Hide And Seek for Five Clarinets

Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" arranged for five B-flat clarinets.

I thought this would be a fun project, so I've been working on it in my limited spare time for the last few weeks. Today I decided to set up the camera and try playing it. The results are less than stellar... but not too bad considering it was the first time I actually played all the parts. Unfortunately I went a little too fast. If I ever have more free time maybe I will try recording it again... but probably not.

One of the reasons I chose this song was because I wanted to demonstrate the amazing range of the clarinet. In fact, the highest note in this song is a full four tones higher than the highest note that I usually play, and only a couple of tones down from the highest possible clear note on the clarinet. I had to learn new fingerings and practice high notes until my ears bled before recording this song. The lowest note is also one tone up from the lowest possible note. Pretty neat!

So anyway, here is a challenge to all you YouTube clarinet-playing Imogen Heap fans (I know you are out there): Try to do better!

You can download and print my arrangement here:
http://anttila.ca/michael/music/

Oh, by the way: I should state the obvious -- I transposed the song down two tones from the original. The original is in the key of B for clarinet, which is 5 sharps. I'm not used to playing in 5 sharps. Plus this way the high note is an A instead of a C#, which made it a bit easier as well.

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• Hide
• Seek
• Imogen
• Heap
• Clarinet
• cover

[WildGuruLarry]

@kelleyd11 No, I don't actually have the rights to publish this. The easiest solution is just to go ahead and play it and see what happens. If you are concerned or you need to do it "by the book", you will have to look up the laws in your area. In Canada, you may just need to pay a small fee to SOCAN and tell them the name and artist. I believe the equivalent in the US is ASCAP. It shouldn't matter that you are playing an arrangement, but I'm not a lawyer. :)

[ILostTobin]

Is there any way that you can post sheet music to this? I want to use this song for my accapella group. You have done a good job at arranging this.

[WildGuruLarry]

Thanks! I did post the sheet music - see the link I provided in the "more info" over on the right. However, there are better vocal arrangements available out there... mine is specifically written for clarinet. I found a couple just by googling it. Good luck!

[kelleyd11]

Just wondering if you got the legal rights to this? I am considering playing this on a recital.

[devinlovessam]

I like this. Very nice. :)

[anwilban3252]

good sound....with the staccatos, play shorter....and idk y the chord is like that at measure 68....it sounds very dissenant....

[hereigns56]

You sound really good :)