fairly together. Tone is consistant, but not as it needs to be. Rythm and dynamics are almost always accurate. All in all, this was a fantastic performance. Every performance out there can have its individual problems. There really werent as many as people see it to be.
This song is so hard to play! Especially on the clarinet (and flute)! Like, how do you even trill a b flat?! It's the hardest song I've ever played! This band does AMAZING with it!!!
I love this! The bass in their band is so good! We haven't had a good bass section in band since my freshman year...my boyfriend was the only tuba you could remotely hear. >.>
ahaha i'm playing this for band at my school (i play the flute) and although it's a little challenging, i love playing it, especially dancing through life!
5:48 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! OBOE EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but atleast when he or she played it, they played it like as if it was suposed to be there!!!!! amazing job! i miss playing this =(
Actually the brass isn't bad. The original cast recording has a fairly strident brass sound in many places. I think it's what Schwartz and his MD wanted.
I'm playing the piccolo part for my school, plus flute but mostly piccolo...it sounds slightly out of tune, and that counter melody at 2:23 should be much louder...I could barely hear it..
pretty good performance but... holy crap trumpets(and occasionally trombones)!! Take it down a few notches man. You're so loud that at points is just distracting and not so much enjoyable anymore. Play musically and, believe it or not, your part is not always the most important!
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Selections from Wicked: Trumpet edition
That trumpet tho! Like calm down!
Get it French Horn!!!! We just got this piece in concert band and I get to perform the horn solo in Defying Gravity for my senior concert! I'm so excited!
I also played Wicked in my school concert 3 weeks ago, also french horn. I got to play the solo, although I wasn't actually 1st horn 😋
+Julius Sessler That's so cool to hear!! How did it go? I'm assuming it was for high school? But I could be wrong. Year are you?
+Joy I go to school in the UK. I am in year 11 here. I will start ny IB this September... The concert went well! 😊 There was no major errors and I personally had a lot of fun!
That's great! Glad to hear it. Unfortunately for my band, my director decided that we wouldn't be ready to perform it for our concert. We no longer are playing it :(
I did the solo last year lmao
This director managed a solid and well balanced tempo throughout the piece. The brass sections in this concert band are very good. The director handled the dynamics of the brass section very well. The attacks and rhythms are clean, by comparison with many of the other Wicked recordings on RUclips. Those who are complaining about the loud brass should remember that this is a brass piece supplemented with a few token flute and clarinet parts. If you were to remove the clarinets and flutes you'd still have a great piece of music.
I've seen the play three times and I still love trumpet solo and no one mourns the wicked
I love playing this, everytime in band. The clarinet part is phenominal :)
We're playing this for our spring concert at my high school :) I love Wicked so it's a great way to end my senior year
Amazing(: especially the French horn solo in defying gravity. Beautiful.
Many people may trash this performance, but honestly, its pretty great. Now, coming from a general perspective, yes; the lead trumpet and the low brass have a very spready and "brassy" tone, which is good for some parts of the piece, and not so much at other parts.
That aside, the only way to really critique it is from a very very, VERY detailed standpoint. The attacks are not always, but mostly together. Releases are fairly together. Tone is consistant, but not as it needs to be. Rythm and dynamics are almost always accurate.
All in all, this was a fantastic performance. Every performance out there can have its individual problems. There really werent as many as people see it to be.
we just got this piece for our concert. i am a horn. so excited
+night-dragon omg i'm so jealous! I'm also a horn and i want my band to play this so bad! have fun :)
This song is so hard to play! Especially on the clarinet (and flute)! Like, how do you even trill a b flat?! It's the hardest song I've ever played! This band does AMAZING with it!!!
With your thumb lol
I love this! The bass in their band is so good! We haven't had a good bass section in band since my freshman year...my boyfriend was the only tuba you could remotely hear. >.>
ahaha i'm playing this for band at my school (i play the flute) and although it's a little challenging, i love playing it, especially dancing through life!
I sooooo wish flutes got to play the main defying gravity theme D: I am officially devastated! ahaha
Mr. Trumpet, calm yourself. we'd like to hear the other parts too
This was really good!!
5:48 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! OBOE EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but atleast when he or she played it, they played it like as if it was suposed to be there!!!!! amazing job! i miss playing this =(
No One Mourns The Wicked, Dancing Through Life, No Good Deed, For Good, and Defying Gravity. In that order :)
Ooh, goosebumps.
playin this in my middle school band. GO TRUMPETS!
Umm... My MIDDLE SCHOOL band is playing this, and we're doing great so far... what does that say? Idk yet...
What are all of the movements of wicked? only remember dancing through life, and defying gravity
Actually the brass isn't bad. The original cast recording has a fairly strident brass sound in many places. I think it's what Schwartz and his MD wanted.
Come on trumpets.... Where's that high Eb at the end?
no one mourns the wicked i think? and uhh i forget the other ones too x) haha we got the music last week, and i like dancing through life.
holy trumpet
That one trumpet belting it out XD
nice..
is this the arrangement from jay babcook?
Trumpets are a little heavy in some parts. But overall great performance!!
It'd sound better with about three less dynamics on the first trumpet part.
Fucking awesome
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I'm playing the piccolo part for my school, plus flute but mostly piccolo...it sounds slightly out of tune, and that counter melody at 2:23 should be much louder...I could barely hear it..
Are these people British?
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pretty good performance but... holy crap trumpets(and occasionally trombones)!! Take it down a few notches man. You're so loud that at points is just distracting and not so much enjoyable anymore.
Play musically and, believe it or not, your part is not always the most important!
Learn to blend trumpet 1 very amateur to play as loud as you are all the time
A bit forced. Relax brass and don't put on a marching band performance.
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