I remember listening to my high school band play this and we only had one kid doing all the percussion, so he was running all around in the back trying to get to everything. He did a fantastic job and really made me remember this piece
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ACTUALLY ME RIGHT NOW, I'M THE ONLY PERCUSSIONIST LEFT IN OUR BAND AND I HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE INSTRUMENT TO ANOTHER EVERYTIME WE PRACTICE THIS, WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS IN 2 MONTHS AND I HOPE I DON'T MESS UP 😭😭 ( Sorry for the all caps- )
@@rmjstrikecat Sadly not well, some high schoolers (i'm in middle school) were also playing with us and we were sometimes switching between schools to go up on stage for different songs, so sometimes we played together or separate, and this song plus another piece, (Santa at the Symphony) were our second to last songs to play, and i don't know why one of the high schoolers messed up and told me and my friend that we weren't supposed to go up on stage yet even tho we were and so we listened to them not suspecting anything wrong until our teacher mentioned The Great Locomotive Chase and me and my friend were so confused and we asked another high schooler that was down stage if we could join fast and she said it was too late, so we missed it and it was so sad because we spent months and months practicing and because personally The Great Locomotive Chase was the main reason i was even excited about this event because it's so suspenseful and cool. I asked my band teacher if we would play it in another event and he said yes, so i hope it's true. 😕
It’s a part of the piece sorry for the late reply but the train whistle is written in the sheet music. I remember every cue it comes in because I as well played this when I was in middle school, snare drum.
Im a flute and i have been working on this piece on my band and the trill can get really annoying and it hurts my ears😂 also i run out of breathe cause i dont normally play as loud as im supposed to
things that I noticed? 1:14 that trumpet (or trumpets) rip 1:40 death at its finest 2:05 holy trombones 2:45 I think those are French horns but overshot? note 3:03 trumpets again loud af I guess 3:16 hell yeah 3:39 WASNT EXPECTING THAT OUCH 4:02 I gues- *CRASH* it was *CRASH* I’ll have to wait then... 4:24 overall good performance, not gonna lie
the trumpets never crescendo and decresendo back down at 3:04 and the other times they're supposed to and it annoys me. middle school trumpets are almost always louder than what they're meant to play
@@bonku9863 yeah ngl the chimes/bells/whatever percussion it was overtop overpowered the everloving heck out of the poor F. Horn player, they got to have the solo of that part and got way overpowered
So upset that I wasn’t attending Bristow yet to perform this! Sadly this was my only year here, gonna miss you all next year! Hope to be able to go to Area Festival! Love you guys!
As a flutist, this piece is extremely hard, and everyone who is complaining about *how out of tune they are* or *how slow they are* are the people who do not understand that this is a 3 PAGE piece and these students worked *SO HARD* to make this happen. They are 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS. I am in a 7th and 8th grade band, and never has anyone said that one of our pieces is going *no where* . Please have some respect for the people who are actually going somewhere in life.
Super late but I remember playing this in freshman year and how CHALLENGING the breath support was on this piece. I absolutely loved it and our inclusion in the piece, but I felt like I was going to pass out after the song was over.
the clarinets has a rocky start then the upper brasses and the low brasses has a semi solid sound there is to many percussionist my band only have 7 percusionist, 3 trombones, 2 euph, 2 tuba, 3 trumpets, 3 flutist, 5 saxphones and 4-5 clarinets but we sound better. And the tempo they played is way to slow. (like if u agree with me)
woahh, the band is huge ! btw just some notes for people who are viewing this comment (i know that i can’t correct this band, but if you’re currently learning this piece or you have once played this piece, we can use this as a reference to spot the mistakes and learn from it :> !) - 0:10 the band started rlly slow - 0:16 the clarinets were out of tune (wait, the clarinet section isn’t playing it solo, but the flute sounds like as if it’s a solo player) - 0:43 the lower brass isn’t following the chimes and therefore going out of beat - 1:18 trumpets, didn’t decrescendo properly at the end - 1:40 the whistle ... scared me slightly (the whistle was also supposed to come in at 1:47 but came in 1 bar late instead) - 2:05 trombones did a great job, maybe they could have taken a quicker breath or take a bigger breath before playing that phrase bcos it’s slightly awkward to hear the gap in between - 2:17 omg my dear percussion, the triangle can glock slowed down ... geezzz, that’s why conductors even exist. just look at the conductor (even though i felt like the conductor had sped up slightly as well tbh but ... yea) - again at 2:17 i feel like the articulation from the woodwinds can be better bcos each articulation sounds different (the one that’s playing “g, g, g, f”) - 2:50 the glock was playing in tempo but, please watch the conductor bcos there’s a ritardando at that section - 2:56 i think the brasses came in a bit harshly - 2:59 the woodwinds can also have a slightly more gentle entrance - 3:09 trumpets, the same problem, copy the way the brasses do it pls, bcos they set a good example of how it should sound like ! - 3:23 (okay this might just be might own preference but ...) the trumpet is a bit overpowering - 3:40 again, the train whistle ... (i assumed the whistle came in a early at 3:45 as well) - 4:13 your “fp (?)” can be slightly softer so that you can do a huger crescendo if there are anything you want to mention, just reply to this message, i might take a look at it ;)
How can you have that big of a band and not have something like a theater?!? Also jesus christ they literally forgot about dynamics....every section is fighting over who's going to be the loudest....AND JESUS CHRIST THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS TOO MUCH
I don’t want to judge at ALL but the band is sometimes fighting for who can be the loudest and needs to work on dinamics and was sometimes out of tune or off tempo but over all they were pretty good. My band is playing this song this year but we are much smaller than this huge ass band that I personally think can maybe be the promblem considering how many they are in each section and not being able to control their sound.:))
The woodwind and rest of the over powering band ratio was a little insane. 1st clarinet is a key part in this song and I could barely hear them throughout the piece!!
i think i remember Robert actually set up a train and he went in a hotel to take his break,and then some people took over the train and drove away. Robert started to chase the train, and yeah that's why it's called that.
keep in mind.. Im in this band and theres around 250-300 of us and it may not seem like it but we are split into three periods and we had ONE day to get together and practice together.. soooo yeah pls dont hate unless u know its just a small group and we dont have a lot of time together like an hour and a half the most.
I hope we sound better,we have 5 horns for our top band including me and if I get chosen for the solo(which I probably won't) I hope I don't mess up because I really don't like playing on the spot
Jesus Christ, sorry but they sound terrible, that low brass in the beginning is terrible, the snare isn't loud enough, the tempo is way too slow for the original, the train whistle is way too loud, that glissando on the trombone is terrible, proves that a bigger band isn't always better.
I understand what you mean and I’m in this band and we only came together once before the actual performance to rehearse because were such a big band and we are only have one conductor in there so many of us
Ryan Smith wow. Your conductor or whoever is in charge of selecting the songs needed to choose a simpler one if they knew all of you wouldnt have time to rehearse a difficult song
Ryan Smith that doesnt matter everyone should be able to play their parts correctly and then thats when the full band will sound good but if only half the band knows their stuff then maybe you shouldnt put the whole band together but hey thats my opinion
The band is too large, they rush the song in some parts, the trumpets play too loud in some parts, and the train whistle shouldn’t cover the sound like that it should just blend in.
its always the bald middle-aged middle school band directors that somehow get a middle school band to play insaine pieces like this at a concert! Had a band director that looked the exact same in beginning band and we played a hard piece for out time playing.
That is a frickin huge band!
Jcuber14 we are the largest middle school band in california
Jcuber14 wow... but that just means the more time you band teacher gets to help you all individually, which makes you better sounding in a way! :3
hi
Jcuber14 SOMEONE WAS BUSY
Jcuber14 Someone took time to make all these kids. There all daddy's lil squirt! (this is a home school).
They got more flutes and clarinets than my entire band
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂 same
same lmao
It's not the high school band .
so true
Hell they have more flutes than my band
1:40
*Turns volume up a lot to hear flutes*
*train whistle*
my ears are fine
Searchis i
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I remember listening to my high school band play this and we only had one kid doing all the percussion, so he was running all around in the back trying to get to everything. He did a fantastic job and really made me remember this piece
We have like 10... Je(sus) Christ
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ACTUALLY ME RIGHT NOW, I'M THE ONLY PERCUSSIONIST LEFT IN OUR BAND AND I HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE INSTRUMENT TO ANOTHER EVERYTIME WE PRACTICE THIS, WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS IN 2 MONTHS AND I HOPE I DON'T MESS UP 😭😭
( Sorry for the all caps- )
@@BrownieBoy.how’d it go
@@rmjstrikecat Sadly not well, some high schoolers (i'm in middle school) were also playing with us and we were sometimes switching between schools to go up on stage for different songs, so sometimes we played together or separate, and this song plus another piece, (Santa at the Symphony) were our second to last songs to play, and i don't know why one of the high schoolers messed up and told me and my friend that we weren't supposed to go up on stage yet even tho we were and so we listened to them not suspecting anything wrong until our teacher mentioned The Great Locomotive Chase and me and my friend were so confused and we asked another high schooler that was down stage if we could join fast and she said it was too late, so we missed it and it was so sad because we spent months and months practicing and because personally The Great Locomotive Chase was the main reason i was even excited about this event because it's so suspenseful and cool. I asked my band teacher if we would play it in another event and he said yes, so i hope it's true. 😕
Those whistles were a little extra
It’s a part of the piece sorry for the late reply but the train whistle is written in the sheet music. I remember every cue it comes in because I as well played this when I was in middle school, snare drum.
@@SyncytheShredESP they don't need to cut so much
Im a trumpet but I just have to say, those flutes killed my brain cells. Srry
Im a flute and i have been working on this piece on my band and the trill can get really annoying and it hurts my ears😂 also i run out of breathe cause i dont normally play as loud as im supposed to
The ones at my school sound like flutes but its 101% air
Literally. As a flute player there is no reason to have that many flutes. I am the only flute in my band and it’s good enough.
Yea the bands huge but
HOW TF DID THE SCHOOL AFORD ALL THE FREAKING INSTRUMENTS
Bestoutof64 Mexican food
Some people rent their own
at our school herters supplies them and we purchase them at discount through the school
Some people buy their own instruments.
our school makes us rent our own instruments unless you play oboe bari bassoon or bass clarinet
The train whistle not only made me deaf the the sound waves from my phone ruptured my hands
Nate M
How could general vibrations rupture your hand?
@@idioticlemon2861 i know i am 6 years late but he was obviously joking
did you guys go "SHHHHHHHHHHHH"
we got the piece today
Naomi Miyoshi I got the piece today
I got it last week
Got it know ✌️
Holy cow did the band get huge.
I remember when I was an Alto Sax in this band. Too bad I couldn't see this live.
TheNerdyGeek I play flute in it, and yah, it got biiiiiiig XD
Spencer lies
i still love the low brass part at 3:16!!! it's probably my favorite part of the song ^^
Lava The cake if I lived there I'd be a trombone
actual best part yesss
jesus that train whistle made me jump 1:40
OMFG!!
Hahaha😂😂
things that I noticed?
1:14 that trumpet (or trumpets) rip
1:40 death at its finest
2:05 holy trombones
2:45 I think those are French horns but overshot? note
3:03 trumpets again loud af I guess
3:16 hell yeah
3:39 WASNT EXPECTING THAT OUCH
4:02 I gues- *CRASH* it was *CRASH* I’ll have to wait then...
4:24 overall good performance, not gonna lie
the trumpets never crescendo and decresendo back down at 3:04 and the other times they're supposed to and it annoys me. middle school trumpets are almost always louder than what they're meant to play
2:45 is the French horn solo part
I'm a trombone
@@bonku9863 yeah ngl the chimes/bells/whatever percussion it was overtop overpowered the everloving heck out of the poor F. Horn player, they got to have the solo of that part and got way overpowered
when the trombones stood up I laughed so hard. This isn't a band, it's a mini army
ok so the band is like 2729x larger than my high school band I stg
imagine having several ppl play on a solo
A girl on the far right corner holding what I assume is a guitar, dabbed on 1:14
How tf did you notice that
holy crap ur right
I saw here lol
wow
Good eye, Tuck.
Seriously tho how tf, I actually spent 10 minutes just looking for that girl. It kinda looks like she sneezed tho
Shout out to the snare players. I could’ve never played the part in middle school at that speed
*why is there so much percussion*
Shrek and the percussion still isn’t loud enough.
Cause percussion is great mate
Shrek Because percussion is awesome but they were so quiet but then again they where in a gym
Because percussion plays a lot if instruments that are very common
Why not
Everyone is talking about how slow the band is but I'm watching this conductors arms go sonic speed XD
Slow? 0:57 also band:
Accelerates to a full on 190bpm
The first row is the size of my band and this whole band is like the size of my whole grade😂😂
1:49 lady on the bottom left can't get her little button thingy to stay up
So upset that I wasn’t attending Bristow yet to perform this! Sadly this was my only year here, gonna miss you all next year! Hope to be able to go to Area Festival! Love you guys!
Btw, percussion, fourth period, we’re amazing haha
I was one of the clarinets that played the solo and honestly did we know what tuning was?
Oof that hurts
As a flutist, this piece is extremely hard, and everyone who is complaining about *how out of tune they are* or *how slow they are* are the people who do not understand that this is a 3 PAGE piece and these students worked *SO HARD* to make this happen. They are 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS. I am in a 7th and 8th grade band, and never has anyone said that one of our pieces is going *no where* . Please have some respect for the people who are actually going somewhere in life.
Jocelyn Franks I agree and I’ve heard from 6th graders saying that there playing this piece. My high school band was barely able to play this
3 FUCKING PAGES?!!!
Super late but I remember playing this in freshman year and how CHALLENGING the breath support was on this piece. I absolutely loved it and our inclusion in the piece, but I felt like I was going to pass out after the song was over.
this piece is so easy and ima flute too
@@ishita6076 fr
0:57 this is probably my favorite part, it’s so cool how a drum can sound like a literal train
also 2:35
Haha I found the account that I don’t have access to anymore
I’m playing this in my band right now, but im just going to say that this conductor is really going at it, props to them!!
They were really slow in beginning
They got more clarinets then my whole band
Loved the trombone solo
-Fellow trombone player
Same fellow tromboner lol
the clarinets has a rocky start then the upper brasses and the low brasses has a semi solid sound there is to many percussionist my band only have 7 percusionist, 3 trombones, 2 euph, 2 tuba, 3 trumpets, 3 flutist, 5 saxphones and 4-5 clarinets but we sound better. And the tempo they played is way to slow. (like if u agree with me)
It’s a bit different when you have 30 people vs over a 100
god the uniforms look like prisonmates
LOL
mine are bright orange. that’s a prison uniform right there.
IM GOING TO LEARN THIS IM DETERMINED TOO!!!
it's Just so beautiful and old GRACEFUL
RUZ ANDER Warning you, not for rookies
I HAD A HEART ATTACK AT 1:40
I'm glad the general and Texas survived but I'm sad we lost the other locos involved
woahh, the band is huge ! btw just some notes for people who are viewing this comment (i know that i can’t correct this band, but if you’re currently learning this piece or you have once played this piece, we can use this as a reference to spot the mistakes and learn from it :> !)
- 0:10 the band started rlly slow
- 0:16 the clarinets were out of tune (wait, the clarinet section isn’t playing it solo, but the flute sounds like as if it’s a solo player)
- 0:43 the lower brass isn’t following the chimes and therefore going out of beat
- 1:18 trumpets, didn’t decrescendo properly at the end
- 1:40 the whistle ... scared me slightly (the whistle was also supposed to come in at 1:47 but came in 1 bar late instead)
- 2:05 trombones did a great job, maybe they could have taken a quicker breath or take a bigger breath before playing that phrase bcos it’s slightly awkward to hear the gap in between
- 2:17 omg my dear percussion, the triangle can glock slowed down ... geezzz, that’s why conductors even exist. just look at the conductor (even though i felt like the conductor had sped up slightly as well tbh but ... yea)
- again at 2:17 i feel like the articulation from the woodwinds can be better bcos each articulation sounds different (the one that’s playing “g, g, g, f”)
- 2:50 the glock was playing in tempo but, please watch the conductor bcos there’s a ritardando at that section
- 2:56 i think the brasses came in a bit harshly
- 2:59 the woodwinds can also have a slightly more gentle entrance
- 3:09 trumpets, the same problem, copy the way the brasses do it pls, bcos they set a good example of how it should sound like !
- 3:23 (okay this might just be might own preference but ...) the trumpet is a bit overpowering
- 3:40 again, the train whistle ... (i assumed the whistle came in a early at 3:45 as well)
- 4:13 your “fp (?)” can be slightly softer so that you can do a huger crescendo
if there are anything you want to mention, just reply to this message, i might take a look at it ;)
TINGGG oh god
That trumpet solo in the beginning was perfect! Very good for a middle school band, better than mine!
I was a clarinet
WILSON WILDFIRE I was flute
WILSON WILDFIRE I was a flute
I was sax
Same
1st was the best part (im playing it as well)
I just wanna say before its too late I'm a clarinet I think fourth row fourth chair oki doki
How can you have that big of a band and not have something like a theater?!? Also jesus christ they literally forgot about dynamics....every section is fighting over who's going to be the loudest....AND JESUS CHRIST THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS TOO MUCH
Jeez! and I thought my band was huge!
My band has 70 people and i absolutely love how loud those trombones and baritones play.
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Someone tell me how many people are in this concert I see about 50 plz let me know we are doing this with like 30 OMG about
pro zombie 369 at that point in time there were like 200-300 of us.
I like trains...
Same!!! This song is about Thomas the train and it's friggin lit fam🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🎷🎺🎷🎺🎷🎺💯💯🔥🔥🔥👌🏿👌🏾👌🏽👌🏼👌🏻
the amount of flutes makes up my whole band
That trombone glissando(maybe, I don’t remember) but it was fire
I was tenor in that band
I wish my band was that big
I don’t want to judge at ALL but the band is sometimes fighting for who can be the loudest and needs to work on dinamics and was sometimes out of tune or off tempo but over all they were pretty good. My band is playing this song this year but we are much smaller than this huge ass band that I personally think can maybe be the promblem considering how many they are in each section and not being able to control their sound.:))
We’re playing this song for our spring concert if we ever go back to school
3:21 i think trumpets were a little too loud
7th and 8th..Christ..huge band man.
HOLY CRAP THIS SONG SOUNDS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
It's really interesting tbh. 1st clarinet is one of the best parts
The woodwind and rest of the over powering band ratio was a little insane. 1st clarinet is a key part in this song and I could barely hear them throughout the piece!!
Stop hating on Bristow.
Katherine LastName ty we’re just middle schoolers 🥺
hey guys im back, uhhhh please hate on bristow it SUCKED
In my band rn we’re doing this in like 2 weeks and the SNARES ARE SO LOUD AND THEY WONT SHUT UP(alto sax)
how many people are there
im doing this song rn and our band is half of that. maybe less.
1:40 first of all, how did they get their train whistle to be that loud?
i think i remember Robert actually set up a train and he went in a hotel to take his break,and then some people took over the train and drove away. Robert started to chase the train, and yeah that's why it's called that.
Wth is making that train whistle noise at 1:41
we got an actual train whistle to make it realistic
a train whistle
An actual train whistle my dude
They slowed down at 1:32 out of tune im playing this with my band now and i will record so go subscribe and listen
You know what's boutta happen when the trombones put up their horns at 1:59
😈
How many flutes do you need LOL
More than my entire band combined
OK, can we talk about, HOW BIG THIS BAND IS??
I relized that at 0:45 the frenchs horns are suppose to have a solo there, not the alto sax. hmmmmmmm
Why is there so many omg 😮
Bruh that trumpet at 1:14 chill
this really hurts me to say as I play FRENCH horn but the french horns are so out of tune and they are really bad
keep in mind.. Im in this band and theres around 250-300 of us and it may not seem like it but we are split into three periods and we had ONE day to get together and practice together.. soooo yeah pls dont hate unless u know its just a small group and we dont have a lot of time together like an hour and a half the most.
Yeah I agree this wasn't the best performance
I hope we sound better,we have 5 horns for our top band including me and if I get chosen for the solo(which I probably won't) I hope I don't mess up because I really don't like playing on the spot
They slowed down the beginning 😭
What school is this?
Brendan Bristow I think
The part where the train accelerates just hits different.
The flute and clarinet sections are literally the size of my entire band
What is that noise at 1:40 no other band I've heard has that
Cowbell.
Just why?
Why destroy this piece?
Where's the balancing?
Koay Poh Suan we’re just middle schoolers 🥺
Alyssa Marie That’s what she said
That band is like my band, orchestra, choir, and drama combined 💀
Really miss being in this band. I was a flute in the fourth row :))
DAMN, that train whistle sound fix, HOW!!!
the 15 or so trombones coming up all at once 😮my school's band has THREE
I played in a play set with this song with a Tuba, it was fucking amazing.
My band did this too
3:15 this is why trombones are the goat
Damn im a clarinet and my band got like 9 clarinets 5 flutes
this band got like 30 clarinets and 30 flutes
I love this song!!!!!! IM THE ONE in the back WITH THE REd hair,A
when they started it off one that was the wrong key signiture played by like 2 people and its two slow
This band is so huge.
Jesus Christ, sorry but they sound terrible, that low brass in the beginning is terrible, the snare isn't loud enough, the tempo is way too slow for the original, the train whistle is way too loud, that glissando on the trombone is terrible, proves that a bigger band isn't always better.
Riley Tester What's a glissando
I understand what you mean and I’m in this band and we only came together once before the actual performance to rehearse because were such a big band and we are only have one conductor in there so many of us
True
Ryan Smith wow. Your conductor or whoever is in charge of selecting the songs needed to choose a simpler one if they knew all of you wouldnt have time to rehearse a difficult song
Ryan Smith that doesnt matter everyone should be able to play their parts correctly and then thats when the full band will sound good but if only half the band knows their stuff then maybe you shouldnt put the whole band together but hey thats my opinion
The band is too large, they rush the song in some parts, the trumpets play too loud in some parts, and the train whistle shouldn’t cover the sound like that it should just blend in.
Explodinghoust I agree. They likely had someone blow into the train as hard as they can into a mic
its always the bald middle-aged middle school band directors that somehow get a middle school band to play insaine pieces like this at a concert! Had a band director that looked the exact same in beginning band and we played a hard piece for out time playing.
the entire band needs to learn what dynamics are. its was like MF - FF the entire time.
It's the recording quality which is what made it earrape
@@valeahvanalverson6351 yes I know, I am an Sound tech. LOL I understand recording quality.
@@joemurgolo4917 did u think I knew that im-
That middle school band is like 2x the size of my high school marching band……good grief
So many flutes we only got 5 flutes in my band😢
Jesus, this band isn't even the size of my high schools ENTIRE music department even counting color guard.
THAT TRAIN WHISTLE THO
If half of my school were in band:
Dang my band got 3 flutes and 10 clarinets 😧
There one row has more people than my entire band..
Bro we only got 3 flutes in my band 💀💀💀💀
There percussion is huge in my band we have like 7 lol
I am in this band
Trumpets 🤣🔥❤️
LanaThe Loser Percussion’s where it’s at mate