Remember playing this in eight grade. At the end, flutes did seven measures of trilling. No breath in between. We were...very much dead at the end of the song.
Its hard to master this song because of the different components to it, almost every junior high does it so dont worry. Also its not a festival song so dont stress about that either.
Real, the 7th grade we have for our band is amazing at doing it. Also am I the only one who feels like the trombone soli should have had more people playing the lower octive part.
Band director: alright low brass theres a section for you in here Tubas: oh cool maybe well get some good par- Trombones: Ha tubas you dont get melody par- Baritones: ill be takin that melody thank you very much.
It's good to know that band geeks have fun even after they grow up. I miss being in band more than I realized when I dropped it in high school for a study hall.
We played this a few months ago for our concert.. I'm in 9th grade and play bassoon.. Most of everyone in the band hates this song, but I actually like it
Here's a story that no one asked for :) I remember this year's band concert and we were playing at the same concert as the 7th and 8th grade band. We prepared before going on stage and the director asked them to play the beginning of this song and the part where the train speeds up sounded so scary for some reason and my anxiety started tingling :) Also I play a clarinet
Came to see trombones playing a part similar to mine and I guess my band director must just hate me cause my part seems to have more to it than literally every other trombone part. 😂😂
I played this in high school in the early 2000's We performed this song in pitch black with only a flash light pointed at our sheet music, the hat we put on looked kind of like a hard hat, it was to give the audience the train/tunnel look I reckon! Anyways... it was a lot of fun!!
We played this at our last concert for school this year and we played it with the video that goes with it and it was so freaking awesome everyone loved it
we played this in 8th grade in front of 4 judges and beat 5 other middle schools and 1 high school and got a superior rating or straight 1s, if you may.
Played this for my honors band. I play bass clarinet and this was our final song for the concert. But during the national anthem the key to play a low G fell off so I went through the entire concert manually pressing it down.
The funnest instrument to play on the song is the flute OR TROMBONE SOMETHING ABOUT THE FLUTE TRAIN PART AND THE END WHERE TROMBONE GETS THEIR PART IS SO GOOD
I played this in eighth grade and had the horn solo. There was a croud of over 300 at a festival we where playing for. That was the absolute most pressure that i have and will ever experiance in my lifetime
I remember I played this in 6th grade, 2011 Nipher Middle School in Kirkwood, MO :') I remember I was a brand new trumpet player playing second part, not doing the best but loving the sound of this song
I've been in band for 3 months and I play flute (I'm in 7th grade) and we're playing this song in class. It's complete hell for me. The first page of this song is the easiest part. Thank god that we're not playing this song for our concert. The 8th graders are playing this song instead for the concert.
I also remember playing this one too.... I played trombone and was like ,"We actually have the medley for once?"... When we played it for our last song of the concert, our band director had to take leave the next week because he had an injured arm 😂 he renamed the song runaway train... Needless to say, we got a standing ovation
When I was in 7th grade we played this (before I switched from trombone to tuba) and when the solo for the trombones came our director had us stand up for the solo
I got the french horn solo for this and performed it...but I gotta fight for it one last time for my trip to Hollywood, and lately I've been sounding very airy
