Rhapsody in Blue, arr. Gordon Goodwin - Score & Sound
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Rhapsody in Blue
By George Gershwin / arr. Gordon Goodwin
Item: 00-33370
Series: Gordon Goodwin Series
Category: Jazz Ensemble
Format: Conductor Score & Parts
Level: 6 (Professional / Very Advanced)
This is a tour-de-force, GRAMMY® Award-winning arrangement by Gordon Goodwin of Gershwin's masterpiece. The sax doubles call for piccolo (alto 1), clarinet/flute (alto 2) and bass clarinet (bari). The second alto part has the well-known clarinet solo. This chart has it all---the thematic material, swing, key changes, solo space for alto, tenor, bari, trumpet, and trombone; and lead trumpet range is to written high F. The percussion part calls for mallets and timpani. Overall, a grasp of both jazz and classical concepts will make this chart stand apart from anything else. As recorded by the Big Phat Band. (2:20)
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Bars 56 to 61 are killer for saxes. The next time a high school jazz band plays that correctly will be the first time.
sorry , but that was really dirty
@yami yeager Yeah, they played that set twice, one after the other, (evident when the 1st trumpet passes out at one point,) and the 1st was a bit cleaner. That was the year they won a competition at Berklee. I'm a member this year, and unfortunately it's taken a turn for the worse what with our school switching schedules to a non jazz friendly one as it were. Still good tho.
@Nathaniel McVeigh I hope the bass has fixed his left hand by now
Texas
@@Mrs.Magix58 yes
I can imagine playing this would be like playing in a musical, those damn key signatures, high tempos and constant tempo and feel changes...
as i have played in two musicals. y e s,
Doing my first musical in 2 weeks, yes, can confirm, I want to die. F# and B major on clarinet make me want to die.
Texas band kids: yeah I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy
frs
As a Texas band kid, I can admit that I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy
@@DanielReyes-lg4eo lmao
@@DanielReyes-lg4eo փ
We’re actually playing this in my HS jazz band lol
I remember listening to this before hearing the original and not being able to get through the first minute. Several months later I came back to find this as a masterpiece. Guess my taste in music has changed.
Yeah I play a lot of classical piano and I thought this song sucked but I got tricked into joining the jazz band at my school and now I think it's actually good
@@loganmoon380 Could I recommend you a couple great charts. This is more of a fake jazz style I'm not going to lie.
What makes you think that?@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
bass trombone line is PHENOMENAL.
Holy Shit...that is some chart.
This goes in so many directions and I love it
saw ur comment on birdland
The Trombone at 5:18 is so beautiful. Gives me chills
As a bass trombone player I was heavily satisfied with the last section and much so on the very last note ohh it’s amazing
Alexander Clark Wicked!
This is definitely my favourite score as of now
How about now?
@@TrashCanBoiBoi lol
@@DylanRyan8 I still wanna know lol
5 years later update when?
Me on the first page: this doesn't look that hard actually
Page turn: so you have chosen... *death.*
The Big Phat Band drum set player is literally a god
Holy mother of trumpet solo
Grade 6? Wow didn't know it could get that high...
ikr
Shwarzmen Duddlehaeven That's not even the highest the highest is 7
example please, Devin
Ok like grades 4-5 is like high school level music and grades 6-7 is like college level music. Random guy who stole all of Your doritos
Devin Salazar I meant like an example of a garden 7 piece lol. like a chart name.
Honestly the band kid/ music maker faction of TH-cam is one of the best!! Love y’all
doctor: you have 7 minutes and 41 seconds left to live
me:
What you gonna do with the extra second?
Penguilion appreciate the arrangement
It'll take me 7 minutes and 41 seconds to choose a song
I remember seeing this in concert, clairnet solo was killer... incredible that this is charted by Alfred
The trombone solo was so clean 👌🏽
That it works so well in this format proves that, at its core, it is jazz,
I played this song in preschool band. good times
As a Texas band kid, my teammates could not play this if their life depended on it but I can trust
That bass bone is godly
I’m in love
That bass bone part 🔥🔥🔥
I play the Bass Trombone in Jazz. I gotta play this someday.
2:25 sounds like Mario Kart music
The beginning drum run at 2:18 sounds similar to the drum run in Mario Kart 8's Title theme. A call and response technique is used here, played by trumpets and responded by the saxes. This is rather common in many of Nintendo's OST. Also, the major key also helps it stay light and airy, like Nintendo's OST. But then again, that is just my take...
Sounds exactly like delfino square
No, Mario Kart music sounds like George Gershwin (as interpreted by Gordon Goodwin).
That trombone! So lush!
the piano near the 5:30 mark really brings the whole area together
Reading all these comments, made feel like a Philistine. Imagine the mind of the genius who wrote it.
Good god, Gordon Goodwin is a mad scientist
That clarinet gliss tho
Listening on 2x makes it crack city in blue
Python Kick this is the gateway to hell
this is the only genuinely funny comment I’ve seen on one of these videos
Thrilling! Thank you for the upload!
Legit, this is the goal, to learn to play this song with no mistakes😂😂😂😂
if you can do this i will cash app you 20 dollars
@@mjb9295 so will i
3:29 THE LICK!!!
Beat me to it 😂
I heard it too!!
It go like that
Looooool
Trumpet one is beautiful 😭
really amazing.......unbelievable.......so good........heaven level........top 10.........
I wish I could play this good!! Maybe one day though.
Absolutely freaking epic
4:02 and on has honestly the greatest solo backgrounds
Heaven, is that you?
nope, thats gordon goodwin's big phat band
@@hmm2084 so, heaven.
No, this is patrick
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I really hope that I’ll be able perform this song one day 🥺
Which part
@@bruhmomenthdr7575 I play Bari sax. :)
I'm able to play the high trumpet solo on my clarinet and I'm gonna try to learn it on trumpet but wow (5:32) this is an amazing piece
8-BitPlayz I can play it but it’s very much hitting the top of my range
Me and the other Clarinets: ~*sweats nervously*~
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo true 😂😂😂😂😂
The solo itself isnt actually that hard once you learn how to do a glissando. It's actually super fun.
OMG SAME! My band is really tiny (the high school concert band has 7 people, and the jazz band has 10) so whenever I get it wrong it's super obvious. (I play b flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and trombone, and a range of bari to soprano in vocals btw; whichever is most need in the song we're playing).
the solo really isnt that bad, I know if my band did this piece I would be put on alto 2, even though im primarily a bari player on sax. My primary is clarinet and I also play flute which is all required for this.
can i marry a piece of music
Shawn Luo yes
@Shawn Luo yes
The ballad omg
Revisiting this chart after 2 years now it’s much easier
Amazing!
wtf are these key signatures
PoopFaceBomb hell
Hell's heaven
Torture
just like any other... but mostly underappreciated...
Sharp pain
that note at 0:37 gets me every time
I'm glad its so understanding
Bari sax could be an actual bari sax part ya know
what do you mean?
Definitely. For god sakes it’s part of the sax section. I don’t understand arrangers who give bari nothing parts
justin pfeiff Because its not really like a sax. You don’t see bari’s in these sax-melodies cause they’re not like saxes really, they fit better with the bones
This is FAR from the worst bari part
@@brandonm7952 bari is kinda rough to write for. as a bari player and arranger, this is really evident; it's the lowest member of the sax family so a lot of times when altos and tenors are playing a melody, it's too high for the bari to play. bari fills the role of a 5th trombone quite a bit, as it blends well (especially in the mid-low register) with bones, especially when there isn't a bass bone present (unlike this piece.) it's just an awkward instrument to write for a lot of the time
I would love to master this song. I would love to play Alto 2 so I could play that clarinet solo.
i wish i was that good of a trumpet player
We’re playing thus piece in band and it’s 😍
Thats the best pfp ive ever seen
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 it’s been two years, and I’m gonna assume that the pfp hasn’t changed yet
@@jwaj no it has, but my statement still stands
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 exactly, this commenter has some good taste in profile pics
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 yours is pretty good too
Sounds more like a Coltrane piece instead of a band arrangement in the middle....
What are you on about? That's a sax improv section, so effing what?
If y'all could do the 2nd version of this can't be love that would be great
Had to play the clarinet part on Soprano sax, then swap to my alto… this song was insane to play… felt like musical pit band all over again
Never once in my life did I think I would get to play timpani in jazz band.
Jeje, es muy bueno. Yo los tocó desde los 5 años , ya me aburrió. Tocó 16 instrumentos.
Gabriel, you must be an incredible virtuoso
Oh my gosh! So many sharps for alto sax. 6 sharps! 0_0
ForteRosé it ain’t that bad
it’s honestly not that bad, i’m a tenor player but i play alto
Yeah man my all state music has like 9 😂😂
Braden Hoeffner wym 9 huh... double sharps?
Can you upload some more Big phat band scores please
I've finally learned how to play the glissando 😭 it took me 3 months
I'm on month 1 so hopefully I'll get it soon, congrats dude
not to brag but it took me like 3 hours
Howwwwwww
you just gotta roll your finger off the hole then lift it slowly off the ring and bam you have the glissando to rhapsody in blue
@@zenixrl_ me too😂😂 probably like 1 tho
Oh my gosh 1:39 the freaking note in the saxes that stick out
That ain’t no alto that’s a clarinet
Kensword fam what instrument do you see in the parentheses under alto 1
Jay Justo piccolo
Jay Justo mayonnaise
Kensword the saxes usually switch to clarinet or flute in jazz if there is a part of the song that has that kind of note, like a bari sax one time at a concert playing a bass clarinet solo
@@jayjusto9580 alto 2
This is sooooo cool, Thanks very much!!
I could probably play the fourth trumpet part...yay me👍😢
1:11 sexy trombone mode activated
Lmao
Come on, this is really easy to play... as an audio file. Nope, not possible to play on an instrument unless many days or months of practice. (Or you could be a Jazz Legend and be able to sight read the whole thing)
Bluejay0608 more practice than that
DAVID MELLA oh wait. nobody humble enough would brag about stupid shit like that. So shush
Bluejay0608 Bruh it ain't that hard lmao
"many days" as in 2920 days (8 years)
Bluejay0608 eh, the top jazz pros could probably learn it in like two weeks, but I'm talking about players in the high jazz orchestras
I wonder if this is where Scott Watson got inspiration from for the saxaphone part of Secret Agent Sugar Plum
very nice arrangement!!
I love this song
WOW
My band director gave us this music during the summer and we've been working on it since for our spring concert, its not that we don't know the notes its just with all the tempo changes and key changes and stuff that makes it so hard
7:00 ends with a bang
Guy Smiley the last chord when it’s just the trumpets and altos before the trombones come in is godly
@@zachsmith4471 Yeah
Licc spotted at 3:28
Saw this live. Was fire as shit
Try listening at 2.0 speed 0_0
0_0
Oh my freaking god,a grade 6,i thought it was impossible.
4:37 to 6:06
Can’t wait to give this for my jazz band students on my very first year as a band director! And does it start in 6/4 time signature?
4/4.
Talk about first impressions 💀
@@jwaj LMAO
Yeah, level 6
He hit the lick at 3:29
Can someone transcribe the clarinet solo for flute
I could just imaging somebody sneaking the mario kart dolphin shoals lick in that sax solo
How come at measures 149 - 166, the bari sax's and alto sax’s keys is written in flats, while everyone else's is written in sharps?
it would be too many sharps for them
7 sharps
6:59
Jazz
3:28 the lick
2:19 to 4:30 It would be good boss music for cuphead or Mario bosses.
ACTUALLY
Did a song that was created perfect have to be arranged by Gordon Goodwin?
yes
I'm trying to learn how to play the clarinet beginning solo and the glissando is so hard! I can't get it right lmao, it's getting there though it just doesn't sound that great.
Listen to this on 1.25 speed, it's interesting.
Igloo the beginning sounds like something out of west side story like this
try 2x
I'm gonna be real this is one of Goodwin's easier charts. Sure very dependent on the soloist but other wise not that hard. My band plays Goodwin charts all the time.
jesus, you want a fucking medal?
You're actually right, technically speaking it's not one of his most difficult or complicated. The only things that would give most bands trouble are the sax triplets at 56, the range of the 1st trumpet part, and finding a clarinetist good enough to do justice to Gershwin's intro.
Obviously the Phat Band members are all incredibly virtuoso musicians and their tone and inflections make this definitely the best recording of this arrangement, but that doesn't mean it's unplayable. Count Bubba and some of Goodwin's other tunes have much harder technically challenging components to them.
BMACS02 2:19 is an excruciating pain to master...This song is a classic and yes it's not "professionally difficult" but it is one of Goodwin's Most famous and popular. A semi difficult would be take 5 or maybe Nyan Cat (I know that sounds silly but gee think about it ) so say something with less ignorant bliss, like "I have had an epiphany that this song had noble and hard working artists that devote there emotions to creating this breath-taking literature with a mix of jazz, symphony, and a conundrum of ancient sound and besides this run on sentence I honestly have no idea if I'm giving a argument or just stating my observant opinion to you but I do know one thing. I have absolutely and without a doubt on my mind have not a clue for what I'm awkwardly trying to explain...
If you look at the 1st trumpet part, you’ll find you need a god to play those high notes. It’s like a ballad or chorale piece, sure the rhythms and notes are easy but you have to go beyond the page and stylistically play it correctly. That’s the difference between an average musician and one that takes it to the next level.
I’m on tenor 2 in eighth grade lol....
I’m dead
i doubt your actually playing this, this is for at least grade 12s not middle schoolers
lord disappointment
Normally, yes that would be the case, but let me inform u that I’m second chair in a group of 9 saxophones. Two of them being seniors. We have a 2a sized band, so our band director chose me to play it.
5:14 they all took a breath at the same time lol maybe a breath mark?
Why does it get so depressing at 4:35
Beautiful you mean?
I guess(rlly beautiful)
Listen to the original Rhapsody in Blue and it will make more sense. There are certain sections that are basically required in all versions of rhapsody in blue and that's just one of those sections.
I just heard that the Reddit Symphony will be playing this!
wholesome 100 keanu reeves everyone liked that big chungus baby yoda
lord disappointment shut the fuck up
0:34
damn
Damn
❤