I always feel bad for people who don't go to highschools with music ensembles of this calibre. My highschools groups were insane and they basically sent me to music school
Yeah, my highschool's band is average/below average. But, we still occasionally get the insane godlike player who somehow breaks through all the ranks and gets first chair all state junior year. How does this even happen, at such a mediocre school? It's completely beyond me man
My current high schools music programs are terrible. It really sucks for me and the handful of other people who are really interested in music, and will never get the best experience.
@@kairymercado7772 same went for us all four years. Always one good one and a bunch of sucky ones. Except that one year our lower level jazz band only had one bone and he couldn’t read music
Sophomore year and this year I’m playing it and we had Samuel hazo actually come in and talk to us about arabesque. He’s a really funny guy and is so cool
our teached domt give a fly she's making them play high grade music like the rest of us, if they cant after being helped, well good bye we'll find someone to fill your place
Our French horns were so bad that the orchestra director asked me to sit in and play the lead horn part. How is that weird, you ask? I played the alto saxophone...
@@redstonecat1232 True, however some of the really fun songs such as Yagisawa's Machu Picchu and Reed's overtures need them so we ultimately lost out on a lot of great opportunities
@@gustafsone I was in a weekend "honor band" (I use that term loosely because we didn't deserve it) where our euphonium player had the solo in "Roaring Forties" by Phillip Sparke, and he couldn't play it without majorly cracking. I desperately wanted to ask to play his solo for his on Bari, but I shut my trap. He cracked in concert.
@@jonahb6580 Yeah, I reluctantly joined the orchestra and after our first concert, I told the director that I'd still sit in and help them out in the future but I didn't want anymore solos. It wasn't that I didn't feel capable, but I was adamant in my opinion that a saxophone shouldn't be anywhere in an orchestra to begin with and while the alto is in the same key as a french horn, they still *sound* vastly different. Thankfully the director agreed and he either nixed the solos altogether or gave it to one of the trumpets. My main passion was jazz, and that's where all of my effort went into. I was willing to sit in with the orchestra because I quite liked the director and respected him, and I also had a lot of friends who played in the orchestra, too. It still didn't feel right playing a French horn part, though.
When I did this piece I had been only playing clarinet for about 6 months, self taught, and we played this in festival band. The girl two chairs down (third clarinet, fourth chair) was without fail always late on the clap by an embarrassing amount. I would have felt bad if she didn’t try to tell me that she was the best clarinet player in the section, but that she just had a “bad audition.”
this makes me sad that my schools band was never even close to this good. it’s not like i haven’t enjoyed the time in band but i wish we could’ve played cool music and actually sounded good 😔
God I loved being in the low voices for songs like these. I wish I could still play my bass clarinet but it was a borrowed one from my school. It's so fun to just go in like this Side note: yall are better than our trombone section, we had playing tests after our concert and some people only got out a few notes, and one person cried like every time lol
@@The_Cloudy_Sky You're not wrong, a lot of parts are boring. But Sweet Child o' Mine's bassline? That's a fun song to play. Just gotta get lucky though lol
@@whatd0605 honestly, you make a really good point. We did do a lot of sectional work and fine tuning before the concert though. Individual tests take up a huge chunk of time that was spent with full band rehearsals
I played Timpani back in my high school band for this song! I ended up breaking a head during our concert after hearing “MORE” from my band director, but honestly that just made this song so much better. The clap during the percussion break was the icing on top Definitely one of the greats 🤘
I started playing trombone and euphonium in August, and it's been the best decision I made way too late (my senior year ends tomorrow and I used to play trumpet). I hope to reach the point where I can move through each position without pausing on every note 😔
Man at least you didn’t quit band in 6th grade, I also played the trombone and now in 11th grade I’m really starting to regret quiting all those years ago :(
@@JosueHernandez-nu5cp You can always pick it back up! If you still have your horn, talk to your school's band director or some friends of yours about getting you up to speed and joining next year. It's never too late to get back into music. :)
I never played this piece in high school, but one year I was lucky enough to go to a music camp where we played this among a few other really cool pieces. A core memory for sure
Last year I had got the chance of sight reading this song trumpet first part though I didn’t actually get to play as an actual song in competition but I oh well
I play timpani for Arabesque in my band and the percussion feature in the middle is super fun to play! We only have 1 trombone though so we are severely lacking in the sauce
I was going through my older brothers old music hoping to find this song and I did🙂the key signature makes me want to 💀🥲 - edit it’s been a year and I’m going to hs so ye I can play it.. It was js being of 7th grade I made this comment
arabesque is ICONIC. we played it two years ago and the trombones and even other people still blare this lick all the time. even during marching season
@@trombonetimo I’ve always liked how the Bach 42bo comes with a Bach gold plated mouthpiece..I have 42af, and it didn’t even came with a Bach mouthpiece, it was a getzen...
ARABESQUE!!! YES! I never got to play it myself (luckily I got plenty other amazing pieces), but I always loved when other bands had it in their program and we got to listen :)
I don't know how I ended up on the band side of UA-cam as a choir kid- But you guys are amazing, and I've always admired bands from afar. That lick is phenomenal
as a clarinet arabesque was such a fun piece to play. at our concert our whole band was radiating with smiles of how proud we felt of being able to play this song and overall it’s kind of a challenging song but if you practice it is so fun.
Remember playing this in Highschool! Such a fun song, I play trumpet and hearing that trumpet line in the back ground brought back some fun memories, favorite part of the song to play!
DUDE I ACTUALLY LOVED PLAYING ARABESQUE SO MUCH, background knowledge in a sophomore in high school, I play the alto saxophone and I’m a school in imperial Missouri and I got the change to play that song at MMEA and I’m never gonna live it down
I could listen to this all day! Brings back great memories! When I listen to this song, the french horn part is always what I hear because that’s what I played, so hearing another instrument up close is great
I always feel bad for people who don't go to highschools with music ensembles of this calibre. My highschools groups were insane and they basically sent me to music school
Yeah, my highschool's band is average/below average. But, we still occasionally get the insane godlike player who somehow breaks through all the ranks and gets first chair all state junior year. How does this even happen, at such a mediocre school? It's completely beyond me man
@@relapsing6894 hey I was that kid
@@nate4137 same. I was that kid in a terribly unmotivated ensemble lol
My current high schools music programs are terrible. It really sucks for me and the handful of other people who are really interested in music, and will never get the best experience.
My high school almost made me quit and stopped me from being the music major I wanted to be.
imagine having a HIGHSCHOOL band that is actually able to play this stuff and is better than the middle school one-
I'm in middle school but I'm in the high school band.
Well duh a high school band is better than a middle school band
@@Roboticwhale19 not the one at my high school ✋😭
My highschool top band is playing this song right now.
@@dewayneadamson9570 I wish I could do that
Imagine having trombones that can read sheet music or play audibly. Our band could never-
It sucks cuz you would always have a couple really good musicians and the crappy ones would ruin everything for everyone.
@@abrahamaguilar9444 lol you just spoke to my heart
😭😭honestly, all but one of our trombones are terrible rn
@@kairymercado7772 same went for us all four years. Always one good one and a bunch of sucky ones. Except that one year our lower level jazz band only had one bone and he couldn’t read music
@@jonahb6580 😭yeah, it sucks cuz the one girl that does play it doesn't want to anymore cuz no one plays good
God, Arabesque was such an iconic part of high school and I can't even remember when we performed it lmao
i played this my freshman year and it was honestly one of my favorite pieces we i ever played
Sophomore year and this year I’m playing it and we had Samuel hazo actually come in and talk to us about arabesque. He’s a really funny guy and is so cool
I still have a video of my band playing it (:
This song was so so so good!!!! The clarinet 1 part was scary tho
I played Armory for my school
Arabesque is the most hype song for a concert band. As a percussionist it is still my favorite tune to play
Not if you're a woodwind, everyone from the woowinds have made a special pact called bar 50 where we are to all die one by one
It was dope my band did a marching show for it 👌
Fr tho, as a percussionist it was mf lit
What part did you play?
@@elixer4583 i was on 2nd trumpet
that third time in a row was so damn smooth between each and every note, that it didn’t even sound off at all
It’s called reading the captions and seeing that the percussion dipped on the third
@@CapCat92what😭
The trombones make me feel like I'm strolling into an ancient Egyptian Palace during a festival or party of some sort
Oh my God! Same
It does.
I mean the piece literally is arabesque which Samuel hazo wrote when bored one day and thinking of Arabian culture or something
Nah, Coming from a Cuban, That shi sounds like Mexico lol
As a clarinet I love this piece when our High school did this we got all 1’s at ratings and it’s by far one of my favorite pieces💖
You remember the name of the piece?
@@mamahnerbhrchefdeindesoder1970 it’s Arabesque by Samuel R. Hazo
It’s Arabesque
Yesss it was so good!!! Love the clarinet 1 part
I played trombone for eight years and this makes me want to charge into battle
Same!!
Deus vult!!!!
Indeed
trumpet supremacy
Same!
My schools trombone section is single-handedly going to make us play lower grade music because they can’t play whole notes 💀
same as a trombone
our teached domt give a fly she's making them play high grade music like the rest of us, if they cant after being helped, well good bye we'll find someone to fill your place
Your teacher sucks
We have about 3-4 good trombones in our section, 1 that’s not so good and 2 that don’t even play
@@Jake_EditzYT we have 2 good trombones, I'm okay, and the other 2 do not know how to play
I love arabesque, it was handed out but we never really played it
Our band didn’t play it either :)
Oof ya it looked fun
I get the feeling that that happened to a lot of us then lol
We just played it for our Spring concert this year
@@Coolykoala same here
The internet has conditioned me into thinking he was going to play the Weezer riff
Low brass is so underrated oml
I'm a trombone player and your comment is soo true. Everyone always says low brass is useless and I'm always like "bruh"
@@danieloku7560 I’m high brass and wish I was low brass
@@danieloku7560 saaame
@@slo.660 i play trombone as a main but i play every band instrument
Lol
this sounds amazing hope we play it in our band
THE TUBAS ALSO HAVE THIS, WE ALSO SMACK IT
FULL SEND ONLY
Yessirrr, kinda sad when we get that 4 measures of rest tho, but then we come in booming, so it’s all good
Now I want to hear the tubas playing this
@@kiampakuingi9812 as a tuba player I also want to hear it
@@rtstallion1847 as a tuba player I agree
U know something’s good when brass start moving when they play
My teacher would literally have to pick songs where tenor brass/French horns were not a huge feature because we just couldn’t
That's not hard to find a song without horns doing anything!
Our French horns were so bad that the orchestra director asked me to sit in and play the lead horn part. How is that weird, you ask? I played the alto saxophone...
@@redstonecat1232 True, however some of the really fun songs such as Yagisawa's Machu Picchu and Reed's overtures need them so we ultimately lost out on a lot of great opportunities
@@gustafsone I was in a weekend "honor band" (I use that term loosely because we didn't deserve it) where our euphonium player had the solo in "Roaring Forties" by Phillip Sparke, and he couldn't play it without majorly cracking. I desperately wanted to ask to play his solo for his on Bari, but I shut my trap.
He cracked in concert.
@@jonahb6580 Yeah, I reluctantly joined the orchestra and after our first concert, I told the director that I'd still sit in and help them out in the future but I didn't want anymore solos. It wasn't that I didn't feel capable, but I was adamant in my opinion that a saxophone shouldn't be anywhere in an orchestra to begin with and while the alto is in the same key as a french horn, they still *sound* vastly different. Thankfully the director agreed and he either nixed the solos altogether or gave it to one of the trumpets.
My main passion was jazz, and that's where all of my effort went into. I was willing to sit in with the orchestra because I quite liked the director and respected him, and I also had a lot of friends who played in the orchestra, too. It still didn't feel right playing a French horn part, though.
Bro you guys get this music while I wait 2949 measures to play one note 😢
The clap is the best part of the song
one, two, three, four AND
When I did this piece I had been only playing clarinet for about 6 months, self taught, and we played this in festival band. The girl two chairs down (third clarinet, fourth chair) was without fail always late on the clap by an embarrassing amount. I would have felt bad if she didn’t try to tell me that she was the best clarinet player in the section, but that she just had a “bad audition.”
True
Omg I love arabesque 10/10 the flute solo in the beginning is amazing and the brass part are absolutely amazing.
this makes me sad that my schools band was never even close to this good. it’s not like i haven’t enjoyed the time in band but i wish we could’ve played cool music and actually sounded good 😔
Practise up and look for community bands to join. Sometimes uni bands accepts community members
I played this in high school and still have it memorized 11 years later! I LOVE this piece!
Every time my HS band director mentioned the piece we were sightreading was by Hazo, I always wished it was this one. Unfortunately it never was.
Same here, at least I'm playing voices of the sky this year even though it's easy
I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH MY BAND IS PLAYING IT!! ITS SO GOOD
I wish the other trombones in my band were good enough to play something like this, sadly, pretty much everyone sucks
Srry to hear
F
Same lmao
literally same 💀
Same except it’s trumpets. Literally all of our trumpets are freshman😂
I love that piece so much. So much fun to hear the low brass. Awesome job
God I loved being in the low voices for songs like these. I wish I could still play my bass clarinet but it was a borrowed one from my school. It's so fun to just go in like this
Side note: yall are better than our trombone section, we had playing tests after our concert and some people only got out a few notes, and one person cried like every time lol
Bass clarinet is cool and all (I played it for a semester), but the parts are always so boring. Soprano is where it's at!
@@The_Cloudy_Sky You're not wrong, a lot of parts are boring. But Sweet Child o' Mine's bassline? That's a fun song to play. Just gotta get lucky though lol
You had playing tests after the concert? Why not do them right before the concert to make sure everyone was doing ok?
@@whatd0605 honestly, you make a really good point. We did do a lot of sectional work and fine tuning before the concert though. Individual tests take up a huge chunk of time that was spent with full band rehearsals
Me: flute player
This video: "here have some trombone"
Symphonic Dance No. 3, “Fiesta” will always have my favorite low brass parts
TRUE
Horns also have this part and as a horn player I love this part SOO much! ❤❤
Arabesque by Samuel Hazo
Beat me to it
This was my audition song. Dont like it
Is there sheet music for only the trombone part
Thank you so much!!
We played this in highschool and we got 2nd place bc of how well we played this piece. I love this piece, it’s honestly one of my favorite
Very crisp and clean, good sir!
I love how is trumpeteers and trumbonists can truly get along. Thank you for saying we bust the sauce meter about 1-2 points!!!
I played this in high school and I always got goosebumps on the third time when percussion drops out. Amazing feeling
This is why we love Samuel r Hazo, he gives us amazing stuffs.
Videos like these make me glad I picked trumpet, I don’t have the face capacity to do this
Played this my senior year of high school as a trumpet player, I loved that song and still do 10 years later!
I'm playing this in my high school orchestra. But I got quarantined this week and the concert is on may 6th and I'm out of quarantine on may 7th 😭
Non music kids will never understand the feeling of a music piece you put effort into sounding like a banger
I can just imagine a sultan walking in to this
I remember playing this in high school too! I was a trumpet player and loved this piece because of this part the tromobones have ^^
Arabesque. Now that’s a piece I haven’t heard in years.
I loved playing this piece. We had a marching show based off of this piece. It was amazing
One of the rare occasions trombone has a cool part wrote for it
Swear
Wow this just brought me back to high school 🥹 This was definitely one of the best trombone parts in any song we played in band
I played Timpani back in my high school band for this song! I ended up breaking a head during our concert after hearing “MORE” from my band director, but honestly that just made this song so much better. The clap during the percussion break was the icing on top
Definitely one of the greats 🤘
The bass trombone part for the piece is such a blast to play!
my concert band played this really recently, me on bass trombone i smacked this out so hard i nearly fainted it was AWESOME
Amazing. Bravo
arabesque is an absolute work of art and samuel hazo is one hell of an artist
I started playing trombone and euphonium in August, and it's been the best decision I made way too late (my senior year ends tomorrow and I used to play trumpet). I hope to reach the point where I can move through each position without pausing on every note 😔
You got this!!
Man at least you didn’t quit band in 6th grade, I also played the trombone and now in 11th grade I’m really starting to regret quiting all those years ago :(
@@JosueHernandez-nu5cp You can always pick it back up! If you still have your horn, talk to your school's band director or some friends of yours about getting you up to speed and joining next year. It's never too late to get back into music. :)
I never played this piece in high school, but one year I was lucky enough to go to a music camp where we played this among a few other really cool pieces. A core memory for sure
What was the piece called
@@briantankersley1810 this one was Arabesque. I don’t remember the composer though
Last year, the senior trombone player was playing this non-stop throughout the school year. This year as I hear this, I realize how much I miss him...
I’m so glad that my high school band is actually very good. Our band teacher is amazing and I’m honoured to be taught by him
Last year I had got the chance of sight reading this song trumpet first part though I didn’t actually get to play as an actual song in competition but I oh well
I played that piece in high school! One of the best band pieces, always so hype.
I play timpani for Arabesque in my band and the percussion feature in the middle is super fun to play! We only have 1 trombone though so we are severely lacking in the sauce
I wish the trombones in my school were even half as good istg everytime they play it just sounds like an angered bee hive
Every high school band student has played a piece by at least one of these three composers.
Michael Brown
Paul Murtha
Samuel R Hazo
I REMEMBER HITTING THIS LINE SO FUCKING HARD BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!! Love this tune! GO TROMBONES!!!!
I was going through my older brothers old music hoping to find this song and I did🙂the key signature makes me want to 💀🥲
- edit it’s been a year and I’m going to hs so ye I can play it.. It was js being of 7th grade I made this comment
Got all 1s at districts and states with this piece. Love Sam Hazo.
Incantation and dance tho
We actually played that too. I’m going to make a vid on it eventually.
@@trombonetimo OK I swear to God I recognize this building and remember playing Incantation and Dance. Was this video filmed in Massachusetts?
@@shapen360 Wellesley High School alum are you?
@@trombonetimo Yes I am!
I love this channel bc I love the trombone and I play it as well
as a trumpet, we always have the fucking vibes
On god
Goes hard man, giving off [extreme] saucy catchy vibes.
It ain't all that but nice sound very clean playing 👍🏽
Yeah, he hyped too much for something not that much
YES THE FUCK IT IS YOU DON'T APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF IT!!!
arabesque is ICONIC. we played it two years ago and the trombones and even other people still blare this lick all the time. even during marching season
We played this in our honors band 😎 This piece is Arabesque by Samuel Hazo if anyone is curious.
my favorite piece i played in band. i miss those days.
Bro it’s been a year but this is still the sauciest shit I’ve ever heard
Edit: *You guys will never believe what my band decided to play this year*
I know what song u played, it’s obvious lol😂
And Fr it is
Piccolo is hell to play for this song, a lot of really high notes which means a lot of air, and extremely fast fingerings.
Bach 42bo?
Yessir
@@trombonetimo sheeesh
@@trombonetimo I’ve always liked how the Bach 42bo comes with a Bach gold plated mouthpiece..I have 42af, and it didn’t even came with a Bach mouthpiece, it was a getzen...
@@trombonetimo Did you get it with the lightweight nickel slide?
@@jacobruiz97 I did not
ARABESQUE!!! YES! I never got to play it myself (luckily I got plenty other amazing pieces), but I always loved when other bands had it in their program and we got to listen :)
I don't know how I ended up on the band side of UA-cam as a choir kid- But you guys are amazing, and I've always admired bands from afar. That lick is phenomenal
I love this piece
I love the tuba part in this piece because we can actually be a bigger part of the piece 😭🙏🏽
as a clarinet arabesque was such a fun piece to play. at our concert our whole band was radiating with smiles of how proud we felt of being able to play this song and overall it’s kind of a challenging song but if you practice it is so fun.
Gotta love the fact that all ensembles do it Chior, Band, Orchestra. 😂 when you go hard you move with it.
My favorite song to play as a percussionist. Man i miss highschool symphonic band🥺❤️
Remember playing this in Highschool! Such a fun song, I play trumpet and hearing that trumpet line in the back ground brought back some fun memories, favorite part of the song to play!
As a band kid myself I keep watching this because ong I love the sound of this
I GOT THIS PIECE IN MY BAND TODAY AND THIS IS THE SECOND SHORT ABOUT IT IVE GOTTEN.
As a trombonist, this was beautiful. Perfect!
as a fellow trombonist a greatly admire this work! it is so difficult to move the slide accurately at that speed! 😮
arabesque is so fire. i love when the trombones come in there its amazing!
Love this piece. Great job!
Cool! My high school band where I live played this for the first concert of the year in September. They sounded amazing and so do you guys!
DUDE I ACTUALLY LOVED PLAYING ARABESQUE SO MUCH, background knowledge in a sophomore in high school, I play the alto saxophone and I’m a school in imperial Missouri and I got the change to play that song at MMEA and I’m never gonna live it down
As a Trumpet player, Arabesque is probably one of my favorite pieces ever. A total blast all the way through!
I wish the trombones or even the entire brass section in my band had 1/5 this skill and effort
I could listen to this all day! Brings back great memories! When I listen to this song, the french horn part is always what I hear because that’s what I played, so hearing another instrument up close is great
It was dope playing this piece ☺️
It sounds good! Arabesque is known to be very difficult, but you and your band are very talented! :)
Man, I wish my school band were this great!
Absolutely love this 🎶 nicely done
I’ve been blessed by this because this shows up on insta like once a month and now UA-cam. I love arabesque (minus measure 50)
I got to play this with Sam Hazo as the guest conductor. Great experience
As a trumpet player, the vibes always roll in when we play
This lick makes me want to listen to it forever. And then I do... It gets stuck in my head.