Brian Balmages - Among the Clouds

[TheMusicinal]

alittle louder 1rst trumpet on 2:42. All i can hear is the french horn and lower brass. (baritone, trombone?) Nice clarinets all over. and I agree with Jarjamfar. Where is the bassoons?

[Jarjamfar]

The bass part around measure 114 was perfect and incredibly strong. Great job to anybody playing in this but WHERE IS THE BASSOONS?????

[TheGlennLife]

Playing this for competition this year. GO HORNS! :DD very good performance, needs work on being together, but no major complaints, it sounds nice (;

[JD892H]

suddenly chanced upon this video.... its nice to see both my secondary school and junior college having a combined concert... =)

[Svvaggalikemine]

beginning was VERY sloppy

[NinjaKitty12345]

@Svvaggalikemine I agree i think im going to post my bands concert up see what people think ^^

[derrikdnice101]

Snare drum around 4:15. Way off tempo. Brought the clip back to that part mad times. Other then that percussion section sounded good.

[ryan961399022]

@derrikdnice101 I played this myself the Snare is right

[msode21]

sloppy

[JazzBandie1]

We're playing this at a concert tomorrow and for the first time in my clarinet playing life, I was told to play as loud as french horns.

[eleeelty]

go Spring View

[yoyodq]

is it a high school band? we can play this song better and we are a middle school band!!! GO SPRING VIEW EAGLES!!!!

[aliesangel]

@yoyodq it is high school and middle school band combined together

and they had only 2-3 rehearsal if i'm not wrong

[Svvaggalikemine]

@yoyodq shut up they probably kick your bands ass

[cragnoll]

The band is technically good! I love this piece.

The only downfall is intonation, in some sections, at 3:10 one of the brass instruments goes a semitone flat. I can't tell if it's the trombone though.

But the band performed that really well!

[DurKristi]

Macy i go 2 Alma 2 and i play flute in Honor Band!

[nerdboy10599]

at 3:15, the oboe was out of tune. the only other thing is that right after the beginning of the fast part when the conductor started going in two, they dragged a little bit.other than that, they sounded really really good.

[Macy64CP]

my band is playing this! GO ALMA!!! :) i play the flute

[KyouyaOotorisLover]

are those cellos in the bottom right hand corner???

[leopardtalon]

bells kinda sound like they are rushing

[starboy57]

I remember when my band played this song 4 years ago. I played the bells, and it's hard not to rush with the slow tempo. Not that that's an excuse, but it always tended to happen during the beginning.

[Engler2011]

i love this song!

[sk8ergirl519]

:) we're doing this for band

[emilyg1996]

our 8th&7th grade band are playing this:) YEAHHH cms!!! woohh! :]

[InfiniteZeroX]

Man i really enjoyed playing that piece on that day... REALLY REALLY WISH I CAN GO BACK TO THAT TIME WHEN ALL MY NICE SENIORS ARE THERE

[luniawolf]

I wish our band played this too hehe We played 2 of Balmages songs. I play clarinet, it they was both my fav out of whole concert

[loquacious2012]

we're playing this song. i like it. good job

[nisasally]

oh, my dear juniors did not so bad after all. :) haha. OPWO FTW!

[ltmajor0]

I love this piece... we are playing it in our marching band show... only we had it re-arranged...

[dogpilekid]

We did too! we freaked out though when another band had it at a competition... and then got a better score than us...

[2BEcontinue1]

I really like this peice

i like all of brian balmages pieces.

[ImDarkMagicianGirl]

we're actually doing this song for band.....marching band!

[NastyZ100]

I love this song. Our band played this two years ago. It's so beautiful.

[HaydenFromHell]

My middle school band played this piece a few months ago. What a terrific peice.

[theguynumber9]

indeed

[ALLATOONAHSB]

The clarinets sound beautiful at the beginning!

You guys sound Great as an ensemble :-)

my band is playing this song now for our Spring concert. I LOVE IT!

[PriestWinx03]

there's a missing crash cymbal at somewhere ard 1:46?

[Zack64321]

Nice job! Our band is playing this piece this year for festival, and it's nice to hear a good version of it since our band director doesn't have a recording!

[sunkiss122]

this piece is soo pretty. i loved playing it. in my high school i played both the bass clarinet and 3rd clarinet. great crescendos by the way. ,.. very passionate. at 154 or so.. the clarinets go off like no ones business.

[ALLATOONAHSB]

I play bass clarinet :D

and yes i agree it was very passionate

[amandalynnm2007]

The Alma High School Concert Band (arkansas) is playing this peice this year and we totally rock at it!

[mat088]

xDD we play this too

and the alto part is very horrible

xDD keep practicing!! <3

[kai2xin1]

i'm one of the sax player in there so can u like tell me in what sense are we horrible so that i can improve and ask the others to improve too.

[HolyNinja1228]

Nah man i heard the altos in there ( I play alto 1st chair in my school as well) And you guys sounded awesome. For example 1:37 with all the accidentals. If anything i would say flutes should work on keeping time and trumpets on intonation. Your low brass is great. Keep rocking.

[j0nasxl0ve]

bassoon players are awesome!!! :D

[youmakemelaugh47]

the flute part is weak at 3:50.

[DrBelser12]

Great version of Among the Clouds....a band classic....

[NinjaTurkey14]

it was good but the oboe was VERY sharp. i play oboe and im just starting this piece in band at school

[happyforever2]

very nice sound.

but with more practice they can improve alot.

add oil! add oil! (:

[SykoAzn26]

brian is a great man. this song is very touching when played with lots of passion.

[ALLATOONAHSB]

i agree

especially when at the end the piece is going from 4/4 to 3/4

there needs to be a lot of passion. it needs to be exaggerated a little