Speaking from a program where we warm-up every rehearsal with Long Tones, Lips Slurs, Chorales, and 7 marches.......I salute FAMU because they have ALWAYS been the advocators for playing a varied repertoire!!!
@krbrown...The band is playing Rolling Thunder by memory, on the football field, and marching as they play. You were probably sitting down with a music stand in front of you in a concert hall. There is a marked difference. I would love to see your band march and play Rolling Thunder at 180 mm. LOL
My friend, I AM a real musician. I was a member of the University of Georgia Redcoat band trumpet line when I was in school, and I also have, not that I need to justify my opinion to you, a great deal of respect for the musical traditions of the HBCUs. Other traditions, such as rampant brutal hazing, not so much. But the point here was not that I was dissing the band's rendition, but merely that i was not being played at the written tempo. I have played RT. It is a chop-buster at any speed.
One of my favorite marches. A little slow, but for a marching band, not bad. Instead of focusing on certain sections, would rather hear the whole march with proper balance.
I've read all of the posted comments and there seems to be a consensus of two basic musical points; one, the trombones were misplaced thus making them appear to be out of balance with the rest of the band and two, the march was performed at a slow tempo. I would agree with both logical criticisms. Most march enthusiasts would agree that the Rolling Thunder March should always be played up-tempo. Finally, the trombone melody is a part of the whole and not the whole piece by itself. Balance!
@aristocratify This is no easy march. At it's original tempo, it's a trombone player's worst nightmare. That said, I have to agree. It is too slow. As for the sound, it just goes to prove that A) trombones are the loudest instrument in the band, B) because of A, trombones should never be at the front and C) you shouldn't put microphones in front of trombones. But then again, it is Henry Fillmore. Woodwinds played well. Would've liked to hear more horns. Were there any 2nd or 3rd trumpets?
@Bobofwestoregonusa Sure, but it's not just melody and harmony here. It's melody and countermelody. I would've like to hear the countermelody a bit more.
I don't care how fast or slow they play it because fast doesn't mean good and slow doesn't mean bad. But they announcer needs to take public speaking lessons and I have never heard that trombone part and also I know there is more than one part as well. Maybe I'm wrong but they added to the trombone part. PLAT WHATS ON THE MUSIC!!!
oh my gosh.... the microphones are in the front... so are the trombones... common sense would tell you that ... for when the trombones move from the front then the trumpets become loud...
The point that was missed is that it is futile to place 30 trombones out front when the essence of the march requires all parts to be heard in harmonic tandem. I have followed FAMU more years then you have lived on this Earth. Hater I am not, music observer I am. It would have been more musically effective to keep the shape of the trombone with the trombone section embedded in the band. The slower tempo for this piece served no purpose but to provide assistance to the musically inept.
Speaking from a program where we warm-up every rehearsal with Long Tones, Lips Slurs, Chorales, and 7 marches.......I salute FAMU because they have ALWAYS been the advocators for playing a varied repertoire!!!
T-Bones are some beast couldn't hear anyone else until they stopped playin
Man I miss Prof Bing. He taught me so much. I hope he is looking down on me from Heaven--proud of his prized Applied Student. Hubba Angels!
R.I.P Prof!!! "Make it Pretty", "Pretty Tones", "Stop blastin those horns", I'm gonna run you off this field". I'm about to cry...
Seeing this reminds me how much I miss seeing Prof. Bing at the Music BLDG. Hubba Prof!
Great piece! I loved playing in when I was in the 100.
@krbrown...The band is playing Rolling Thunder by memory, on the football field, and marching as they play. You were probably sitting down with a music stand in front of you in a concert hall. There is a marked difference. I would love to see your band march and play Rolling Thunder at 180 mm. LOL
This is a good march. hard to play clean they do a good job. sweet sound.
that was a pretty fun interpretation of it...i really liked it
EPIC MUSTACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1.25 speed is life.
Forte Piano that’s perfect speed lol
"Forget tone, play loud."
HBCUs condition their players to be heard loud and clear across packed stadiums. they are way better suited for football games than any other style.
Hubba Prof!! We Miss You!!
Damn...Trombone Power right there.
wow!
Very well played haha...love HBCU's...im goin to NCCU though.....
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ilove this song!! ^_^
has FAMU trombones ever been this crisp since then?
They were traditionally this hood before the incident. There was and never will be a trombone section like pre 2012 Famu
My friend, I AM a real musician. I was a member of the University of Georgia Redcoat band trumpet line when I was in school, and I also have, not that I need to justify my opinion to you, a great deal of respect for the musical traditions of the HBCUs. Other traditions, such as rampant brutal hazing, not so much. But the point here was not that I was dissing the band's rendition, but merely that i was not being played at the written tempo. I have played RT. It is a chop-buster at any speed.
Sounds about white, oops, I meant right.
Please chill trumbones yall on point but chill damn yall good
XD
@djmike2013 Tri-Cities HS? Good too see the standard of excellence is still there c/o 99
Thats Counter Melody is bangin' boy.
@krbrown76 Marching by memory with NO music in front of you? on a field TOTALLY by memory???? and MARCHING?????
One of my favorite marches. A little slow, but for a marching band, not bad. Instead of focusing on certain sections, would rather hear the whole march with proper balance.
I've read all of the posted comments and there seems to be a consensus of two basic musical points; one, the trombones were misplaced thus making them appear to be out of balance with the rest of the band and two, the march was performed at a slow tempo. I would agree with both logical criticisms. Most march enthusiasts would agree that the Rolling Thunder March should always be played up-tempo. Finally, the trombone melody is a part of the whole and not the whole piece by itself. Balance!
HUBBA PROF BING. R.I.P.
Wish we would have said, "IGTOX RUTHFUL!!!!"
Hubba Prof!
@aristocratify This is no easy march. At it's original tempo, it's a trombone player's worst nightmare. That said, I have to agree. It is too slow. As for the sound, it just goes to prove that A) trombones are the loudest instrument in the band, B) because of A, trombones should never be at the front and C) you shouldn't put microphones in front of trombones.
But then again, it is Henry Fillmore. Woodwinds played well. Would've liked to hear more horns. Were there any 2nd or 3rd trumpets?
I want a mustache like prof. Bing
@Bobofwestoregonusa Sure, but it's not just melody and harmony here. It's melody and countermelody. I would've like to hear the countermelody a bit more.
Thanks HHorn2002 for posting Prof Bing!!!
dont be hatin on dem bonez ;D
I don't care how fast or slow they play it because fast doesn't mean good and slow doesn't mean bad. But they announcer needs to take public speaking lessons and I have never heard that trombone part and also I know there is more than one part as well. Maybe I'm wrong but they added to the trombone part. PLAT WHATS ON THE MUSIC!!!
HUBBA PROF. BING!!!!RIP!!!!!
@aristocratify Yeah, but Rolling thunder just sounds so FUN at this tempo!
Why did they leave out the break strain?
* content sigh* love it!
this is great but the woodwinds need to bring it up and this would be what every Military marching band director would dream of
R.I.P Prof Bing
Hubba Prof Bing... RIP
A band that can play a march clean spread over the field.... (CLAPPING!!!!!!) I knew it wasn't too good to be true!
Hubba prof!
Professor bind DID have an awesome moustache.
is their a band behind those bones? lol
Nice.LOL, this would explain why the lowbrass is in the back of bands most of the time. Trombones and tubas drowned everything out. n
so what if its slow
this is the sound wat trombones n all low brasses want XD
Nice performance. Was this before or after the band members beat their drum major to death?
Hubba!
oh my gosh.... the microphones are in the front... so are the trombones... common sense would tell you that ... for when the trombones move from the front then the trumpets become loud...
in response to aeiouandytoo, in a good marching band ur not suposed to hear the percussion section, we are FELT not herd!
Actually, they play out, because it's the melody, and everyone plays softer. Common sense and basic musical concepts would tell you that.
Hubba Prof! Recording doesn't do the performance justice. This is a standard that is played well by the 100 just about everytime.
"fucking loud TROMBONES" ........this is a marching band in a crowded outdoor stadium!!!!
uh I don't think the trombones are loud enough
The point that was missed is that it is futile to place 30 trombones out front when the essence of the march requires all parts to be heard in harmonic tandem. I have followed FAMU more years then you have lived on this Earth. Hater I am not, music observer I am. It would have been more musically effective to keep the shape of the trombone with the trombone section embedded in the band. The slower tempo for this piece served no purpose but to provide assistance to the musically inept.
The trumpets is a little weak but good overall
Cute, but you wouldn't even know Rolling Thunder was a screamer from hearing this rendition.
as direct bands.....lol
Why is everyone in the band black?
nelson arias is it a problem that they're black I mean it is an hbcu
Jermaine Godfrey yes, it is
Arin George how so?
Now let's see them try at at tempo...they're playing it at about half the tempo of Sousa's band......
Steve Shelnutt because it was marching band season and not sophonic band season
LOL
TOO SLOW!
IT`S TOO SLOW..
Too slow
Omg I can actually PLAY THIS FASTER THAN THIS! IM NOT EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL!
they are a marching band so that makes it hard to play together very quickly
Francisco M. Facts
but can you play it clean?
Theo L Same. But I had to learn to double tongue a while ago. But It's still torture
This sucks musically almost as much as FAMU sucks at covering up their hazing scandal.
Super slow, Eastman did better
Hubba Prof!!
LOL