Clocks - Coldplay cover - percussion - 6th graders!

[grimman98]

Great Job. I'm in percussion in 7th grade and our band hasn't even tried to do anything like that. Good Job.

[TheTylerman1999]

3 people missed the like button

[digidrummer15]

I feel bad for the tall marimba player.. sometimes, they would pair up a 5'11" player (me) and a 5'4" player on the same instrument. Slouching has lead to the habit of me playing with incorrect posture, and it was hard for me to straighten my back when I started marching band.

[bubblemonster3]

if only my percussion class could play this good and were in 8th grade

must just dont care....

[MuSiCluva111]

@bubblemonster3 haha im in 8th grade band too and wre doin this for our spring concert!!!

[bubblemonster3]

@MuSiCluva111

nice :)

[MuSiCluva111]

@bubblemonster3 haha im in 8th grade band too and wre doin this for our spring concert!!!

[Kody5070]

damn i looked good in sixth grade

[lokisdaughter]

Hello I used to play on the keyboards in percussion, and I was noticing in this video some of them need work on their positions. Some of the like the girl on the bells needs to bring the mallet back up parallel to the keyboard. She's leaving them too low, and the sound isn't carrying well. She needs to snap her wrist in a way to have the sound of the notes sound crisp. The way she's doing it some of the notes on the bells almost have a buzzing to them. Other than that good job.

[MsEuropeanSexy]

AWESOME ...... THEY SHOULD BE PROUD

[Spookjhu]

It's good, but I'm also playing clocks on the marimba, and I'm 11 years old.

But it sounds mutch better if the person who's playing bells the same thing does as the person who's playing xyolophone.

[SeanUNT]

@Spookjhu The bells are playing the same thing as the xylophone for the melody, in every part except for the chords in the intro. Can't you tell? If I didn't have that, those chords would be missing from the piece, and it would sound too sparse.

[nxnwboy]

Made me smile. Thanks.

[megtardbailey]

were ding this in our percussion enseble at school! :) and thriller lol:) x

[gol2e2girl30h3]

looks like you guys put alot of effort into that and it turned out great!

[BelleTheOstrich]

They are awesome!!!

[trickysquriel]

i can play clocks but im a 7evy

[poptart2709]

i cant tell if that guy in the green and white shirt is suppose to be a student or teacher?

[SeanUNT]

@poptart2709 Haha, teacher, and that was me. I arranged the piece also, and was just playing the tom to kind of keep the ensemble together.

[MuSiCluva111]

@SeanUNT our band is doing this piece as a whole but me and the other allets speed up through out the song. i was wondering how u keep ur students on the same tempo? wre practicing with an intern and i think hes teaching us wrong

[Lp3DMAnime]

i gotta say the marimba and vibes and bells look so badass cuz there moving at like the same exact time good job everybody

[varti1]

For me the drum issue is tuning and damping, this is a great song to use toms too, but i enjoyed the preformance thank you

[Lp3DMAnime]

this is awesome. I love both versions of this song!

we're doing tubz, gypsy dance by ??? Campbell, for our percussion concert.

i love both of these ensembles, they r really fun

[TheHushlover]

this is actually like SUPER easy to play on mallets

[HerrApfelHund]

shouldnt of had the drums, i think that they ruined it

[SeanUNT]

@HerrApfelHund Well you can't play Clocks without some type of drums or percussion. It would sound ridiculous and like a lullaby without a beat.

[Smallfrie1996]

@SeanUNT dude the whole ensemble is percussion

[SeanUNT]

@Smallfrie1996 Yes....it's a percussion ensemble. What's your point?

[TheHushlover]

@HerrApfelHund I think YOU ruined it...LOL

[RatchetEms]

thats pretty damn good for grade 6's

[fuddrucker4567]

is this the kind of stuff they have you writing up at NT? ;)

[SeanUNT]

I had actually been out of UNT for several years when this was filmed. I graduated in 2005. This was just something I arranged in literally a couple of hours for my 6th grade beginner class that year for fun. To see examples of my heavier arranging chops, check out my vids Impulse, Bohemian, or Big Country. I would say my arranging is mostly self-taught though, although I did gain my overall understanding of the finer points of percussion ensembles from UNT. I wish I had taken some comp courses.

[fuddrucker4567]

I see. Yeah, I was definitely being sarcastic as I'm well aware of the intensity of a place like North Texas. I saw the Bohemian one - pretty cool stuff! I plan on auditioning for the school next year just to see what comes out of it...

[SeanUNT]

Ha, no problem. It's hard to get sarcasm over the internet, and I never know what I'm going to get with people on here. Thanks man, good luck with your auditions. UNT is intense, but if you can hang, it's amazing. I wish I could go back.

[fuddrucker4567]

That's what I hear. The audition alone should be a good experience. I got the pleasure of working briefly with Rennick at a Phantom Regiment audition camp last year. Needless to say, it was legit.

[Kody5070]

I was 12.

[AnimalLuv1]

the drum line i was in did this but it was only 5 people me on bells to vibes one marimba and we had to learn it in a week it was like ok so were learing this song and playing it this day "what!" but we did awsome

[trumpetogal37]

that's totally awesome, especially if they'd only been playing for 8 months!!!! way to get them excited about band and music!! :)

[Wahpinga]

These punks are a bunch of amateurs, especially the fool on the glockenspiel.

[soopermario]

The oldest looks about 13 man :|

[CPcoasterguy94]

@Wahpinga for sixth graders they sound dang good...good job guys...GO FELLOW PIT/PERC PLAYERS!

[SeanUNT]

Yes, they were a bunch of amateurs you moron. If you would read the info (although I know Youtube jerks like you never bother with that) you would have seen that these kids were all 11 at the time, and had only been playing percussion for 8 months. For that amount of time, they are the best beginning 6th grade percussion class I have ever seen, and you low enough to criticize them like that? Show me a group of kids this young that can do better. I hope you feel good insulting little kids.

[Paramoredrummer13]

good job!

[peacelovebeatles11]

the 7th and 8th grader percussion at my school are doing this this year

[TheRealGuitarHero22]

Wow, this is amazing!!

[alwin3705]

this is so cool!!! very nice job!!

[goldgirl95]

haha i remember that

our band did that song in the 6th grade at Dhs

i see u jade nd kody

Mcmath tigers roxs

[donohoo1]

this is one of my favorite songs! I Love this!

[awesomoe4000]

damn thats really good, nice job guys.

[IcemanC130]

Man, that girl on the bells knows how to tear it up! These kids are great!

[IcemanC130]

Pardon my ignorance, but I just remembered that I meant to say chimes instead of bells. I'm just too used to referring to them as bells, I guess.

[SeanUNT]

You were actually right the 1st time. They are bells, or orchestra bells. Chimes are the giant vertical instrument that are long tubes struck with a hammer. Thanks for the kind words, they were an amazing 6th grade group.

[otakusRawesome]

awesome :D

[RebeccaHeartsJB]

thats really cool! i wish i could do something like that at our school

[SeanUNT]

Well, I have a link to download it in the info section, so you could try! Thanks for the compliment. Subscribe if you'd like to see more of my percussion arrangements!

[TheRealMcOHarris]

haha look at caleb

[CoconutHunter4Life]

Nope, just a marimba. Haha. we dont even have an electric bass player...so were probably going to get someone to play keyboard. okay thanks!

[CoconutHunter4Life]

I'm going to try and get my band instructor to let us play this. Thanks a lot!!! We're going into 7th grade. Only problem is, we only have one marimba and bells. We might divide up the drumset part so everyone has a part.

[SeanUNT]

You don't even have a xylophone? Or did you mean xylo when you said marimba? You could use the electric bass part if you don't have a 5 octave marimba, and you could probably use a piano for the vibraphone part. Have fun with it!

[AssassinsScar]

we do that at our school

[SeanUNT]

Yeah, every middle school percussionist likes to play the riff to Clocks. That's why I arranged it, because my 6th graders wouldn't stop playing the basic riff over and over and over, without ever getting to the melody, haha. I have more percussion arrangements if you'd like to subscribe!

[9genevieve123]

i wish our school would do that!

[SeanUNT]

Check in the info section. There's a link to where you can download my arrangement. If you have a good enough percussion section, maybe they could learn it. Post it if they do! Subscribe if you'd like to see more arrangements too.

[downy90]

i like this way of playing clocks

it sounds like real clocks by this percussion

[SeanUNT]

Thanks downy! I think Chris Martin chose the name Clocks because of the way the piano riff sounds. Glad you liked it.

[NorthPark320]

that sounds really amazing. Cool 6th graders!!!!!!!

[SeanUNT]

Thanks NorthPark. They were a good group of kids, lots of natural talent to build on. Subscribe if you'd like to see more!

[TheRealMcOHarris]

i still think tubas are better!!

( Way better!!!!)

[SeanUNT]

I would like to see a tuba ensemble play Clocks, haha.

[CrippleBoyProduction]

Haha

If the 1st years at my school tried that...

Great job!

[SeanUNT]

Thanks man. Yeah, this group of 6th graders had a surprising amount of natural talent for me to work with, so I thought I'd challenge them with this piece, and they pulled it off. I think a couple of them will be All-State players in HS if they stick with it.

[Noraherz]

Oh man so cute :)

[SeanUNT]

Haha, it is pretty neat that they were all just 11 or 12 year old 1st year players at this point, and could play something so well that was very challenging for their age. I don't have any other middle school ensembles up, but subscribe if you'd like to see some of my high school percussion arrangements. They're not as cute, but they're even better! :)

[MamaLlama876]

Lucky you guys have such good band funding. My school only has one xylophone and a bell kit. My director doesnt even know that its a xylophone. He thinks its a marimba....fail.

[SeanUNT]

I'd say we had about average funding. It could be better though. That 5 octave marimba is actually my personal instrument that I brought to the school. Otherwise the middle school did have a 4.3 octave synthetic bar marimba, along with the other stuff, so that sucks you guys don't have one. And lol at your director, I always shake my head when people think they're all called Xylophones. Subscribe for more great percussion vids!

[pixeldixelshizel]

simply brilliant!

[SeanUNT]

Thanks pixel! Subscribe if you want to see more good arrangements!

[Kdhanani12]

that is sooooooooooo cool

[SeanUNT]

Thanks Kdhanani. Subscribe for more vids on the way!

[RandiHopeLizzy]

wow! that sounds incredible!teehee caleb looks so cute((:

[Ethomie365]

the kid on the left is my friend Kelvin Land

[TheKgLand]

@Ethomie365 umm who are you im kelvin and i checked your channel and there are like no pictures WHO ARE YOU

[notafakeaccount]

The reason i quit band in middle school and rejoined in high school was because of my teachers choice of music. Glad your keeping them Interested in music.

[SeanUNT]

Thanks notafakeaccount. It just seemed to me that the band music middle school's play is usually so terrible and simple, and usually the kids are capable of a lot more than the directors allow them to try. Not only did the kids respond more, but the parents did too. Every piece in the concert by the full band had lackluster applause at best, and after this piece we got a standing ovation.

[Ricckk92]

Tnx for the PDF's. Maybe I should do something with it!

[SeanUNT]

No problem. Yeah you should, it's great for MS percussionists. A little easy for HS, but it's still a lot of fun to play.

Plus audiences love it, especially during a band concert after listening to a bunch of boring wind ensembles, haha.

[Ricckk92]

In which program did you compose it? If you've composed in Finale would you post the file as .mus. If you've composed it in Sibelius or another program would you post is as MusicXML.

Than I can edit it a bit. My band hasn't all the instruments.

Thanks...

[SeanUNT]

Hmm, I did it in Finale, but I don't think I'm comfortable sending that out. Once I send it out in a modifiable form, people can put their name on it, mangle it with my name still on it, etc. I'm not saying you would do that, but I just want to be careful. Sorry man.

How about you tell me what instruments you have and what ranges they are, and I'll tell you what to do that will require the least modding.

[Kody5070]

"Mr.REDMAN" arranged the piece "WE" played it.

[SeanUNT]

Haha, thanks Kody, just messing with you.

[SeanUNT]

Hey everyone who's interested! I finally got all the parts converted to PDFs, so now you can go to a site that I have them hosted on and download a zip file of it all. Look for the link in "more info" or a link that now pops up at the end of the vid.

Options: The vibe part can either be played as 4 mallets or 2 mallets.

Having a 5 octave marimba for the bass marimba part is best. A 4.5 octave (Low F) is ok too, just put the low Eb up an octave. If you have neither, use the electric bass part.

[3mitch1]

They did an awesome job! Congratulations to all!

[RHHSHAWKS2010]

I'm in HS and I think this would be a great tune to play to recruit kids into the music program. Can you give me the sheet music? We've either got 4.5 octave Adams marimbas or 5 octave ones. This would be a great tune to "jump start" the music program. My teacher would love to do this. So please lemme get that music

[fuddy12345]

Nice

[ghostfackilla]

oh yeah and i"m in band in california as a matter of fact burbank john muir middle school

[ghostfackilla]

could you please tell me where you got this piece from my band teacher would love to play this song for our concert

[Kody5070]

we arranged it

[SeanUNT]

Ahem, cough cough......"we"?

[stcallstar15]

lol this is awosome i wish we played stuf like this

[koning19]

can you please provide the music for this, our percussion teacher would love this!

[SeanUNT]

What grade level would it be for? Even though these are 6th graders, they were realy talented kids that year. This piece would still be cool for 8th graders, or even easy HS level I think, just because it's fun.

I made the vibe part a 2 mallet part that jumps around, but it really should be a 4 mallet part, if there is a kid that can play 4 mallets, so I could change that. Also, you need a 5 octave marimba, otherwise you would have to use an electric bass turned way down. Do you have a 5 oct?

[ashvio]

My percussion teacher would love it too!

im in 6th grade right now but im not sure if we could actually do this performence like this because our system is different but we could try it out for fun anyway. i think we have a 4.5 octave marimba and a 3.5 one too. (and yours was great btw) im up (or down im not sure) in Austin TX in RRISD!

Thanks!

[gothmusicsukz]

Those are some amazing 6th graders :D

[seanman5895]

lol i went there lasty year but i go to harpool now who ever this teacer is should get a big reward for just getting them to be abel to do that!

[SeanUNT]

Thanks man. A lot of them ended up leaving to go to Harpool right?

[imalotbetterthanyou]

Yeah..'cept for Caleb,Brandon,and Kody..that's about it..everyone else went.

[imalotbetterthanyou]

I knew all of theese kids..some stayed at McMAth, but most came to Harpool.

[TheDigitalMonk]

haha, we used to play this in middle school all the time! This is very good for sixth graders.

[mckenna98]

my bf can play the very first part on the bells

[oogieboogienmbc]

6th Graders?! Amazinggg! I wanted to be a band teacher. I hope to go to college someday. It's never too late, especially since I'm just 19. Lol. Great work!! =]

[SeanUNT]

Thanks man. Yeah, you should never feel like it's too late in life to make a major change in your path. I just quit my band director job actually, and now I'm applying for graduate school in a Sound Design degree, and I'm 27, so I'm starting a whole new deal. Kinda scary, but I needed something new. Go for it I say, whatever you really want to do.

[sellyourcomputer]

Wow. You must be dang good at teachin.

[SeanUNT]

Thanks! It was a really successful year. But, these 6th graders made it easier than usual too. Most of them had a lot of natural musical talent, and enjoyed it enough to practice without me harping on them too much. I noticed kids these days work a lot harder on something like Coldplay than on something like Ode to Joy, so that's why I arranged it for them.

[gamer458]

wow your last name is redman?

thats my moms side of the familys name

i live over here in tennessee so i guess its not the same redmans lol

[SeanUNT]

Actually my dad traced our family line back to Tennessee, but then the trail disappeared farther back, so you never know. We could be 50th cousins, haha.

[gamer458]

are you serious thats great lol

if you ever make alot of money you have to share it with your 50th cousin :)

[evildude1106]

holy shit....cool. boo boo boo da be dum like and some of dum boo boo boo boo da be dum

[KaHSdrummer]

wow this was really well done. Great work for 6th grades. props to the instructor and arranger!!!

[SeanUNT]

Thanks! If you liked this, check out my HS arrangements too.

[KaHSdrummer]

where is that? do you have a link?

[senicadawn]

hehe i see caleb and kody and zach

[SeanUNT]

Zach? There's nobody named Zach in this group.

[ZomgItzLinnie]

I go to McMath :D

[ExoticAutosClub]

Wow!! That is very good!!

[Sbguitar195]

Wow, i've never seen such talented sixth graders. I'm not even sure our high school percussion ensemble would be able to pull this off. Amazing, well done!

[thisismyaddiction]

this was fucking sick this was awsome

[Blahmaster1337]

Wow. That;s amazing... I wish my band director didn't suck more then a hoover. Great sounds. for 6th graders even. Our 6th graders don't even know scales yet! Awesome!

[SeanUNT]

Glad you liked it. This was in March, so they had been playing a bit longer than your 6th graders this year, but they did do a great job.

[tofutod]

some talented kids. and a very talented instructor

[SeanUNT]

Thanks! They were definitely the best 6th graders I have worked with. Unfortunately, all but 2 got transfered to a new middle school, or moved, so the program has to rebuild again, but it was fun while it lasted.

[thatsoundsfun]

yea i'm going to mcmath too (from calhoun) and i'm in BAND!!! yay yay

[snaredrummer107]

I know the guy whos playing the ride cymbal and snare!!! Woo Hoo!!! His 6ht grade class is actually good ours sucked!!!!!

[sbfangeleyes]

ahhhh!! im going there next year! im being rezoned from Crownover [GAYEST skool in the world] to McMath! i cant wait! :D

[Kody5070]

Who is HarryPotterStar

[SeanUNT]

Whoever he/she is, I removed all that junk. I'd like to see more comments about the music and what new people think (especially people not from McMath if anyone else is checking this out!)

[damjan202]

great.

watch and compare vith video on youtube:

v=mtSMqDz0-So

[Trianglesroklol]

Man, im goin 2 miss McMath... "tears"

[xomargieox]

The drummer is great!

[tejasbilly]

this was great in person, band in Denton its not just for nerds

[StylinClarinet]

love it!!! i know all of them!!!

[Shurst5151]

Kamiakin has been shown up by who? SIXTH GRADERS!!! OH YEAH!!!

[MeanGreenLuigi]

I love this school!! I will always miss it

[narfulthegarthunk]

KODY WEST!!!!!!!! hes the coolest. they did better than we did on our little 7th/8th thing.