It was an honor to premiere this piece w/ the S Central NC District Honors Band, especially since like 2:30 of the Blue Knight's show this year is this piece. Trumpet gang!!
@@thephantasticfool The guy who wrote this for the Cadets also wrote this piece. He told us at the clinic that he wanted to create a whole piece centered around the musical ideas from the Cadets 2005 show. Since this follows a different musical arc and has more musical ideas, this is, by definition, a different piece. Stop ruining everyone's fun lmao
At my college, the director for our winds ensemble had them perform this at a concert. It was seriously amazing and my favorite piece they performed. I wanted to hear that rainy intro for rest of the concert LOL The way they snap to simulate rain dropping to the ground is so innovative. Currently doing a concert review on it and had to listen to this while I wrote it.
This is an awesome sounding piece! The 190 bpm and the use of the 6/4 time signature just really makes it sound so energetic! Super amazing job to the composer on this one!!!
Yes. It's a great introduction, but then there's no continuation of the idea later. It would be as if Beethoven opened the Fifth Symphony with those iconic four notes - da da da dum - and then never used the theme again in the entire symphony. Or if the main characters in your favorite TV show had a baby in the last episode of the season, but in the next season there's no baby and no explanation of what happened to it. When a composer introduces a non-traditional technique in a concert work, it's an exciting moment. If the snapping rain occurred halfway through the piece or near the end, it would enhance the climax of the composition. But when the composer opens with that, as if to say, "hey, we're doing something new and different and out of the ordinary, and it sounds cool," then it gets my attention, and I'm on the edge of my seat the hear the music lead into an even more exciting and innovative non-traditional effect, perhaps to illustrate another "Liquid" form besides rain. And I keep listening and waiting, but nothing. I can't even pay attention to the rest of the writing, because I just know it's going to lead into some cool special effect -maybe it's going to be a Waterphone or smashing glass or something vocal. But nothing ever happens, and it's a big letdown. As if the original Star Wars trilogy opened with a lightsaber fight, the death of the Emporer and Vader, and then just three movies of the heroes hanging out in Ewok Village. This piece of music is a big let down.
It was an honor to premiere this piece w/ the S Central NC District Honors Band, especially since like 2:30 of the Blue Knight's show this year is this piece. Trumpet gang!!
Cadets 2005 gang....
@@thephantasticfool The guy who wrote this for the Cadets also wrote this piece. He told us at the clinic that he wanted to create a whole piece centered around the musical ideas from the Cadets 2005 show. Since this follows a different musical arc and has more musical ideas, this is, by definition, a different piece. Stop ruining everyone's fun lmao
Just now listening and I already want to ask my director to do this for our next concert
At my college, the director for our winds ensemble had them perform this at a concert. It was seriously amazing and my favorite piece they performed. I wanted to hear that rainy intro for rest of the concert LOL
The way they snap to simulate rain dropping to the ground is so innovative. Currently doing a concert review on it and had to listen to this while I wrote it.
@@OverSizedSweaterFTW nice! That sounds great. It's such a beautiful piece. Also kinda hear Equus by Eric. Which makes it better
FINALLY IM DOING IT FOR CONCERT
0:54 the clarinets have an amazing rhythm. Sounds so cool
It's to hear a piece originally written for drum corps turned into a concert piece!
@Micah the Nerd Saxophonist It *was* the other way around
This is an awesome sounding piece! The 190 bpm and the use of the 6/4 time signature just really makes it sound so energetic! Super amazing job to the composer on this one!!!
Just here to say cadets 2005 were ahead of their time
Fun fact: the original name for this piece (as played at the Cadets winter camp in 2004) was "Waterworks."
did it change in 2005 during the season, or did they always call it Waterworks and Jay Bocook only changed its name when it was commissioned in 2019?
Anyone else here a little bit of Equus by Eric Whitacre in this?
Yeah...I like it though.
yes!! that’s exactly what i was thinking!
Other way around, Jay Bocook wrote this in 2005 for DCI.
@@justincarrothers1230 and Equus was originally published for wind ensemble in 2000
@@CoasterStreak oops I thought it was 2012.
Cadets 05 and BK19
I played the world premier of this piece at all district band
ChaoticNinja I was at the concert! I was in the 11/12 band! You guys sounded phenomenal on this!!
Zach Smith thank you! You guys sounded amazing on what you played as wel
Same
Yo I did too! I was 11th trumpet.
Don't know if it was the world premiere because Cadets performed this in 2005
Wow. This is awesome to listen to. Catchy and addicting.
this is literally such a masterpiece
Very Nice 👏👏👏
My marching band is doing this this year and i cant wait. Our show theme is ghost pirates.
My band did this too! We are “Making Waves”
Got this song in band today, it’s more difficult than it sounds
IM LAUGHING SO HARD THE CHROMATICS AT 4:53 EVERYONE DOES IT (minus perc) EXCEPT FOR TROMBONES LMAO
well if you were a trombone player you would be grateful you where left out
Actually I think it’d be a cool effect with all winds doing chromatics while trombones do an awesome gliss as support underneath
That soprano sax solo tho
Cadets 2005!
I wanna play this, wow
4:00 yasss clarinets ❤️❤️
Sounds like something I would heard in FF8
Edgewood use a sample of this song in their show :,)
Those horns though 5:09!!!
Why does this sound exactly like Equus??
jude anthony it was inspired by Equus.
jude anthony yeah but doesn’t take like a whole year to finish
AMAZING 😍💖
I get some Equus vibes in this piece!
It was inspired by Equus when written for the Cadets!
Mom can we get Equus?
We have Equus at home!
*the Equus at home*
The equus at home is pretty good
Does this make anyone else think of Blueknights 2019??
Nathan Bos Kinda
It's in their rep
yeah its a big part of their show. I premiered this piece so it was really wack hearing their show when I was at NightBEAT this year.
It’s part of BK19 show yes but cadets also performed this as their opener in 2005
@@SnareMax90 cadets is definitely the better arrangement despite both being by Jaybocook
2:04 Gaster's theme???
sounds similar, but I believe this is a direct reference to Eric Whitacre's Equus
This sounds pretty similar to Equus by Eric Whitacre just the same but different at the same time
Aaron Herrera Bocook adapted Equus for the Cadets in 2005, then rewrote it for concert band here.
As a Baritone player I can say this song kinda pushed me, but was awesome
2:51 what we came here for
Equus, anyone?
Yep. Jay Bocook adapted Equss for the Cadets in 2005 and called it Liquid, then rewrote it for band here
2:50
There are some neat sound effects in the beginning, and then nothing like it the rest of the piece. That's a little disappointing
in the beginning to get the raindrop sounds there's snapping if that's what you're referring too.
Yes. It's a great introduction, but then there's no continuation of the idea later. It would be as if Beethoven opened the Fifth Symphony with those iconic four notes - da da da dum - and then never used the theme again in the entire symphony. Or if the main characters in your favorite TV show had a baby in the last episode of the season, but in the next season there's no baby and no explanation of what happened to it. When a composer introduces a non-traditional technique in a concert work, it's an exciting moment. If the snapping rain occurred halfway through the piece or near the end, it would enhance the climax of the composition. But when the composer opens with that, as if to say, "hey, we're doing something new and different and out of the ordinary, and it sounds cool," then it gets my attention, and I'm on the edge of my seat the hear the music lead into an even more exciting and innovative non-traditional effect, perhaps to illustrate another "Liquid" form besides rain. And I keep listening and waiting, but nothing. I can't even pay attention to the rest of the writing, because I just know it's going to lead into some cool special effect -maybe it's going to be a Waterphone or smashing glass or something vocal. But nothing ever happens, and it's a big letdown. As if the original Star Wars trilogy opened with a lightsaber fight, the death of the Emporer and Vader, and then just three movies of the heroes hanging out in Ewok Village. This piece of music is a big let down.
I can totally see that! Maybe the raindrops could return as a slow, quiet drip, before becoming a torrential rain in the background of the music!
waow
Heh heh, Farmington HS marching band 2020, heh heh
AYO I was in that show