Billie Jean by Michael Jackson/arr. John Berry

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Discovery Jazz Ensemble - Grade 1.5
The song that launched Michael Jackson's famous “moonwalk” was also one of the top selling singles for the year 1983. Featuring the signature bass line and catchy melodies, here is a great sounding chart for bands with limited rehearsal time.
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[@cmlrun11]

After a few rehearsals, the bari sax player would have his part memorized.

[@saxyricks4731]

If he/she had good ears they could pick up on the bass part

[@2timechris165]

Chad Lincoln it’s very easy

[@jackvanepps7301]

that is why i am no longer a bari player

[@donovanjohnston9424]

As my friend the only bari jams this song

[@juliannaelwell]

Because it’s for first grade

[@clairedolman4950]

My jazz band is playing this, I play bari and after the first time we played this I went and copied the bass part, it was such a jam lol

[@brunotwo4928]

I love that the clarinet part is so simple! Very useful for beginners in band.

[@nickolodeanbdn6876]

Sax and trumpet working together what is lol I'm kidding but seriously

[@lingyang5910]

Playing the Flute part for jazz band so excited 😋😋😋😋😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@hexicgz1183]

Same!! ♡

[@lingyang5910]

@@hexicgz1183 Cool!

[@sushi.studios]

Omg its so fun! We get some good parts

[@ldmarz6683]

Im playing this for my schools jazz band and I like how it is so simple yet so good. Also, Im not bari sax but the bari sax part goes hard

[@naimalyons2674]

I literally just fainted when I saw this score

[@joeswanson1267]

why

[@yazzer4963]

why

[@ASHM8THEBOSS]

FOR REAL!!

[@Arpan-hm9th]

Ashmit

[@Arpan-hm9th]

And true

[@zipliner45]

Trombone gang

[@bellacartledge6728]

I play this in EMUsicians and I’m on the bass i do the baseline and it’s so fast the whole song I’m doing quavers

[@mysticsone9469]

This sounds amazing

[@shaykujosan8872]

it's great.

[@Noah_Gomez]

Playing this for Jazz Band

[@sbeas2012]

Personally, sounds great! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@zodiactrimble4720]

As a tuba player, this was fun to play, but i had the same two parts the whole song except at the end.

[@Alesmaio]

I playing trombone 1 sound insane

[@lguy8476]

Really nice arrangement Also... 1st!!!

[@2timechris165]

L Guy , night guy wallpaper (in my opinion the most powerful naruto characters)

[@tributefilms]

I both love and hate playing this as a bass clarinet. It drives me crazy.

[@rexrex6147]

Me podrias enviar el.arreglo

[@jetsettech8804]

This is the most disrespect I've ever seen shown to the Bari sax in a jazz piece. This is atrocious.

[@aboujigoula9313]

Same with trombones

[@Tiny_little_antisocial_person]

It really is it's awful playing like just sitting there going bop bop the whole song basically it makes u wanna go insane

[@Zamboni_Tony]

Its too repetitive at the beginning

[@LowReedExpert1]

Arranger really channeled his inner Sousa with the bones and bari

[@cstuart5638]

That’s why tenor is just plain better.

[@adrianosantossantos4481]

Lidos

[@boogolp]

Mein Lehrer meinte ich soll mir das mal ansehen. Da dachte ich mir ich spiel doch eh die shaker also bin ich auch wieder weg. Grüße gehen raus an die 9B.

[@boogolp]

Exactly

[@mimiwngr3424]

Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Preußen Ja Hi Niclas du auch hier?😂

[@boogolp]

Ja xD

[@rexrex6147]

Por favor

[@marcelloprimo7361]

Aaaaaauuuuuuuu

[@Dankify79]

Im doing main piano for this in my school jazz band

[@lingyang5910]

Oof I play bells but I have to do flute cause there isn't enough Flutes this year ;-; 😫:-(

[@lilylily3170]

Me sax tenor

[@ritasimmons36]

I thought it was in F#

[@ComradeYT-od4fp]

x1.25 speed

[@cpsnakemusic3082]

This arrangement in my opinion is lacking in melodic accuracy, and therefore gives a sort of dead and unenthusiastic tone. The amount of potential for articulation and detail to elevate the energy of the score is great, but not achieved here

[@BryceFoltz123]

As an alto sax this song gets really difficult

[@harrypottah4500]

Lmao you need to practice this is easy and I've been playing for a year

[@musicen751]

WHERES THE OBOE ...

[@makenziee6264]

musicEN in the trash

[@camille_buhari]

no no thats not how jazz works oboNO

[@Collery]

This is almost as good as the original.

[@ulfskjran4077]

Making "Billie Jean" sound stodgy, stiff and devastatingly un-cool to the point of near-parody should be well-nigh impossible, but here the arranger has proved this utterly wrong. It actually sounds as he has worked hard to *get* that result, as some kind of perverse bet or the like.

[@LukeFial]

This is an absolutely horrible arrangement