I remember listening to my high school band play this and we only had one kid doing all the percussion, so he was running all around in the back trying to get to everything. He did a fantastic job and really made me remember this piece
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ACTUALLY ME RIGHT NOW, I'M THE ONLY PERCUSSIONIST LEFT IN OUR BAND AND I HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE INSTRUMENT TO ANOTHER EVERYTIME WE PRACTICE THIS, WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS IN 2 MONTHS AND I HOPE I DON'T MESS UP 😭😭 ( Sorry for the all caps- )
@@rmjstrikecat Sadly not well, some high schoolers (i'm in middle school) were also playing with us and we were sometimes switching between schools to go up on stage for different songs, so sometimes we played together or separate, and this song plus another piece, (Santa at the Symphony) were our second to last songs to play, and i don't know why one of the high schoolers messed up and told me and my friend that we weren't supposed to go up on stage yet even tho we were and so we listened to them not suspecting anything wrong until our teacher mentioned The Great Locomotive Chase and me and my friend were so confused and we asked another high schooler that was down stage if we could join fast and she said it was too late, so we missed it and it was so sad because we spent months and months practicing and because personally The Great Locomotive Chase was the main reason i was even excited about this event because it's so suspenseful and cool. I asked my band teacher if we would play it in another event and he said yes, so i hope it's true. 😕
As a flutist, this piece is extremely hard, and everyone who is complaining about *how out of tune they are* or *how slow they are* are the people who do not understand that this is a 3 PAGE piece and these students worked *SO HARD* to make this happen. They are 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS. I am in a 7th and 8th grade band, and never has anyone said that one of our pieces is going *no where* . Please have some respect for the people who are actually going somewhere in life.
Super late but I remember playing this in freshman year and how CHALLENGING the breath support was on this piece. I absolutely loved it and our inclusion in the piece, but I felt like I was going to pass out after the song was over.
It’s a part of the piece sorry for the late reply but the train whistle is written in the sheet music. I remember every cue it comes in because I as well played this when I was in middle school, snare drum.
things that I noticed? 1:14 that trumpet (or trumpets) rip 1:40 death at its finest 2:05 holy trombones 2:45 I think those are French horns but overshot? note 3:03 trumpets again loud af I guess 3:16 hell yeah 3:39 WASNT EXPECTING THAT OUCH 4:02 I gues- *CRASH* it was *CRASH* I’ll have to wait then... 4:24 overall good performance, not gonna lie
the trumpets never crescendo and decresendo back down at 3:04 and the other times they're supposed to and it annoys me. middle school trumpets are almost always louder than what they're meant to play
@@bonku9863 yeah ngl the chimes/bells/whatever percussion it was overtop overpowered the everloving heck out of the poor F. Horn player, they got to have the solo of that part and got way overpowered
Im a flute and i have been working on this piece on my band and the trill can get really annoying and it hurts my ears😂 also i run out of breathe cause i dont normally play as loud as im supposed to
So upset that I wasn’t attending Bristow yet to perform this! Sadly this was my only year here, gonna miss you all next year! Hope to be able to go to Area Festival! Love you guys!
the clarinets has a rocky start then the upper brasses and the low brasses has a semi solid sound there is to many percussionist my band only have 7 percusionist, 3 trombones, 2 euph, 2 tuba, 3 trumpets, 3 flutist, 5 saxphones and 4-5 clarinets but we sound better. And the tempo they played is way to slow. (like if u agree with me)
How can you have that big of a band and not have something like a theater?!? Also jesus christ they literally forgot about dynamics....every section is fighting over who's going to be the loudest....AND JESUS CHRIST THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS TOO MUCH
woahh, the band is huge ! btw just some notes for people who are viewing this comment (i know that i can’t correct this band, but if you’re currently learning this piece or you have once played this piece, we can use this as a reference to spot the mistakes and learn from it :> !) - 0:10 the band started rlly slow - 0:16 the clarinets were out of tune (wait, the clarinet section isn’t playing it solo, but the flute sounds like as if it’s a solo player) - 0:43 the lower brass isn’t following the chimes and therefore going out of beat - 1:18 trumpets, didn’t decrescendo properly at the end - 1:40 the whistle ... scared me slightly (the whistle was also supposed to come in at 1:47 but came in 1 bar late instead) - 2:05 trombones did a great job, maybe they could have taken a quicker breath or take a bigger breath before playing that phrase bcos it’s slightly awkward to hear the gap in between - 2:17 omg my dear percussion, the triangle can glock slowed down ... geezzz, that’s why conductors even exist. just look at the conductor (even though i felt like the conductor had sped up slightly as well tbh but ... yea) - again at 2:17 i feel like the articulation from the woodwinds can be better bcos each articulation sounds different (the one that’s playing “g, g, g, f”) - 2:50 the glock was playing in tempo but, please watch the conductor bcos there’s a ritardando at that section - 2:56 i think the brasses came in a bit harshly - 2:59 the woodwinds can also have a slightly more gentle entrance - 3:09 trumpets, the same problem, copy the way the brasses do it pls, bcos they set a good example of how it should sound like ! - 3:23 (okay this might just be might own preference but ...) the trumpet is a bit overpowering - 3:40 again, the train whistle ... (i assumed the whistle came in a early at 3:45 as well) - 4:13 your “fp (?)” can be slightly softer so that you can do a huger crescendo if there are anything you want to mention, just reply to this message, i might take a look at it ;)
I don’t want to judge at ALL but the band is sometimes fighting for who can be the loudest and needs to work on dinamics and was sometimes out of tune or off tempo but over all they were pretty good. My band is playing this song this year but we are much smaller than this huge ass band that I personally think can maybe be the promblem considering how many they are in each section and not being able to control their sound.:))
i think i remember Robert actually set up a train and he went in a hotel to take his break,and then some people took over the train and drove away. Robert started to chase the train, and yeah that's why it's called that.
The woodwind and rest of the over powering band ratio was a little insane. 1st clarinet is a key part in this song and I could barely hear them throughout the piece!!
keep in mind.. Im in this band and theres around 250-300 of us and it may not seem like it but we are split into three periods and we had ONE day to get together and practice together.. soooo yeah pls dont hate unless u know its just a small group and we dont have a lot of time together like an hour and a half the most.
I hope we sound better,we have 5 horns for our top band including me and if I get chosen for the solo(which I probably won't) I hope I don't mess up because I really don't like playing on the spot
No offense but this wasn't that good. Low brass was really out of tune and played the wrong notes and key signature, you can hear a lot of squeaks and things and percussion is off sometimes. Btw wtf there are like 30 flutes....
Ryan Smith also, would you winning first place not have happened after this video? We’re talking about your intonation and quality in this video, not your performance for awards. You could have had more time to practice after this. Besides, just because you win first place doesn’t mean you’re good.
Jesus Christ, sorry but they sound terrible, that low brass in the beginning is terrible, the snare isn't loud enough, the tempo is way too slow for the original, the train whistle is way too loud, that glissando on the trombone is terrible, proves that a bigger band isn't always better.
I understand what you mean and I’m in this band and we only came together once before the actual performance to rehearse because were such a big band and we are only have one conductor in there so many of us
Ryan Smith wow. Your conductor or whoever is in charge of selecting the songs needed to choose a simpler one if they knew all of you wouldnt have time to rehearse a difficult song
Ryan Smith that doesnt matter everyone should be able to play their parts correctly and then thats when the full band will sound good but if only half the band knows their stuff then maybe you shouldnt put the whole band together but hey thats my opinion
The band is too large, they rush the song in some parts, the trumpets play too loud in some parts, and the train whistle shouldn’t cover the sound like that it should just blend in.
its always the bald middle-aged middle school band directors that somehow get a middle school band to play insaine pieces like this at a concert! Had a band director that looked the exact same in beginning band and we played a hard piece for out time playing.
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They got more flutes and clarinets than my entire band
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂 same
same lmao
It's not the high school band .
so true
Hell they have more flutes than my band
That is a frickin huge band!
Jcuber14 we are the largest middle school band in california
Jcuber14 wow... but that just means the more time you band teacher gets to help you all individually, which makes you better sounding in a way! :3
hi
Jcuber14 SOMEONE WAS BUSY
Jcuber14 Someone took time to make all these kids. There all daddy's lil squirt! (this is a home school).
I remember listening to my high school band play this and we only had one kid doing all the percussion, so he was running all around in the back trying to get to everything. He did a fantastic job and really made me remember this piece
We have like 10... Je(sus) Christ
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ACTUALLY ME RIGHT NOW, I'M THE ONLY PERCUSSIONIST LEFT IN OUR BAND AND I HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE INSTRUMENT TO ANOTHER EVERYTIME WE PRACTICE THIS, WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS IN 2 MONTHS AND I HOPE I DON'T MESS UP 😭😭
( Sorry for the all caps- )
@@BrownieBoy.how’d it go
@@rmjstrikecat Sadly not well, some high schoolers (i'm in middle school) were also playing with us and we were sometimes switching between schools to go up on stage for different songs, so sometimes we played together or separate, and this song plus another piece, (Santa at the Symphony) were our second to last songs to play, and i don't know why one of the high schoolers messed up and told me and my friend that we weren't supposed to go up on stage yet even tho we were and so we listened to them not suspecting anything wrong until our teacher mentioned The Great Locomotive Chase and me and my friend were so confused and we asked another high schooler that was down stage if we could join fast and she said it was too late, so we missed it and it was so sad because we spent months and months practicing and because personally The Great Locomotive Chase was the main reason i was even excited about this event because it's so suspenseful and cool. I asked my band teacher if we would play it in another event and he said yes, so i hope it's true. 😕
1:40
*Turns volume up a lot to hear flutes*
*train whistle*
my ears are fine
Searchis i
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Holy cow did the band get huge.
I remember when I was an Alto Sax in this band. Too bad I couldn't see this live.
TheNerdyGeek I play flute in it, and yah, it got biiiiiiig XD
Spencer lies
The train whistle not only made me deaf the the sound waves from my phone ruptured my hands
Nate M
How could general vibrations rupture your hand?
@@idioticlemon2861 i know i am 6 years late but he was obviously joking
As a flutist, this piece is extremely hard, and everyone who is complaining about *how out of tune they are* or *how slow they are* are the people who do not understand that this is a 3 PAGE piece and these students worked *SO HARD* to make this happen. They are 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS. I am in a 7th and 8th grade band, and never has anyone said that one of our pieces is going *no where* . Please have some respect for the people who are actually going somewhere in life.
Jocelyn Franks I agree and I’ve heard from 6th graders saying that there playing this piece. My high school band was barely able to play this
3 FUCKING PAGES?!!!
Super late but I remember playing this in freshman year and how CHALLENGING the breath support was on this piece. I absolutely loved it and our inclusion in the piece, but I felt like I was going to pass out after the song was over.
this piece is so easy and ima flute too
@@ishita6076 fr
Yea the bands huge but
HOW TF DID THE SCHOOL AFORD ALL THE FREAKING INSTRUMENTS
Bestoutof64 Mexican food
Some people rent their own
at our school herters supplies them and we purchase them at discount through the school
Some people buy their own instruments.
our school makes us rent our own instruments unless you play oboe bari bassoon or bass clarinet
i still love the low brass part at 3:16!!! it's probably my favorite part of the song ^^
Lava The cake if I lived there I'd be a trombone
actual best part yesss
Those whistles were a little extra
It’s a part of the piece sorry for the late reply but the train whistle is written in the sheet music. I remember every cue it comes in because I as well played this when I was in middle school, snare drum.
@@SyncytheShredESP they don't need to cut so much
did you guys go "SHHHHHHHHHHHH"
we got the piece today
Naomi Miyoshi I got the piece today
I got it last week
Got it know ✌️
imagine having several ppl play on a solo
jesus that train whistle made me jump 1:40
OMFG!!
Hahaha😂😂
things that I noticed?
1:14 that trumpet (or trumpets) rip
1:40 death at its finest
2:05 holy trombones
2:45 I think those are French horns but overshot? note
3:03 trumpets again loud af I guess
3:16 hell yeah
3:39 WASNT EXPECTING THAT OUCH
4:02 I gues- *CRASH* it was *CRASH* I’ll have to wait then...
4:24 overall good performance, not gonna lie
the trumpets never crescendo and decresendo back down at 3:04 and the other times they're supposed to and it annoys me. middle school trumpets are almost always louder than what they're meant to play
2:45 is the French horn solo part
I'm a trombone
@@bonku9863 yeah ngl the chimes/bells/whatever percussion it was overtop overpowered the everloving heck out of the poor F. Horn player, they got to have the solo of that part and got way overpowered
when the trombones stood up I laughed so hard. This isn't a band, it's a mini army
1:49 lady on the bottom left can't get her little button thingy to stay up
The first row is the size of my band and this whole band is like the size of my whole grade😂😂
Im a trumpet but I just have to say, those flutes killed my brain cells. Srry
Im a flute and i have been working on this piece on my band and the trill can get really annoying and it hurts my ears😂 also i run out of breathe cause i dont normally play as loud as im supposed to
The ones at my school sound like flutes but its 101% air
Literally. As a flute player there is no reason to have that many flutes. I am the only flute in my band and it’s good enough.
ok so the band is like 2729x larger than my high school band I stg
Shout out to the snare players. I could’ve never played the part in middle school at that speed
Everyone is talking about how slow the band is but I'm watching this conductors arms go sonic speed XD
Slow? 0:57 also band:
Accelerates to a full on 190bpm
So upset that I wasn’t attending Bristow yet to perform this! Sadly this was my only year here, gonna miss you all next year! Hope to be able to go to Area Festival! Love you guys!
Btw, percussion, fourth period, we’re amazing haha
A girl on the far right corner holding what I assume is a guitar, dabbed on 1:14
How tf did you notice that
holy crap ur right
I saw here lol
wow
Good eye, Tuck.
Seriously tho how tf, I actually spent 10 minutes just looking for that girl. It kinda looks like she sneezed tho
I was one of the clarinets that played the solo and honestly did we know what tuning was?
Oof that hurts
I’m playing this in my band right now, but im just going to say that this conductor is really going at it, props to them!!
*why is there so much percussion*
Shrek and the percussion still isn’t loud enough.
Cause percussion is great mate
Shrek Because percussion is awesome but they were so quiet but then again they where in a gym
Because percussion plays a lot if instruments that are very common
Why not
Loved the trombone solo
-Fellow trombone player
Same fellow tromboner lol
0:57 this is probably my favorite part, it’s so cool how a drum can sound like a literal train
also 2:35
Haha I found the account that I don’t have access to anymore
They got more clarinets then my whole band
the clarinets has a rocky start then the upper brasses and the low brasses has a semi solid sound there is to many percussionist my band only have 7 percusionist, 3 trombones, 2 euph, 2 tuba, 3 trumpets, 3 flutist, 5 saxphones and 4-5 clarinets but we sound better. And the tempo they played is way to slow. (like if u agree with me)
It’s a bit different when you have 30 people vs over a 100
That trumpet solo in the beginning was perfect! Very good for a middle school band, better than mine!
IM GOING TO LEARN THIS IM DETERMINED TOO!!!
it's Just so beautiful and old GRACEFUL
RUZ ANDER Warning you, not for rookies
They were really slow in beginning
I HAD A HEART ATTACK AT 1:40
The flute and clarinet sections are literally the size of my entire band
Jeez! and I thought my band was huge!
My band has 70 people and i absolutely love how loud those trombones and baritones play.
How can you have that big of a band and not have something like a theater?!? Also jesus christ they literally forgot about dynamics....every section is fighting over who's going to be the loudest....AND JESUS CHRIST THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS TOO MUCH
I was a clarinet
WILSON WILDFIRE I was flute
WILSON WILDFIRE I was a flute
I was sax
Same
1st was the best part (im playing it as well)
I'm glad the general and Texas survived but I'm sad we lost the other locos involved
the amount of flutes makes up my whole band
woahh, the band is huge ! btw just some notes for people who are viewing this comment (i know that i can’t correct this band, but if you’re currently learning this piece or you have once played this piece, we can use this as a reference to spot the mistakes and learn from it :> !)
- 0:10 the band started rlly slow
- 0:16 the clarinets were out of tune (wait, the clarinet section isn’t playing it solo, but the flute sounds like as if it’s a solo player)
- 0:43 the lower brass isn’t following the chimes and therefore going out of beat
- 1:18 trumpets, didn’t decrescendo properly at the end
- 1:40 the whistle ... scared me slightly (the whistle was also supposed to come in at 1:47 but came in 1 bar late instead)
- 2:05 trombones did a great job, maybe they could have taken a quicker breath or take a bigger breath before playing that phrase bcos it’s slightly awkward to hear the gap in between
- 2:17 omg my dear percussion, the triangle can glock slowed down ... geezzz, that’s why conductors even exist. just look at the conductor (even though i felt like the conductor had sped up slightly as well tbh but ... yea)
- again at 2:17 i feel like the articulation from the woodwinds can be better bcos each articulation sounds different (the one that’s playing “g, g, g, f”)
- 2:50 the glock was playing in tempo but, please watch the conductor bcos there’s a ritardando at that section
- 2:56 i think the brasses came in a bit harshly
- 2:59 the woodwinds can also have a slightly more gentle entrance
- 3:09 trumpets, the same problem, copy the way the brasses do it pls, bcos they set a good example of how it should sound like !
- 3:23 (okay this might just be might own preference but ...) the trumpet is a bit overpowering
- 3:40 again, the train whistle ... (i assumed the whistle came in a early at 3:45 as well)
- 4:13 your “fp (?)” can be slightly softer so that you can do a huger crescendo
if there are anything you want to mention, just reply to this message, i might take a look at it ;)
TINGGG oh god
I like trains...
Same!!! This song is about Thomas the train and it's friggin lit fam🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🎷🎺🎷🎺🎷🎺💯💯🔥🔥🔥👌🏿👌🏾👌🏽👌🏼👌🏻
god the uniforms look like prisonmates
LOL
mine are bright orange. that’s a prison uniform right there.
HOLY CRAP THIS SONG SOUNDS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
It's really interesting tbh. 1st clarinet is one of the best parts
7th and 8th..Christ..huge band man.
“Category: Sports”
We’re playing this song for our spring concert if we ever go back to school
I don’t want to judge at ALL but the band is sometimes fighting for who can be the loudest and needs to work on dinamics and was sometimes out of tune or off tempo but over all they were pretty good. My band is playing this song this year but we are much smaller than this huge ass band that I personally think can maybe be the promblem considering how many they are in each section and not being able to control their sound.:))
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i think i remember Robert actually set up a train and he went in a hotel to take his break,and then some people took over the train and drove away. Robert started to chase the train, and yeah that's why it's called that.
I wish my band was that big
I was tenor in that band
The part where the train accelerates just hits different.
That trombone glissando(maybe, I don’t remember) but it was fire
I just wanna say before its too late I'm a clarinet I think fourth row fourth chair oki doki
Why is there so many omg 😮
Bruh that trumpet at 1:14 chill
The woodwind and rest of the over powering band ratio was a little insane. 1st clarinet is a key part in this song and I could barely hear them throughout the piece!!
Stop hating on Bristow.
Katherine LastName ty we’re just middle schoolers 🥺
hey guys im back, uhhhh please hate on bristow it SUCKED
the 15 or so trombones coming up all at once 😮my school's band has THREE
this really hurts me to say as I play FRENCH horn but the french horns are so out of tune and they are really bad
keep in mind.. Im in this band and theres around 250-300 of us and it may not seem like it but we are split into three periods and we had ONE day to get together and practice together.. soooo yeah pls dont hate unless u know its just a small group and we dont have a lot of time together like an hour and a half the most.
Yeah I agree this wasn't the best performance
I hope we sound better,we have 5 horns for our top band including me and if I get chosen for the solo(which I probably won't) I hope I don't mess up because I really don't like playing on the spot
No offense but this wasn't that good. Low brass was really out of tune and played the wrong notes and key signature, you can hear a lot of squeaks and things and percussion is off sometimes. Btw wtf there are like 30 flutes....
yet we came home with 4 1st place trophies on this song soooooooooo explain that if were so bad
Ryan Smith I really don’t know because it really doesn’t sound so good.
Ryan Smith also, would you winning first place not have happened after this video? We’re talking about your intonation and quality in this video, not your performance for awards. You could have had more time to practice after this. Besides, just because you win first place doesn’t mean you’re good.
im one of the flute players and we only have 2 flute players which is me and my senior only :”)
Wth is making that train whistle noise at 1:41
we got an actual train whistle to make it realistic
a train whistle
An actual train whistle my dude
They slowed down the beginning 😭
This band is so huge.
OK, can we talk about, HOW BIG THIS BAND IS??
They slowed down at 1:32 out of tune im playing this with my band now and i will record so go subscribe and listen
Someone tell me how many people are in this concert I see about 50 plz let me know we are doing this with like 30 OMG about
pro zombie 369 at that point in time there were like 200-300 of us.
Jesus Christ, sorry but they sound terrible, that low brass in the beginning is terrible, the snare isn't loud enough, the tempo is way too slow for the original, the train whistle is way too loud, that glissando on the trombone is terrible, proves that a bigger band isn't always better.
Riley Tester What's a glissando
I understand what you mean and I’m in this band and we only came together once before the actual performance to rehearse because were such a big band and we are only have one conductor in there so many of us
True
Ryan Smith wow. Your conductor or whoever is in charge of selecting the songs needed to choose a simpler one if they knew all of you wouldnt have time to rehearse a difficult song
Ryan Smith that doesnt matter everyone should be able to play their parts correctly and then thats when the full band will sound good but if only half the band knows their stuff then maybe you shouldnt put the whole band together but hey thats my opinion
That band is like my band, orchestra, choir, and drama combined 💀
There one row has more people than my entire band..
Just why?
Why destroy this piece?
Where's the balancing?
Koay Poh Suan we’re just middle schoolers 🥺
Alyssa Marie That’s what she said
3:15 this is why trombones are the goat
You know what's boutta happen when the trombones put up their horns at 1:59
😈
I love this song!!!!!! IM THE ONE in the back WITH THE REd hair,A
My band did this too
DAMN, that train whistle sound fix, HOW!!!
3:21 i think trumpets were a little too loud
when they started it off one that was the wrong key signiture played by like 2 people and its two slow
What school is this?
Brendan Bristow I think
Can someone please tell me what was making the train whistle sound?
Dang my band got 3 flutes and 10 clarinets 😧
If half of my school were in band:
Really miss being in this band. I was a flute in the fourth row :))
I played in a play set with this song with a Tuba, it was fucking amazing.
the entire band needs to learn what dynamics are. its was like MF - FF the entire time.
It's the recording quality which is what made it earrape
@@valeahvanalverson6351 yes I know, I am an Sound tech. LOL I understand recording quality.
@@joemurgolo4917 did u think I knew that im-
1:40 first of all, how did they get their train whistle to be that loud?
Bro we only got 3 flutes in my band 💀💀💀💀
There is more flutes and clarinets then people in my band
So many flutes we only got 5 flutes in my band😢
The band is too large, they rush the song in some parts, the trumpets play too loud in some parts, and the train whistle shouldn’t cover the sound like that it should just blend in.
Explodinghoust I agree. They likely had someone blow into the train as hard as they can into a mic
Trumpets 🤣🔥❤️
LanaThe Loser Percussion’s where it’s at mate
That’s a big band!
There percussion is huge in my band we have like 7 lol
They should've not added the computer tones for the train
actually, they didn't. that was a real train whistle they used! the percussion section had a generator hooked up to it to power it.
Nah fam that was a real train whistle
How many flutes do you need LOL
More than my entire band combined
THAT TRAIN WHISTLE THO
its always the bald middle-aged middle school band directors that somehow get a middle school band to play insaine pieces like this at a concert! Had a band director that looked the exact same in beginning band and we played a hard piece for out time playing.
how many people are there
im doing this song rn and our band is half of that. maybe less.
What is that noise at 1:40 no other band I've heard has that
Cowbell.
Jesus, this band isn't even the size of my high schools ENTIRE music department even counting color guard.