"Symmetrical Brutality" for Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone 

I cut my tongue doing this I’m fine now but just

Ethan Ray same here

i recently moved up to a bari and i would kms if i had to play this

How did that go for ya fam?

I'm going to use this for my senior solo in a couple years.

This looks fun!

^^^

Evan Stanton SAMEEE🙌🏼🙌🏼

True dat

agreed.. will try this anyways haha... just kill me before this thing kills me. :/

gotta add some overtones into it

underrated comment fr fr

🙂

hate to be the one to tell you this, this song is literally near impossible to play

Maybe you should try it I'm in 8th grade and I know 7 instruments and stared saxophone this year and now I'm on bari sax you can do it

@@etss4118 It's a bit late for that, as I'm now first chair bari sax in the top band!

@@rocky216 definitely not lmao. You are trippin

So glad you enjoy!

Thank you so much!

Let's see if you stay alive after a minute of practicing this.

Antoine Perry If you ever want the sheet music, shoot me an e-mail at jzonda415@gmail.com!

Pab Linho I promise I’ll upload one once I’m able to buy a decent mic!

Thank you

same

Tremolo?

I'd be happy to! :)

alto and bari are in the same key (Eb) so technically you could still play this

Derek zzstu Huff just play a normal a then

@Derek zzstu Huff some Altos actually have low A keys

the piece wouldnt sound nearly as good on an alto, i tried it and it just doesnt have the right sound

I would make a key for it but, when writing and playing, at least for me, I read better with keyless music. Often, I can forget what key were in and miss a note. On top of that, it’s true to the music because it’s not necessarily tonal. But I totally see what you’re saying, and if you ever wanted a PDF of it, I’d include a key signature if you wanted. As for breathing, take what you need to play it that makes musical sense. The phrases are long and hard. When I played this for my class, I had to take an extra breath here and there. As long as it sounds good, it doesn’t bother me. And 1:52 is a mistake; the correct notes are E D# and then C# (or Fb Eb C# like the next measure). I need to go through and clean it up still. Thank you for your comment! Stuff like this helps me improve so much, so I really appreciate it.

Joshua Haugen can you supply me with a pdf version of this please? I would love to challenge myself and learn this

Reynaldo Palacios Send me an e-mail at jzonda415@gmail.com and I’ll send one right over!

Joshua Haugen did it

Joshua Haugen hey I saw your about section on your channel and I saw that you majored in performance for bari. That's something I'm interested in and I was wondering if I could ask you some questions

Luke Faulkner Absolutely! You can e-mail me at jzonda415@gmail.com if Musescore isn’t working for you. I’d be happy to though!

Yessir we da best out of all nine saxophones

Julianne Friesen Just a mistake from an earlier version of this piece. I plan on revisiting this work soon and revising it and cleaning it up.

Absolutely! If you need the sheet music, just email me: haugenj2@msu.edu

@@jzonda415 That's awesome thank you! Now that you're here, I have a question. Have you ever thought about drumset playing along too?

I think that would be fascinating to hear, I love it!

That would actually be kinda cool tbh I play both Bass and Berri and it would be kinda cool to hear it as a Bass tbh

Oboe is one instrument I have always wanted to learn just never have..

Blocky_Games It stands for “Niente”. It means to fade to essentially nothing, or barely a whisper.

Oh, ok. Good luck doing that on the low A xD

Blocky_Games True, haha. But, as it’s written, it’s slap tongued, so it’s not too bad. Even on a Low A, I’ve found you can make that very soft.

Ahh, I forgot about about the slap tounging. That should make it a lot easier

that's easy in a computer; this is a sample, not a live barrie.

Kyle Omanson I played this my sophomore year when I wrote it. There’s a bad recording of it somewhere I’m sure.

@@jzonda415 ok

timjbbc When it’s in front of a note, it’s that note two 1/2 steps lower, or one whole tone lower. So, with the A Double Flat, it’d actually be just a G.

@@jzonda415 thnx

Trynidy Milton Trust me, judges wanna hear something new and different as opposed to the same basic piece 30 times. Go for it!

@@jzonda415 thank you for your advice and I really wanna play it this year so I think I probably will go for it I am just debating.

I have been asked variations of this question a few times, and it’s a fair question to answer: 1. Key signatures are largely archaic, and work more to hinder performance than clarify the music for performers. Instead of having to remember and apply a signature to whole sections of music, a performer can look measure to measure (or, as I can prefer, just individual notes). This aids in the learning process and I would argue ensures less mistakes are accidentally internalized. Even when I write tonal music, I do not use key signatures. 2. This isn’t in a key really. It is based around C but the material is largely octatonic which doesn’t have a standard key sig. I could have notated this piece with sharps, which might have been easier to read in retrospect, but I chose accidental consistency throughout the score for this work. When I wrote it too, I was the only one I was thinking would play it, and I didn’t mind too much reading from a part like this.

That’s a very interesting outlook @Joshua Haugen

TEDDYBEAR JELLY it’s just the program. It makes growls sound weird