+Ted Nuget our percussion guy and assistant band director sat on the floor at goodwill hitting different pots and bowls until they found 4 they liked 😂😂😂
"Found" percussion is one way to put it... I ran into my Director at Target hitting their metal mixing bowls with a drumstick to see which ones matched the sound he wanted. Long story short, he's not allowed at Target anymore
When my band played this, my band director snuck into the railyard of my city and stole three railway ties to use as percussion. He forgot to sand them all the way down, unfortunately. In the middle of Foundry our percussionist cut herself on a sharp edge of the railway tie and blood immediately began to seep all over her white dress out of this gigantic gash on her arm. She never stopped playing though! 😁
John Mackey made this piece for some schools in my area when I was in 8th grade. We were some of the first few people to play this piece. We even got Mackey to fly in and hear us play it and ask him questions. FYI John Mackey is almost insane.
Our high school band was the first to get copies of lightning field when it was released in 2015, never got to meet him, but it was still so cool that he chose us!!!
Rand Williams I played this in 4th grade stupid, everyone can play it, unless you have no good band education. And people who talk about how cool the bari sax part, it sucks, trust me I play alto sax, and the bari was a few seats away from me, his part sucked. Bari is also the easiest saxophone to play, as you don't do much with syncopation/rhythms in most music compared to other instruments. Baritone players in middle/high school usually are bad players, or bad altos that just want to get into bands with little competition against their luck.
Jordan Ohieger I was making a joke, however, if you're so insecure about your musical ability that you are compelled to insult others across the web; be my guest.
So I have the luxury of playing this in my Symphonic Band, and just want to say to anyone who has not seen the Director's Staff for this, one of the first lines for the Percussion is "Find racketing metal, and lay them across each other. Preferably, use train tracks. Must have no definable tone differences. Clank!" Amazing composition work indeed!
EncyclopediaBro13 And the thing snaps in half during the concert and the thing flies out and barely misses a trombone player and then the director's mad at you and your instructor lectures you for all of the next week and your bandmates don't let you forget it ever and you quit band and... **sob**
I'm a flute that's been commandeered to play wind gong for this piece, and I'm just listening to this recording over and over and trying not to get lost. I take back every unkind thought I've ever had about percussion -- coming in on all those strange beats is hard! (I do have an awesome part, though. Pity that I have to play it in front of people.)
I really enjoy the my parts as a bass clarinet, especially this piece. The main reason my teacher chose this piece for my band though is because we have lots of percussion.
@@VGDustoffTV doesn't sound cool enough for a boss fight honestly, I feel like this is more just a steampunk world where in the intense moments is combat and otherwise it's just open world exploration.
Last year, my 8th-grade band was chosen to play this at a Midfest type event (I think it was called Georgia state or something because that's where we are playing) and we had worked our asses off getting this song right. Any effort we put into our other 2 songs we put 10 fold into Foundry. The bass parts were so excited that a song let them go all out and get the melody (I'm a bass clarinet so I especially understand the restraint some songs give us) all of the melody party were almost as excited due to there amazing sounding parts, and of course, our percussion were bouncing off the walls at the fact they got to try to make part of a car, some metal bowls, and other metallic objects sound rhythmic. People actually practiced, especially H, yall know the part. We absolutely blew threw LGPE (a type of judging event for those who don't know) with a superior score. We were so hyped about going, we practiced day in day out until a week before we were going to get to play it on stage in front of hundreds of people. However, as luck would have it, that 1 week before Covid hit and not only school but the event also got canceled. I know this might seem pretty boring to a lot of people but hearing this song brings back the fact that we just nearly missed our chance to play at a huge event. By no means am I commenting this to brag or ask for pity points, I guess you could just say I'm pretty salty about the whole thing and I kinda just want to get this out there as almost a comfort to those who lost something during Covid. We've all lost something important so I guess you're not alone. I'm guessing no one will see this seeing as I'm commenting 9 years after this video came out, however, if you did find this and have made it through this exceedingly long comment, thanks for reading it and I hope the world treats you well.
i was so hyped for my final concert leaving middle school and it never happened later i last access to my bass clarinet as obviously middle and high school arent one body (although special cases yes)
Eziocreeper 1342 Nah we were pretty bad =P I think he underestimated the difficulty of the song so once he tried it on us he gave it to the upper class' band
Got to play the metal piles :) I used large drill bits, torn my hands up pretty bad! And to make it even better, John Mackey himself was there to help our band!
@@captainfiddlesticks1271 Amen to that. The director’s score says something about how if you have less than 12 percussionists, you can steal some from other sections, aside from one. It says “The trombone section must not be thinned”
My band actually played this song while we were over in London, England for the New Years Eve concert at Cadogan Hall for the 2012-2013 New Year's Parade. This was much different from what we usually play in a concert season, making it all the more fun to play! I was the only Bari-Sax player for the band and boy, was it cool listening to myself on the recording! Go Bari-Sax!
Flower pots seems likes a better option than metallic cooking bowls. I played this, and it was quite the adventure to find a technique and stick that would make enough sound to be noticeable. I ended up using marching sticks held on the wrong side and a grip that looked like a thumbs-down in order to whack upwards and hit the rim in a way that created a rimshot-esque sound. Fun in the percussion section!
I remember playing back in 2013 my senior yr of high school at the Dixie Classic in Washington DC. After we finished our set of music all three judges dropped their pencils and gave us a standing ovation! I just remember how amazed they were on how well we performed it at a national level!
This song is so crazy!! I love the way that the scene is set with the great percussion and brass. This song is definately one to sit back and relax to. Sick chords, awesome groove in the middle, and whoa! what a finale! :) Fuck it John Mackey is an amazing composer hah
Our band teacher was about to let us play this a few years ago. But he changed his mind since the older band members got to play this. So unfair; was so fucking excited to play, since I play the trombone. The low brass gives me goosebumps
man this song is epic. i play tuba in highschool and i never have a song (other than marching season) where i can play as loud as i want. We had some trouble for a while counting during the time changes and rests but at our UIL competition we did great and won sweepstakes. i really loved playing this song!
We did this my sophomore year along with a few other pieces for our 2016 marching show! It was AWESOME, but looking back it's depressing to see we couldn't achieve the same awesomeness as the recording. Not enough energy and not enough low sound. But it was great fun!
My kid's all county band played this yesterday...... percussion had trash cans, buckets all kinda stuff.... had to look it up on here. As a former HS drummer i would have loved to play this..... this is just pure genius,,,,,,,,
Played this in band last year. We never completely got it right, but I remember it always being so fun to play. I always come back to this song and remember all the days we spent trying not to get lost.
This was honestly one of my favourite pieces to play. I did this in maybe eighth grade as an alto sax and it was such a good vibe. I think this was one of the songs we learned later, but it was so cool that we wanted to play it for the concert, even if the end was a trainwreck lol
@@justwhy9427u sure you had fun? Because the French horns in my band are being absolute cry babies about this song. But they are also cry babies about every song we play.
First clarinet was just so fun because you literally were not left out of any part. You played almost with every section at least once throughout the song. And I enjoyed skipping back and forth between low and high parts.
+Peyton Taylor Psh. Lucky. The Tuba part is so confusing. We've got dotted quarter rests followed up by an eighth note then dotted quarter note. Plus, my band played it a tad faster than this.
My band directors are crazy asf so they literally told us to blast our instruments at the ff and fff's like one day we were so loud, my science teacher, who is on the other side of the school and on the top floor, came to the band room to see what was happening.
When I was in high school, our concert band performed this at competition one year. I will never forget the feedback we got from one of the judges: “I never understood this piece until today. Thank you for playing it for us.” We got straight 1s!!
I play the french horn, and we have an awesome part in the song. We get to sound strong. Im the only one with second part, so i have to hold the three of us together and I have to be super loud. Good luck to everyone who is playing it! (Holt High School by the way)
I imagine a different version of the CS:GO trailer with this as the background music, and an intense firefight such as the one depicted in the actual trailer in a foundry based map.
This song is currently the best song I’ve played. We’ve played The Last Stagecoach heist which we thought would be the best song we’d play for a while (we played it in 8th grade) and even with no other song coming close to it, this song probably beats it. We (Freshmen Band) are playing this with the Concert Band (JV Band) on our D.C. trip. Just a fun little story for the comment searchers of the world
I played French Horn on this song a few years ago, and it was fabulous! Although my favorite part was the "modular saxophones" doing absolute craziness, as well as the percussion just having a BLAST will all the things they got to make noises with. XD
I've played this song only three times in my life. Once in seventh grade for a concert on clarinet. Once in eighth grade for a band competition on tuba, in which my band won firsr place. And once more in Freshman year as a symphonic band piece. I may have only played it a few times, but I could listen to it a thousand times
I have this stuck in my head so much from band this past year, I subconsciously put some of it in my a capella arrangement of "Fawful is There" that I'm making.
Just enjoyed this piece at a Honor band performance my son(percussion) played in with band members from his highschool... WOW! Epic and stirring. Their director was so impressed!
Contrary to popular belief, never in the history of the world have there been horns. They are a figment of your imagination, and an illusion. But at least you tried to make contact.
This was fun to play. It's excellent battle music. I can totally imagine a movie with space battles with this as the soundtrack during a battle. The ending of the piece suggests it might not be going well for the good guys. :3
Aahh my band played this in high school and just thinking about it gives me goose bumps. Hands down one of the most fun pieces I’ve ever played as a musician!!
