American River Songs by Pierre LaPlante

[MLIAfanatic]

We're playing this is Band class. Nowhere near this good.

[MLIAfanatic]

@MLIAfanatic Did anyone else notice the camera person getting a boob shot at 1:09?

[robdigga561]

tuba solo at 163 i believe!!:)

[TheLilySnape]

OBOE Solo at measure 72 - then end of 75!

[NowYorTalkin123]

@TheLilySnape I get to play that in my band this year I'm excited I love oboe :D

[SGViolence]

I can't hear*

[SGViolence]

I have been playing the trombone for 3 years but still I can't the trombone that make me sad lol XD

[wacow45]

French Horns actually have a pretty cool counter melody in many of the songs. Played it last year!

[tonybebb72]

Excellent technique, but the trombones and euphoniums could have had a MUCH bigger role, particularly in Shenandoah. all comes down to directors preference, though

[rJUSTINr1995]

i play baritone/euph. but i play trombone music...so im awesome...lol....great work!!!

[MultiKilla05]

great band!

[aurapulselucario]

sax solo for like 3 seconds near the end=short but EPIC WIN!

[Liggamite]

young musicians own all. we'll take over the world, you'll see..

[MrRockstar1007]

im in the varsity band at my high school and we just played this for contest ive gotta say we sounded better than this lol not that this is bad im just sayin trumpets beast

[spartanfc5]

I'm a tuba player in middle school and we're playing this song later this year. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE TUBA PICCOLO DUET!

[BeastWilliamIs]

Haha, Well I am a percusionist at Ransom Middle School and I play bass on this song. It's not as easy as it looks! The trumpet soloist on this song has the part perfectly but gets nervous. Wish us luck for the District Mpa's

[kizuna8]

♥ I remember playing this back in middle school. I can still remember most of the first movement...

[dieck06]

Trombones FTW!!!

[Batiel1ownzRS]

My band played it much better than this one did.

[sydmc2525]

@Batiel1ownzRS MINE TOO.

[MsTurkeyWang]

This is my favorite song I've played in band.

Clarinets ftw!

[cbh0522]

we played this at GSCU Band Camp 2010 we rocked!!!

[alexandriathehippy]

we played this at Henderson South Middle School last year when I was in 8th grade! (Henderson, Ky)

[R3DT1D3]

Played this in our band at UIL a few years back. I remember cause I was the oboe player playing the solo part @ 1:14 and I was super nervous.

[Radster12]

This is really well balanced, I can hear all the parts. Good Job.

Euphonium and Tenor Sax really "rock and jam" this piece.

[LouieOmega]

I love this song! :]]]

[LordSariel42]

Baritone/Euph. Rocks this song to bits.

[ninjapickles1313]

@LordSariel42 i played the euphonium part of this song when i was in middle school. it took me like a month to get used to the song, especially that high F in the solo.

[Fangs231]

tigerstrike54 i am euphonium too! i was practicing to this recording

[c0ugars901]

hey!! i have to play this for UYL too!!! im a seventh grader at clint small middle school. we have ur UYL tomorrow it sucks:P haha ya we play this song and the footlifter,and butterfly's ball a love my band!!!

[tigerstrike54]

Euphonium for the win!

[AustinWasHereee]

1:25 through 3:18 is so nice xD

[1whiteiphone]

@Paperplait haha i know we got the same problem

[SamiWPrincess]

Where are the bassoons?? .........

[biffnwee]

Our middle school plays this song! I am in 7th grade and i play the oboe. I don't have the solo because there is this like oboe prodigy in my grade and so he is always gets first chair. but i am 2nd chair pretty much 100% of the time so i am good with it.

[KamikazeEmo1331]

this piece is so fun!! :)

[1whiteiphone]

I play F-HOrn, 3rd chair symphonic band, and a fishman....

[13CuteAsian]

My symphonic band plays this song! i play french horn. and im only in 7th grade o:

[dieck06]

our middle school honors band is playing this it's so cool I play trombone

[lipsofangels09]

i play trumpet and we r playin this now for festival i play for RMS i played for LMS........but im gettin better :) its beautiful i love russian christmas.....lol

[YepImABandNerd]

Piccolo part kicks butt! :] i played the part in high school this piece is so beautiful!

[frenchfreyd2010]

banana apple banana apple banana apple pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iiJessie]

I like this song......i play alto saxophone :P

[CherryBlossomSims]

Playing this for 8th grade band right now; I'm 1st clarinet, my friend is 2nd trumpet.

This piece rocks my socks

[iiJessie]

Me ttoo !!!! i did it for my concert :DD

[FunkkyPanda]

omg, I played this in my 8th grade year as 3rd chair, 2nd clarinet. I wish my band director let me play 1st clarinet though :/

[Master0Pennies]

I played tambourine!

[Sandwitchloord]

Played first trumpet on this and loved it so much I'm writing the ending part as a fanfare in the stands for brass lol.

[davismusic2002]

whats with the trumpet player playing a c trumpet in a band setting, almost never happens.

[Amyjlf]

i played this last year in 7th grade. i was first clarinet part, 2nd chair. i absolutely love this song!!! :D the trumpet solo is so pretty. <3

[Buggy793]

I screwed up a chair test and was stuck with 2nd trombone. Anyway, I love this song, especially the beginning!

[alwaysobsessed]

Another boner? Preposterous! Virtual high five!!

[Planteatter]

My band directer is mean so he wont let us play play it

[bandnerd218]

I love this song XD

i played it last year [freshman year] and i lovee playing this

the melody in the begining is so fun! [i play flute so we got to play it.]

[nikesb97]

hahahahaha dude i just got this song yesturday i got stuck wit 1st sax part! 8D!!

[Gudk1p]

I went to the JW Pepper website to hear this song, but it sounds as if someone fast forward'd it...

[thischick15]

omg i played this is middle school band! i loved it:) awesome job!:)

[guesswhatilovegod]

Haha! we're playing this right now for a contest!!! .....But we are middle school and it's our symphonic band =D

[thischick15]

yeah i played it in middle school too lol what i said before lol.

[drummergirl1025]

i'm playing snare on this (9th grade concert band) and it's reeeally easy but sortof fun : )

[shoonat]

is it just me or is the tempo faster than the original by quite a bit?if conducted to original tempo the song should last something closer to 7 minutes.

[grob245]

Im not sure but when my band plays it we play at this tempo

[MiraLynnXo]

we're playing this!

we were playing it like all class today and it's still stuck in my head!

i love it though<3

[bananaboat457]

we play this about to go to band festivle

[Juicebox130]

r u part of honor band in hawaii by any chance 0_o?...

[bananaboat457]

nope i live no where near hawaii haha we dont have a hone band at my middle skool

[Juicebox130]

lol cuz we are going to do that song tomorrow haha :D

[Drumskyle]

Just got done playing this at district OMEA conference. Got straight 1's on stage, and a 2 in sight reading for some minor things. We're going to state though :]

[lizard29679]

I play trumpet in concert band and we played this last year at festival (or LGPE, if you'd rather call it that). you guys sound great! kudos to the trumpet player with the Shenandoah solo!

[Longhorns10vy]

the horns were way sharp on their fermata

[Longhorns10vy]

omg we playin this song i love it

[CBKproductionz]

ZOMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!! jk

[ChunkiestMario]

i play the timpani

[Doxtu]

We're playing this at my school. I'm a trumpet and I got the solo last week :)

[ClarinetLuver985]

Really? So am I! I play the Clarinet and I got the solo too.

xD

[ClarinetLuver985]

Well not the trumpet solo, just first Clarinet part...

[TheShortCrazyGirl09]

I played this song my freshman year in

symphonic band. I loved it!!

[Kedarispimp]

hey is that trumpet player with the solo in the slow middle part playing on a shilke? lol....random i kno lol

[m0byby12]

i was moved but why the hell are they moving so much when they are not playing.....it's not good to see in a performance...they need discipline -.-

[smaty1]

:/

good. but flutes needa work on getting the airyness out of the sound.

[icehawk1223]

we're playing this in our wind ensemble i'm a sax player but i'm playing bells on this.

[ZebraBand1]

yay saxophone. :D

[PinkyMJK]

we have this for symphonic band. i have the piccolo soli.. i hope they dont take it away and give it to wind ensemble D:

[BandieMan94]

We tried playing this song last year in symphonic band("too difficult"). We have this again this year. It is actually pretty easy. I always thought it was.

[Kedarispimp]

its only a grade 4...just a lot of counting and syncaption here and there but pretty easy

[Jack2Jack331]

I think Chevy squeaked at 3:48.

[smskc]

were getting ready 2 play this in my 8th grade band for festival and im so ecited. WHOOT WHOOT... BAND ROCKS. CLARINET PLAYER. BTW.

[happyhobo344]

were playing this song, it my highschool band, i find myself humming it constantly

[r1ngu]

they need to balance for the clarinet more in the middle, after the slow part... of course, I play the clarinet.. so i have a bias... lol :)

[XeXc]

boy this show is so good it made me slap my momma.

[farsyghted]

also, during the shenandoah part, id suggest not slowing down quite so much. while this is a slow and tender section, too slow makes it almost painful =) and seeing as many different things are happening all at once during many parts of this song, listening across the ensemble is critical - otherwise, timing is off and clarity becomes muddled =3

[farsyghted]

right before the transitions to the slow section - btw, nice fh note <3 - i think its measure 68, the melody is not supposed to be the trombone section. the melody is actually found in the tuba/bass line, as the part that the trombones play there was already played at 56, just a strain earlier, by the french horns. and by the woodwinds 2 or 3 strains earlier. the 'bones overpowered the tubas too much. other than that, it was awesome =)

~teh farsyghted~

french horns rule <33

[BaseSax]

It's measure 64 and it's Low Reeds and Tuba(Base). Don't forget that at 56 Tenor Sax has melody with French Horns. The Tenor player should have played out a little more because at 76 we have melody with French Horns(It's a tad different) and it was really hard to hear the Tenor. Although the French Horns played wonderfully. I like this piece and ya'll played it very well.

-Tenor Saxophone Rules.

[farsyghted]

i do remember the saxes playing with us at 56, now that you said so.

however, this was completely not me - im not out of high school band yet xD our band director decided to play this for festival competition, so i looked it up to listen to it (esp on those days when it got stuck in my head after school =P). and decided to try critiquing it, just for practice, based on how my director told *us* to play it.

tenor sax is my 3rd favorite instrument, after trumpet and horn <3 im not that good tho =)

[yugiohcardmaster720]

great song

[psychicboy]

NO GLOCK!?

[devontheincredible]

where's the piccalo?