"Stars and Stripes Forever" with five piccolos
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- An abso-flute-ly fabulous performance of Sousa's most famous march featuring FIVE piccolo soloists. Performed at the West Point Band Independence Day Celebration on July 8, 2017.
John Philip Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever"
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The patience, talent, and control it takes to get five piccolos in tune and stay in tune... bravo. As a piccolo player, I applaud you.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Alyssa! We'll pass it on to our piccolo players.
Nothing can beat the 94 piccolos.
Hmm... They got outplayed by trumpets
@@jgar_07Hmm… The trumpets were micd and all the piccolos weren’t
@@aurvre6102 😲
The DSO is getting ready to do it again on the 4th. They’re hoping to have over 200 piccolos this time.
All I see is a tuning hell, like how did they get in tune. It is literal magic
morphogenetic fields :)
But how did they get 5 piccolos in tune :O
Jane Downer when my band teacher tunes her piccolo it takes her 16 minuets
it begins with a very good piccolo. The average high school piccolo would be difficult for anyone to get in tune. When you begin with a good piccolo then it is embouchure change and alternate fingerings that help get piccolos in tune.
For most people it’s getting rid of 4
Expensive piccolos and well trained players.
@@DoctorFlute No, its the fact that an experienced musician knows the tuning mechanisms of the instrument with precision. In the case of the piccalo, as with the flute and clarinets, the tuning mechanism is pulling the mouthpiece in or out. The shorter the barrel, the more sharp the tone and the longer the barrel, the more flat the tone. The exact adjustment is different for each musician, even on the same instrument.
Those piccolos just too cute, 🥰
And practical as well. I played the piccolo in marching band and always enjoyed tucking my instrument into my shirt pocket as I watched the tuba players get a hernia.
eighth ocean Yes, they are. I love wind instruments. BTW the highest pitched organ pipes sound like piccolos, and diapason (the fundamental tone of the organ) sounds like a hybrid of an oboe and a clarinet. I like that. I don't play wind instruments but I'm an enthusiastic amateur organist. But I digress. To make a loooong story short, I like piccolos.
Our high school band closed it's last concert with this every year. Senior piccolo players lined up at the front of the stage and played the piccolo "solo" first time through the trio. Then all seniors came out front, and we blew the audience back 10 feet with the trio coda full out. I'm sure we piccolos weren't 100% in tune. We were kids, and keeping piccolos in tune is tough for pros. But tears streamed my face my senior year when I did this. It was our good-bye to the band we loved.
One time at band camp you shoved a flute up your....
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I can’t decide if I like the piccolo solo and overall song in the band or orchestral key better
Same
The piccolo solo is the best part!
@@claireforestgreenorgangeek7882 Well, since I played flute and piccolo in high school, of course I agree. :-D
I am a Korean.
In addition, I am a reserve officer for the Korean military. I love America.
Stars and Streets Forever march is new, enjoyable, and exciting every time I listen to it.
My friend, America, fighting!
That was unbelievable cool! So worth the time it must have taken, that was a stunning sound!!!
Thank you!
Oo my favorite part now has five players!
...and no piccolos were shot in the making of this video. Lol
ピッコロの音、最高です。演奏に華を添える感じで本当に素敵です。
Happy 247th Birthday America!!
Outstanding
everytime i hear this i remember my father
So. Good. 😍😍. I’ve heard it’s REALLY hard to get piccolos in tune. And I’m working on playing a piccolo. But it still needs some repairing so I can’t exactly tune. I strive to be that good of a piccolo player. But my fingers can’t even move that fast on a flute. When I’m playing sixteenth notes, I either do them too fast, maybe skip a note kinda, or the fingering isn’t just all there, until I get into the habit of doing them at the right speed. And. Let. Me. Tell. You. I. Do. Not. Have. That. Much. Patience. It gets so frustrating at times.
Keep at it, we're sure you'll get there! The world needs more piccolo players!
16th-note runs are tough. Actually, I found them a little easier on piccolo because the fingers are so close together, but that might be just me.
I could tell the piccolos were blowing as hard as they can
My old band director hated to have more then one piccolo player. He always told the joke:
“how do you get two piccolos to play in tune together?”
And we of course would go “gEe hOw dO yOu dO tHaT?”
And he would say “you shoot one of them!”
Only now do I see that he was wrong. These guys and glad did great.
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HOW DO YOU GET TO PICCOLOS TO PLAY IN
@Weird Content Guaranteed whenever I was in middle school we had one person that would play piccolo but she almost never did in actually concerts and instead played flute. Now I’m in high school and it’s been a good while since I’ve played with a decent piccolo player so the high are like holy crap
the fireworks at the end in the distance 😭😭💜 this was so good omgg
Wow! This is so amazing! Great work! I am a piccolo and flute player myself (:
The piccolo solo is beautiful! Way to go, Courtney Martin and colleagues!
As we say here in England, 'Get in', absolutely nailed it. Fantastic performance by the Piccolo quintet👏👏🎶🎶
Aren't you magnificent! We should put musicians in charge of everything. Instead of wars, we'd have yearly competitions.
Absolute perfection. I am in awe.
What makes you think band competitions aren't war? (Wish there were a laughing emoji. I'm not serious. But the competition is fierce. :-D)
Fantastic
Some things never cease to be brilliant.
👏👏👏😊😊😊 WOW!
Utilizo esta marcha para hacer ejercicios con mancuernas... Tengo 72 años... Médico activo.
Extraordinary. The piccoloist were very professional.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful music. I passed it on to my church choir group for the 4th. It is simply fabulous!
Oh wow 😳
Wow beautiful playing
Loveeeeeeee It! 🪐🌈⭐🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Y love piccollo and sousaphone.
Love it!
This made my 4th… thank you.
Beautiful job. What an awesome job in staying in tune together very,very hard. I applaud you!!
Superb!
Thanks!
ピッコロかっこいい！！
Really good! And for a band at the is military academy at West Point where you don’t go for a degree in music or with any ease it’s amazingly done.
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The Ancient Spartans would have loved this march. They were marchers themselves. It is said that to see and also to hear their army approaching was terrifying. They wore red cloaks and were singing accompanied by musical instruments.
They would have loved those piccolos especially.
I fucking love America
If George Washington, the most indispensable man in American history, could hear this incredible march I suspect that it would bring a smile to his face, and perhaps a tear to his eyes. God bless America.
They all play on the penny whistle,you can hear them blow.
This is so fuckin lit
Dank piccolo solo at 2:04
2:00 - The guy in the 3rd row of audience, very bottom left hand corner of the screen: That moment When you’ve been B.S.’ing with your buddy the whole concert, and you realize it’s time for the piccolo ensemble, which your girlfriend is first chair!
Go West Point, beat Navy!!!
It's wond'll
Are those pearl piccolos?
b r a v i
Does "West Point Band" mean "made up of cadets from the United States Military Academy"? Some of these people are a little old to be cadets, although they are all evidently members of the United States Army. Some of them could be faculty from the USMA.
Thanks for your question! The West Point Band is made up of active duty Soldiers in the U.S. Army, rather than Cadets at the United States Military Academy.
Sounds like something from a parade
Thanks, 世界的レベルの演奏です。 日本人の演奏は、譜面どうりに演奏すれば、それで良し、としています。
Still sounded better in 2012 with just the one, imo.
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Five picolos? Yikes!! There couldn't have been an intact eardrum in the auditorium by the end of the piece.
There is a reason that piccolo players wear earplugs when practicing or performing.
This was my solo.. One thing.. I hated is exactly what people are doing in this video.. Clap 👏 pisses me offf lol. Just enjoy it.. Dayyumm
The conductor is facing away the band not doing any good.
too far
these are not picolo flutes. picolo has no flaps