Metroplex

[bandgeekforever17]

I'm playing this in our Wind Ensemble. Fun little piece! :P

[SheWhoDances146]

One person is an angry floutest xD

[xXmagicXmooseXx]

This was such a challenging and fun piece to play.

[brittany1bammann]

@4lifeZac Oh. My. Gosh. lol I was 9th xDDDD

[brittany1bammann]

@4lifeZac Lol I play trumpet. I was 8th Chair xD

[Gerbilfield]

Played this today! it was fun

[toyogoyk]

damn those 32th notes

[4lifeZac]

Playing this peice Saturday. Stoked. :)



[brittany1bammann]

@4lifeZac Are you in Pasco All-County?

[4lifeZac]

@brittany1bammann Hahaha Yeah I am. What do you play?

[toyogoyk]

played the whip. still cant play it well

[steffsweet45]

Our director has his mind set on this or Incantation and Dance for festival, I think the choice is obvious.

[UMEKCH]

指まわんねー（笑）

[noobynoobsterproduct]

I'm doing this piece, first suite, and hounds of spring in my next High School band concert. My director is out of his mind.

[GunbladeBeserkr]

@noobynoobsterproduct But those are all really cool pieces...

[DoctorWhoIsBeast]

AMAZING!!!!

[bandgeek556]

I love the bluesy section

[SpartanSoldier239]

cool my school is playing this song for our first movement

[NorthPride2014]

I absoltely love this piece! It's true that since it is the first movement in our marching show, it wont be the original, but it does capture the basics of it.

We do still have those awesome runs though!

CLARINETS RULE!

[indysupercolts18]

@NorthPride2014 I played this with my band in high school, the last fast part was difficult but very fun to play!

[briannaslone]

This piece makes you get better FAST.

[KentoSebas]

明後日のコンクールで吹きます(ToT)難しい!!

[naterkirby]

Hmm, music representing a crazy taxi driver... Asphalt cocktail, anyone?

[Rando101rules]

Wow, I got to play this amazing piece at Rowan University with the man himself. I was the ONLY tenor sax. I can see the music now haha.

[Holycrap27]

The bluesy part is SOOO confusing :p

[massiekur19]

clarinet person, but I have to say that my favorite part is when those trumpets are blasting!! I'm also in jazz band so that's the reason why.

[liv2runrun2liv]

we played this for an all county did not go too well

[SchizyNeko]

4:41 I play euphonium, and I hated this part at first, but now I absolutely love it. :D

[maiday12]

I play alto for this..and I love the blues part

[Mwstmrlnd]

Imagery is a little confusing, considering the song's named after Metroplex, Michigan I'm pretty sure

[cuttinhorse101]

@Mwstmrlnd I got the chance to play this and have Sheldon as the conductor. He wrote this song after his trip to Manhattan. Picture a person from a small town going to a huge city. The person is in awe and wonder on the huge buildings and etc. Now for the part (3:20) he was riding in a taxi. The driver was weaving in and out of traffic scaring the crap out of Sheldon.

[DrFlacutono]

@Mwstmrlnd I'm fairly certain it's more for the word's literal definition.

[oktoberpanik]

I'm a little intimidated to play first clarinet on this piece o_o

[junghyun292]

@oktoberpanik got a concert tonight as first clarinet.. LOL

[vortalezap]

when ur only second yr on ur instrument...the seond page of this is rly intimidating -.-

[magicflutistbri]

Flute one. Fersher. :] So.Maryland tri county honor band. :]

[aneramac13]

I also Played this yesterday at the Region 15 Concert! Amazing! :D

[Briceno009]

i played this yesterday at the region 15 concert. it was badass lol

[BandofPants]

First horn for this freshman year of high school. A crazy way to indoctrinate a new horn, haha. It's one of my absolute favorite piece's I have ever played. Put it up there with Into the Raging River, American Overture for Band, and American Elegy.

[24Blaize]

@BandofPants haha I know what you mean, except I had to learn this piece in two days in the Florida All-State Honor Band O.o

[Eres627]

@24Blaize me too, it was fun.

[cj614]

@24Blaize

Ahh i was there too :3 Who were you?

[24Blaize]

@cj614 I'm Harry, I was the first second part Clarinet

[cj614]

@24Blaize Hi, Harry. I'm Chris. First 3rd part Trombone :]

[laurenkaye17]

@BandofPants We played Into the Raging River last year for contest. I loved it! I'm dead set on convincing my director to let us play this and An American Elegy before I graduate!

[jolleyk13]

@laurenkaye17 My band is currently playing Metroplex, and American Elegy is one of my all-time favorite pieces to play. I played it at an honors band and almost cried :)

[tailsfan13]

The flute part fro this is hard....I love this song

[cuttinhorse101]

I remember playing this song. It was my first honor band, Robert Sheldon was actually our guest conductor.

[zhigh1]

We played this song last spring. This is a perfect song to portray New York City.

[TheEmokidd1]

omg we did this at all county honors band,,,, it was SOOOO much fun!!!!

[VoltaireCruelerz]

@TheEmokidd1 Yeah, we did a variation of this for our marching band a few years ago.

[RocketRodder]

Beautiful song. I love this. I like New York City as well.

[matboy891]

@fallchild00you i watched the marching video. it was amazing. it shows what hard work pays off to be, if that made sense lol. i loved it! i wish the school in california where i went to was like that. well., it was my frshman year, then we got a director who had no fucking idea what the hell was going on. >=( boo him. lol. so you live in texas?

[matboy891]

@fallchild00you did!!!!!! omg i hate you! i did this in honor band. i was chair 1 clairnet. when the runs came along, i was like, "hell yes!" it was so much fun. =) did you have the runs in the marching show?

[fallchild00]

Did this song for marching contest!

[DanielDaBandgeek95]

@fallchild00 metroplex is my favorite show that ive been in. better than cries of freedom, or caribe, to me.

[13bryantchristop]

it stopped before the end...

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[LadyHopeful]

Fantastic song!