A Short Ride In A Fast Machine

[tyronebassfield]

whoa! that was amazing!

[AngstAngel1989]

wow!! were you on your way to the airport to get a flight??

[pinkusensei]

I'm glad to see you brought up the 1991 Cadets. Don't forget that the Santa Clara Vanguard also played the song in 2001 or so.

[DieFatorLiveThin]

hehe more like "Lazy Cruise in a Mediocre Beater"

[igystrvigy]

Sped up it looks like 120+ mph.

[MsCellolad]

cool vid

[Wolf24840]

This piece just makes me want to yell "ACTIVATE THE LIGHT-SPEED DRIVES!" or something like that.

[JeepnJae]

This sounds like the Simon Rattle recording with the City of Birmingham Symphony.

[ZDrums24]

Is this central ohio? that city at the beginning looked vaguely like columbus.

[jmg321]

Denver, CO

[JudeObermullerMusic]

Short Ride in A Fast Machine? ... Surely it's "Average Journey in an Average Vehicle" ??

[evensteve284]

@JudeObermullerMusic Do U mean the music or the car in the video?

[JudeObermullerMusic]

I mean the vehicle... No problems with John Adams!! How could one?! :)

[jmg321]

You would think that, but that car is coming up on 14 years old and can still get me through snow drifts that stop mere mortals and their suvs

[EMANRebel]

Delayed reaction...via stop sign.

[evensteve284]

Absolutely wonderful! But shouldn't you have worn more formal attire? A tux or an evening gown? Besides that, LOVED that ending. I mean like FINE! Thanks for posting.

[pooniman1]

The kind of energy you get from playing this song with everyone on the same page and really clicking is unimaginable.

[GuguRose]

sorry.,.,im not a music scholar.,.,but may i noe wat is the instruments which came in 3.24????plzz.,.,

[Jabackazoid41]

Probably trumpets...and tuba...They are Brass Instruments.

[77theflame77]

brass: trumpets, trombones, tubas...

[pepperpersempre]

this piece is so hard to follow, we have to study it as part of our music course - can't imagine what it would be like to actually have to play it!

[kevdog330]

My high school band played it last year.....It was impossible!!!!!! A lot of fun when it really clicked in though.

[77theflame77]

yeah, its pretty hard, especially when it changes to 5/8 or 7/8.

[blackwolf886]

What stadium is that @ 1:25

[MyaLMG]

Invesco Field at Mile High,home of the Denver Clip-Clops

[kville105125]

this is the opener for my shool's marching show this year. nice recording!!!

[SoundsLikeStew]

IWANNAPLAYTHEWOODBLOCK :]

my fav bit is like, at 2.10 ;D

[newsoftheworld123]

haha

[herzenverbrecher]

PS: where is this? Cleveland? It's hard to see from my computer.

[jmg321]

Denver, CO I-25 south from I-70 to I-225 and Tamarac

[herzenverbrecher]

We have to play this song in class and I got stuck with the clarinet part. You know what we play? Three pages of almost the exact same bar repeated over and over and over... it's miserable hell.

[SoundsLikeStew]

pahaha, i've seen the clarinet part for this. its insane.

[gavdaman88]

sure is, pain for the fingers lol

[djtrumpet11]

That's minimalism for you.

[xWr3stlinxGurrlx]

awesome music video loll. i was totally on the edge of my seat the whole time.

[mareada211]

super cute, but Adams wrote this about driving around the hills in San Francisco, not about freeway driving. Still, this video made me laugh.

[Gadonis69]

You know, I love DCI to death, but the original orchestrations of pieces like this are always so much better in my opinion.

[popodadon]

Sometimes But, I play percussion so I love the drumcorp version with the crazy drum parts

[yhmar9000]

My marching winter percussion ensamble used this piece in our show, it sounds so awesome. this is definately a piece of art

[allencatband]

our lhs catband plays this song

[Rinwen]

This is a hard piece to play. It's fun to though.

[hellskitchen123]

2:36, snaredrum + woodwinds. gives me the shivers every time i hear it

[chinitorrr]

Awesome minimal music!!!!

[Fhenry]

had to listen to thsi song for my final exam in music. I really like this song :D, the music class was interesting to even though i was late most of the time(not on purpose though)

got this song on my ipod right now :D

[zenrarity]

You're a music scholar and you refer to it as a song?

Shame on you.

[coplandroxmysox]

I agree!!

[bomombblaster]

I love copland! He is like my favorite composer at the moment. His music is so inspiring, uplifting and beautiful. Has nothing to do with this but I like your name.

[coplandroxmysox]

thanks! lol

[tylerclayc]

What is up with that remark zenrarity. He plays a very important part to American music. Might not be to your "European" liking... but he did study with Bartok.

[zenrarity]

It's not a song. Songs have lyrics. I wasn't saying it wasn't MUSIC. I was just saying it's not a song.

[PsytranceMan777]

Songs don't need lyrics, they need ideas, concepts, visions, and feelings!

[zenrarity]

The technical term is piece. Any music scholar would know that.

[bellowheadfan]

People were saying the exact same thing to me the other night about something on the radio, they are right but it pissed me off too.

[ThaSchwab]

Bela Bartok died two years before John Adams was born, so it would've been impossible for the two to have worked together.

[themarimbapirate]

Seriously... this person is making a comment on a youtube video. I too am a music scholar. It's an easy slip up to call a non-vocal piece a song when in popular parlance that is how the general public learns to talk about these things from an early age. How about not being so judgmental.

[evensteve284]

themarimbapirate: I'm with U. Its so hard to get people to listen to music that might be out of their comfort zone. If someone calls it a song or makes some other faux pas, so what. You shouldn't even blink. Be happy you've found another person who loves something you do, and share it!

[MassiveMooCow]

I love how we found a few faster machines about timestamp 3:10+... Clever and fun! Keep it up!

[chocolatemilkman56]

whoever video taped that was a genius

[Cchrisbud813]

Wonderful music! My school band just performed the band rendition of this piece. That was great, too.

[ElScotto]

Ever heard of a tripod?

[jmg321]

Yes, but I don't have that big of a car.

[sahshansven]

Wow.. You went through 90% of the biggest speed traps in town! Lucky you! =)

[eixom66]

It's by American composer John Adams (Pulitzer Prize winner) with the same title.

[Peio82]

Dizzy but cool.

[buckeyeba]

That is very cool! Which orchestra/conductor? I really like the treatment.

[jmg321]

Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on EMI Classic.

[marfar06]

you know how to do fast forward