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This is why I have a problem with "all star" bands

Posted by PA'sfinest on August 5, 2010 at 11:23pm

 

 

 

If its your arrangements thats all well and fine, but when you begin to alter, or in this case destroy someone else's work then it becomes a problem.  I know this isnt an arrangement he would normally sell, but I know he definitely wouldnt have sold it had he known this is what it would be used for.

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  • RJ1919 August 6, 2010 at 12:08am
    LMAO now that's ghetto. I hate when people change others arrangements also, that has been haunting Grambling, many of the students trying to alter, invert and add stuff. Lord knows i hope the band has learned their lesson from that damn 09 season. Just play what's on the music, breath together, start and stop together, play dynamics that are required with control and maintain the style that is set then everything else will take care of itself.
  • PA'sfinest August 6, 2010 at 12:24am
    Whats killing me about it is that on top of the fact that its completely butchered from the tempo to the dynamics, its a MARCH... its in no way shape or form supposed to be loud, none of those parts are supposed to be taken up (which they did sloppily). Thats the danger when "all star bands" start getting their hands on music from Universities, collectively most of these bands cant handle music like this both mentally in how they approach the songs and in execution. Mr. Knighten didnt write this to sound like that, and they have some of Mr. Jackson, and Haymers tunes also that Ive heard in the past......I personally think they got some of the songs under-handed. Meaning they didnt go throught the actual arrangers to get it, because some stuff just isnt sold, like this, or the Skin im in (which they also massacred).
    RJ1919 said:
    LMAO now that's ghetto. I hate when people change others arrangements also, that has been haunting Grambling, many of the students trying to alter, invert and add stuff. Lord knows i hope the band has learned their lesson from that damn 09 season. Just play what's on the music, breath together, start and stop together, play dynamics that are required with control and maintain the style that is set then everything else will take care of itself.
    This is why I have a problem with "all star" bands
          If its your arrangements thats all well and fine, but when you begin to alter, or in this case destroy someone else's work then it becomes a pr…
  • number1 August 6, 2010 at 12:30am
    No they didn't!!!!!
  • RJ1919 August 6, 2010 at 12:47am
    LMAO but others on this site says collegiate musicians, particularly in HBCU bands don't influence the youth and that it is on their band directors but when you see stuff like this what does it tell high schools to do? smh

    number1 said:
    No they didn't!!!!!
    This is why I have a problem with "all star" bands
          If its your arrangements thats all well and fine, but when you begin to alter, or in this case destroy someone else's work then it becomes a pr…
  • PA'sfinest August 6, 2010 at 1:05am
    To an extent I agree, but ask yourself this, how many clips online have you seen of SU playing this? probably none...now ask yourself how many different clips of neck you can find? The clips are rarely posted by anyone having any affiliation with our program (im sure the same goes for most Hbcu bands) and people tend to only show certain aspects of our craft? I do think alot of videos give younger kids a distorted view of Hbcu bands (swac in particular). Think about it, if youve never been to a game and all you had to go by was clips you'd think all we do is play pop tunes all day, but thats because the people posting these videos omit the marches, the spirit songs, the jazz selections etc.

    What really gets me about this video is that its supposedly an alumni band, and although it doesnt mean that they necessarily have the skill to execute the song, if nothing else they should understand how to approach it, and more than anything when you butcher an arranger/composers work like that its like a spit in the face.

    As for the directors, if you cant arrange something like this in the first place, what could possibly lead you to believe that you could improve it (assuming they could execute the original...which they obviously couldnt)?

    RJ1919 said:
    LMAO but others on this site says collegiate musicians, particularly in HBCU bands don't influence the youth and that it is on their band directors but when you see stuff like this what does it tell high schools to do? smh

    number1 said:
    No they didn't!!!!!
  • BoomByeBye August 6, 2010 at 1:29am
    Bumboclat!!!!
  • James Ledford August 6, 2010 at 2:05am
    yall sure CANT read...that CLEARLY says ALUMNI band....thats the grown college and out of college people of memphis....smh
  • Deschaun August 6, 2010 at 2:39am
    lol dude must not know the dude over this MARCHED IN THE S...

    ..I have a tape of SU playing this same tune...for all this you bringing up its sholl the opposite of whats on that tape...[they beasting that isht]. ......why would he have gotten these songs under hand..when he marched at the S cool with all the directors...but i think its HIS arrangement...lol@making claims
  • Funkie Junkie August 6, 2010 at 9:08am
    Ya'll really hate us, don't you? LOL
  • K-music in my veins-#2 August 6, 2010 at 10:06am
    I can't hear he tubas AT ALL until the end...
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