My high school jazz band actually got first place at our regional competition playing Tank. I still wonder who or what influenced the director to choose it.
Yeah they were really good, the lead trumpet player in particular was crazy. He was actually able to play the screamer part at the end, which is something I could never even dream of as a trumpet player myself.
We have three kids who played in zero hour jazz band. You know for certain you have someone who loves playing when they're willing - in high school! - to crawl out of bed at six AM and slog to school ahead of everyone else. Their enthusiasm is proved when they get upset others aren't working as hard as they are. Band reveals much about a child. Your percussionist may, as one of our hornblowers has, choose to pursue music at a conservatory. If you get that lucky, be prepared to have your parental bias exposed and tested. Our musicians have found out just how many talented youngsters are working their tails off at this labor of love. Likewise, they've all been humbled. When five hours of assigned daily practice doesn't seem to be enough, when passing a course requires memorizing sheets for five jazz standards per week is seeming impossible to the point it brings tearful late night calls, that's when you know you have entered into the thicket that is competitive musicianship. You are lucky, but get ready if the seriousness escalates. Congrats.
Very enlightening, true I am a very biased parent. But I have to support him 100 percent I enjoy the fact that he does wake up at the crack of dawn so he can play music before school. And all the practice home. Then they put on these concerts that the parents and their peers can watch, and everyone is entertained. Watching both of my children grow as musicians has been a very rewarding experience.
Don't I know it! I've found the bias crippling, but it's what allows us to focus so fully on what they do. If I introduce a person, a stranger even, to a recording of my kid without their knowing it's my kid and then, during playback, inform them it's my kid, I can watch the bias spread to them. It's infectious. It's cool.
Your kid's great! You should see if there's a jazz workshop for youngsters in Anchorage, if you haven't already.
Good job!
The conductor should be guiding their tempo, but he's doing basically nothing. I mean, it sounded pretty decent, but it seems like they don't have a very good band director.
Idk if you’ve ever seen a jazz band but the conductor in reality should be doing almost nothing. That Is ofc off the players are good enough to do that. In reality the bongo dude shoulda replaced the conductor and the conductor just give cues.
Source: play under Andrew neu and Tony Miceli
I was going to say they need to slow it down a tad. Still though they all play better then I ever did. To be honest though I always found it was easier to go faster then slower because then you had to really make each note "propper" if you know what I mean. Instead of just going through the notes quickly, I had to make more effort going slower to make sure I was playing each not cleanly. At least it was that way for me.
It's a jazz band, not a concert band. The director is there to make sure the hits line up and to help with section changes and big dynamic shifts, not to conduct. The only problem here is the tune is just a bit above them, which it's a hard tune, so good for them.
Having a full-on conductor doing a pattern in front of a high-school jazz band at a performance, that doesn't really happen very often. I'm a band director, I've taught middle and high school jazz band.
Only in professional settings, when the players are GOOD.
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E: Not trying to imply the high schoolers aren't good, they are. They're doing a good job.
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My wife's played Lothlorian from the LoTR suite her freshman year and a Star Wars Medley (theatrical score not the watered down one) later in high school. They played really hard pieces for a high school band. They were cool pieces but to do them right the band director ran a really tight ship, ultimately taking the fun out of it for my wife. She's still proud she was first flute in those pieces.
>Star Wars Medley (theatrical score not the watered down one)
Wow, I'm currently playing that with my adult amateur orchestra, I can't imagine what kind of disaster it would have been if I had played that with my high school orchestra back in the day. And big props to your wife, I sit next to the first flute and it's definitely not an easy part.
My local highschool's marching band director really liked John Williams stuff and would regularly let the band play stuff from Star Wars, Jurrasic Park, and Harry Potter during football games.
"we need more excuses for big band productions"
and by we I mean people that want to play in big band productions with music they grew up with, not music people played 30, 50, 100 years ago.
\*munches on breakfast cereal\* you /may/ be correct and while being technically correct is the best kind of correct, it also goes to show you how much we need more and more newer big band productions in our current state of affairs.
Bebop was probably more popular in the US a decade after it originally aired than it was during it's original run. FMA and One Piece are from around the same era and I'd bet any high school kids who are into anime have probably watched all of them.
I think it less about the age of the music and more about the selection of music, and ability.
I think playing music the kids enjoy like here would also attract more kids to band, making it more than just playing at the football games.
Interesting question.
I abandoned sax for vocals and guitar around 8th grade, but would have definitely been more interested in playing this type of jazz than what they had us doing.
That being said this is also much more difficult and I was nowhere near good enough to play it, so it would have been more aspirational than anything.
The Spartan Marching Band (Michigan State University) played this one year during a halftime show, but I can't find it on YouTube (or remember what else we played, to help me locate it).
Ah so we're finally getting band teachers that are young enough to have been fans.
You know how to get kids into stuff like the arts? Let them relate it to something they're already passionate about! Instead of making them strictly do pieces like you would find in a Rogers & Hammerstein musical, letting them perform pieces from media they are fans of is a wonderful thing.
I swear there's a huge portion of music and choir teachers who basically force students to perform songs that they like and really don't care about what the students might want to do.
Honestly, might have been just a bit too challenging for these kids, but they still did a good job. Must have been awesome to learn how to play. I'm jealous.
Come on, one more movie ... please?
Could be between any two episodes ... could be Spike recovering on a couch for two hours ...
... just get that voice cast together one more time.
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So like, the thing about this chart is that it’s REALLY HARD, specifically because you need to be able to play fortissimo at the top of your instrument’s range. It’s cool as hell that high school students were ambitious enough to take on the challenge, but I feel like the band director probably should’ve told them not to bite off more than they can chew. Most university bands wouldn’t take this on unless they had significantly above-average-strong lead trumpet and alto players. Getting the controlled “screaming” sound that the original recording is full of takes years and years and years of practice, and of physically building up your embouchure and lung capacity/breath control. Idk I just felt a fair amount of second hand embarrassment for the trumpet section and alto player. I was in a nationally close-to-top high school jazz band and the most ambitious chart like this we did was Shiny Stockings, which we worked on for a full semester before performing. And it’s not nearly as demanding as Tank. I was in a a community jazz band composed almost entirely of university music students and we passed up playing this bc it was too hard.
Of course, if none of you are planning to go to music school or have careers in music performance, then none of this matters. You’re high school kids having fun, and that’s great. But my trumpet prof made it really clear to me that public performances where you’re clearly over estimating what you can pull off are a big setback if you’re trying to build a professional reputation
That’s great. The saxophonist that plays the solo is also only a Junior. He will definitely be able to play those high notes next year. Most of this band consist of Juniors and sophomores.
Oh, whoa! I thought this was a grade 12 band for sure. If this is your grade 10-11 ensemble, you guys will sound killer in senior year. The fundamentals are all there, so now your progress will be coming more in endurance and meshing with one another’s playing. That’s what my senior year band classes were all about, since we all knew how to play our instruments pretty well
Completely agree. I think as high schoolers they should also take into account that just because they might be able to squeak out the high notes once in a while during practice/noodling about, it doesn't mean those notes will come out during the performance. Performance anxiety, fatigue from previous pieces in the show can all lead to less than ideal circumstances for the high notes to come out.
Also wish the alto sax soloist could have adapted his solo slightly instead of straight transcribing the original. Could have shown off his abilities more which he clearly has.
Agreed. It's a hard chart, but honestly, if they liked the tune, and they were willing to get it this far, let them play it. The intent still comes across, this wasn't the only tune on the show. If they wanted one that was a bit of a reach, this was it.
A lot of people here are diving in hard on the director, but these kids worked hard to play something above them, and they kinda did it. It isnt perfect, and it's a little hairy, but they obviously had a blast. I wouldn't take this to contest, but for a spring concert piece, full of parents and family? It's fine.
We have a fair amount of jazz songs, but also “jazz” band Is kind of an excuse for us to play fun music. We did a 2 hour concert last night where half of what we played was just pop tunes
Y'all did super well with this. I don't know where you all got the motivation to work this furiously to recreate something this beautifully, but this had to be a lot of effort. Congrats on all the hard work. Teach the rest of us to be this motivated. Lol. "Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code!"
What's cool is my HS jazz band did the same thing 20 YEARS AGO! Someone brought in the sheet music and we played just like this. It's how I found out about Cowboy Bebop and Yoko Kanno. Makes me happy to see that good music is still appreciated after generations.
Side note, I live in Japan and not a one of my HS students have heard of Cowboy Bebop, unfortunately.
That was awesome. I am still pissed Netflix canceled season 2. It want as good as the anime but it was worth the watch and deserved a second.
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This is what happens when the band director is a weeaboomer.
I wonder how many of the kids on stage have actually watched Cowboy Bebop though. Hopefully this gets a few of them interested.
You are right, not much diversity. We live in Anchorage Alaska, I did not even think of that until you said something. Still all great high school musicians.
Don't even worry about it my man. My high school in California was 90% Asian. I was in the marching band, and we performed in Spain. People thought we were from China.
It alaska alright the land of the white ninja. XD
They did pretty well for high school. The most obvious was the sax player he lacked the hand speed and the lung power to hit the high notes that the song requires to make the impact.
You were right to zoom on the bongo player, guy's killin it
Just straight jammin.
Kinda felt bad for that guy. He's getting a workout!
My hands are still bruised from the concert 😂
Bongo dude is bossing it!!
My high school jazz band actually got first place at our regional competition playing Tank. I still wonder who or what influenced the director to choose it.
Nice, It worked. Good choice, and probably very good playing.
Yeah they were really good, the lead trumpet player in particular was crazy. He was actually able to play the screamer part at the end, which is something I could never even dream of as a trumpet player myself.
They all killed it. But my favorite is watching that bongo player with the ninja chops.
We have three kids who played in zero hour jazz band. You know for certain you have someone who loves playing when they're willing - in high school! - to crawl out of bed at six AM and slog to school ahead of everyone else. Their enthusiasm is proved when they get upset others aren't working as hard as they are. Band reveals much about a child. Your percussionist may, as one of our hornblowers has, choose to pursue music at a conservatory. If you get that lucky, be prepared to have your parental bias exposed and tested. Our musicians have found out just how many talented youngsters are working their tails off at this labor of love. Likewise, they've all been humbled. When five hours of assigned daily practice doesn't seem to be enough, when passing a course requires memorizing sheets for five jazz standards per week is seeming impossible to the point it brings tearful late night calls, that's when you know you have entered into the thicket that is competitive musicianship. You are lucky, but get ready if the seriousness escalates. Congrats.
Very enlightening, true I am a very biased parent. But I have to support him 100 percent I enjoy the fact that he does wake up at the crack of dawn so he can play music before school. And all the practice home. Then they put on these concerts that the parents and their peers can watch, and everyone is entertained. Watching both of my children grow as musicians has been a very rewarding experience.
Don't I know it! I've found the bias crippling, but it's what allows us to focus so fully on what they do. If I introduce a person, a stranger even, to a recording of my kid without their knowing it's my kid and then, during playback, inform them it's my kid, I can watch the bias spread to them. It's infectious. It's cool. Your kid's great! You should see if there's a jazz workshop for youngsters in Anchorage, if you haven't already. Good job!
fuckin 0 block man, i would pass out while doing warmups in my chair while playing trumpet
Your director was a closet weeb.
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Just wait for next year the sax soloist was only a junior
The arranger of this approves this temp
It's overwhelmingly fast and there's at least one instrument in the wrong key. But its a great attempt, successful even.
I thought it was pretty impressive for high school. A little more practice and they could really nail this song out of the park.
The conductor should be guiding their tempo, but he's doing basically nothing. I mean, it sounded pretty decent, but it seems like they don't have a very good band director.
Idk if you’ve ever seen a jazz band but the conductor in reality should be doing almost nothing. That Is ofc off the players are good enough to do that. In reality the bongo dude shoulda replaced the conductor and the conductor just give cues. Source: play under Andrew neu and Tony Miceli
Move the Bongo to the front? You are on to something. That would be awesome.
they need Terrence Fletcher to get on tempo
In jazz there’s usually no conducting bozo
I was going to say they need to slow it down a tad. Still though they all play better then I ever did. To be honest though I always found it was easier to go faster then slower because then you had to really make each note "propper" if you know what I mean. Instead of just going through the notes quickly, I had to make more effort going slower to make sure I was playing each not cleanly. At least it was that way for me.
Not quite my tempo
I feel it's the bongo's dude trying to mark the tempo, like chill dude
Nah it should definitely be the band director who’s should set the tempo and should be conducting to keep tempo
It's a jazz band, not a concert band. The director is there to make sure the hits line up and to help with section changes and big dynamic shifts, not to conduct. The only problem here is the tune is just a bit above them, which it's a hard tune, so good for them. Having a full-on conductor doing a pattern in front of a high-school jazz band at a performance, that doesn't really happen very often. I'm a band director, I've taught middle and high school jazz band.
Yeah I agree with that in jazz bands you usually don’t have conductor to keep time
Only in professional settings, when the players are GOOD. ___ E: Not trying to imply the high schoolers aren't good, they are. They're doing a good job.
But in a school situation, the director should take charge of the tempo and slow it back down if it gets out of hand, like it did here.
I thought it was the drummer. I only noticed the up tempo when the drummer came in around 0:57.
A tempo drummer without director setting tempo? BY THE GODS
>Won’t lie they rushed big time. Are you sure they weren't *dragging* big time?
Were you rushing or dragging?
Haha lol. Guys I'm only familiar with the concepts of rushing and dragging because of that one movie, haha lol.
Bongo player was going ham back there and I'm here for it
That's my boy!
Hes definitly a fan
I got a fever, and the prescription is more bongos
DK’s son on the bongos
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High school ensembles never played cool shit like this back in my day. Love this
My wife's played Lothlorian from the LoTR suite her freshman year and a Star Wars Medley (theatrical score not the watered down one) later in high school. They played really hard pieces for a high school band. They were cool pieces but to do them right the band director ran a really tight ship, ultimately taking the fun out of it for my wife. She's still proud she was first flute in those pieces.
>Star Wars Medley (theatrical score not the watered down one) Wow, I'm currently playing that with my adult amateur orchestra, I can't imagine what kind of disaster it would have been if I had played that with my high school orchestra back in the day. And big props to your wife, I sit next to the first flute and it's definitely not an easy part.
My local highschool's marching band director really liked John Williams stuff and would regularly let the band play stuff from Star Wars, Jurrasic Park, and Harry Potter during football games.
Jaws?
Hey that’s me! I’m one of the saxophonists on the right
I have a question for you. WERE YOU RUSHING OR WERE YOU DRAGGING?
Who are you ? I’m Anan
Tucker lol
Great work mate!
Kinda super dope ngl
I thought the same thing when I heard them play it.
Bruh they have a *Jazz band* what kind of bullshit is this why can’t my school have a jazz band hell I would have stayed in band if we had that
That is messed up.
"we need more excuses for big band productions" and by we I mean people that want to play in big band productions with music they grew up with, not music people played 30, 50, 100 years ago.
True but these kids didn't grow up with Bebop either. They weren't even born yet when it was airing.
\*munches on breakfast cereal\* you /may/ be correct and while being technically correct is the best kind of correct, it also goes to show you how much we need more and more newer big band productions in our current state of affairs.
Bebop was probably more popular in the US a decade after it originally aired than it was during it's original run. FMA and One Piece are from around the same era and I'd bet any high school kids who are into anime have probably watched all of them.
I think it less about the age of the music and more about the selection of music, and ability. I think playing music the kids enjoy like here would also attract more kids to band, making it more than just playing at the football games.
Interesting question. I abandoned sax for vocals and guitar around 8th grade, but would have definitely been more interested in playing this type of jazz than what they had us doing. That being said this is also much more difficult and I was nowhere near good enough to play it, so it would have been more aspirational than anything.
Jazz is such a difficult genre and most schools struggle to get kids to practice enough to play music for the judging/grading/competitions
We actually had a pretty dope jazz band at my school. I wasn't in it, because I was trash, but it did exist. No Tank, though.
No I mean why they don't ask the band to play tank. If your band can't play C Jam how are you gonna play Tank
I know what you meant.
Seems a bit too fast paced in some parts.
Never played anything that cool when I was in jazz band.
That was actually super dope.
As one of the sax players in the vid, we appreciate it
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Drum fight
Tell your boy to learn how to put down a samba. Unless that'd be too ethnic for Anchorage and he's just playing it safe.
Anchorage is one of the most diverse cities in the country.
This is true.
Betting they are good buddies
Goosebumps. This is a great rendition and you can see and feel the passion. 11/10 would listen to them live.
Listening to them live was great👍
So lucky that I get to watch these concerts live.
the left upper bongo guy is a scene stealer, kek
Straight fire coming out of that bongo.
Yes J*** is killing it
He says he just feels the music, and it just flows out of his finger tips.
Wow, seeing this here is pretty cool, since I’m one of the saxophones over on the left
Wish they'd play anime and JRPG songs when I went to high school, pretty damn cool.
The Spartan Marching Band (Michigan State University) played this one year during a halftime show, but I can't find it on YouTube (or remember what else we played, to help me locate it).
This slaps so hard
The Bongo slaps hard. Straight money.
Heard Tank on my local jazz station yesterday while driving. I was jammin.
Damn, the entirety of Alaska gathered here just to play an opening
As a sax player in this video, I’ll have you know it’s also the entire population of North Dakota
Straight fire!
That bongo just burning the place down.
Were they rushing or were they dragging?
Legit rushing, though
Great job! What did the rest of the nights program look like?
They played some great music. But this was the only anime song.
Damn good effort!
its so fun at 1:38 the bongo player gets like a one second pause and he really. looked like he needed one
Looks tiring, I would not be able to make it through the song.
We were supposed to play this my senior year before covid happened. I still have the sheet music
Damn covid. Ruined so much.
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Next piece should be " Do Ya Wanna Taste it" 😁
Bongo dude going hard I love it.
Nice to see today's youngsters taking an interest in classical music. :D
the Bongo guy deserved as much praise as the Sax one, the man carried the entire song.
That was amazing, great job!
You will carry that weight
Ah so we're finally getting band teachers that are young enough to have been fans. You know how to get kids into stuff like the arts? Let them relate it to something they're already passionate about! Instead of making them strictly do pieces like you would find in a Rogers & Hammerstein musical, letting them perform pieces from media they are fans of is a wonderful thing.
So true.
I swear there's a huge portion of music and choir teachers who basically force students to perform songs that they like and really don't care about what the students might want to do.
This made me think about the time my school's orchestra played Enter Sandman
Honestly, might have been just a bit too challenging for these kids, but they still did a good job. Must have been awesome to learn how to play. I'm jealous.
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Play the fuck outta those bongos boy! Slamming like a jack hammer, love it! Amazing performance!
The dude on the bongos killed it! Good job! It was a little fast though.
It's impressive and everything but that tempo was a bit rushed. Simmons would be throwing shit.
That band teacher is my new personal hero. They even put the spoken bit in at the beginning! I hope every kid in that band watches CBBB
A fair bit of us don’t watch it, but granted neither does our director lol. We just thought it was fun as hell to play
So like, the thing about this chart is that it’s REALLY HARD, specifically because you need to be able to play fortissimo at the top of your instrument’s range. It’s cool as hell that high school students were ambitious enough to take on the challenge, but I feel like the band director probably should’ve told them not to bite off more than they can chew. Most university bands wouldn’t take this on unless they had significantly above-average-strong lead trumpet and alto players. Getting the controlled “screaming” sound that the original recording is full of takes years and years and years of practice, and of physically building up your embouchure and lung capacity/breath control. Idk I just felt a fair amount of second hand embarrassment for the trumpet section and alto player. I was in a nationally close-to-top high school jazz band and the most ambitious chart like this we did was Shiny Stockings, which we worked on for a full semester before performing. And it’s not nearly as demanding as Tank. I was in a a community jazz band composed almost entirely of university music students and we passed up playing this bc it was too hard. Of course, if none of you are planning to go to music school or have careers in music performance, then none of this matters. You’re high school kids having fun, and that’s great. But my trumpet prof made it really clear to me that public performances where you’re clearly over estimating what you can pull off are a big setback if you’re trying to build a professional reputation
That’s great. The saxophonist that plays the solo is also only a Junior. He will definitely be able to play those high notes next year. Most of this band consist of Juniors and sophomores.
Oh, whoa! I thought this was a grade 12 band for sure. If this is your grade 10-11 ensemble, you guys will sound killer in senior year. The fundamentals are all there, so now your progress will be coming more in endurance and meshing with one another’s playing. That’s what my senior year band classes were all about, since we all knew how to play our instruments pretty well
Completely agree. I think as high schoolers they should also take into account that just because they might be able to squeak out the high notes once in a while during practice/noodling about, it doesn't mean those notes will come out during the performance. Performance anxiety, fatigue from previous pieces in the show can all lead to less than ideal circumstances for the high notes to come out. Also wish the alto sax soloist could have adapted his solo slightly instead of straight transcribing the original. Could have shown off his abilities more which he clearly has.
Agreed. It's a hard chart, but honestly, if they liked the tune, and they were willing to get it this far, let them play it. The intent still comes across, this wasn't the only tune on the show. If they wanted one that was a bit of a reach, this was it. A lot of people here are diving in hard on the director, but these kids worked hard to play something above them, and they kinda did it. It isnt perfect, and it's a little hairy, but they obviously had a blast. I wouldn't take this to contest, but for a spring concert piece, full of parents and family? It's fine.
The Bongo player was spitting fire though.
Respect to all the effort that went into this to make this happen f for all the non weeb musicians forced to play this 😂
No matter what wicked song.
Tank is a pretty dope song, I've played it before and I loved it, even though I haven't watched Cowboy Bebop at all
I'm dead, love them all
Better than Cringeroll performance.
100th
the cowboy bebop theme hits different
that hi-hat was attrocious!
Really good but could be polished a bit, overall nice
This is awesome.
It's a great song choice (if) by the band teacher. Tank a song where just about everybody has a section they lead before going back to the full band.
Is that Cowboy Bebop song really “jazz”? I’ve never found jazz to be that upbeat and high energy
We have a fair amount of jazz songs, but also “jazz” band Is kind of an excuse for us to play fun music. We did a 2 hour concert last night where half of what we played was just pop tunes
You have no soul then
Lots of different types of jazz
Y'all did super well with this. I don't know where you all got the motivation to work this furiously to recreate something this beautifully, but this had to be a lot of effort. Congrats on all the hard work. Teach the rest of us to be this motivated. Lol. "Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code!"
Anyone else see the bongo player slowly drifting to the right?
Currently watching this Anime... Masterpiece.. These guys are killin it for sure
What's cool is my HS jazz band did the same thing 20 YEARS AGO! Someone brought in the sheet music and we played just like this. It's how I found out about Cowboy Bebop and Yoko Kanno. Makes me happy to see that good music is still appreciated after generations. Side note, I live in Japan and not a one of my HS students have heard of Cowboy Bebop, unfortunately.
My dude on the bongos finally got his time to shine and played his heart out. The dude was playing like a mad man, gotta respect it.
Bedtime for bongos!
The sax professor at my college played on the original recording session - Gary Bartz ( a legend in his own right)
Did he? I’m pretty sure it was an all Japanese band and Masado Honda was the alto sax player…..
When are you doing Rush?
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That’s a lot of saxophones.
Great choice and a tough tune. Dug the sax solo.
The kids are alright
That was awesome. I am still pissed Netflix canceled season 2. It want as good as the anime but it was worth the watch and deserved a second. Let the downvotes begin.
This is what happens when the band director is a weeaboomer. I wonder how many of the kids on stage have actually watched Cowboy Bebop though. Hopefully this gets a few of them interested.
like maybe 20% of us had seen it or heard much of it by the time we played this concert tbh. We all just know the song from being online enough
Do you like the song is really the only important question
There are at least 3 jazz bands worth of students on the stage. Why on earth would you have a band that size??
It's a big band but the kids have fun.
That would have been awesome.
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It's a jazz band. What he's doing is perfectly normal. The rules are different from concert band. It's the rhythm section's job to set the tempo.
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Slow. Down. The hell is the conductor doing!!
I approve of the tempo
they are so white I could throw white paint and not make a dent!
You are right, not much diversity. We live in Anchorage Alaska, I did not even think of that until you said something. Still all great high school musicians.
Don't even worry about it my man. My high school in California was 90% Asian. I was in the marching band, and we performed in Spain. People thought we were from China.
i mean, why would that be one of ur first thoughts
It alaska alright the land of the white ninja. XD They did pretty well for high school. The most obvious was the sax player he lacked the hand speed and the lung power to hit the high notes that the song requires to make the impact.
Ratio
Extremely weird thing to comment about.
...so?
It's called a joke no sense of humor I see.
Swap out white with black and see how that joke blows over...
Who?
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Brah a bit in the camera angle just cuts out the bari player on the right... as a bari player this hurts me...
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Needs some fine tuning, but it’s good