United States Youth Ensembles 2008: Drifen

[KylieKiwi1234]

This sounds nearly exactly how my orchestra ensemble plays it...execpt at measure 56 (on our sheet, basically just the fugue) we don't play it staccato, all legato :3 So this was a new way to listen to it. Great job :D

[getsuga97]

This is only about 140. Quite under tempo.

[MrSteveyzerman]

Best song ever!!! Trying to learn the part for the Cello- hard. but worth it!

[1soccerforlife123]

I. LOVE. THIS. SONG. Too bad we couldn't play it D:

[sawaddyka]

lol i'm concert mistress for symphony at my school and my section can barely do the 5th-7th position stuff in tune. Good playing.

[3nz0f3r]

i play bass. and we play it 152. on the sheet it says 144-152.

[iwantram3n]

lol i have the seventh-position part as my seating audition excerpt...thanks for the upload, now i can see whether im hitting the notes or not haha

[WorldofNene]

lol I Have to play it for honor orchestra too lol but I've already got my part down pack

[IXIStellaIXI]

oo were playing this for MS/HS honor orchestra just got it today!!! im vioLA very nice job : )

[cheertumblr101]

were playin this right now, for our 9th - 12th grade orchestra.

we play it like, 10x faster lol

and we added stuff too.

sounds pretty beasty.

i play first violin.

(:

[gamer3425]

NOOOO I have to play this for honor orchestra next week I'd better start practicing

[sweetypie4321]

Wow they played this slower than the actual tempo.

[Thundergold8]

no. its 144. this is correct.

[chandeliirX919]

Finally SOMEONE who plays it right. -_-

[brandiallens]

We're playing drifen in class at my school in nc, Rugby. We're going to play it at a competition and hopefully we'll blow the judges away just as you guys did in the video.

[Tallstar1]

Drifen is good but Shirl Jae Atwell's master piece is not Drifen it is the song my orchestra is playing called Modus a 4 his mater piece. I am a viola.

[RawrZiggity]

wtf noone cares

[suweetkisses]

we're playing drifen now. and on the cut time section-we play it alot faster, i think im going to talk to my director about it, kuz i dont think we're playing it right. im not sure. but this was good.

[Kankuro000123]

this song is EPIC

were playing it for our chamber group at my school and its awesome

[Aquarys]

This song is really cool but I can't help but hear similarities between Mad Jack's theme from DK64 at 1:38

But the playing was very nice. Great job!

[xsoox3x]

good! but there can always be more dynamic contrast

[twistedfairytalepro]

we played this song last year in my high school orchestra... i play the viola. everyone loved it... if we had extra time everyone would pick to play this.... MUCHO FUN! other than some slight intonation problems the playing was good in the video!

[googleeye199]

im in 7th grade and i play the viola and we play drifen, its an awesome song:)

[candypup101]

Me as well! i play violin in in the 7th grade and we played it too! It is awesome! :)

[lawrencejoga]

nice job im in the school orchestra and were playing it for the christmas and i think its the same arrangements for each sections. Thanks for putting this up. It will be a good way to practice

[lawrencejoga]

i should really spell check lol

[usamaki10]

(I'm assuming you play cello like me), 110 isn't hard as long as you don't D.S.

I'm doing this in seventh grade, and I just had a test today on 80-114 :(.

Also, how come every version I find, it seems like someone plays the F at 76 sharp? On my paper it came with it telling me to use 3rd finger, but it never says to play it sharp. I guess it's 3rd closed position then...

[lordrath2000]

YAY!my symphony orchestra class is playing this song for our winter concert!and my teacher is going to have the Boston Symphony play this when we,well not me, when we go to Boston. im still having trouble with measure 110....

[lordrath2000]

and i play cello...

[Contorce]

Ah, brings back memories from my freshmen year. I remember how bad I was at some parts of it, and how scared I was playing it in concert. :)

[husong1995]

nice! that's the best recording I've heard of this song so far. We're playing it in orchestra, but i don't think we're as good as you guys yet.

[albequeerkee]

But we're almost there Kevin! Wait, I take it back, we're about halfway there.

[7alton8]

very nice

I liked it

[doughgirl247]

My orchestra is playing it and we are 10-12th graders lol we rnt this good you guys are amazing

[cocobelly410]

my highschool orchestra class is playing this

but USYE is wayyyy better than us

[musiquedude235]

no way! you guys played this with usye? I love it. Wish the orchestra played this the year I went. Nice job!

[Ryand0523]

this song is pretty hard. I am learning it with my orchestra and its a work out for us the first violins going up the finger board!

[inuyashasgirl2005]

i wish you and your orchestra

the very best of luck :]

It would be amazing if you

could record yourselfs so i

could hear!

[adamkinneythompson]

Nice job 08ers!! this is a kickass song, i played violin for this last year with Vince:D Damn brings back a lot of memories.

[inuyashasgirl2005]

Thank you! (I'm thanking you on behalf of the string ensemble) **I was in the band**

[Serge165]

This is awesome, thanks for sending this to me, I sent you a letter on the Youtube E-mail system as well, as a reply! This music reminds me of some of the score that I wrote as temp-music to a project tha a freind and I did for no apparent reason. Watch out for my Spyro month videos and my Radical Dreamers playthough.

*hugs*

Sergekitty

[cabaret08]

omg finally. i love this song <3 you have no idea

<3 danielle. god i miss usye so much

[xellata]

yay im blocked by vince (conductor)

[JesusLandon]

I think this was my favorite song that they did!