Santa Monica Marching Band Performs Firebird

[MegaThegUnit]

sounds pretty good, but it would have sounded better it a mellophone had played the solo not a trombone.

[phantomcjs]

i think you guys did an alright job.

we did Carmina Burana mixed with the Firebird this past year and since then i've loved it.

Good Luck in the future!

[elbamalena]

This was horrible.

J.F.

[PhantomRose5]

We were playing this for our show this year. We did great. Go Pit and Go Tigers!

[allgood4u000]

The trumpets overpowered everything else

[RhapsodyinStu]

My praise for your band is unlimited sir.  The second greatest ballet ever written (first of course being Rite of Spring) being brought to the marching field has certainly refined this overlooked competitive activity. Kudos!

[NintendoFunTime]

thats not a very good preformance of the song but the marching was good

[allgood4u000]

I'm playing the firebird for my freshman year. I think it is a little bit difficult.

[marble2012]

Ahhhh good memories of marching this show lol It was only like two years ago but it feels like a long time ago

[chrisbblu]

its weird ive been trying to find a band thats played the firebird like my band is playing now but i cant...this is so soft and inoccent compared to our version that were playing

[AziZune]

This sounds kind of like my schools version, only we have more flute and more drum breaks.

[xgrungexme]

Hmmm, my school is doing this show this year. It sounds a little different from ours.

Our articulations bite, though. D:

Ours is a little....creepier? ehh, idk.

[tjgodsangel]

really good! now i see why u guys always get sweepstakes at stockdale's comp. our school will never ever beat u bcuz they're not as committed as you guys r

[animechow3]

pft we're commited? we never listen and we're always talking and the director makes us do push ups all the time =P

oh and btw, we got sweepstakes yesterday (stockdale)

[dbookin]

The uniforms look like Santa Clara Vanguard

[MarchingGeek13]

MORE TUBA!!!!!

[JargonMcScruffy]

There's NEVER enough tuba.

[thealliesarejews]

know the irony? we didnt win squat at the tournament and it was freezing as hell. kinda funny that i still remeber. good ol' days.

[KMSXxo]

My Bands Doing The Children Of Lir This Year & Firebird Finale Is In It :D

Ive Got The Solo So I Cant Wait Haha.. But Its On Sax xD

Sounds Good, Btw =)

[marinefishguy]

Getting this music next week, cant wait for my trombone solo :D Sounds like a good song for my band as well. TY for posting.

[lizardlips93]

our band is going to do this pice this year

[owex2010]

my winter drumline had this in our show last season! such a fun song to play!!!!

[holysht332]

WOW it must be soo hard 2 play that piece and move @ the same time...i cant barely play firebird sitting down ... GOOD JOB

[yellowDolphins89]

we sounded so much better in person...so much fun though!!

[logangaddis999]

this song just pwns my band won their first championship with song and wouldnt be as big as it is in Kentucky and especially our region if it wasnt for this song.

[kazenokizumi]

your arrangement of firebird is like wayy different than ours was

like the sound mostly, idk if its the recording or what but the shape of the notes differ from ours alot

[NobelNighthawk274]

My schools band is playing this this year and we sound ASOME !!!!! you guys are good wierd formations thou ... but shweet sound !

[leo890711]

this was a very good performance. my band played Firebird for the closer, you should check it out.

[albiedagreat]

we happen to be the "viking" band too lol

[albiedagreat]

go check out the firebird show my band did, we formed a firebird in the finale, pretty cool

[bstanbery]

A masterpiece!! I couldn't quite make out the formations. Was there a firebird in there somewhere?

[gabizou]

No, unfortunately there is no firebird in there, except from the oolorguard with flags at the finale.

[G35TAR]

wow samos band got much better since i grad from there in 2000

[gabizou]

Oh yeah. I really think that the main reason is that we have a new assistant band director, Dr. Ramirez, who is really able to make us do magnificent things. And then of course, Mr. Sakow is still our band director. We still have those old uniforms, we use them as football uniforms and these white ones are for comps and public preformances only.

[thealliesarejews]

ramirez is such an awsome teacher. i somehow always like him yelling.

[IndependentZero]

What size is this band? (5A?)

[gabizou]

Yup, we were 5A with 132 people.

[IndependentZero]

That's cool. I'm assuming your band doesn't have it's own writer? (Not trying to sound offensive or anything, jw! :) )

[gabizou]

Well, we have our retired band director as our music arranger and our drill arranger is another person.

[Typet360]

Kinda blasted, and i dont like the arrangment

mut its still good, 3/5

[gabizou]

I was in the band. This show was my freshman year in high school (Making me a junior), and basically the videos are on our band website. I just offered to my band director if I could post some of the better videos on youtube... Enjoy!

[VicenteOchoaJr]

how did u get this video?