I love how sleigh ride is basically a nationwide band meme. In my band, two of the trumpets stood up and slapped each other in time to the slapstick. Good times.
I had a winter concert before we went on break, and we made a giant ass slapstick and gift wrapped it. So during the concert I could unwrap it so the audience could see.
We have over 14 percussionists in our class, and my teacher decided to make EVERY SINGLE PERCUSSIONIST play. So, I got a lousy vibraphone part where I only got to play 1/8th of the time. In the smack dab middle of the song, I had to rest for 56 measures. Being a percussionist is so fun.
@@ashplayz2374 its not all chill when you miss 2 of your lessons due to the new schedule so your band teacher has to teach you in the middle of class in order to work and the whole half of the other room turns around to watch what you when they literally aren’t gonna play the percussion instruments anyways 😔
This feels so wrong to be moving around during a concert because I've always had to be locked in to one spot and got death stares if I did anything else
I played trumpet in school and I loved this. Good job for the rest of the bad staying together. Practicing a stunt like that is very different then in the concert for real.
I went to a PA program at my high school so sleigh ride was pretty serious in the choir version. Our fav vice principal was the only one allowed the honor of slap stick. She was on time every year. Until junior year, they wanted to let someone else do it. People in choir were skeptical but we waited. New admin lady was completely off beat and you could feel the hate from our 150 person chorus...
One heck of a coincidence, just came home from a concert (I’m a 3rd Trumpet) where the entire High school’s music department, including two band groups, two choir groups, and two orchestra groups, played Sleigh Ride at the end. Our percussionist who was on that part decided to gradually get bigger slapsticks to a point where they were practically twice her height
Forgot to add that first time we rehearsed with half of the band and orchestra a piece of the thing broke off and nearly hit one of us thirds or someone in the percussion section
Whats crazy about this to me is that as a non-percussionist but as someone who played the nightmare that is Sleigh Ride 4 years in a row on Clarinet I always got the impression the slapstick was the trickiest part of the song. It was easily one of the parts we spent the most time on making sure we got it exactly right. So the fact that he’s running around while using it is incredible to me. Bravo to you you mad slap stick playing maniac
its really just a matter of knowing when to come in, which, unless a school is playing sleigh ride a different sort of way, is very easy to memorize! source ive played the slapstick for sleigh ride about 3 years now
@@ZookieFyre I won’t lie, I’m only a mediocre Clarient player but I somehow got placed with first part on this song two years in a row and I have no idea why or how or what I was doing
The craziest thing that our band ever did for a concert is the time we had a kazoo part so the entire band just whipped out kazoos and started playing them as if they were our actual instruments
I’m a fellow percussionist and I had the unforgettable experience of playing slapstick/whip crack for a symphony orchestra performance… as a string bass player. Putting my bass down and running behind a curtain and then suddenly popping up in the middle of nowhere was truly amazing. We should 100% do this at next year’s Christmas concert!
My band teacher had us try to remember the tempo of the song so we could play without a proper conductor. So what happened during our winter concert was the conductor would auction off the baton to a member of the audience. Whoever was the highest bidder had the opportunity to conduct the song sleigh ride. I still have no idea where the money went.
Darn I wish we had thought of that as well, instead my slap stick guy was just going around all the kids playing. IT looked like alot of fun you guys had
Oh my gosh this was too funny!! I remember being a band kid, and almost every year we did sleigh ride. EVERYONE wanted to use the slapstick; we get so jealous of percussion students. This took it to a whole other level and it was hilarious 😆 Once a band kid, ALWAYS a band kid
I remember being put on the part of Slapstick for Sleigh Ride, and I thought it would be awful. Turns out it was quite the opposite… let’s just say using an old slapstick and telling the person playing it to go all out on it made us have to get a new slapstick immediately after lol.
Being given the slapstick part is like the highest honor in band. However, the saxophone interlude part of Jingle bells being the meow mix commercial jingle is a high second.
i was a percussionist in middle school and my band director made it a whole thing about the sleigh bells, and i was the lucky one to play them for that song. he brought me up to the front of the band and i stood in front of his podium facing the audience and he did a whole spiel about how i had dedicated my life to sleigh bells. no one except my mother got the joke btw, dead silence with a single loud laugh. then i, a shaky and sweaty sixth grader, played, and quickly retreated to the back as fast as possible after the song was over
@@transitwatch6655 No joke, I gave up the sax for percussion. Best decision of my life. But it depends how old you are and your grade. 5-6th would be fine. Any older would be harder to adjust. But if you can and you truly want to, do it.
Anytime you can use the words or get away with tomfoolery, figure of fun, shenanigans, or High jinks....you should go for it. Merry Christmas + HapPy New Year!
That’s quite the band workout. There’s so many options for this one to make it an even more fun experience. Everyone else playing did very well too. Also, that so very much looks like old school’s auditorium, including the setup, and even backstage.
I'm so excited for my school's christmas show this year. The seniors in the percussion section get to do this slapstick part, and I'm the only senior in percussion this year
during my bands sleigh ride, since the slapstick was so old and the student using it was complaining, my teacher gifted him two wooden planks with handles, all wrapped and they were huge. suuuper loouud.
I was in charge of the slapsticks in band for this song. I screwed up the timing in practice and the director made the whole band stay over to play it again even tho the period ended lol
I’ve played this song I think three times throughout middle school and high school. We played it my senior year at our winter concert and since there were about ten of us in the percussion section, we had three people playing slapstick. We only had I think two actual slapsticks and one of those was made by a student. The other ones were just two 4x4s we slapped together. I got stuck with the 4x4s. Because there were three of us we were each stationed at random on the stage and “take turns” (our teacher would point at one of us to play). I got the last beat and I hit the 4x4s together so hard they both cracked down the middle. Fun times
Playing slapstick on this song was absolutely one of my favorite memories of band. I created a homemade slapstick in our school's engineering lab out of a wooden 2x2 and some door handles. Was an absolute blast.
All band members, what was the creative sleigh ride slapstick skit done during your concert? For us, the student conductor took the slapstick and went through the stage with it and at the end, the director would take it away from them
I remember the story my band teacher gave when she was at Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana) playing this piece in the percussion section and a guy brought an actual whip for the slapstick part!
One year during my sister's annual winter band concert (it wasnt her group) they made the slapsticks larger each time they used them in the song until, for the last one, it was two pieces of wood larger than the kids holding them. Splinters flew off.
This reminds me off my high school band. I wasn’t a part of it, I was in choir, but I miss our concerts. I remembered a few pranks they would do in concerts, sometimes even to the music teacher/conductor. Once, they Rickrolled the whole audience and some students were just dancing to it. It was pretty funny.
This made me laugh so hard lol Edit: 11 months later my band is playing this again and we started to add funny parts too it as well and this just makes me appreciate the time and effort people put into this music
In band we would play party in the USA. This one trumpet would get up and when the song said “moving my hips like yeah” he would get up and move his hips.😂
I recall back in Marching Band one of our movements had two slapstick hits at the end, with a fair gap between them. Being the one playing them, and with nothing to do between the hits, I came up with a funny little dance number to pass the 15 measures. Second most fun I had in band.
it’s that time of year, folks. percussionist here, and the second our band director pulled out the slapstick and elegantly handed it to one of my fellow snare drummers, band has been non stop *CRACK* *CRACK* “can we play n-“ *CRACK*
I love how sleigh ride is basically a nationwide band meme. In my band, two of the trumpets stood up and slapped each other in time to the slapstick. Good times.
Its international
I'm from Germany
LMAO
As lead trumpet in my band, I approve this message
As lead trumpet in my band, I can confirm that those are the most normal brass players
@@krimson1958I can confirm as well
Honestly, the funniest part was “I’ve got one more in me. I’m jumping off the stage.”
when?
@@RXushthe end
@@RXush 2:16
I absolutely love how extra people are with the slapstick, it’s hilarious
That's... That's why it's called "slapstick humor"
I had a winter concert before we went on break, and we made a giant ass slapstick and gift wrapped it. So during the concert I could unwrap it so the audience could see.
@@saipantribute670 omg that’s amazing
@@Caldoric mhm your not wrong
We have over 14 percussionists in our class, and my teacher decided to make EVERY SINGLE PERCUSSIONIST play. So, I got a lousy vibraphone part where I only got to play 1/8th of the time. In the smack dab middle of the song, I had to rest for 56 measures. Being a percussionist is so fun.
you’re either playing the whole time or hardly ever lol
@@andrewgarfieldishot.4454 I know but we are kinda chill so I sometimes like it when I do nothing because I just joke with the other percussionists
@@ashplayz2374 same! and i’m not insulting anyone- i’m a percussionist myself!
@@ashplayz2374 its not all chill when you miss 2 of your lessons due to the new schedule so your band teacher has to teach you in the middle of class in order to work
and the whole half of the other room turns around to watch what you when they literally aren’t gonna play the percussion instruments anyways 😔
In a small percussion group (idk like
This feels so wrong to be moving around during a concert because I've always had to be locked in to one spot and got death stares if I did anything else
And that video! I felt very dizzy the whole time, as if I would fall off the stage.
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guess you shoulda been the slapstick guy then 😂
i need to see the audiences perspective, as a percussionist as well this is funnyyy
I played trumpet in school and I loved this. Good job for the rest of the bad staying together. Practicing a stunt like that is very different then in the concert for real.
also a percussionist and I love this!
EYYY PERCUSSION HAS BEEN SUMMONED! 🥁
I went to a PA program at my high school so sleigh ride was pretty serious in the choir version. Our fav vice principal was the only one allowed the honor of slap stick.
She was on time every year. Until junior year, they wanted to let someone else do it. People in choir were skeptical but we waited. New admin lady was completely off beat and you could feel the hate from our 150 person chorus...
When the director wants some slapstick in their performance but you misheard it as some slapstick in their performance.
*Ba dum tis!*
*slow clap* hah hah hah
this looks so fun it's time to switch from an oboe to a slapstick
Nothing hits quite like finding a fellow oboe player randomly
Now that’s three oboes
@@elitedefender6918 I think I've seen your comments before
This makes 4
@@youjustreadmyname2701 dude oboe meetup when
One heck of a coincidence, just came home from a concert (I’m a 3rd Trumpet) where the entire High school’s music department, including two band groups, two choir groups, and two orchestra groups, played Sleigh Ride at the end. Our percussionist who was on that part decided to gradually get bigger slapsticks to a point where they were practically twice her height
That sounds hilarious 😂
Forgot to add that first time we rehearsed with half of the band and orchestra a piece of the thing broke off and nearly hit one of us thirds or someone in the percussion section
Yall got the contrabass slapstick
Comically large slapstick
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Whats crazy about this to me is that as a non-percussionist but as someone who played the nightmare that is Sleigh Ride 4 years in a row on Clarinet I always got the impression the slapstick was the trickiest part of the song. It was easily one of the parts we spent the most time on making sure we got it exactly right. So the fact that he’s running around while using it is incredible to me. Bravo to you you mad slap stick playing maniac
its really just a matter of knowing when to come in, which, unless a school is playing sleigh ride a different sort of way, is very easy to memorize! source ive played the slapstick for sleigh ride about 3 years now
oh god I was a clarinet on this as well ;-;
@@ZookieFyre I won’t lie, I’m only a mediocre Clarient player but I somehow got placed with first part on this song two years in a row and I have no idea why or how or what I was doing
I play piano, but now I've watched so many of these videos, I feel I could play this slap stick part.
Dawg slapstick is the easiest part possible lmao- if you can count you got it lol
Is anyone going to talk about how good the band sounded? Slapstick was 100x funnier with the fact that the band sounded fantastic!
The craziest thing that our band ever did for a concert is the time we had a kazoo part so the entire band just whipped out kazoos and started playing them as if they were our actual instruments
I’m a fellow percussionist and I had the unforgettable experience of playing slapstick/whip crack for a symphony orchestra performance… as a string bass player. Putting my bass down and running behind a curtain and then suddenly popping up in the middle of nowhere was truly amazing. We should 100% do this at next year’s Christmas concert!
So what’s it like being named Alec Jones?
hope everyone doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤❤❤
@@zacharynguyen7286 thank you zachary!
I love the slap at 1:16. That scream really cracks me up.
My band teacher had us try to remember the tempo of the song so we could play without a proper conductor. So what happened during our winter concert was the conductor would auction off the baton to a member of the audience. Whoever was the highest bidder had the opportunity to conduct the song sleigh ride. I still have no idea where the money went.
Nothing was special about our slapstick performer except that I went deaf from standing next to him
Darn I wish we had thought of that as well, instead my slap stick guy was just going around all the kids playing. IT looked like alot of fun you guys had
Oh my gosh this was too funny!! I remember being a band kid, and almost every year we did sleigh ride. EVERYONE wanted to use the slapstick; we get so jealous of percussion students. This took it to a whole other level and it was hilarious 😆
Once a band kid, ALWAYS a band kid
I remember being put on the part of Slapstick for Sleigh Ride, and I thought it would be awful. Turns out it was quite the opposite… let’s just say using an old slapstick and telling the person playing it to go all out on it made us have to get a new slapstick immediately after lol.
Being given the slapstick part is like the highest honor in band.
However, the saxophone interlude part of Jingle bells being the meow mix commercial jingle is a high second.
This was awesome. Please put a link in your description to a video of the show so we can see what it looked like from the audience perspective!
Crazy seeing you here King Wes.
@@imorvit LMAO
i was a percussionist in middle school and my band director made it a whole thing about the sleigh bells, and i was the lucky one to play them for that song. he brought me up to the front of the band and i stood in front of his podium facing the audience and he did a whole spiel about how i had dedicated my life to sleigh bells. no one except my mother got the joke btw, dead silence with a single loud laugh. then i, a shaky and sweaty sixth grader, played, and quickly retreated to the back as fast as possible after the song was over
This lowkey makes me wanna be a percussionist 💀
As a percussionist myself, DO IT.
@@voltplayz5041 I lowkey don't wanna give up sax though
@@transitwatch6655 No joke, I gave up the sax for percussion. Best decision of my life. But it depends how old you are and your grade. 5-6th would be fine. Any older would be harder to adjust. But if you can and you truly want to, do it.
@@voltplayz5041 Thanks for the advice
it's all fun and games until you have to rest for 2/3 of the piece
Ahh... I miss my high school percussion lads... This is absolutely the tomfoolery we thrived off of
Anytime you can use the words or get away with tomfoolery, figure of fun, shenanigans, or High jinks....you should go for it. Merry Christmas + HapPy New Year!
Lol! My kids’ band, the slapstick for Sleigh Ride was over 6 feet tall… part of it broke off during the performance. 😂😂😂
ours was taller than the tallest kid in the band, and he's 6'3! 😂
Our little special thing is that we had THREE. I didn't even know we HAD that many
That’s quite the band workout. There’s so many options for this one to make it an even more fun experience. Everyone else playing did very well too. Also, that so very much looks like old school’s auditorium, including the setup, and even backstage.
this is the funniest thing i’ve seen all day
That’s what I call some slap stick comedy right there
Omg this is so creative and I love it so much. I thought it was gonna you sitting the back the whole time but this is so much better lol. Good playing
The band at our son’s HS did something similar a week and 1/2 ago, but it was 3 of them running around the audience doing slapstick.
Orchestra warmup: tuning their instruments
This guy’s warmup: calf stretches and coffee
This was literally such a rollercoaster to watch, it gives off the band energy PERFECTLY it’s amazing.
Bro it looks fun but our theater teacher and the stage manager would be very concerned with the jumping on and off the stage
Who needs cardio when you can be the slapstick during sleigh ride
I just knew there was something missing today... it was this. I needed this.
I cannot describe how fast I would be unalived by my old Band Director.
It's stunts like this that make me glad I became a percussionist!
I'm so excited for my school's christmas show this year. The seniors in the percussion section get to do this slapstick part, and I'm the only senior in percussion this year
Oh this is absolutely GOLDEN
I would've tripped several times just watching this 🤣
during my bands sleigh ride, since the slapstick was so old and the student using it was complaining, my teacher gifted him two wooden planks with handles, all wrapped and they were huge. suuuper loouud.
Really wish my band did this, but instead we used large pieces of plywood for our slapstick.
It was awesome
My friend and I were percussionists in high school, and we still talk about this song.
best sleigh ride pov video by far
everythings perfect, especially the scream of pure terror at 1:17
I was in charge of the slapsticks in band for this song. I screwed up the timing in practice and the director made the whole band stay over to play it again even tho the period ended lol
I don’t know what’s happening but I’m enjoying it
I’ve played this song I think three times throughout middle school and high school. We played it my senior year at our winter concert and since there were about ten of us in the percussion section, we had three people playing slapstick. We only had I think two actual slapsticks and one of those was made by a student. The other ones were just two 4x4s we slapped together. I got stuck with the 4x4s. Because there were three of us we were each stationed at random on the stage and “take turns” (our teacher would point at one of us to play). I got the last beat and I hit the 4x4s together so hard they both cracked down the middle.
Fun times
Playing slapstick on this song was absolutely one of my favorite memories of band. I created a homemade slapstick in our school's engineering lab out of a wooden 2x2 and some door handles. Was an absolute blast.
now this is some real slapstick comedy
"What's the last one?"
"I'm jumpin' off the stage."
"Oh."
I like this. I think this is how this should be played in the future.
All band members, what was the creative sleigh ride slapstick skit done during your concert? For us, the student conductor took the slapstick and went through the stage with it and at the end, the director would take it away from them
The absolute cheekiness on this man
I remember the story my band teacher gave when she was at Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana) playing this piece in the percussion section and a guy brought an actual whip for the slapstick part!
I love how every orchestra's percussion people are the dankest of all.
"I'm jumping off the stage."
"What?"
Ah. Slapstick humor. My favorite ❤️
now this is a masterpiece.
"Is this the last one?"
"Yes, I am jumping off the stage."
"I'm coming with you"
Dog, I started crying at the slap stick with the perfectly timed yelp. I don't know why it made me laugh so hard, I just kept rewatching it.
as a percussionist who plays slapstick in sleigh ride, this is hilarious and loos like sm fun
This is too brilliant I couldn't help but smile
I’d would LOVE to be that guy oh my god 😂 Great performance!!
We used an actual whip for our sleigh ride performance senior year. That was the most fun band kid sidequest, learning the whip
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE SLAPSTICK PERFORMANCES
Man I miss stuff like this when I was in choir! We had the same set up too every Christmas concert
Was this whole thing was choreographed?
Looks like it!
Surprisingly it was all improv except me stealing it from my director
That is hilarious.
Band meets theater
My band had a dude with a gigantic slapstick, along with me and someone else on normal slapsticks. That's, like, 3 slapsticks.
BRILLIANT 100/10 if I ever get back to teaching music I am 1000% encouraging this
proof that in every band, it's usually percussion having the most fun and goofing around 😂
One year during my sister's annual winter band concert (it wasnt her group) they made the slapsticks larger each time they used them in the song until, for the last one, it was two pieces of wood larger than the kids holding them. Splinters flew off.
This slapstick cracked me up! Wonderful performance!!!
This reminds me off my high school band. I wasn’t a part of it, I was in choir, but I miss our concerts. I remembered a few pranks they would do in concerts, sometimes even to the music teacher/conductor. Once, they Rickrolled the whole audience and some students were just dancing to it. It was pretty funny.
I was not expecting the literal pov that was amazing 😂
When the percussionist literally steals the show...
i never knew it was staged until the dudes shook hands
I love the horse bit where the trumpet neighs. It also would’ve been embarrassing to fight over the snapstick in front of atleast 300-700 people😂😂
Best video I've seen all month 😂
The slap scream was perfect 😂
This brings me joy.
this is honestly my favorite sleigh ride video
1:15 the slap, scream here is hilarious 😂
I love this so much lmao
Us band/orchestra geeks always have the best fun
Lmao this would’ve been the BEST performance ever- though it was probably so entertaining I wish I was there- bout to send it to my band director 😂
Slapsticks can either be dead serious or goofy as hell 👌 I very much approve
I am a percussionist and an actor. I would love to be this guy! 😆
This is really great. Bravo
I played this an I was on slap sticks. Best show ever,.
beautiful and done perfectly much respect
My director would never allow this to happen during the concert. In class though, percussion was hilarious with the slapstick
This made me laugh so hard lol
Edit: 11 months later my band is playing this again and we started to add funny parts too it as well and this just makes me appreciate the time and effort people put into this music
Looks a lot like the Lied Center in Lawrence, KS. Never had to play sleigh ride; I still love every moment!
In band we would play party in the USA. This one trumpet would get up and when the song said “moving my hips like yeah” he would get up and move his hips.😂
in our class, we built a 2x slap stick, 5x slapstick and a 10x slapstick where you had to get a running start to play.
I recall back in Marching Band one of our movements had two slapstick hits at the end, with a fair gap between them. Being the one playing them, and with nothing to do between the hits, I came up with a funny little dance number to pass the 15 measures. Second most fun I had in band.
it’s that time of year, folks. percussionist here, and the second our band director pulled out the slapstick and elegantly handed it to one of my fellow snare drummers, band has been non stop *CRACK* *CRACK* “can we play n-“ *CRACK*
I went to this theatre before for band and we did pretty good but this… was amazing
That seems so much fun