"How to Train your Dragon" by Granada Hills Charter High School Concert Band

[colbykhor]

No Forbidden Friendship!

[chuckels1067]

Clarinets are better than the whole band.

[luckyluc009]

This sounds amazing. I just bought the piece for Tenor Sax. I'll be using this as reference.

[lastpaige4]

so cool

[TheBandboy12]

You guys are amazing! 

[xtremeelite1001]

Fantastic trumpet section!! Good job on the solo(:

[HoopjeEllende]

one of the best performances of a high school i've ever seen! you can be proud of yourself!

[reb3895]

This is actually really quite good!! Fantastic job!! Almost better than the real version :)

[PanloraXxX]

WOW

[89schlappe]

great performance. i like your sound

[lordan711]

The concert band did not have any strings playing during the performance.

[gruntloverdx]

Were there any strings in that band? It didn't sound like it.. :(

[lordan711]

all high school students from Granada Hills, CA

[aryannaarmstrong]

What grade is this?

[soraide]

It's the best ochestra version on youtube i've heard so far.

[PanKaces87]

my 67 y-eared dog farts prettyer den dis !

[LullabyOfRebirth]

Anyone knows where can I find this interview he's talikng about?

[iluvpixiehollow1]

2 People don't appreciate good music

[iluvpixiehollow1]

Wow. Just Wow. Test Drive was AMAZING!

[scorpiiolife]

he did NOT slow this down by alot, this is roughly the right tempo set by the arranger. in fact, this sounds alot of better than other bands on youtube that i heard. flutes just have to watch out for the mispitches. cornets can soften down slightly, you're overtaking the melody. I'm sure it's a build up for you till it's your melody, so there must be a dynamic increase. the intensity is too strong to build up. start softer. intonation at slow part can be worked on.Still, good work but work hard!

[y0urs03pic]

The band does not now how to put there instruments the right way doring a long rest :/ .but I like hoe there play.band geek forever :)

[happy583xox]

I'm pretty sure this piece is divided into triplets, they were meant to be slurred as well. It's a bit too... tongued? If that makes sense. (at measure fourteen is when I noticed it the most.)

Just one more thing, at the measure where the saxes and other instruments are doing the background triplets, those should be a bit more pronounced.

But I love the sound coming from this band! It's nice and full, and the slower part was just beautiful :D!.

[Kagura090]

Good job in recording this, because i rly needed to know how it sounded coming from an actual band

[Kagura090]

Good job in recording this, because i rly needed to know how it sounded coming from an actual band

[miathecrazy24]

but i've got to say that ur staccato's and accents were really nice, especially during 2:42- 3:08

[trmptskckbrss93]

My friend made her own arrangement of the music from HTTYD and it totally kicks this version's butt!!!

[Maynerich7105]

Our band i doing that song this year and i hope it will sound as good as yours

[katieandnathan13]

3/4 part was a little slow but good job!

[ARerc627]

Great job!

[peanutbutter842]

Oboe???

[lordan711]

@peanutbutter842 a flute is covering the part

[peanutbutter842]

@lordan711 aww... its just not the same

[kittykitty0204]

@lordan711

I would have had a clarinet cover it....but it sounds really good regardless!

[mermaid550020]

1:43 NOOOO!!! shame on the first alto saxes for missing the E-flat!!!!! but i understand that's kind of a weird series of triplets....

[Piano8myhomework]

i think it may have been slightly advanced for this band.first off the conductor made it slower, and even then the flutes slurred notes all day long, and were not together. the tones of the band didn't really mesh and there was one strong trumpet carrying the rest of em. It was a great arrangement i just dont know if it's right for this band.

[dEMuKi0]

@Piano8myhomework This was their first concert festival this year, so yeah it wasn't the greatest. However, at their last two festivals, they received unanimous superior ratings by all judges. They've improved a lot!

[Piano8myhomework]

@dEMuKi0 thats good to hear! I felt like i ragged a little bit :P Buut seriously somtimes as a conductor you have to know the limits of your band and this surpassed them a bit

[miathecrazy24]

@Piano8myhomework you are right about many things, especially the speed. but the trumpets...i don't think that it was just one strong trumpet. if you listen close enough, you will hear that there are more trumpets playing along with them. i played this song in my band and from what i've seen, the first trumpets are supposed to be overpowering the band by just a little bit. the speed is slow.. i get that in the concert band cover, it is slower than the actual song in general, but not this slow

[Piano8myhomework]

@miathecrazy24 I didn't mean that the first trumpets overpower the rest but that there are poor trumpet players combined with strong trumpet players and therefore weakening the whole sound Listen to 1:50 for the trumpets there are 2 out of tune ones that i can hear and one is slightly behind . I am a trumpet player and thats why i pick on them. cuz i love them.i dont wanna be mean. this is a piece that is slightly too difficult for this band and I LOVE HOW TO TRIAN YOUR DRAGON :) srry fo yelling

[50centuries]

really slow but good :)

[Respire]

Some minor intonation issues, but in general this was a great representation of this piece. Great job!

[luc08g]

Very nice job :D

Starts at 1:08

[Mint45]

Amazzzing~