Strange Humors - John Mackey

[awesomessful]

Dankkkk! I love this song!

[grifentei652]

omg we have to play this for all suburban MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA so hard >.<

[buttdud1122]

I met with the composer, John Mackey today, what an interesting character... lol!

[musicismymotive]

Aw fisher directed this with VBODA District XV 2010. He said we were his favorite ensemble to play the piece...but he probably said that to everyone lol

[shanibonnie]

we played this at interochen last week :) it was soooo amazing!! i LOVE john mackey

[v2rocketjk]

I had the bass clarinet solo.  Favorite song ever

[v2rocketjk]

When my high school band played it we were much better

[PushN88]

@v2rocketjk Cool. Please send us a link to your video.

[localgurlie3905]

@v2rocketjk what a bitch.

[awesomessful]

@v2rocketjk Cool story bro, but it needs more ponies and shit.

[CandyPimpsWifey12]

this is sweet :D i love it!!!!

[gameexpert09]

John Mackey is just such a bad ass. LIterally just watched this, asphalt cocktail and Aurora Awakes.

[Kosciusko90]

My school's band will be playing this when we go to China in the end of May!!! Its EPIC

[YLD16]

Where's the pitch bending?

[Barijoker]

at 4:41 is that only the bari sax playing

[ChunkyFunkyMonkey12]

I had the bass clarinet solo, and now I'm obsessed with that song

[MusicLuva0409]

Haha we played this last year. Friggen Bass Clarinet and Saxophone parts are intense. It was so fun to play!! Like the part at 2:02. I had a blast with that.

[BigD31492]

Trombone Solo was good...though it could have been more vicious and more intense. Overall it wasn't a bad performance. Good job.

[bhawksfan619]

this is going to be part of our marching show this year!!!!! so excited

[Ryukerg]

It's kind of funny when the woodwinds outblow the brass. That should never happen. EVER. Brass are able to drown out the woodwinds when they're allowed to.

And XylussN, younger kids can be better than college students, and the right conductor can make sure it sounds good at many age levels. AND they could've practiced for 2 years, though I doubt that.

[ElectricPikachu19]

I played this at UGA for Midfest!

[DrumlineNerd5]

I love the djembe part!!!

[Luchia285]

ahhh im soo scared to play wrongly - trombone solo got two.... but very the fun ^^

[PushN88]

@Luchia285 Good luck! I'm sure you'll do fine.

[Luchia285]

@PushN88 haha thanks a lot ^^

[gracieellen2012]

we're playing this in high school band, and it's really difficult. awesome.. :D

[JohnJimmyBill]

@gracieellen2012 So are we. It is amazing. =D

[carnie4450]

I was on 3rd part for this when I played it (trombone). It was epic.

[digikari936]

my middle school band is doing this =]

[JayBreezyx]

NO BAND IS THIS GOOD, IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!

[fluteloverforever]

@JayBreezyx I've heard middle school bands probably pretty much close to this one

[TheTankMyster]

@JayBreezyx not true. you've never heard a Texas band

[RevHamRules]

@JayBreezyx Its a high school selective band.

[MrBaritone1]

my high school band played this piece this past school year......

[CoHful]

<--- played that tbone solo :)

[theflyingGoats]

ok we are a middle school band and we played this you guys should play harder music

[XylussN]

@theflyingGoats I'm in a college band and we played this. How WELL did you play this in middle school? And don't be a little jerk.

[theflyingGoats]

@XylussN My bad for being a jerk......... We played it very well we got straight ones ad took band of the day at a major contest-we r super good

[theflyingGoats]

@XylussN Look up aledo midddle school band strange humors

[TheTankMyster]

@theflyingGoats aledo is Boss, all our bands are good

[theyupafiedjuli]

@theflyingGoats rude. I agree with XylussN

[LucidDivinity]

@theflyingGoats Wow, you're rude.

[JazzySnazzy09]

I love John Mackey. I've played this piece before. I'm a bigger fan of Aurora Awakes though. The clarinet solo in the beginning is mind blowing.

[chungy2552]

go saxes!!!!!!!!

[trumpetfury192]

4:30 and yet, another one! :D

[trumpetfury192]

2:52 EPIC TROMBONE SOLO!!! and im obviously a trumpet player! :P

[buzzy918]

@ theyupifiedjuli we had richard floyd as our clinician which is probably the next best thing to having mackey since mackey was influenced a lot by mr. Floyd and he was amazing. The bass clarinet feature at D is cool how mackey used the basses instead of normal clarinets so he could get the nasally sound from the upper register. It's just a fantastic song. You might like another mackey piece called Redline Tango. Our top band is playing it this year.

[theyupafiedjuli]

who else think they were speeding up sometimes? and i love the solos. they are amazing and i love playing this song!

[theyupafiedjuli]

who else think they were speeding up sometimes? and i love the solos. they are amazing and i love playing this song!

[theyupafiedjuli]

who else think they were speeding up sometimes? and i love the solos. they are amazing and i love playing this song!

[ylerocks]

Good try but the way mackey likes it is nasty! its too square

[theyupafiedjuli]

@ylerocks i agree. we had the chance to play this AND mackey being our clinnician and he said he likes it loud. he was amazing and funny.

[carnie4450]

does the intro sound just like Children of Sanchez to anyone..

[PushN88]

@carnie4450 I agree. Well, the first three bars, anyway.

[johnnysax93]

@carnie4450 sounds like incantation and dance to dude. lol

[tboneking5]

@carnie4450 That's exactly what I thought when I played this.

[evlainovt]

@carnie4450 It reminds me of Incantation and Dance

[conjarkmomo]

We might be playing this for contest. If we do, I'm getting the sax solo...it's so exciting!!!!

[PushN88]

Congratulations! Have fun with it.

[longhorn2190]

3:39 to 3:42 sounds like an ending to LOST right before they cut to black. lol

[hchsband2007]

My college's wind ensemble played this at our first concert this year! I played first clarinet and loved it =]

Even better, we got to play the really cool bass clarinet part because we had it cued.

[theyupafiedjuli]

@hchsband2007 yea. i love the bass clarinet part (yes i play bass clarinet). im so glad we had the chance to play this. IM IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG! percussion has great parts too

[snickercandy49]

its good butwhy did people need to stand up in the middle of their performance...... thats rude to me

[buzzy918]

My band is playing this song for contest this year and I get to play the English Horn part it is probably THE coolest i've ever had the privilege of doing while being in band. I'm so excited!!!

[PushN88]

Congratulations! Good luck with your performance.

[caNNonbaLL2100]

i am playing this for our top middle school band!!! this song is amazing!!!

[buzzy918]

A middle school band playing Strange Humors??? That is going to be VVEERRYY difficult to put together.

[theyupafiedjuli]

@buzzy918 i agree. we are playing it for UIL and we are the 2nd highest band in our high school.

[ipwneduintheface]

We kinda got all 1's thank you very much

[spratanpancake]

same here its beast

[bigpapa199460]

4:29-4:35 epic trombone(thst's coming from a sax player)

[jakepcoy]

Tubas sound pretty awesome.

[bandgeek626]

my marching band sped this up alot and we use it as our 1st movement absolutely amazing stuff there

[tiacovelli1]

jusaleb do u go to ehs cause this our marching bands first movement aswell and we also win alot

[Jusaleb]

yep and im guessing its you troy?

[tiacovelli1]

ya who r u though

[Jusaleb]

My marching band plays this as their first movement and as well as we play (we get first place a lot) were not as awesome as this.

[CIJRHOBOE24]

great solo on the trombone...anyone know the notes?? because iam playing this in the spring and i wana get a head start on the trombone solo

[markosHONSAY]

great recording! good job guys, especially 1st trombone solo at 4:30 awesome sound

[englishguy005]

such a fun piece to play

[magehunter978]

the tenor sax sounded too loud... should blend with cor anglais then slowly cres

[JoshuaCyrusFranklin]

it's actually an alto sax

[magehunter978]

oh it is? lol... sounded like a tenor coz of the low notes...

[JoshuaCyrusFranklin]

It only goes down to an E.

Not that low.

[magehunter978]

o.0... cool.... thanks for the info =)

[SpinHardCatchHarder]

not bad. it was reallly loud though. or maybe thats just because our director made us control ourselves because we did it for UIL and he didnt want to offend the judges...

other than speeding up in the end(?) i thought it was really pretty good.

[oXHop3lessXo]

im playing this piece in band and we're playing it for UIL when it comes, and i dunno, but it sounded too loud to mee, it was good though, but a little to messy.

[Boheb08]

my high school played it for UIL two years ago. and if you play it good it doesn't sound messy at all. at alctually all fits together pretty nicely. plus its just John Mackey's style.