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  • saints row 3!

  • ETHICAL!

  • this is chuck norrises theme walking down the street

  • One of my favorite marches by John Philip Sousa! Great masterpiece...

  • Best military march ever!

  • PROFESSOR GENKI!

  • No lines for the percussion... : ' (

  • Every time I listen to this music it reminds me of Mr.Robert throwing that stupid palm tree over board then the Stars and Stripe Come On.Order of the Palm action against the enemy above and beyond the call of duty

  • Oh no- love the song, but I have to play the piccolo part for band. Our concert is in one month... this will be interesting

  • @NiagaraFalling Good luck! It's a lot of work, but it's worth it.

  • @NiagaraFalling How did your concert go? haha its been a month i guess....

  • @NiagaraFalling You should hear the piccolo part played as a solo on the (horizontal) contra-basson (only joking, he was)!

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  • SMALIN so amazing!!!!

    

  • at least 100 of the views on this video are mine. its the best recording i can find on youtube and is great to practice conducting to

  • THE CIRCUS IS ON FIRE! THE CIRCUS IS ON FIRE!!

    I'm kidding here, but in real life, no circus band ever, EVER plays this piece unless there is a life-threatening emergency. It's known as "The Disaster March" and when it's played, every circus worker rushes into the show to get all the patrons out. It was credited with helping to save lives during the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944.

  • @mightyrontor And the saddest part of the story was that a little girl, overcome by smoke and trampled, but whose face was recognizable even in death, lay unidentified and unclaimed in the Hartford morgue even though her face was all over the papers; for years it was thought the rest of her family perished, but her older brother, in his later years, finally ID'd her and a marker was finally put on her grave. (The family was involved in a custody fight over the girl and feared legal action.)

  • why is it "animated piccolo"? i thought it would be a piccolo solo

  • @PianoDude1011 Sorry, the piccolo solo is only one element of this video (starting about 2:00). My mention of it in the title of the video is just marketing hype.

  • So why isn't this out national anthem? This is as American as it gets and it is a million times superior to the Star Spangled Banner. I do suppose you'd have to write lyrics to it...which is a problem.

  • @ih8makinusernames Actually, Sousa did write lyrics to this.

  • @smalin Id actually prefer no lyrics so we wouldnt have R&B singers trying to sing the national anthem and doing all those stupid ehehehehehe things with their voice, If this was our national anthem only the best bands would be picked to play it

  • @ih8makinusernames This is our national march.

  • Stars and Stripes Forever has been the National March of the United States since 2006, under Section 304 of Title 36 of the United States Code.

  • @ih8makinusernames Well, it IS the national march, so proclaimed by a special act of congress. Some consolation there.

  • do you guys know that his parents come from the AZORES irlands , it's 9 irlands in the midle of the Atlantic Ocean , that still belong to Portugal .? is name is all Portuguese,

    Joao Filipe Sousa... when i hear his music , i fill so pride of been from those Irlands too..

  • I'm beginning to think that the "March King" is our greatest composer. What other composer has captured the sheer gaudiness of the American scene? The never ending drama of our politics? Our almost fanatical high spiritedness? Our Humor? This is the American spirit condensed into a single song.

  • Thank you. This was quite enjoyable for an old Marching Band cornet player. And Sousa was a phenomenally talented writer and performer. Thanks again.

    Happy Birthday, America!

  • Hearing Stars and Stripes Forever always gives me such a feeling of pride and patriotism like no other music in the world! JPS marches are just so awesome. If you ever get a chance to see the U.S.Marines band, they definitely do it justice. Even John Phillip Sousa himself would be proud.

  • Happy 4th of july to all!

  • I always get a lump in my throat when the part 'three cheers for the Red, White & Blue' kicks in. I am an American... born, raised, and will die an American.

  • This Epic March Should Replace The United States Of America's National Anthem. The Old One, Is Well... Too Old And Overused, We Need To Mix It Up, Get Some Fresh Stuff In.

  • so epically epicified with the animation, and the song should be played at each sporting event

  • I'm spanish, but I can feel like an american when I listen this incredible march! Sousa was a genius ^^

  • Love the visualization on this one - it really helps in understanding the piece. Incedentally, I recently heard the US Air Force Academy's Stellar Brass sextet, and the tuba played the piccolo part on this march perfectly.

  • Smalin - I love these videos. Do you take requests?

  • @lomax343 I used to, but my to-do list is now so long that I probably won't live long enough to get to everything that's already on it.

  • Love the piccolo here. <3

    

  • my fav part : 0:06 - 1:40

  • we r playing this in my concert band in high school

  • Oh, man, I'm so sorry smalin. I just committed the ultimate musical sin: I called it a song. I hate it when people call marches or movements to symphonies and concertos "songs", and here I've done just that. I'm not worthy...

  • This song is more appropriate than ever today. It's great to be an American this week!

  • Piccolo solo for the win

  • The video is amazing and very helpful. I feel that I know the details of piece fairly well, as I own a player-piano roll with a reduction of the score that I play frequently. The animation brings out details of the orchestration I had totally overlooked. Sousa's genius shines through, brighter than ever. Thank you.

  • that truly amazed me!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

  • Just remember kids, if you're at an opera, circus, or concert and the band starts playing this, and it's not on the playbill, get the hell out of there quick!

  • In a fit of not knowing what else to do, I just sent the person I told I loved this video.

  • Really unique animation. Quite entertaining. Thanks for posting!

  • Best march ever.

  • Fallout 3

  • I've been playing flute for nearly 15 years and piccolo for almost as long. I had the opportunity to play the piccolo solo in this piece in school years ago and it remains one of my favorite pieces to play.

  • my band in school is going to play this and i just know that my director will want me to play the piccolo solo because we have yet to get skilled piccolo players and i am the first flute. whats a guy to do? i am going to suck and i might just have to bight the bullet on this one.

  • What do each of the colored bars represent? I know blue is flute and piccolo, green is trumpet and purple is tuba, but not much else. 

  • piccolo/flute player for over a decade.... i really wish i'd played another instrument. hahaha. i was chosen as the soloist for the piccolo part in this piece when we played in the band, as i was the only piccolo there. nerve wracking, to say the least, especially when it comes to playing such a reknowned piece. =/

  • La marcia più bella

  • i have to play this in about 2 and a half hours from memory on an instrument a barely know how to play.....i havent started memorising yet D:

  • @aloha2302 fake it

  • I feel this to be one of the few pieces of music that defines us as a country, along with the entertainer.

  • I love the piccolo at 2:02

  • @mikedressner I'm just plain impressed by the piccolo in the whole piece. Such a small bit of wind making such a huge impact amongst all that big brass.

  • @CRONEMAGE Actually, the piccolo takes a lot of wind.

  • @smalin LOL I was referring to the size of the piccolo. Haven't played one myself, but I've played a pennywhistle and even those take some serious wind. Now to see which instrument my kiddo ends up playing in band, and then I'll really get to see some wind.

  • @mikedressner I'm just plain impressed by the piccolo in this whole piece. Such a small bit of wind making such a huge impact amongst all the big brass.

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  • when i was 17, i went to london. while there, i went to the changing of the guard. they played this. i can remember being stunned.

  • @tranurse Good for you; that means you understood enough of the piece to be moved. It's monumental. Perhaps the best march ever written. If you hear it as "just another band piece" you aren't getting it.

  • Bravo!

  • Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue !!!

  • Drums....no drums...I like these bar graph presentations.

  • WOW THIS IUS HARD PLAYING THIS IN BAND AND IM IN 6TH GRADE!

  • usa

  • Wow... this piece brings back memories. Miss my friends in Europe :(

  • 2:50 fffffffffffffffffff

  • Whats with the video?? Is this Sousa's BRAINWAVES on Stars & Stripes??..

  • This is one of my favorite fireworks songs, it's just so peppy. I heard it played on a music box at the end of 'Boardwalk Empire' last night, and just couldn't place it without the big band along with it.

    Thank you for the upload!

  • @KaraStarbuckNY

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it was the Washington Post March that was played at the end of episode 10 of Boardwalk Empire.

  • enclave radio (:

  • @Helghast470 What's enclave radio?

  • @ajpianoman1

    it's from the game Fallout 3, they play this on an radio station called: 'enclave radio'

  • @Helghast470 Oh, I see. That's awesome:)

  • @ajpianoman1

    yeah, it's really funny, on that station you hear this kind of music and funny speeches of this fictional president.

  • this is a project

    

  • I love what it looks like for the piccolo soli part! :D Amazing!!! I play the trumpet, and the piccolo/flute are so intriguing. I wish it were easier to trill on a trumpet... XD

  • You are the best Smalin!!!!

  • this is pretty cool. now whenever I play a piccolo solo an animated score like this comes up >_>

  • Needs an American Flag in the background

  • Well done! Very enjoyable.

    

  • funnest piccolo part ever to play

  • where could i get the piccolo part for this for free on-line??

  • All the musicology and theory stuff aside this is like watching musical FIREWORKS!!!

    Especially from 2:58 on with the picollo obligatto. GREAT STUFF!

  • how can you not get chills at 2:53?

  • Happy Independence Day!

  • Why didn't the MIDI file that this video was made from have a drum part?

  • @dogman15 It did ... but what pitch should the drum be shown at?

  • @smalin: I didn't see anything that might have been the drum/percussion part in this video, but most of the time, when I play a MIDI file with drums in MAM player, the drum part is at the bottom, because the bass drums, snare drums, and main cymbals of the drumset are at the lower end of any keyboard. (In General MIDI, of course.)

  • @dogman15 That's true ... but this video wasn't made with the MAMPlayer. In orchestral music, there's sometimes timpani, which are pitched, and I put them at the right place (like in the Beethoven 7th symphony movement); but for this, the choice of pitch was mine, and I decided to just leave them out. Maybe in the future, if I do visualizations that are more like spectrograms, the percussion parts will be visible.

  • This is the best march i have ever listened!

  • I take it that the green one is oboe/clairnet?

  • Very nice. Always love a good Sousa and the animation was just a joy to watch while listening.

  • Where did you get this? It is SO cool! By the way, i think the colors are instremets.

  • @AlexCTV1 I made it myself.

  • @smalin you mean you programmed the software for the visuals your self?

  • @mranderson762 I did write this software, yes. (You can learn more about it on my web site.)

  • I think also a baritone horn plays in it also with the trombone

  • ユニゾンや和製が視覚的にわかりやすくてとても参考になりました­!

    他のマーチも是非アップしてください!

  • the best march EVER!

  • The performance is rather crappy but still good music. The US Army Band does a WAY better job, especially in the trio.

  • Band of the Grenadier Guards recording?

    I have this! It's awesome!

  • Fuck communism

  • Nice!! 1:39

  • the part aron 2:40 always reminds me somehow on since fiction movies^^

  • I can hear the piccolo solo, but I would like for the rest of the band to be down about 10db so that the piccolo can sing out better.

  • Yes, I agree.

  • I love playing the piccolo solo. It was so cool, because I had it memorized, so my band director let me stand up during the solo...then during the second time through, the brass stood up too. It was sweet. :]

  • i so want to play that piccolo part!!!! it's awesome!!

  • So ... get out your piccolo!

  • @smalin i can't play mines, i was supposed to take band, but they put me in piano. I think it was a better choice for me.

  • Legal, o compositor era descendente de portugueses!

  • no doubt it's a masterpiece

    and a great contribution to American music

  • There are some aliens whose written language looks like this. They are from a distant planet.

  • this is the best song for the piccolo

    the piccolo part is amazing and extreamly fun and hard to play. it may look easy but it is really fast and high

  • haha most people in my band hated souza after we had to play this song cause of all the off beats in 3rd trumpet and in the french horn section

  • sry ment 1st and 2nd

  • this is awsome.

  • 5****)))(((((

  • goosebumps down my back at 2:56

  • simplesmente, PERFEITO.

  • Fascinating! What a cool music animation system this is...interestingly enough, when the video was over, I paused it to read the bit at the end about who was playing it, and I had a bit of a an optical illusion--the text appeared to be moving to the left, even though the video was paused! :P I guess after watching a scrolling video for a few minutes I became adjusted to it...

  • That was...AWESOME!!! I'm playing this song in marching band, and I want to show this to my music director. :)

  • Would that interpretation of the colours be right?

    Piccolo = Blue

    Trombone = Ochre

    Trumpet = Green

    Tuba = Magenta

  • Yes, that's pretty close.

    I went back to my score, and tried to figure it out, but the score I used for the video doesn't have the instrument names, and it's enough different from the original Sousa score that I can't easily match it up. So you'll have to just use your ears. Sorry.

  • If you happen to have a MIDI, you can always consult that.

  • Yes I believe that is correct.

    Also, I believe Magenta is Euphonium and other low-wind instruments. Green is also Cornet.

    We are playing this piece at our school with a professional symphony band.

  • Thanks a lot smalin and alaconz for your answers. :)

    I'd love to have a musical score which is not as unreadable as the one handwritten by Monsieur Sousa himself.

    But anyway, just enjoying this wonderful piece without a score is wonderful as well. :)

  • Niebieski - Flet

    Jasnobrązowy - trąbka

    ciemnobrązowy - puzon

    Jasnozielony - alt horn

    ciemnozieony tenor horn

    jasnoróżowy - baryton horn

    ciemnorozowy - tuba

    ??

  • @RahmSifr bhe io ho la parte perla tromba e da quanto vedo la tromba deve per forza essere ocra ed il trombone verde

  • u could do this to just about any song

  • jaja q groso

    CRONICA TV!

  • Fallout 3 :D

    Just kidding,great composition.

  • Awesome! Just about the coolest thing ever.

  • please do one on the four seasons

  • have you read the FAQ?

  • I'm speechless.

    ......This was pretty much an orgasm for my eyes and ears.

  • Am I the only one who thinks this is a tad better then our actual anthem? Not saying I dislike the Star Spangled Banner, its just this has so much more energy.

  • I agree! I like this one better. But the composer of Star Spangled Banner actually witnessed the war of 1812, a war similar to the revolution. It took only one of the battles to inspired him to write it, the seize of Baltimore.

  • Agreed!

  • OMG OMG smalin can you do FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE?????????

    i bet it would be awesome.

    :{D

  • it's on my DVD (hint, hint)

  • DVD??

    were can i find that?

  • On my web site ...

  • on his webste

  • I always liked this, but I never realized how cool the score looks, musically :D

  • I had to log in to tell you what joy this brought me. Your body of work is fantastic (I have always loved the brandenburg concertos as a musician or audience member) but this piece in particular is more fun than the rest.

    Thanks!

  • Thank YOU! What a nice thing to read, first thing in the morning.

  • Wow are sounds sound produced with only the piano..yes i know im a noob

  • I love music. I need to pick the piano back up again... You know what I mean.

  • nice dude.

  • hot hehe

  • I came upon this video while i was surfing your channel. Nothing about this video has ever just popped up. I love it. One thing though...I'm compiling a folder of the sheet music for many many classical pieces and i was wondering if you have another score for this. One that isnt in hand writing. That would be great if its not to much trouble thanks.

  • Sorry, no, I don't. The only scores I have for this are a condensed one (that doesn't match this video very well) and a piano reduction (that doesn't match this at all), and I don't own the copyright on either of them.

  • 1812 Ouverture please!

  • This sounds great! I'm really tempted to do that "Download ($0.76)", but I've never used that feature here at YouTube.

  • That's one cent per trombone, btw.

    If you try the download, let me know how it works.

  • Did you set the price for it like that intentionally? Wow!

    This form of marketing appeals to me as the consumer. What percentage is it that you get? PM me with some general details if possibe. I am most willing to support your wonderful videos, software programs, etc. - although I'm not rich - but will spread the word - so to speak.

  • I forget the exact formula, but I think I remember figuring out that if I charged $0.62, Google would get half, so maybe their cut is always $0.31 ... ? Or it might be variable ... I forget. In any case, it's something like that. I felt that I should get at least as much as they do, which is why the least I charge is $0.62. I felt that more than $0.99 would be too much, so I usually pick a semi-random number in that range. In this case, the most appropriate number was obvious.

  • Could you make an animation of the Sabre Dance? I love that song and i would love to be able to see it as well. Thanks.

  • I love it!!!!!

  • Pure awesomeness.  I love the piccolo trills.

  • this is quite possibly one of my favorite classical pieces. great job on the animation. this is a joy to watch.

  • is this piece that old to be categorised as classical?

  • Concert Marching.

  • this made me cry when i first heard it. one of my favorite songs ever!!!

  • wow...........!

  • lol funny

  • WO WOW WOW!

  • Cool concept and i love this song especially the piccolo part

  • How about your mother?

  • lol

  • Wait a second... You have to animate this by yourself? Like there isn't a program to do it for you??? Simply amzing.

  • i cannot get over these videos, each is just so spectacular i cant get enough. They kinda remind me of the beginning of 101 Dalmatians when the music ques all the spots and stuff haha

  • if i said you're good, i would be lying.

    you're amazing.

  • I thought it w