Symphonic Suite from Star Wars: The Force Awakens Williams/Bocook 

Anakin is glad *Gladakin* Anakin is sad *Sadakin* Anakin is mad *The younglings are dead*

Nobody: John Williams: Random Horn solo

All hail John Williams the god of music composition.

5:30 the low voices give me chills right there

We played this last night at our concert and the chills I got from low brass. HOLY LAWD.

2:09-2:20 Is torture for any woodwind Don't care how good you are, it hurts to move your fingers that fast.

i can see woodwind players crying

Gotta love the March of the resistance imo best piece out of the whole movie.

Love the saxophone solo at 2:45

I'm probably spend 80% of my time on those damn sixteenth notes for clarinet at 42 lol

I have the absolute pleasure of studying orchestration with Jay Bocook! He's such a chill guy, and a master arranger.

1:18 you got to love love ESSENCE OF THE FRENCH HORN

Euph solo is dope

when you get chills :)

I'm playing this in my high school band. It's soooo cool! The 3/4 5/8 switch though is super hard!!

That clarinet at the beginning tho

My band at school is getting ready to play this at my final concert next Thursday before I graduate. I'm so hyped!

Any horns around? You know a piece rocks when horns are feature just as much as trumpets

why would anyone dislike this music?!?!?! if they don't like it..... well..... don't LIKE.

I'm getting the euphonium solo! :)

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we're playing this with the upper level band of my school (im in the lower one, aka freshman band) and its so fun!

Good arrangement! Nicely orchestrated and great use of the different instrumental colors and textures for the available ensemble!

I'm playing this in band. It's so good!

We played this for our end of year concert on May 5th. I love this song!!

No matter what film John Williams composes for, no matter if it’s good or bad we still can agree the film score is godlike

Even without strings, it still sounds pretty good.

Playing this and I'm a trumpet. A lot of these parts a wicked cool!!!

I had the absolute pleasure of playing the bass clarinet part for this piece as the finale of my last concert in high school. While I do miss it, I’ve moved on to bigger and better things in life.

We just got this piece in band. Absolutely love it!

you know this piece is gonna be hard once you see there's a bassoon 1 and 2

We're playing this for our final concert! Thank you, whoever told our BD to let us do this

OMG this is amazing

Love the trumpet solo

My mind is blown! I only just realised that this is literally just an abridged version of The Jedi Steps + Finale! Now I understand where that 5/8 piece came from, because I always thought that part corresponded to one particular song. Kinda wish there was a song that was just that theme tho

I'm here on May the Fourth be with you day... so fitting. is anybody else here on the same date?

My band's playing this now! It's awesome!

French horn and the TRUMPET play really good together

its good to have a break from main melody and listen to the horns lol. i play trumpet

i need to give yall mad props!

I really loved that Horn and alto sax part in the ending!

Love playing the 1st horn part

ok, i'm a horn player i just cried

this was actually a lot of fun playing. i was second flute and it was so much fun. it was hard at first but once you get it, its the best

If French horns don't have that beginning melody, I don't think the arranger did this piece justice. Horns have a very iconic sound with John Williams' music and I think it was an important factor that was left out.

playing this for my last senior concert🙏pray for our freshman

As a euph player, I love checking who's part I'm playing with, and in this arrangement, I love playing with different instruments at different times like the Tenor Sax, Trombone, Tuba, and even Horn! Great arrangement!

3:17 is pure power The TRUMPETS are amazing

anytime I hear john williams music o seriously get chills

We played the other ending and it sounded way cooler than this one

cant wait to play this tommorow at showcase

I wouldn't mind trying this out. Doesn't seem too out of my range.

will always love star wars.

Love it.

INCREDIBLE

EXCELLENT !!!!

any clarinets here?????? where my fam at????

same I'm playing it to on horn and I get the solo parts I love it

First clarinet part for this is dope

Rip to all Wooden Player (including me, im a clarinetist)

going to Disney world in a couple weeks and playing this song. so hyped! where my French horns at?

the nostalgia for playing this in band

The first time I saw this as the first Bassoon part I said to my band director You want me to do what?!

i love star wars😍😍❣️

There's the tempo marking 'With Utmost Force' somewhere on there, well done Bocook! As well as the 'Hn. Solo' cue *applauds* Also, this is a fitting piece to celebrate Star Wars Day with! May the Fourth be with you :P

1:51 ROLL CREDITS

1:48-2:01 got me not realizing tge low brass/reeds played the iconic part of this score

love that horn solo at 3:50

might play this for pops concert this year

love star warslove this song

I still come back to listen to 5:06 every time I need a mood boost.

YES!

Finally... a piece that's actually fun to play on bari sax

Are the horns breathing? What is their lung capacity?

Amazing. Simply amazing. I would love to play this. I'm a bari sax. Anyone else?

PLAYING THIS IN MY EIGHT GRADE BAND FOR OUR CONCERT!!! WE JUST SIGHTREAD IT TODAY!! IT'S SOOOO FUN!

I love that this song has a baritone solo instead of a trombone solo when beginning. It’s a very welcome change. :)

in 2019 of my sophomore year we were having a concert with so much good pieces including this and we never got to perform it, including the concert my junior year because of covid and I don’t think I’ll ever heal from that. I know it’s probably stupid but I will probably never have the chance to perform this, or just concerts again

Call me biased, but why are most of the horn licks from the movie duplicated in the saxophones? While I would expect this for grade 3 and lower, there are 4 Horn Parts scored.

Getting to play this at the start of concert band! Trombones where you at?!

played it this year. i thought the arranger left out important parts like the build up to 6:11 and the repetition of that. still fun to play

I love the low voice

First Star Wars piece I’m playing in my band, freakin hyped! Also any alto sax peeps in here?

5:08 When the American troops arrived on the Western Front, 1917.

We just got this for our winter concert and since I play flute, I usually receive the melody and this song is a nice change of pace! Although the parts the flutes have differ from each other slightly and the song is in 12/8 mostly and that makes me cringe since I play by ear mostly. After almost 7 years of playing, I still play by ear and memorize the music instead of actually reading what is written on my paper 24/7. It drives my band teacher crazy so he put me in a second music class for percussion pieces and our drumline (which I've been a member of all highschool). So while I can double on percussion, I get told to focus on my main instrument(s) first and foremost.

I play tuba and we are playing this for band... Freaking awesome low brass part!

And another brilliant work by John Williams, who is, without overstating, one of, if not the, greatest composer of our time.

this is literally my jam.🤣

4 horns! Wow! There aren't enough horns in my band to do that (we're 3)

we just got done playing it

I’m FINALLY getting a solo, idc that it’s like only a couple bars i want it

Tuba

I tried playing measure 42 on my clarinet and I completely failed :(

#SEMPER FIDELIS #QUA PATET ORBIS #JE MAINTAN DRAI ! ♫♪ great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding! Compliments! #SEMPER FI #QPO #JMD🎵🎼🎼🎶🎵🥁🎺👌👌🙏🎺Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪

3:30 OMG

I played this in 7th grade, and it was so bad, but oh my gosh the memories.😂😆😊 But this song and arrangement is amazing. I think TFA had the best score in Star Wars, or it at least has stood out the most to me. TLJ felt like a copy of TFA. Like I get it with the fanfares and leitmotifs and all that, but it just felt watered down, if that makes sense. Nevermind, anyway, I like this and miss it, lol.😂😆😊

finnaly altos get the main theme part

Saxes doubling horns, NOOOOO.

I love what Hal Leonard did at the very end. For those who don't know, the Original Trilogy had this classic long note play at the very end of the credits. You may know what I'm talking about, that: "Deeeee-dah-dah-duuuum-duuuh-duuuuh-duuuuum-de-de-deeeeeeeh-deeeeeeh-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM" at the end. The original credits for Force Awakens sadly did not have this at the end, since the sounds of the music just get quieter and then slowly fade away like with many other films. Which sucks because at the end of the credits, it seems as if the musical scores are leading to that note. Hal Leonard Concert Band here, made sure to include that long lasting note.

I love the resistance theme song thing