Jack Stamp - Why Music Matters

[JessieSweetey]

I am so lucky to have been conducted by Dr. Stamp this weekend at my Regions concert. He is an amazing, and hilarious, man. Sooooooo happy i met him!! He may not have learned my name like he did most everyone else's but he made such an impact on my life!

[KeelllyyySsXo]

Dr. Stamp is an amazing and inspiring man. I'm proud to call him one of my professors.

[goththgirl]

this is an amazing video and i am so showing my band teachers

[demondulia]

great video....now all i have to do is write a paragraph about this

[lisaxy424]

This. Is. FANTASTIC. I'm showing this to my kids, my parents, my colleagues, my administrators...THANK YOU! :)

[Thebladeofforgivenes]

Nice speech, anyone know the name of the song they were playing

[HeritageBands]

@Thebladeofforgivenes The piece is called Shennandoah, an American folk tune, in a setting by Frank Ticheli.

[sailorpeace]

Marching band is my most favourite thing to do. As hard as tennis is for me, marching band is the most strenuous thing I've done yet. Now THAT'S discipline. I'll admit, since starting marching band, my grades have increased, my understanding of math has advanced, I'm a lot smarter. This man speaks the truth; thank you Dr. Stamp.

[bakacheeka]

wonderful



[clumsyclarinetist]

I absolutely LOVE Dr. Stamp! :-)

[clumsyclarinetist]

I absolutely LOVE Dr. Stamp! He is an amazing musician, educator, and conductor. Thank God for people like him who teach others the wonderful gift of music. :-)

[FlutePlayerLovee]

This is so true! I wish the Oregon government needs to pick up their butts and clean up their mistakes. We need funding! Next year in my school district we will have no elementary music, no middle school music (choir or band), and no choir in high school and your basic wind ensemble, conert band, and jazz band in the high school. This video speeks the complete truth!

[bandnerd203]

My boyfriend, a rugby jock, can't seem to understand the difficulties people in both bands do. He says that we don't do weight training or conditioning. That's all he's got on it. Some bands do, though. I almost just want to force him to do band just so he knows how difficult it is.

[wolfhunt123]

My band director gave this same speech haha. He studied under and respects this man a lot. A wonderful composer and a wonderful speech.

[Joovix]

I am a musician studying music at a higher education level, and I don't mean to devalue the message that Mr. Stamp is trying to convey, but I don't think it is entirely appropriate to compare a 300 batting average or any other sport elements to music. I really can't wrap my head around the comparison... does anyone else think the same? Music is not simply HARDER than sports either. Some aspects, yes. But any pro, in either field, is going to have to give it their all to succeed. isn't that true?

[impenetrable111]

an "A" isn't enough

[ALYdanceproductionz]

Heck yes. It's time for people to finally understand WHY MUSIC MATTERS.

[hitbabe14]

Where was this lecture given?

[CoD5number1fan]

Finally, the credit we deserve!

[JBLover4Ever600]

That 95% sounded really bad. So I guess on my last test when I made a 90% it stunk...

[Demonosapien13]

That 94-95% sounds like my high school band. :(

[shugapie513]

A 100% on a piece of music involves much more than notes. Many times, musicians can even go above and beyond the 100% criteria. Music is just not as objective, and that's a big reason why people don't understand its importance. As advocates, we shouldn't try to measure the arts like we measure other things simply to prove a point. Music deserves to have value because of its qualities that are outside the realm of academics and sports. Creativity cannot be measured in percents and test scores.

[Theoneriggs]

He taught most of the schools in my city :)

[khna1mn97]

I just got back from All-District Band, which Jack Stamp conducted :-)

[moderndaywarriorAZ]

This video is great. But, unfortunately music education is in trouble because few music educators instill any respect or appreciation for music in their students. Then, as adults, the students don't support music education. Most music educators are only concerned with using their ensembles for things like impressing parents, impressing their peers, winning competitions, and getting high scores and ratings at music festivals. Music educators are killing music education with their selfishness.

[kthraney]

Which group did this video?

[Ryaneatcf]

Imagine how this would sound if it was at 60% just passing in most classes :P

[Hotchocolate1494]

DON'T BAN MUSIC! DON'T BAN MUSIC!!

[dpolyb]

I watched a DCI group practice. It was one of the most physical and demanding practices that I have ever seen! And that was just the precision drill! The physical and mental discipline was more than amazing. Music creates mental discipline that cannot be duplicated by any other Academic endeavor.

[dancingdolphinsart]

It's actually not misleading. All other considerations in the music are correct, the wrong notes are even in tune, but still wrong. As someone with a BM, BME, and MM in Performance, as well as a teacher and performer, I've learned how hard all the concepts are, but reducing to right and wrong is what is happening here, none of the other multiple factors need to be addressed... this is what happens when you miss that question on your final exam and get a 95% in music x 146 musicians!

[drumcrzy10391]

wow...love the speech. Being in a college marching band its easy to relate but i never really thought about the little details he laid out in the sound bit. Very nice speech.

[a53mp]

@drumcrzy10391 try drum corps!

[LogicalPhallusy]

For serious. I took piano lessons for several years starting in middle school. Learning to deliver all the technical aspects, including being able to play lengthy classical pieces from memory, was really beneficial. It significantly increased memory and pattern-matching skills as well as left-right brain coordination, and now I'm really fucking smart!

[ONLYUSEmeWii]

@LogicalPhallusy LOL thats awesome dude!!! im not being sarcastic

[SraGillRenken]

The link between languages and music is such an important aspect! I love getting those band students and singers.

[conuropsis]

Excellent! He also could have said that music teaches creativity, cooperation and respect. And of course musicians ARE athletes; they just use smaller muscle groups in different parts of their bodies.

[kickinbrass75]

Well said!!

[unplugged182]

Why can't school systems see this video. Come to my school!

[therealmrpizzaman]

coolio

[helloiammeasinme]

This is a great way to explain how music is important. I've spent alot of time trying to get this point across to people who say its easy and doesnt take hard work. Everyone that is considering cutting band from their school or even if the people that think its not important should listen to this, and immediately reconsider.

[last8frames]

See... He's right, we NEED music... as a concert band/marching band-ite since fourth grade I know the advantages this has given me in life, but he's twisting some of the concepts to manipulate people who don't understand music - a "mistake" in music isn't strictly a wrong note, there is tone and tempo and volume and a dozen other factors to consider. The average person wouldn't recognize if one of those people failed to play staccato on a note - right or not, this speech is misleading.

[bandfreakxx]

@last8frames Well, he specifically said that he's going to focus on one type of mistake. He gave that misclaimer.

[nikiwonoto]

wow this is such a new interesting perspective on music and being a musician

as a musician/songwriter myself from Indonesia, I am very honored and deeply touched to hear this beautiful speech!

thank you very much for believing so much in Music & its power,

let's keep spreading the positive message!

[kevinluvtortugas]

Is it odd that this made me tear up a bit? I think I'm going to listen to this before every Band Competition this year.

[pccrazy1000]

@kevinluvtortugas nope, I don't think it's strange

it sounds like music really matters to you <3

[kevinluvtortugas]

@pccrazy1000 yeah, it really does, it really does. ☺

[spiralsounder]

This video is really great even no visuals are present...listen if you think music matters...enjoy!

[motherpok]

wow i love this speech :D

[VagueTheory]

Amen to this! The "No Child Left Behind" program that the government passed back in the day shouldn't have cut back funding on the arts...

[jmalc04]

A+: a piece by thomas duffy, deals with the same subject matter. bless you mr. stamp.

[rootbeerazor]

@DarkRaven008912 Look up Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. or Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corp 2007 running hornline...i know for sure no football player could do that...

[pbandjmurphy]

Great video! I play trombone and sing in choir, nine years in both. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it weren't for music. Please check out my channel and let me know what you think of it! Thanks!

[Songbyrdy]

95 % = YIKES!

[Miranda8149]

Sports aren't easy, and I get that. All throughout middle school I played basketball, but now, I'm in band, and marching band is WAY harder than ANYTHING. I'd like to see some of these people who say "Band isn't a physical sport" go out in 99 degree weather, and do a circle drill at 195 bpm. It's difficult.

[hollyl47]

I get tired of people pitting sports vs. arts/band. These are both important options for students.; both require talent and cognitive abilities; both keep kids in school with a strong sence of connection. Let's stop this comparison and begin to work together to make sure our students have options for there own special talent and interest.

[musicscifigirl]

I see what you're saying, and I wish all educators shared your view. Unfortunately, it's usually the music/arts who get the shaft during budget cuts.

[uesifam]

"You can't let someone who doesn't know about music take music out of our schools"...

Thank U so much for posting!!:) Very True and I really enjoyed it!:)

Much love and respect!!:)

[kp1185]

It's called differentiated instruction. That's why you need sports and performing arts.

[srargov]

I have a son who is both an accomplished gymnast and an excellent violist and I can tell you that music has stayed with him all the way into adulthood, whereas gymnastics has given way to other recreational sports. Music becomes a part of your soul.

[djhavok253]

3:30 Hilarious!

[rebeccaharper2009]

It's my prayer for everyone out there to step back and think about something: the sounds around us (birds, whistling, wind, leaves, shouts, cries, meows, barks, even silence)...it's all musical. The sounds of our world = music. If we take music out of schools, we are depriving the future of understanding the world around them.

[benzoblack]

great Vid... thank you for supporting Music and the Arts...

[sirrichardterry]

"i can play 6 different instruments poorly, but well enough so that you can tell what song im playing"

That's kind of like saying you know anything about sports because you play road hockey & baseball with the other guys in your neighbourhood. Getting into music groups, other than things like class choirs and non-auditioned community or church groups, requires as much work, skill and discipline as making a sports team. And preparing for & passing the audition is only the beginning...

[TheLeggio]

i support his views but i must admit, i dont like a lot of his music

[MusicLover964]

4got 2 mention: i <3 sheadoah! Its so beautiful!

[MusicLover964]

This wuz a GREAT VIDEO! :D

[baiereuph]

Hmmm. Well, in middle school I played basketball, in high school I played football, basketball, and ran track. In college I played football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and was a fencer. In high school I was in the marching band, jazz band, orchestra, choir, and barbershop quartet. I even made All-State choir and first chair All-State on my instrument (tuba). I spent most of my undergraduate time and all of my graduate school as a Music major. I've been on both sides of this equation.

[ChasingAustria]

an aspect of music education that Mr. Stamp didn't bring up was the emotional feeling that music gives us musicians. I remember the first time I was given my Clarinet and was able to play a full 2 min. song, I felt like hevan had just opened up and I finally felt truly awake. Not only is music good for the brain, it's good for the soul too. My best friend once dropped her saxaphone, and she was a nervous reck for the three weeks it took to fix it.

[llamasarewatching]

music is the heart and soul of any musician..i totally agree with u. i play clarinet and bass clarinet and when i was first able to play long songs or even memorize them i was amaxed with myself!!

[SKA92bitch]

You either have the niche for music, or you don't. You can only be taught so much.

[Kenaiable]

@SKA92bitch...that doesn't matter. You can still enjoy it 100% even if you don't have a knack for it. Music is for everyone.

[SKA92bitch]

@Kenaialbe I completely agree, I did not mean to offend. What I meant was that to have a keen understanding you have to think a certain way. You can't really be taught how to understand music (and I mean classical not the stuff on the radio). It's hard to articulate what I mean. I'm sorry.

[SKA92bitch]

Jack Stamp is epic!!!!!!!

[MicrobeObliteratorMo]

as much as i absolutely love music, i kind of have to say i disagree with some parts. of course, music should be kept in public schools. but playing sports probably isn't easier than playing music. i mean, sure, you sometimes fake a turn or whatever, but that takes strategy, you don't fake something because you feel like it, you do it for a legit reason. im not trying to insult anyone. i just think comparing music to sports is like comparing apples to oranges.

[quadmaster89]

@MicrobeObliteratorMo I would have to say to you that Drum and Bugle Corps is defined as a sport. And the people who compete in Drum and Bugle Corps are considered athletes. So really it's comparing apples to apples, and you can't possibly say that playing "sports" is harder than playing "music" when drum corps is a combination of both.

[MicrobeObliteratorMo]

im not saying sports is harder than music, cz they're both difficult in their own ways, that's why i said you can't really compare them.

[KatyDidAndKidShow]

Hey hes got a good point our music director let us skip band to make us watch this video the next day was our christmas concert we played a hundred percent after his inspiering speech our band director always refers to it when we dont play a hundred percent which that dosent happen alot but it was really good it got us good reveis it got us on the front page of our news paper :D it was a hard thing to do but u just have to keep a hundred percent in mind i always do and im getting an a+ in band

[Jibaroa]

Learn how to spell!!

[CearaIsLame]

i love this

[Moog167]

Music is ruleless so you technically cannot teach people how to play music because there are so many approaches to it around the world.....

[Guitarbuddy449]

for everyone who thinks that things such as marching band is easy you need to youtube search "DCI Athletes" and that'll shut you up ;D

[jacoveyx3]

Today, my band director asked my class to look up this video. I thought it was just something that I wouldn't watch because I just didn't want to. But I decided I would. It's a great video talking how you have to give your all in order to play your instrument well. As in the words of my band director, "The band is only is good as its worst player."

[Classicalguy12]

Because being a violinist and euphoniumist, using keyboard is not playing with the heart. Music is pure emotion from the player, he/she expresses themself through their music. Plus, digital sounds like crap to me, there's nothing like the real thing. Have you ever seen a professional symphony orchestra perform? You should, then you will not be thinking like this. We will always have the traditional as you refer to them instruments, digital cannot compete with acoustic, nor will it ever.

[chall329]

I'm not writing this comment to bash you or your reasoning, but only to inform so please don't take it the wrong way. One reason we need these acoustic instruments is simply because of the timbre. Each instrument has so much color to the sound that a keyboard or any digital interface cannot, or will not, ever be able to match. Any woodwind player can tell you how much the color of sound changes from the low register to the high one, and without even talking about materials

[azncocoapocky]

he never said those weren't hard sports those are hard but music is just harder

[BrothaSkittles]

it doesn't matter on how hard a "sport" is, that depends on the person. It matters on whether or not you can do it. Sure, wrestling takes strength and knowledge of the body and how to weaken it, but in Music, you need to know how to count, how to play your instrument, how to read the music, and (in marching band) how far to go WHILE playing the song. So it really doesn't matter how hard it is or if your a loser and get beat up, half of you wrestlers or whatever couldn't last an hour in drum corp

[ArmadilloCentralReg]

woah. join a marching band then talk to us about discipline.

[kelamoku62]

and then join drum corps

[ArmadilloCentralReg]

Before I say anything, I'd like the public to know that I play baseball, football, I swim, I wrestle, and I run track.

I play the drums, tenor saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, I sing, and I can play piano and various other instruments. I'm in the marching band at my school, as well as the concert band.

Trust me, I know how hard sports are, but music and playing it is a lot harder. Sports are a physical difficulty. Music is all other aspects and physical.

Before you go saying that band is gay

[jzilla138]

I've had the privledge to work with Jack Stamp at the Univ. of Southern Maine when he worked with our concert band, and he is right on the money with this. Music is vitally important to our culture and our lives.

[PJepb]

Imagine the world without football.

Now imagine the world without music.

[RichfromNH]

@PJepb Well said!!!

[kbrandonbaumann]

It football disappeared my world wouldn't change.

[umMARSHMALLOW]

Thank you AC3DG... Leave the mean comments for elsewhere. I'm in marching band (colorguard) and for those who've never done it combines physical activity as well as music... Just as the Drum and Bugle Corps.. Similar things. Anyway there is no need to bring sports into this because this video is for keeping MUSIC in schools, not SPORTS. Sports are important to me too but go find a video on sports and go comment on that instead of here.

[tman1411]

To some other comments, I played sports, too. Sports can give you discipline, but it's a specific discipline, and saying that music can't teach discipline is an unfounded statement. Practice, time, and patience to play an instrument or sing well with musicality takes much self-discipline. But if that's not enough, I also can play 6 sports poorly, but well enough so that you can tell which sport I'm playing...

[saturnstargazer]

It's so very, very true. :D

I've played softball, so yes, I've seen both sides, and granted, both sides require lots of effort and time, but before I joined band, marching band mainly, I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into when I first laid eyes on a music note.

And now, it's something I want to pursue for the rest of my life.

GO BAND AND MUSICAL ART. =D

[ApatheticVegnagun]

I agree with what is being said in this video completely.

[barbcola]

He has just scratched the surface on all the ways music enriches lives.

[mattissoc00l]

I wanted to die during the 95% playing.

[MegaBadMoFo]

Actually, I like the way the 95% playing sounds...very " Ives or Schonberg-esque"

[bandgeekgarcia]

i used to play sports, music is a calling to me, football no longer does

[Squee36]

IUP!!!

[starwarslego12]

i play trombone in my school band and my director told me to look this up. very well said.

[bandgurla1]

My band director showed this to us, and I think it's so true! Music education is extremely important in schools!

[ShibbyHoee]

:) I'm showing this to my band director tomorrow.

[xxrubbishxcorexx]

The truth: he speaks it.

[TeeNEssing80]

I'm in band and I love music! I don't know what my life would be like without it.

[alicekny]

Bravo!~ Keep music in our schools!!!

[WAKeele]

I wouldn't say that first example was at 100%.

Very good points though.

[bltsponge]

Brilliant! I love it.

[oboegirl08]

I love Dr. Stamp! Being in a band that he conducts is such an honor. He makes me so happy to be going to IUP for music =)

[reeldeelpeel]

I wish this was FEATURED!!!!!!!!!

[bandgeekpoet]

This is so perfect in every single way.

[VKDM8687]

I am amazed...simply amazed that simplicity and POWER of his message. I hope to meet you some day Dr. Stamp--and wish you were around when I was in high school!

[HoneyNIron]

Amen. I love Jack Stamp!

[tinypeanuts]

I've had a few guest conductors do this. It's so true though.

BTW, Jack Stamp is a god!

[krazymk224]

I agree. And adore Dr. Stamp.

[LMR826]

I love Dr. Stamp. He's fabulous, and so right. IUP is lucky to have him.

[SuperBoringdude]

this is the best example of why music matters EVER!!!!(that I've heard, at least)

[OrganCat]

Best demo I've ever heard. A grade of 95% looks good on paper but music performance is an entirely different standard. Bravo!

[aurorajazz9]

STANDING OVATION!

[renee29404]

HELLL YEAH! I am a band geek. This makes total sense. I love it

[blummy24x7]

Sage advice - it doesn't get old no matter how many times it's said nor when.

[thesonicbliss]

haha he gave this lecture without the audio demonstration when he conducted a band i was in like ten years ago!!

[iamdabeat11]

he does this all the time...lol

I have practically the same recording from a PMEA Festival last year.

[jkeith1960]

Most succinct explanation of why music education is so important to our culture and world.

[cams6music]

Jack Stamp rocks!  The best ever.

[willow19460]

Without a doubt.