All credit goes to the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. This is my favorite show this year and I am so excited to transcribe it for all of you! The wait is over! Sheet music made with MuseScore - musescore.com/user/4279506/sc...
I don't get how people do this. I have a music degree and have arranged shows but it is a combination of using scores for source reference, listening to others work and experimenting on a piano. I wish my ears were good enough to transcribe a complete brass book.
How many times have you tried? I thought I couldn't transcribe for shit but I started doing simple melodies and arrangements anyway....I still suck but I really surprised myself with how quickly I was able to put parts together. You might surprise yourself too. :-)
As a brass player I can confirm it can be literal hell sometimes playing 16th notes at a fast tempo I forgot to mention I am only a freshmen in high school. I don’t have experience with double or triple touguing yet. Which is why I find them difficult
watching this in comparison to other corps' shows, i have no idea how people say BD's music is "easy"! BD has one fantastic hornline and those screamers are WAY up there, and several times in the show. i don't think I'll ever get over this show.
I met a Blue Devils trumpet who played Metamorph and is Mikey’s roommate and he said when he saw the music Javier and Mikey were supposed to play he thought they would quit on the spot. I was somehow in an Xbox party with 5 other trumpet players and we had some fun hearing about the behind the scenes of the show
60 thousand views! RU-vid is broken I have *Definitely* watched this video more times than that... I'm sorry Dillon, but you got cheated off of a couple billion views by youtube
Dude I can't even comprehend how you could do this by ear! It took me forever just to do the flight of the bumblebee and the trumpet feature! What are you working on next? You're an inspiration for me to start my channel, and I thank you for that. Keep up the great work man!
Matt's Music that is awesome to hear man! Currently I’m finishing up crown 2012 transcription wise but mainly focusing on arranging my own things lately.
Nice! My band director is letting me write a stand tune of dies irae for my band, so I'm probably gonna upload that tomorrow, and it would mean a lot of if you checked it out! cant wait for crown 2012!
I'm pretty sure 6:40-7:20 is only there as like a little dance break or something, because it's just so effing peppy, and I effing love it. Dude, how you were able to transpose this BY EAR, is astounding. I look up to you man, and you just an inspiration for me to want to pursue my career in music.
I'm serious tho. This show brings me so much joy and it is just so amazing and I've always wanted to learn this piece. And because you did this I was able to and I really appreciate. You are awsome
Wow! This is truly amazing! I one day want to have as amazing hearing as you! I’m just s rookie 7th grader that plays the piccolo but this makes me so exited for my future marching band experiences!!!!
Emma Leblanc as a flute you should be excited! At a high school level the music isn’t going to be near this challenging and depending on where you go to high school the marching band might not be the state champion either. What matters most is the experiences you have with people, people are going to tell you flutes don’t belong in the band but don’t listen they do! All season we have been getting compliments from judges about how great the flute section sounds and we only have 4 people. I’m so excited you want to do marching band keep on with your aspirations and have fun!!!
@ActionResource On average, there are 24 trumpets in a Drum Corp. That varies dependent on those who leaves, or cannot attend the corps. But in most case of scenarios, there is 24. 16 Mellophones granted the trumpet sound to be more heard, hence why there was 40 trumpets.
What instrument has the really long jazzy solo? The one that occupies the first bass clef spot in the score. It's absolutely beautiful but I can't tell if it's a baritone, trombone, or bass trombone.
the 64th note was just to control when the rip starts. In musescore if you put a quarter note ripped into a quarter note it will take a full beat to do the rip. but if you tie a shorter note to it the rip will sound more accurate. and also the 64th note is tied anyway so it doesnt matter
The highest note in this piece was a double A I believe, which is very difficult. I play trumpet and I can only reach a double G on my good days. It takes a lot of time and practice to unlock the upper register for a brass player. And yes, you did in fact see a 64th note, in this case, that 64th note acts kind of as a grace note :)
Dude this is awesome. I could write the snare part for you if you wanted. I’ve translated the beginning with up to about the solos on my down time but it’s pretty easy after that and there’s a lot of parts, especially in the beginning, where you need some drums
This is amazing. Just outstanding man. Keep it up. But i feel like at the trumpet feature part or more specifically at 6:13 i think there is a trombone part that is some what involved. I heared it in one of the tuba cams for this. Ill try to find the vid so I can show you but anyways this is amazing man. Keep up the good work
ben1446 jamin thanks for the help man! I knew about that and I didn’t really feel like putting it in cus I felt like it would ruin the soli a lil but eh. Thanks a ton tho for caring that much, means a lot!!
I've not done anything huge, but transcribing anything can be hard because of player style. Especially if the notes are short anyways. For example say a trumpet soloist subconsciously put a Tenuto on a note, well a transcriber doesn't know that, which means you might think the note was actually written some odd length. When it gets down to 32nd notes and beyond its extremely hard to tell if the music was written some way, or if the player is just playing it some way
How did you make the drop (or glissando down sorry Idk the term) sound at 6:53? I’ve tried countless times with MuseScore and every time the playback doesn’t even play it....thanks!
