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 Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:49 pm
American Salute I play bassoon and learning the Quartet in there damn near killed me my freshman year. Only a sophomore so I've got time. I play on joining the local state Orchestra and playing 1812
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:48 pm
Um, I would have to say, "Ridin' the Rails" we never actually, ya know, GOT THROUGH IT!
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-RainbowFlavoredBubbbles-
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:58 pm
So far, it's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'. Then again, it's the first thing a lot of them have played for three months...>.>
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:31 pm
Well, I'm a bassoon, so the Rite of Spring was the hardest.
The damned thing starts on the second C above the staff!
Plus, I had a lot of pressure on me, seeing as I'm the first chair bassoonist and the only playing the intro.
It's a pretty tough piece.
We also did the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but the only hard part was counting the rests.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:32 am
Firon Destind Well, I'm a bassoon, so the Rite of Spring was the hardest.
The damned thing starts on the second C above the staff!
Plus, I had a lot of pressure on me, seeing as I'm the first chair bassoonist and the only playing the intro.
It's a pretty tough piece.
We also did the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but the only hard part was counting the rests. It's also the fact that our band never practices...>.>
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:18 pm
Hardest song I ever played in ensemble was Sonoran Desert Harmonies by Eric Ewazen, for 8 trumpets. @@ I had a solo part, and it was tricky.
As for solos, the Trumpet Concerto by Arutiunian (pronounced "ahr-toon-ian") (sp?) was my most difficult. x.x
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:50 pm
^_^[videl-chan]^_^ We played a song called Symphonic Dance No.3. It was one of the BEST songs I ever played. But it was also the hardest song I've ever played. Is that Fiesta? We played that. It was AWESOME. We played Espirit de Corps too. It was funnn. It got irritating after a while though. I think the hardest so far is Rhapsody in Blue. We learned it after the competition. We would have OWNED with it. But we owned anyway so it doesn't matter.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:29 am
Um, you know how I said that "Ridin' the Rails" was hard? WELL! I was SO VERY WRONG!!!! Now, I think that "Finale"-"William Tell Overture" is the hardest song I've ever played...
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:49 am
There may be plenty of fish in the sea  Ah, it's gotta be Appalachian Overture for me!
Horrible, horrible piece.
And we're playing it at the nationals this year. =[ but who really wants to date a fish?
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:37 pm
the hardest one I've played so far is exultation, and if you guys think its easy consider that I'm still in middle school band.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:33 pm
for my winter concert we have to play a song with straight 16th notes the notes are high A , B , C , B for clarinet ugg its super hard
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:06 pm
We're playing a high school piece. A Short Suite for Band.
It's awesome and stuff, but there's a part in every suite (there is 3) that makes me wanna crawl under a hole and die.
It's not easy.
But it's awesome when we play it all right.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:30 pm
ha, i can actually say that i have played "Manzoni's requiem" and omg, NIGHTMARE! I played that in a small benefit concert for a friend who was conducting, it was apart of his ISM thing at the end of the year. Those were some of the best songs I've ever played, I played that, "October" (not hard) by Eric Whitacre and "Gandolf" from LOTR (LOVE THAT SONG! OOH YEAH!), it was especially fun since I was the only lowest-sounding brass-instrument there (baritone) so yeah. but "Manzoni's Requiem" oh jeez....thats all i have to say, haha!
but band wise, the hardest song we ever played at a concert was "Armenian Dances Prt. I" but to me it really wasn't hard, it sure was fun though! hehe
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:16 am
well i quit before high skool band because i hate ta march but the hardest song i know of is the galaway piper its fun thoh its 1 of my favorite to play
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:20 pm
"Shortcut Home" is the hardest I've played, although it might just be because I got it on Friday. It goes up to the top Bb on flute 2 (I'm bad at starting on those notes), has tons of accidentals, and is generally eighth/sixteenth notes. There's also this one part where my fingers keep wanting to change from A->D or D->A.
Edit: The BD has officially cancelled this as one of our contest pieces. Apparently, one flute could handle it, and no oboes/clarinets were able to play it.
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