Makayla Rogers I play the french horn and we learn this at school wind orchestra.. But in this piece, there aren't any sophisticated part for horn but I can't play like that...
As an ONLY French hornist, in a 120 person band, the horn parts are truly amazing. I have always been insecure and scared to play my parts in songs, but with this song, it’s almost like it disappeared. This is the best piece I have ever played. Playing my parts out felt surreal. Whoever made this I love you ❤️😂
I'm playing this piece and I'm the only Horn in my class period, but there's 2 others in my band. I've always been scared to play loud in case I was wrong and worried that the teacher would dislike me because I'm not perfect, but I feel so at peace when I'm playing this. Also French Horn is the best!
I just picked up the horn and I have been playing Tuba for awhile and I play Tuba for symphonic winds and I play for Symphonic band as horn and I am not aloud to be in 2 bands so my band teacher just gave me a big folder of songs that I have to play in 6 weeks for a concert and they don’t have a horn player in the band right now so all the pressure is gonna be on me if I mess up because the band is smaller so if I mess up everyone will know and I just picked it up like 1 month ago so the pressure is on me hard.
Wolfie de Co Same! I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there's something truly special about the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack, and the movie as a whole.
oml same, when i hear this, i feel like im flying a dragon, and the horn solo makes me feel like im standing on a cliff like some legendary warrior... its like music m a g i c
I NEED TO GET MY CONDUCTOR TO GET THIS SHEET MUSIC! I'm sitting here, crying tears of joy right now. I can't believe that they ACTUALLY created a concert band How to Train your Dragon score!! I'm so happy!!
We played this last year. (In my Freshman year) and it is a must do for my senior year. I play Flute and the solo will be mine.... 😉 It is such an amazing piece.
DerpyDragon777 Heh.... My conductor really enjoyed our performance on this piece. The Flute solo was played by a Flute Section Member who was like very experienced than me. I am indeed lucky I will agree. 😉
DerpyDragon777 It is indeed a delightful piece but the tempo was ridiculously fast I will say. It was a challenge for me since being like 1.5 years of experience on Flute during the time I did have some trouble I have 2 years of experience and I have improved a lot since performing this with the band though. I really should ask my Band Director about Performing this again. He likes trying new pieces of music though but i am sure it might be a comeback Senior year. He himself enjoys the piece.
lmao the sad thing is our whole band has heard the recording, and i’m mostly likely going to end up playing the solo, because i’m the “best” at flute in my class, and THE EXPECTATION BAR JUST GOT 10000 BARS HIGHER
I cry every single time we play this piece. My grandma recently passed, this brings back memories of sitting in her living room watching this show. Every time near the end, I am choking back tears. When the concert comes around, I am dedicating this piece to her. I know I'm gonna cry, but grandma, I love you.
In my coommunity band which has a little over 60 members, I can hear the timpani part in any song. Partly because I'm kind of sitting in front when I'm playing tenor sax.
We played this in Concert Band and I started crying in the middle of it, as HTTYD was my life when when I was younger! 😂 Playing this made me so happy! 😊 Go Woodwind! 🎼
its so crazy how john powell was able to make the movies 10000000x better by just music. he did an amazing job of including every instrument from flutes to french horns.
I think the French Horn section has the best parts. I play first part on French horn for this piece and it is amazing. Peep the French Horn section 10/10
Bdawg PlaYz your right! French Horns always have the best parts. I play trombone but when my band teacher calls for French horns in a certain measure look out. It’ll be some cool part you’ve never heard.
I love how even though at measure 14 a lot of woodwinds have the same part as trumpet and you only hear trumpet same with the measures after, you only hear trombone and trumpet 0:37
That trumpet part at 3:36 tho!!!!Playing this in my Middle School band right now and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Too bad I just got braces which makes it hard to play anything above a middle C -_-
Yo. this song just brings back so much nostalgia to me because growing up How to Train Your Dragon was a huge part of my childhood, and just watching the shows and movies with my family, in my opinion How to Train Your Dragon is AMAZING! I would low-key love to play this piece, but I play the Alto Sax, and that Sax part is way too hard for me right now.
I love hal Leonard he really knows how to make every instrumental voice be heard and featuered. The low brass to the winds you really get the feeling of a full symphony
I’m in orchestra in school and I am so excited to start rehearsing this with the other orchestra sections and band/ wind ensemble, the strings are chimes are beautiful but the band really makes this so lively and amazing!! Love you band people so much!! I have so music respect for you all!! ❤
Coming from a trumpet player, a very much agree with that. They hold the band together and get barley any credit. Also, a lot of the stuff they do is a solo, but they don’t get the praise they deserve for it.
I have a concert tomorrow. We're playing this song. Im the only percussionist. Ive also been in a drama production and have missed most of the rehearsals. I have played this song maybe 4-5 times. Its 9:40pm. Wish me luck.
This song has a special place in my heart since i loved the movies when i was younger not only that but personally, i think these pieces of music sound amazing
Our band wasn’t the best but everyone loved this arrangement and you could tell they wanted to do their very best. Playing through the entire piece without crying was so difficult to me. There was so much passion and emotions throughout this song! Of all the song my band play, this one stuck with me!
1:56 omg that makes me want to cry. This was always my favorite scene, went they went on that ride through the clouds...soo nostalgic I really want to play it in band.
I had a concert recently. On Wednesday, March, 6th, 2024. The advanced band played this piece. It was amazing! This is my fourth year as a flute. I saw the advanced band flute piece and silently tried to finger the notes.😂 Im in the El Dorado beginning band. We played Zap, Harry Potter and, of course, America The Beautiful. It was the arrival festival
Well, trumpets and horns are there really awesome. Btw I am playing on Trumpet for 4 years right now and after 5th year I want to start playing on French horn. Btw I am from Czech republic
I'm SOOO hyped that I get to play this amazing piece. HTTYD is one of, if not the best series out there, and I can't express how excited I am to play this
I am playing this as a 7th grade French hornist and I just wanna say the French horn part is awesome. We actually get a cool part especially at the pickup into 64 the melody is great. And at the end we flip our horns so the bell is upward and we finish the song with an awesome and loud part. 😁😁👍👍🎵🎶
I love this music. the music from httyd is so amazing because it gives the spotlight to some instruments who never really get the spotlight, (horns, kinda low brass, and definitely the woodwinds/clarinets/flutes), I'm just confused why the trumpets don't get to have much of the melody or don't get the spotlight. they normally do. but still this song makes horns feel more special. 😊😁
Definitely one of my favourite film-scores of all time... Not only memorable & stirring, but iconic. (And even though it's not included here, the selection "Forbidden Friendship" is one of my all-time pieces of music ever!) And reading the comments below is also fun. Each person noticed a different instrument! Brass, flutes, Fr. Horn, Oboe, etc.
I played this as a part of a 12 person ensemble, I played French horn and trumpet one, I basically just played French horn where I'd usually be resting, and I did the opening on it, then switched to trumpet for the other parts. It was really fun in such a smaller group.
I played percussion from 4th grade til my senior year. Senior year I learned trumpet and was playing 1st trumpet by our spring concert for this piece. My band director also made us learn french horn for the middle section. Amazing experience.
ughhhh i love playing this piece. as a trombonist when i'm playing those long notes where i can hear the melody singing out and feel the sound vibrating through me, for a moment i'm totally connected to the music, and i just know i'm part of something awesome. one of the best feelings in the world.
yo why the flutes sound so good in this piece brah. I swear normally in my hs band, I can;t really hear them(maybe cause i play the trumpet sitting at the back), but they earned my respect once more fr.
Unfortunately we only had 3 horns last year. I don’t know about next year and I’m not sure how many horns there are gonna be and not sure if we are gonna play this again anyways
Smarties Cas | I’m also a Trumpet and we played it but ours was so different. Trumpets had the leading part for the entire song and it was more difficult but still fun :3
This was the last song I played in high school with my band. The trombone part so awesome and memorable. Every time I hear this I wanna cry because I miss it so much 😢
Omg same here. This was legit one of the last pieces I ever played in high school. Man I miss those days. This was especially easy for my my final year because I'd already played it once before in middle school.. yea, those days were awesome.
Doing this song in marching band! (I’m in color guard but I play clarinet during school) I love this piece especially with our choreography with the flags
Have you ever studied your instrument history? The Horns we play and refer in America to as "French Horns" are actually German in origin. The French also made horns, but they use piston valves and are small bored.
I've been wanting to play this peice ever since I've gotten good at playing the flute, which was my seventh grade year at junior high. Its been two years, I'm now a freshman, and my band teacher wants us to play it at our first concert, I'm very excited, even if it is difficult and has a lot of triplets.
Amazing music, my band has had to learn it in 1 month and surprisingly it is extremely close to how the recording sounds, by far one of the most challenging yet beautiful pieces of music I have ever played. #FlutesFTW
Wulfgirl03 yeah same. In beginning band at my school you could only play alto sax, and in advanced band right now, my friend that used to play alto sax now plays Barry sax. It's like almost as big as he is 😂😂
We were supposed to play this last year but we couldnt and our conductor re-introduced it this year iM SO HAPPY I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH I PLAY THE FLUTE BTW
My schools got A Marching band Flute Army that will keep growing. Ill make sure of that. I got 5 more years of Marching Band. (My School we start in 7)
Ellie Emmerling Wow thats a long time. You guys must be amazing. For us its like an extracurricular during high school and you can join whenever you want. But same as our band we have more flutes than any other instrument,
We are a very small school district. Our Middle School and High School is one building. We are a division 5 Football team. Which is understandable considering our district size. Also amount of kids that go to our school. If we didnt have 7th and 8th grade in our Marching band we would have literally 30 Marching Highschool kids and 7 or 8 Flagline/Daneline. Because of our school district size they say they keep the Middle School and the High school apart really well. They dont. This Marching Band season we had 4 Middle School Flutes and 2 High School Flutes. But Next year we will get more Newbz. For Us Trumpets is the largest with I dont know how many like 8 to 10. But Flutes come after that.
Amazing! We just started practicing this in our year 7 band but all we hear is alto’s and even when the conductor tells them to be quiet, they overpower the entire band lol.. I loveee the flutes and trumpet parts
I know what you mean, in my music class there were like 17 altos most of them just played normally, around 8 trumpets but only 3 really played, 3 trombones, 3 tenors but really only me and this other dude played, 1 baritone, 10 clarinets only like 6 played, maybe 5 flutes really only like 3 played, 2 tubas rea`lly only 1 played, and 2 basses which always messed up lol, and all we heard were altos. They always overpowered, I don't if it's just me but other than altos for some reason we have something against altos.
the marching band show of this is even better. probably my favorite show we did in high school. i played first trumpet part and ahh i will always remember that solo in the third movement it was great loved playing that
The flutes in this song sound amazing
You are right sir!
I agree with you
MrGameDuck you are indeed correct 😁
MrGameDuck technically thank you because my 8th grade band played this exact song and I'm a flute!
+Dragon Frikin Tamer Was that at Wilson Middle School by any chance?
As a horn player who just played this in my very last high school concert this piece will always have a special place in my heart
Same, we have our concert in a week but it still. I will always remember this piece with my time in the band.
@Wazzup4147 played this 4 years ago. Miss my highschool band 🥲
Played graduation last week
@@Wazzup41407The horn part at 47 🤤
your band director is a saint for choosing this song. If I don’t get this for a marching season I might seriously quit band
John Powell really went off the walls for a movie about a boy and a pet dragon.
Loved playing this arrangement, it was an absolute blast!
Well he got paid good lol
I mean he did, the jw pepper copy is $70
I played it just last year and it was literally the most fun song I've ever played it has lots of emotions and tuba gets to have fun😈
i love this show bro its so amazing
why is no one talking about those horn parts 😍😍😍😍
Because it's the best part and no one dares to talk about it ;)
Makayla Rogers I play the french horn and we learn this at school wind orchestra.. But in this piece, there aren't any sophisticated part for horn but I can't play like that...
Makayla Rogers I play French horn and I loved to play the solo parts in my band
It’s easily the best part
IKR
Just a lonely violin here enjoying the sounds of wind instruments
Sniffles Giggles lol
COME TO BAND
How tf did you get stuck in orchestra?
@@itookashittoday1146 Orchestra best
@@alexbouffler8577 haha more like dork-estra
As an ONLY French hornist, in a 120 person band, the horn parts are truly amazing. I have always been insecure and scared to play my parts in songs, but with this song, it’s almost like it disappeared. This is the best piece I have ever played. Playing my parts out felt surreal. Whoever made this I love you ❤️😂
I have always felt this with French horn and I got offered the part today now I think I’ll take it
I'm playing this piece and I'm the only Horn in my class period, but there's 2 others in my band. I've always been scared to play loud in case I was wrong and worried that the teacher would dislike me because I'm not perfect, but I feel so at peace when I'm playing this. Also French Horn is the best!
I just picked up the horn and I have been playing Tuba for awhile and I play Tuba for symphonic winds and I play for Symphonic band as horn and I am not aloud to be in 2 bands so my band teacher just gave me a big folder of songs that I have to play in 6 weeks for a concert and they don’t have a horn player in the band right now so all the pressure is gonna be on me if I mess up because the band is smaller so if I mess up everyone will know and I just picked it up like 1 month ago so the pressure is on me hard.
The original score for the How to Train your Dragon had 12 horns in a 23 person brass section
@@brned1692 12 horns + 4 trumpets + 4 tenor trombones + 2 bass trombones + 1 tuba = 23 brass
for once the low brass don't have the most boring part imaginable
I Took A Shit Today I think u would like The Cave You Fear. It sounds really cool and has some solid low brass melody.
I agree with you dude I play tuba and it sounds amazing with A Tuba, Barisax, Trombone, and baritone. My Band is playing this at Branson next weekend
guessing your thinking about the part at 0:54????
@@harryharrold5030 nah I'm talking the whole thing
@@puppeteerproductions6751 idk if the one I found isn't the one you're thinking of or something but that looked really boring for the low brass
Me: *found this arrangement*
The next day...
Heeyy Mr band teacher, wanna spend 70 dollars on a HTTYD arrangement???
wolfyisaspoon yes I asked my teacher the same thing except I think she said no as I am in a primary school band :-P
Just did that and now i'm conducting it :P
My teacher is letting us play all of the pieces I can find and pay for on my own because my band is more advance than other junior high bands
@@yeetyeeterson9035 nice
@@jennifermacdonald9117 We are playing this song for our spring concert this year. Got my part today and I'm so excited!
Whenever I heard this song, i closed my eyes. it's just like I am flying through the sky, feeling the fresh air. so amazing...
Wolfie de Co Same! I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there's something truly special about the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack, and the movie as a whole.
oml same, when i hear this, i feel like im flying a dragon, and the horn solo makes me feel like im standing on a cliff like some legendary warrior... its like music m a g i c
This is my favorite concert band arrangement of any song and I say this proudly
The trumpets at 0:37 sound amazing
I NEED TO GET MY CONDUCTOR TO GET THIS SHEET MUSIC! I'm sitting here, crying tears of joy right now. I can't believe that they ACTUALLY created a concert band How to Train your Dragon score!! I'm so happy!!
We're playing this right now for my freshman year.
IKR
We played this last year. (In my Freshman year) and it is a must do for my senior year. I play Flute and the solo will be mine.... 😉
It is such an amazing piece.
DerpyDragon777 Heh.... My conductor really enjoyed our performance on this piece. The Flute solo was played by a Flute Section Member who was like very experienced than me.
I am indeed lucky I will agree. 😉
DerpyDragon777 It is indeed a delightful piece but the tempo was ridiculously fast I will say. It was a challenge for me since being like 1.5 years of experience on Flute during the time I did have some trouble
I have 2 years of experience and I have improved a lot since performing this with the band though. I really should ask my Band Director about Performing this again.
He likes trying new pieces of music though but i am sure it might be a comeback Senior year. He himself enjoys the piece.
I DID THIS IN SEVENTH GRADE THIS WAS THE BEST THING EVER HTTYD FTW THIS IS AMAZING I GET SO NOSTALGIC WHEN I HEAR THIS
IM IN SEVENTH GRADE AND WE JUST GOT THIS PIECE ON WEDNESDAY
AYYYYYYYYYYY
Took my 7th/8th grade (advance band) like 5 months to do this.
+PopcornProductions omg same
our 7th and 8th are apart of the high school band at my school
The flute part at 1:13 is absolutely flawless
lmao the sad thing is our whole band has heard the recording, and i’m mostly likely going to end up playing the solo, because i’m the “best” at flute in my class, and THE EXPECTATION BAR JUST GOT 10000 BARS HIGHER
@@strawberrymoomoo_ I feel you
bruh.... 2:33 my favorite part
I love 1:13 2:33 and 3:45
@@strawberrymoomoo_ same here-
And I’m only twelve-
We’re playing this for our 20th anniversary at our high school, and all of our alumni are going to come back and play with us 🥹I’m so excited
The french horn part at 2:25 makes my heart melt!! Chills all the way up my spine!!!
It's 2:15 and Ikr I play baseline but that French horn solo was nice
aye! french horn player right here 😜
Are you any good
+SonoftheBread really? we have the music and saxes and clarinets have ques
+SonoftheBread nice! well... play well and loud, buddy
I cry every single time we play this piece. My grandma recently passed, this brings back memories of sitting in her living room watching this show. Every time near the end, I am choking back tears. When the concert comes around, I am dedicating this piece to her. I know I'm gonna cry, but grandma, I love you.
When you're playing timpani and no one hears you still.
i8fluffy fr
In my coommunity band which has a little over 60 members, I can hear the timpani part in any song. Partly because I'm kind of sitting in front when I'm playing tenor sax.
I wanted timpani. Got chimes instead
I feel you bc I play timpani
but obviously, the conductor hears what your doing wrong and gets you in trouble
3:35 I LOVE
Bill Z. Same
Those harmonies are amazing!
I literally feel so happy when I hear httyd music
I just I love it
I'm playing this in band rn and that part is by far the coolest thing I've ever played in my 3 years of playing sax.
Bro flutes at 2:34 are absolutely breathtaking
As a low, I loved being the stilts that set up the flutes up for that part. Low parts were finally active.
4:05 Is my absolute favorite part the harmony is just incredible😍
I'm playing this in my band and it sounds so beautiful it is the main reason I wanted to listen to this😍
3:36 is by far the best part of the song imo and i love to play this song js for that reason
We played this in Concert Band and I started crying in the middle of it, as HTTYD was my life when when I was younger! 😂 Playing this made me so happy! 😊 Go Woodwind! 🎼
x.kixrsxtin.x YES!
Omg the last season of race to the edge came out and I'm crying because i will miss httyd (I think they are making a third movie though)
Omg i can absolutely relate to this
@@moltenflames1750 the third movie comes out in march 2019 :)))
@@nemoswire I know and I am so hyped 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
its so crazy how john powell was able to make the movies 10000000x better by just music. he did an amazing job of including every instrument from flutes to french horns.
It's amazing how many instruments get a chance to shine here. The whole arrangement is amazing!
I think the French Horn section has the best parts. I play first part on French horn for this piece and it is amazing. Peep the French Horn section 10/10
Bdawg PlaYz they really did, i was so freakin happy bro
I'm actually playing the horn part in this song because I'm my schools only French horn player lol, it's really nice to see a good horn part
Bdawg PlaYz ME TOO I LIVE IT SM
Bdawg PlaYz your right! French Horns always have the best parts. I play trombone but when my band teacher calls for French horns in a certain measure look out. It’ll be some cool part you’ve never heard.
@@tibepoesun60 it's true for a lot of schools, what horn section? I am the horn section
I wish I could play this for my senior concert piece but our band director refuses to do it cause its been the senior piece for like 3 years now😭😭
The Horn solo really put the taste in this music at 2:15
I wish that our French horn actually played... it’s so pretty, he just doesn’t play :(
You mean Soli
Tenor sax player yes I may not have the melody but this is my favorite song we are playing this year
1:56 this transition gives me goosebumps, the part it leads up to is so beautiful
I love how even though at measure 14 a lot of woodwinds have the same part as trumpet and you only hear trumpet same with the measures after, you only hear trombone and trumpet 0:37
Best piece I’ve ever heard, gives me chills every time!
nobody’s gonna talk about how beautiful that flute vibrato is omg 😍
Man, I don't even play horn and that little fill at 3:11 sends shivers down my spine.
When I was in seventh grade we worked hard in this piece for months and it was truly amazing
I played this in 7th grade and it was one of the pieces that sparked my love for band and I feel so nostalgic listening to it again..
That trumpet part at 3:36 tho!!!!Playing this in my Middle School band right now and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Too bad I just got braces which makes it hard to play anything above a middle C -_-
Also 2:37NEEDS MORE SAXAPHONE
Are u also a sax player have I found a friend?
I feel you. Playing the Franch Horn with braces is hard.
We’re playing lions pride kill me
I got to high G with braces, 4 months into playing XD
Privet instructors work wonders
I played this on flute for concert band a few months ago. 3:36 was my favorite part
f horns sounded beautiful 😉
Ismael Campa you're not wrong.
F
Yo. this song just brings back so much nostalgia to me because growing up How to Train Your Dragon was a huge part of my childhood, and just watching the shows and movies with my family, in my opinion How to Train Your Dragon is AMAZING! I would low-key love to play this piece, but I play the Alto Sax, and that Sax part is way too hard for me right now.
I love hal Leonard he really knows how to make every instrumental voice be heard and featuered. The low brass to the winds you really get the feeling of a full symphony
I’m in orchestra in school and I am so excited to start rehearsing this with the other orchestra sections and band/ wind ensemble, the strings are chimes are beautiful but the band really makes this so lively and amazing!! Love you band people so much!! I have so music respect for you all!! ❤
Me being a bells player: Wondering where the bells are
Me hearing the bells in the music:
So are you! Killing it!
Glock players for life!
I wanna play this song but my band dw ;-;
Coming from a trumpet player, a very much agree with that. They hold the band together and get barley any credit. Also, a lot of the stuff they do is a solo, but they don’t get the praise they deserve for it.
Thanks!!
4:02 amazing
3:34, as a tuba player, i have way too much fun playing pedal notes, absolutely love it
I'm so happy my band director gave this to us today I loved httyd since I was a little kid. I'm grinning like a mainiac right now
I have a concert tomorrow. We're playing this song. Im the only percussionist. Ive also been in a drama production and have missed most of the rehearsals. I have played this song maybe 4-5 times. Its 9:40pm. Wish me luck.
I play the trumpet, and honestly when low brass takes it they are better than any trumpet solo I have ever played
SO TRUE!
This song has a special place in my heart since i loved the movies when i was younger not only that but personally, i think these pieces of music sound amazing
Our band wasn’t the best but everyone loved this arrangement and you could tell they wanted to do their very best. Playing through the entire piece without crying was so difficult to me. There was so much passion and emotions throughout this song! Of all the song my band play, this one stuck with me!
I'm an oboe and this song murdered three 20$ reeds -_-
I can feel you, bassoonist over here :/
FINALLY SOMONE WHO PLAY BASSON!! :D
+whyme 95 do you play it too ? :D
yes I do!! :D
I would have played bassoon... but NO MY SCHOOL DIDN'T HAVE IT AS AN OPTION
1:56 omg that makes me want to cry. This was always my favorite scene, went they went on that ride through the clouds...soo nostalgic I really want to play it in band.
It feels like you just got out of the dark and now it’s all peaceful and your safe
3:35
I had a concert recently. On Wednesday, March, 6th, 2024. The advanced band played this piece. It was amazing! This is my fourth year as a flute. I saw the advanced band flute piece and silently tried to finger the notes.😂 Im in the El Dorado beginning band. We played Zap, Harry Potter and, of course, America The Beautiful. It was the arrival festival
Well, trumpets and horns are there really awesome. Btw I am playing on Trumpet for 4 years right now and after 5th year I want to start playing on French horn.
Btw I am from Czech republic
My band is playing this!! Its awesome.
TIMPANI, DUDES!!!
I'm SOOO hyped that I get to play this amazing piece. HTTYD is one of, if not the best series out there, and I can't express how excited I am to play this
Everyone talking about the horn parts, and I’m a lonely percussionist over here
Chimes and bells and snare are perfect too
Timpani also sounds pretty good!
If you can hear it...
You guys deserve more praise than you get
Okami_6 Im playing the Timpani at my school for this peice. Er.... I *was* playing this at my school. Now we’re doing remote learning.
BattlePig101 that’s pretty cool!
Wish my band teacher buys this piece...
I love the music that starts at 3:35 !
+_Biolini_ The_Gamer_ Don't we all. :)
:D
+Biolini the music at 0:35 is better
Retards. All of you. 2:57 👍
@@itookashittoday1146 yasss chimes
2:34 hands down best part of the piece
I am playing this as a 7th grade French hornist and I just wanna say the French horn part is awesome. We actually get a cool part especially at the pickup into 64 the melody is great. And at the end we flip our horns so the bell is upward and we finish the song with an awesome and loud part. 😁😁👍👍🎵🎶
Did this for my middle school band concert 2 weeks ago and as a bari sax player this is one if not my favorite song I've played.
I'm playing this tomorrow at a concert, I'm in tenth grade and play the tenor sax
Playing this next year as an alto, for my first year of college! (Or high school)
Last year of high school and this is our last piece. This is friggin AWESOME
I love this music. the music from httyd is so amazing because it gives the spotlight to some instruments who never really get the spotlight, (horns, kinda low brass, and definitely the woodwinds/clarinets/flutes), I'm just confused why the trumpets don't get to have much of the melody or don't get the spotlight. they normally do. but still this song makes horns feel more special. 😊😁
Most of the Time Trumpets and Flutes get the melody.
you con also hear the timpanis pretty good
Crykenpie ikr, I play French horn I I'm never really important except for this song and like one other
about time the trumpets are shoved out of the spotlight. I have nothing against them, but they do have the melody in almost every song I've played
@Regina Head YES
Definitely one of my favourite film-scores of all time... Not only memorable & stirring, but iconic. (And even though it's not included here, the selection "Forbidden Friendship" is one of my all-time pieces of music ever!)
And reading the comments below is also fun. Each person noticed a different instrument! Brass, flutes, Fr. Horn, Oboe, etc.
I WANT TO PLAY THIS SO BAD!
Same here
I played it
I've been playing flute for many years now and this song has such a fun and new color for the flute part, I loved playing it!
Honestly, listening to this after being in marching band for 4 years gets me imagining how cool a show with this music could be
Yea in my band we are going to play this at the end of the year for parents and I play french horns:)
I played this as a part of a 12 person ensemble, I played French horn and trumpet one, I basically just played French horn where I'd usually be resting, and I did the opening on it, then switched to trumpet for the other parts. It was really fun in such a smaller group.
1:12-1:20 Flute solo. 😉
I adore this part. I would LOVE to do it.
Candace 101 fan omg trust me it’s so much fun to play
Dreams sometimes come true
I played percussion from 4th grade til my senior year. Senior year I learned trumpet and was playing 1st trumpet by our spring concert for this piece. My band director also made us learn french horn for the middle section. Amazing experience.
ughhhh i love playing this piece. as a trombonist when i'm playing those long notes where i can hear the melody singing out and feel the sound vibrating through me, for a moment i'm totally connected to the music, and i just know i'm part of something awesome. one of the best feelings in the world.
I’ve had a similar feeling I know I’m going to stick with band for a long time
I played this my 8th grade year such a good pice with good lowbrass parts
horn finally has a spotlight
yo why the flutes sound so good in this piece brah. I swear normally in my hs band, I can;t really hear them(maybe cause i play the trumpet sitting at the back), but they earned my respect once more fr.
this was the theme for our marching band show! ❤
Played this song for my spring concert last year, boy do I miss this😢
Do I know you?
Those horn hits though, they pack a hell of a punch if you Band does them right
Unfortunately we only had 3 horns last year. I don’t know about next year and I’m not sure how many horns there are gonna be and not sure if we are gonna play this again anyways
I love it! I play trumpet and would just love to play this in my band😍
nice midna
Smarties Cas | I’m also a Trumpet and we played it but ours was so different. Trumpets had the leading part for the entire song and it was more difficult but still fun :3
Same!🎺
2nd trumpet is pretty easy for me. Since i played solo, i felt more important
No you don’t trust me it is a pain but fun to play
This was the last song I played in high school with my band. The trombone part so awesome and memorable. Every time I hear this I wanna cry because I miss it so much 😢
Omg same here. This was legit one of the last pieces I ever played in high school. Man I miss those days. This was especially easy for my my final year because I'd already played it once before in middle school.. yea, those days were awesome.
I remember getting this for my end of year concert and the all of us in the flute section just crying. It ended up being the best closing act
We are playing this!!!! Finally!!!
Is anyone gonna talk about the trombone and euphonium part at 0:45
It’s epic
I'm a trombone player and I wish we were playing this piece this year so I can play that. I'm stuck playing Frozen :/
That sucks for you
This piece is awesome, as a trombone player it’s very fun to play!
I’m not even a low brass player but that part SLAPS!!
Thank you I appreciate you not ignoring us 😂
Doing this song in marching band! (I’m in color guard but I play clarinet during school) I love this piece especially with our choreography with the flags
Love the trumpet solo👌
We're playing this for our band concert Tuesday and I'm so hyped I absolutely adore this song
Clarinets ate this up literally triplets like the whole time and the end is just ughhhhh so gooooddddd
This song is so much fun to play
i love the part when french horn and tenor sax come together
Jacob Picking welp ok
lmao
I play the French horn. Btw it is the FRENCH HORN!
French horn is in F..... So it is a *type* of F Horn. There's also F Alto Horn to in existence~
Have you ever studied your instrument history? The Horns we play and refer in America to as "French Horns" are actually German in origin. The French also made horns, but they use piston valves and are small bored.
I've been wanting to play this peice ever since I've gotten good at playing the flute, which was my seventh grade year at junior high. Its been two years, I'm now a freshman, and my band teacher wants us to play it at our first concert, I'm very excited, even if it is difficult and has a lot of triplets.
Played this with my youth orchestra and it was awesome
Amazing music, my band has had to learn it in 1 month and surprisingly it is extremely close to how the recording sounds, by far one of the most challenging yet beautiful pieces of music I have ever played.
#FlutesFTW
Wulfgirl03 flutes have the best sound of any instrument, in my opinion. That's why I chose it over all the others.
MrGameDuck I agree, I also like the sound of a Barry saxophone but when I first started band, that wasn't an option.
Wulfgirl03 yeah same. In beginning band at my school you could only play alto sax, and in advanced band right now, my friend that used to play alto sax now plays Barry sax. It's like almost as big as he is 😂😂
CrazyWulfie Bari sax*
CrazyWulfie Me and my band learned this in a week.. is that worrying? 😂 such a fun piece!
Playing both bassoon and bari sax on this piece. The low woodwind part is so fun
Played this in band, best thing ever!
i think we need to applaud whoever played the chimes on this for making them sound as beautifully dramatic and cinematic as possible
Going to be playing this as a freshman. Super excited!
this is a bop
We were supposed to play this last year but we couldnt and our conductor re-introduced it this year iM SO HAPPY I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH I PLAY THE FLUTE BTW
aww jhope xD im playing the flute too and pur band is going to learn this song too ㅋㅋㅋ
Hehe I see an ARMY
My schools got A Marching band Flute Army that will keep growing. Ill make sure of that. I got 5 more years of Marching Band. (My School we start in 7)
Ellie Emmerling Wow thats a long time. You guys must be amazing. For us its like an extracurricular during high school and you can join whenever you want. But same as our band we have more flutes than any other instrument,
We are a very small school district. Our Middle School and High School is one building. We are a division 5 Football team. Which is understandable considering our district size. Also amount of kids that go to our school. If we didnt have 7th and 8th grade in our Marching band we would have literally 30 Marching Highschool kids and 7 or 8 Flagline/Daneline. Because of our school district size they say they keep the Middle School and the High school apart really well. They dont. This Marching Band season we had 4 Middle School Flutes and 2 High School Flutes. But Next year we will get more Newbz. For Us Trumpets is the largest with I dont know how many like 8 to 10. But Flutes come after that.
Amazing! We just started practicing this in our year 7 band but all we hear is alto’s and even when the conductor tells them to be quiet, they overpower the entire band lol.. I loveee the flutes and trumpet parts
NerfThis Mercy! Lol in my band we have 1 alto sax me! Lol
Em Mey wow its the complete opposite in our band lol
I know what you mean, in my music class there were like 17 altos most of them just played normally, around 8 trumpets but only 3 really played, 3 trombones, 3 tenors but really only me and this other dude played, 1 baritone, 10 clarinets only like 6 played, maybe 5 flutes really only like 3 played, 2 tubas rea`lly only 1 played, and 2 basses which always messed up lol, and all we heard were altos. They always overpowered, I don't if it's just me but other than altos for some reason we have something against altos.
Its times like these I wish I was a flute or french horn.
the marching band show of this is even better. probably my favorite show we did in high school. i played first trumpet part and ahh i will always remember that solo in the third movement it was great loved playing that
The marching band I’m in sometimes is a concert band. And we are playing this as one of our concert band pieces.
3:35 is the best part for a trumpet player