@@emil25558 some pieces are supposed to be slow but for fast pieces like this, speed is one way to measure skill. All-State is a yearly process where every public school student in the state (I live in Texas) auditions for their district region band, then the best of those can audition for the larger Area band, and the best of those audition for the all state band, which is prestigious and can sometimes guarantee free college for music students.
It gets scarier. I knew a Saxophone in 7th grade in the same grade, and his Solo and Ensemble was “Improvisation Et Caprice” if you don’t know what that is, search a video, it’s terrifying.
@@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713 yah and not even close to that lick. Last I checked I didn't here high E, D, C, B, A, G#, A, C, A, Fnatural, D, B, Bb, A, G#, G, A, #G, A E, G, D, E, F, G, A, C, B, D C, B, C, A.
Football. Marching band is such an integral part of football games that it draws people into band and gives band decent funding. Also, while a lot of schools in Texas have amazing technique, their musicality is horrible. Everything in Texas ranges from f to ff even if the piece says piano. I wish more directors emphasized dynamics and tuning.
@@TroubleLightCoasters Umm, what the fuck lol? I don't know what Texas bands you've heard but you can't reach the all state level without having phenomenal dynamic control and phrasing. That goes for both marching, jazz, and region. Watch the 2021 BOA Waco marching competition. Every finalists has an astonishing range dynamic wise and plays with more musicality then most region recordings. My band got to perform there and hearing them all first hand was an amazing experience
That's terrific! Just a detail: that metronome clicking at 1 and 3 is not jazzy at all, and the whole piece sounds a bit strange for that reason. I think you should definitely try "clicking" at 2 and 4. But great job anyway!
argued. I'm a Texas band student and are band got a division one today and we are now advancing to area. Also the other bands their today also got a division one so I can confirm that we do love playing instruments and will do anything to perfect it.
Rhythmically, this was nice. Kudos for pushing yourselves on tempo and etudes. Curious if you have any of the same etude with dynamics, Jazz phrasings, style/nuance, etc?
If you hear them counting it off, they’re treating the metronome pulse as the half note. They’re playing double time. It would be stupid to put the met on 300 because then it’s way harder to hear where the downbeat is
@@isaacdes962 think of it in 2/2 (or cut time) and it’s clicking on every beat (in this case half notes rather than quarters). In my experience, when the tempo gets ridiculously fast in jazz it’s more common for the met to be on 1&3 than 2&4.
@@andrewclark2878 I can understand it haha, it just displeases me, I've minimal experience in the super fast stuff, in all honesty I find it a little jarring past 240 unless it's a song like cherokee which you can generally play at 300 like it's 150 and just add the odd fast phrase. Thanks for the useful tip!!
This is well over suggested performance tempo, just for fun. The subtleties of swing aren’t possible at that speed, and besides, it is an etude, not a piece. It’s purpose is to showcase technical proficiency.
Feels alright to me. They're obviously playing it as a technical exercise though so it's not really intended to slap on your $2k hifi headphones dac and amp and listen to it.
This is well over suggested performance tempo, just for fun. The subtleties of swing aren’t possible at that speed, and besides, it is an etude, not a piece. It’s purpose is to showcase technical proficiency.
Subdivided metronome. 1 beat is a half note. Playing with a metronome of 300 beats per minute must be pretty annoying, and easy to lose track of the down beat.
No, It’s the same thing, just twice as fast. The quarter note is at 300…it’s just confusing because the metronome is only ticking at the half note. Blame the metronome (as usual).
