Rhapsody in Blue, arr. Gordon Goodwin - Score & Sound

[@jburtonca]

Bars 56 to 61 are killer for saxes. The next time a high school jazz band plays that correctly will be the first time.

[@nizablo6426]

sorry , but that was really dirty

[@natmcveigh3904]

@yami yeager Yeah, they played that set twice, one after the other, (evident when the 1st trumpet passes out at one point,) and the 1st was a bit cleaner. That was the year they won a competition at Berklee. I'm a member this year, and unfortunately it's taken a turn for the worse what with our school switching schedules to a non jazz friendly one as it were. Still good tho.

[@WillTheBassPlayer]

@Nathaniel McVeigh I hope the bass has fixed his left hand by now

[@Mrs.Magix58]

Texas

[@classified9668]

@@Mrs.Magix58 yes

[@MrUrg-vq4yb]

I can imagine playing this would be like playing in a musical, those damn key signatures, high tempos and constant tempo and feel changes...

[@henryfoabdarbangldfut]

as i have played in two musicals. y e s,

[@FNBRVolts]

Doing my first musical in 2 weeks, yes, can confirm, I want to die. F# and B major on clarinet make me want to die.

[@gabrielnersessian3134]

Texas band kids: yeah I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy

[@EmanSax03]

frs

[@DanielReyes-lg4eo]

As a Texas band kid, I can admit that I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy

[@peanuts.w.]

@@DanielReyes-lg4eo lmao

[@gabrielnersessian3134]

@@DanielReyes-lg4eo փ

[@quest_17]

We’re actually playing this in my HS jazz band lol

[@aschlegel]

I remember listening to this before hearing the original and not being able to get through the first minute. Several months later I came back to find this as a masterpiece. Guess my taste in music has changed.

[@loganmoon380]

Yeah I play a lot of classical piano and I thought this song sucked but I got tricked into joining the jazz band at my school and now I think it's actually good

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@loganmoon380 Could I recommend you a couple great charts. This is more of a fake jazz style I'm not going to lie.

[@theapple8538]

What makes you think that?​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

[@schloob]

This goes in so many directions and I love it

[@MG-ts1xs]

saw ur comment on birdland

[@c.j.t1061]

Holy Shit...that is some chart.

[@spncrprkr]

bass trombone line is PHENOMENAL.

[@Hes1oscillations]

Grade 6? Wow didn't know it could get that high...

[@adamcollester2655]

ikr

[@devinsalazar7568]

Shwarzmen Duddlehaeven That's not even the highest the highest is 7

[@randomguywhostoleallofyour88]

example please, Devin

[@devinsalazar7568]

Ok like grades 4-5 is like high school level music and grades 6-7 is like college level music. Random guy who stole all of Your doritos

[@randomguywhostoleallofyour88]

Devin Salazar I meant like an example of a garden 7 piece lol. like a chart name.

[@AceGrace06]

As a bass trombone player I was heavily satisfied with the last section and much so on the very last note ohh it’s amazing

[@kevinhornbuckle]

Alexander Clark Wicked!

[@kinglukethe8th352]

The Trombone at 5:18 is so beautiful. Gives me chills

[@adambell7475]

This is definitely my favourite score as of now

[@TrashCanBoiBoi]

How about now?

[@DylanRyan8]

@@TrashCanBoiBoi lol

[@TrashCanBoiBoi]

@@DylanRyan8 I still wanna know lol

[@SethSalinasMusic]

5 years later update when?

[@jenuelgonzalez9334]

3:29 THE LICK!!!

[@nicholasz2510]

Beat me to it 😂

[@CristianVasquez_]

I heard it too!!

[@MrYeet-ip4qj]

It go like that

[@amritcheema549]

Looooool

[@trequa7017]

The Big Phat Band drum set player is literally a god

[@pastatime6290]

2:25 sounds like Mario Kart music

[@asphosunderscore2281]

The beginning drum run at 2:18 sounds similar to the drum run in Mario Kart 8's Title theme. A call and response technique is used here, played by trumpets and responded by the saxes. This is rather common in many of Nintendo's OST. Also, the major key also helps it stay light and airy, like Nintendo's OST. But then again, that is just my take...

[@TotallyMazza]

Sounds exactly like delfino square

[@MarkZickefoose]

No, Mario Kart music sounds like George Gershwin (as interpreted by Gordon Goodwin).

[@internallyscreaming89]

Me on the first page: this doesn't look that hard actually Page turn: so you have chosen... *death.*

[@pythonkick1184]

Listening on 2x makes it crack city in blue

[@iceborg05]

Python Kick this is the gateway to hell

[@selenersavage]

this is the only genuinely funny comment I’ve seen on one of these videos

[@omarvi280]

0:05 start 0:31 original start of Rhapsody in Blue 2:56 saxophone solo 4:40 adagio or something similar 6:19 ending of the piece

[@GreenBoy9000]

Pretty sure that adagio's the Love theme.

[@chickn16]

Honestly the band kid/ music maker faction of KZbin is one of the best!! Love y’all

[@edwardjones1045]

The trombone solo was so clean 👌🏽

[@colinnolan2212]

Holy mother of trumpet solo

[@Dman82499]

I remember seeing this in concert, clairnet solo was killer... incredible that this is charted by Alfred

[@pootluv]

doctor: you have 7 minutes and 41 seconds left to live me:

[@Nerd-dp6pz]

What you gonna do with the extra second?

[@pootluv]

Penguilion appreciate the arrangement

[@Ulookedcompany]

It'll take me 7 minutes and 41 seconds to choose a song

[@CristianVasquez_]

That bass bone is godly

[@hank1519]

That it works so well in this format proves that, at its core, it is jazz,

[@greenguy5294]

can i marry a piece of music

[@anthony-pj6xn]

Shawn Luo yes

[@lopez4292]

@Shawn Luo yes

[@omniarch8078]

That clarinet gliss tho

[@willbell6689]

That bass bone part 🔥🔥🔥

[@NoahShiley]

I play the Bass Trombone in Jazz. I gotta play this someday.

[@jeffarc]

Legit, this is the goal, to learn to play this song with no mistakes😂😂😂😂

[@mjb9295]

if you can do this i will cash app you 20 dollars

[@LearnTheCode5734]

@@mjb9295 so will i

[@bigboland6160]

wtf are these key signatures

[@Bokuwahoku]

PoopFaceBomb hell

[@shamiothebrave9882]

Hell's heaven

[@alexsmith716]

Torture

[@MrJellyton]

just like any other... but mostly underappreciated...

[@guardianknight5842]

Sharp pain

[@matthieumaier9537]

Heaven, is that you?

[@hmm2084]

nope, thats gordon goodwin's big phat band

[@agreenunderripebanana8901]

@@hmm2084 so, heaven.

[@sleepydesigner]

No, this is patrick

[@bartsimpson9894]

I’m in love

[@ashleyrutherford1406]

Can you upload some more Big phat band scores please

[@hank1519]

Thrilling! Thank you for the upload!

[@DPHMUSIC.]

I'm able to play the high trumpet solo on my clarinet and I'm gonna try to learn it on trumpet but wow (5:32) this is an amazing piece

[@classicalytrumpet9190]

8-BitPlayz I can play it but it’s very much hitting the top of my range

[@harrybmichell]

4:02 and on has honestly the greatest solo backgrounds

[@jumpindanny]

Sounds more like a Coltrane piece instead of a band arrangement in the middle....

[@musical_lolu4811]

What are you on about? That's a sax improv section, so effing what?

[@katie2872]

I wish I could play this good!! Maybe one day though.

[@cyborgjonny]

Bari sax could be an actual bari sax part ya know

[@JackLanhardt]

what do you mean?

[@Bruh-wt9zv]

Definitely. For god sakes it’s part of the sax section. I don’t understand arrangers who give bari nothing parts

[@brandonm7952]

justin pfeiff Because its not really like a sax. You don’t see bari’s in these sax-melodies cause they’re not like saxes really, they fit better with the bones

[@ShinySilverGamer]

This is FAR from the worst bari part

[@teddavies5898]

@@brandonm7952 bari is kinda rough to write for. as a bari player and arranger, this is really evident; it's the lowest member of the sax family so a lot of times when altos and tenors are playing a melody, it's too high for the bari to play. bari fills the role of a 5th trombone quite a bit, as it blends well (especially in the mid-low register) with bones, especially when there isn't a bass bone present (unlike this piece.) it's just an awkward instrument to write for a lot of the time

[@salems.bytche]

I really hope that I’ll be able perform this song one day 🥺

[@bruhmomenthdr7575]

Which part

[@salems.bytche]

@@bruhmomenthdr7575 I play Bari sax. :)

[@firstlast1357]

Reading all these comments, made feel like a Philistine. Imagine the mind of the genius who wrote it.

[@TheSaxAppeal]

Good god, Gordon Goodwin is a mad scientist

[@bosnathan]

Absolutely freaking epic

[@RoseCadenza]

I would love to master this song. I would love to play Alto 2 so I could play that clarinet solo.

[@simphonysounds4570]

really amazing.......unbelievable.......so good........heaven level........top 10.........

[@hank1519]

That trombone! So lush!

[@jerrythemouse28]

At United, we're connecting people, uniting the world and doing it safely. From all of us, thank you and enjoy your flight!

[@joshualodder1567]

I could probably play the fourth trumpet part...yay me👍😢

[@demoxy7243]

I played this song in preschool band. good times

[@hannah9075]

Me and the other Clarinets: ~*sweats nervously*~

[@joechavez784]

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo true 😂😂😂😂😂

[@samaldag478]

The solo itself isnt actually that hard once you learn how to do a glissando. It's actually super fun.

[@amambababoon1410]

OMG SAME! My band is really tiny (the high school concert band has 7 people, and the jazz band has 10) so whenever I get it wrong it's super obvious. (I play b flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and trombone, and a range of bari to soprano in vocals btw; whichever is most need in the song we're playing).

[@FNBRVolts]

the solo really isnt that bad, I know if my band did this piece I would be put on alto 2, even though im primarily a bari player on sax. My primary is clarinet and I also play flute which is all required for this.

[@ilverdsgames3819]

Trumpet one is beautiful 😭

[@zavier3644]

I wonder if this is where Scott Watson got inspiration from for the saxaphone part of Secret Agent Sugar Plum

[@jasmineh6284]

that note at 0:37 gets me every time

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I'm glad its so understanding

[@verycoolpersonguy]

I've finally learned how to play the glissando 😭 it took me 3 months

[@DPHMUSIC.]

I'm on month 1 so hopefully I'll get it soon, congrats dude

[@zenixrl_]

not to brag but it took me like 3 hours

[@tsuki5625]

Howwwwwww

[@zenixrl_]

you just gotta roll your finger off the hole then lift it slowly off the ring and bam you have the glissando to rhapsody in blue

[@joechavez784]

@@zenixrl_ me too😂😂 probably like 1 tho

[@preston4815]

i wish i was that good of a trumpet player

[@extrememonkee241]

Revisiting this chart after 2 years now it’s much easier

[@bedtr]

Amazing!

[@SpadeSpade-qg8qm]

As a Texas band kid, my teammates could not play this if their life depended on it but I can trust

[@Band_Kid_4_Life]

Never once in my life did I think I would get to play timpani in jazz band.

[@SRG-on]

Jeje, es muy bueno. Yo los tocó desde los 5 años , ya me aburrió. Tocó 16 instrumentos.

[@RoseCadenza]

Oh my gosh! So many sharps for alto sax. 6 sharps! 0_0

[@Jon-kx3ut]

ForteRosé it ain’t that bad

[@zenixrl_]

it’s honestly not that bad, i’m a tenor player but i play alto

[@bradenhoeffner4627]

Yeah man my all state music has like 9 😂😂

[@brandonm7952]

Braden Hoeffner wym 9 huh... double sharps?

[@Youngy]

The ballad omg

[@ewewkiru7322]

We’re playing thus piece in band and it’s 😍

[@agreenunderripebanana8901]

Thats the best pfp ive ever seen

[@jwaj]

@@agreenunderripebanana8901 it’s been two years, and I’m gonna assume that the pfp hasn’t changed yet

[@agreenunderripebanana8901]

@@jwaj no it has, but my statement still stands

[@jwaj]

@@agreenunderripebanana8901 exactly, this commenter has some good taste in profile pics

[@jwaj]

@@agreenunderripebanana8901 yours is pretty good too

[@Wafflerlovertoo]

Can someone transcribe the clarinet solo for flute

[@kensword73]

That ain’t no alto that’s a clarinet

[@jayjusto9580]

Kensword fam what instrument do you see in the parentheses under alto 1

[@slamirghalayini6185]

Jay Justo piccolo

[@8PedroFerreira]

Jay Justo mayonnaise

[@jeffarc]

Kensword the saxes usually switch to clarinet or flute in jazz if there is a part of the song that has that kind of note, like a bari sax one time at a concert playing a bass clarinet solo

[@natmcveigh3904]

@@jayjusto9580 alto 2

[@Bluejay-ri1yf]

Come on, this is really easy to play... as an audio file. Nope, not possible to play on an instrument unless many days or months of practice. (Or you could be a Jazz Legend and be able to sight read the whole thing)

[@rocioanguiano2480]

Bluejay0608 more practice than that

[@jaiden1121]

DAVID MELLA oh wait. nobody humble enough would brag about stupid shit like that. So shush

[@Skweepz]

Bluejay0608 Bruh it ain't that hard lmao

[@slimbro1494]

"many days" as in 2920 days (8 years)

[@devanmallory5304]

Bluejay0608 eh, the top jazz pros could probably learn it in like two weeks, but I'm talking about players in the high jazz orchestras

[@Temulgeh]

very nice arrangement!!

[@droyer3400]

Oh my gosh 1:39 the freaking note in the saxes that stick out

[@jazzmuzik169]

Gabriel, you must be an incredible virtuoso

[@FrostbiteP1ano]

If y'all could do the 2nd version of this can't be love that would be great

[@exogarwinoputt4257]

This is sooooo cool, Thanks very much!!

[@guysmiley1940]

7:00 ends with a bang

[@zachsmith4471]

Guy Smiley the last chord when it’s just the trumpets and altos before the trombones come in is godly

[@guysmiley1940]

@@zachsmith4471 Yeah

[@amritcheema549]

1:11 sexy trombone mode activated

[@peanuts.w.]

Lmao

[@PinniePon]

Saw this live. Was fire as shit

[@stretchkilla8884]

WOW

[@goozrat]

Can’t wait to give this for my jazz band students on my very first year as a band director! And does it start in 6/4 time signature?

[@GreenBoy9000]

4/4.

[@jwaj]

Talk about first impressions 💀

[@ShockzG5]

@@jwaj LMAO

[@jasonvalentino395]

Try listening at 2.0 speed 0_0

[@seanbarras2995]

0_0

[@andrewnicholas9672]

Yeah, level 6

[@akallalsimon1554]

Oh my freaking god,a grade 6,i thought it was impossible.

[@xandercruz4771]

I love this song

[@Dylan0229]

Had to play the clarinet part on Soprano sax, then swap to my alto… this song was insane to play… felt like musical pit band all over again

[@marzgamingduo8680]

I could just imaging somebody sneaking the mario kart dolphin shoals lick in that sax solo

[@charlesvernon4091]

4:37 to 6:06

[@igloo9893]

Listen to this on 1.25 speed, it's interesting.

[@pootluv]

Igloo the beginning sounds like something out of west side story like this

[@srjiang4822]

try 2x

[@tonyrod3332]

Game of inches or Hunting Wabbits should be next

[@khylasc0tt]

My band director gave us this music during the summer and we've been working on it since for our spring concert, its not that we don't know the notes its just with all the tempo changes and key changes and stuff that makes it so hard

[@zacharyholmes2600]

Wow. I'm in augh on how someone could even THINK a band could play that

[@a3toenail313]

I’m on tenor 2 in eighth grade lol.... I’m dead

[@lorddisappointment1792]

i doubt your actually playing this, this is for at least grade 12s not middle schoolers

[@a3toenail313]

lord disappointment Normally, yes that would be the case, but let me inform u that I’m second chair in a group of 9 saxophones. Two of them being seniors. We have a 2a sized band, so our band director chose me to play it.

[@pulp9220]

This scares me

[@edwardjones1045]

How come at measures 149 - 166, the bari sax's and alto sax’s keys is written in flats, while everyone else's is written in sharps?

[@thatonetrombonist9385]

it would be too many sharps for them

[@thatonetrombonist9385]

7 sharps

[@sarastonebell9053]

I'm trying to learn how to play the clarinet beginning solo and the glissando is so hard! I can't get it right lmao, it's getting there though it just doesn't sound that great.

[@SaxandRelax]

the clarinet solo tho

[@christianchase9606]

Jazz

[@mylesloper2280]

6:59

[@samneverleft10]

He hit the lick at 3:29

[@miltonderezende7906]

Did a song that was created perfect have to be arranged by Gordon Goodwin?

[@matthewcline8580]

Licc spotted at 3:28

[@AriannaCunningham]

I just heard that the Reddit Symphony will be playing this!

[@lorddisappointment1792]

wholesome 100 keanu reeves everyone liked that big chungus baby yoda

[@zacha7856]

lord disappointment shut the fuck up

[@carolkoehler131]

2:19 to 4:30 It would be good boss music for cuphead or Mario bosses.

[@FNBRVolts]

ACTUALLY

[@MountainFalcon15]

upload no l in swing and doctor noel

[@brandonguerra7596]

5:14 they all took a breath at the same time lol maybe a breath mark?

[@bmacs0280]

I'm gonna be real this is one of Goodwin's easier charts. Sure very dependent on the soloist but other wise not that hard. My band plays Goodwin charts all the time.

[@hmm2084]

jesus, you want a fucking medal?

[@ZHL242]

You're actually right, technically speaking it's not one of his most difficult or complicated. The only things that would give most bands trouble are the sax triplets at 56, the range of the 1st trumpet part, and finding a clarinetist good enough to do justice to Gershwin's intro. Obviously the Phat Band members are all incredibly virtuoso musicians and their tone and inflections make this definitely the best recording of this arrangement, but that doesn't mean it's unplayable. Count Bubba and some of Goodwin's other tunes have much harder technically challenging components to them.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

BMACS02 2:19 is an excruciating pain to master...This song is a classic and yes it's not "professionally difficult" but it is one of Goodwin's Most famous and popular. A semi difficult would be take 5 or maybe Nyan Cat (I know that sounds silly but gee think about it ) so say something with less ignorant bliss, like "I have had an epiphany that this song had noble and hard working artists that devote there emotions to creating this breath-taking literature with a mix of jazz, symphony, and a conundrum of ancient sound and besides this run on sentence I honestly have no idea if I'm giving a argument or just stating my observant opinion to you but I do know one thing. I have absolutely and without a doubt on my mind have not a clue for what I'm awkwardly trying to explain...

[@JDSnowb]

If you look at the 1st trumpet part, you’ll find you need a god to play those high notes. It’s like a ballad or chorale piece, sure the rhythms and notes are easy but you have to go beyond the page and stylistically play it correctly. That’s the difference between an average musician and one that takes it to the next level.