Sleigh Ride - One Person Band

[@TOml0l3times]

When you feel like you can play everyone else's part better than they can:

[@jdthewoodwindguy]

...and then prove it! :)

[@dylansmith8215]

Thats gonna be me, I already got the brass covered

[@robstockton2463]

It’s one thing to play that many instruments - lots of band teachers do - but from what I can tell with my headphones on, he plays them ALL pretty well. In honesty though, the piece is originally scored with strings…and I imagine if Declan reads this, he’ll master violin by next week. 😂

[@AChannelOfStuff-w1v]

Exactly how I feel in strings 💀

[@TylerAnderson-n9t]

i don't feel this way i know i can

[@danieljang5952]

The credits actaully made me cry 😭

[@Kieran.percussion]

Peak jokes

[@methodzero]

thanks for spoiling

[@tigerCola]

They actaully made me cry too

[@dog-f58]

Real 😭

[@Banus-]

the fact that he individually played every instrument in a specific section instead of just copying the recording multiple times is lovely

[@tgdelulu]

cause it would sound tacky if he did that

[@leozigmond533]

Final boss of band class

[@Stephaamee]

This is actually impressive because you know how to play all these instruments😭😭

[@DrakeLovett]

This sounds better than a lot of recordings I have heard where the musicians are supposedly playing their main instruments 😅 Excellent job!

[@VGMBassoon]

You have no idea how much time it took me to get all those parts up to speed without having to do cuts LOL. The 3rd Clarinet and 2nd-3rd Cornet parts really threw me through a loop. The work paid off though!

[@cybersteelgaming]

@@VGMBassoon SO real!!! 3rd cornet is actually so hard with the fingerings!! We just finished playing this in my band!

[@VGMBassoon]

@ 100%. Playing 2nd and 3rd parts is really hard. Blending in and being in tune (as well as being able to pick out your own line, which isn’t the melody often) is really challenging and I found them harder than the 1sts

[@CodingK1d]

this is how you master tempo. he did all these separate not using any other instruments to keep tempo, Bravo!

[@Enkai_Star_2]

Bro took the “I can play their part better” and actually did it😭 it’s so good tho

[@khy114]

This is actually crazy!❤❤❤

[@esca_bisque]

めっちゃうまい。一人で多重演奏するとフレージングがばらけないし、ピッチもあいやすくて、すごく聞きやすい。

[@musikerman52]

This is just insane! In the best way! I thought I am versatile with my 7-8 instruments, but here... I salute you from Finland!

[@dizzydeezie]

actually better than any other band ive heard play sleigh ride lol

[@robertshrewsbury5067]

I love this kind of creativity. Thank you.

[@JohnTalksALot]

Very smooth trumpets, good clear tone. Good job!

[@naturesonslimechaefan]

This is actually so good!! I cant even do one recording right lol!

[@AmSillyGoose]

Just found your videos and as a former band kid, you crushed it

[@PieEater-s5r]

Now THIS is TALENT!

[@snowbeatstheheat7939]

This is actually insane how you pulled this off so perfectly

[@GusTuba2]

Now that’s what I call RANGE! Nice work!

[@MaddoxStoeplerOriginal]

If anyone is wondering, the song is on JW Pepper. Just look up: Sleigh Ride there and scroll down until you see some dudes face with a blue background that fades into white at the top.

[@TakeThreeYT]

I wish I could clone myself 40 times. The powers are strong within this one 😁 To add on, it's illegal he didn't jump with the slapstick

[@elliesharp1851]

Commenting because this should be viral!!

[@blueberryy45]

I showed this to my mom and she approves 👍

[@connorcga26]

Above all that everyone else has mentioned, the one thing I absolutely adore that you did is actually playing the "Go Big Blue!" section right at the 1:50 mark. Very few people have recorded performances where *everyone* actually read that backing/bassline part correctly, and it's unbelievably refreshing to hear a take that does. Spectacular work here on all parts :3

[@pug_bot8326]

Amazing Performance, insanely impressive! Sleigh Ride is an classic for band and you performed it splendidly!

[@bjornskivids]

You did a really good job on this. Merry Christmas!

[@BrisaNelis]

Omg! I actually see oboes!

[@stamman]

Hey nice work on that sleigh bell part haha lol

[@jdthewoodwindguy]

Honestly, the articulation and rhythmic clarity are amazing -- and sonic clarity as well, how you managed to put that many recordings together without room-noise buildup into a loud hiss is pretty remarkable. This is what I've been wanting to do, but limited to woodwinds - I gave up brass and sold those instruments a long time ago, but the tech hurdles still elude me a bit.

[@VGMBassoon]

I have experienced the room noise problem before haha: I made sure to denoise my recordings before I threw them into my final mix, thankfully I didn’t have the hiss problem. The intonation I found the hardest! Playing in tune with myself was really hard and I didn’t want to rely on autotune or pitch correction like other people who did this definately did. It just sounds better without being altered that way.

[@nathanmaynard2241]

This is a truly unbelievable masterpiece of a video! This is talent on another level

[@robstockton2463]

Impressive! I assumed you were a band teacher but then I read your bio. 😂 I was a music major (Indiana Univ) but I could certainly only play five instruments well enough to tackle Sleigh Ride. (My main instrument was piano, which helps not at all.) Next up: add the strings from the original scoring. 😂😂

[@Pouzdraken]

I often times find myself missing when I played trombone. This is one of those times

[@yeetyoot4433]

this made me suddenly realize i havent listened to any christmas music this whole month somehow. this is very cool very well done

[@YankoMusicant-kd5jc]

This is especially impressive because of the lack of mistakes. In music, any tiny small mistake is very noticeable, so good job not having those

[@VGMBassoon]

Trust me I had to throw out so many recordings to due simple or dumb mistakes. I also had to stay in tune with myself because in my opinion, using auto tune or pitch correction on instrumental recordings can make it sound robotic or fake. A lot of other videos similar to this playing sleigh ride or other pieces as a one person band are so blatantly auto tuned and pitch corrected that it was difficult for me to listen to. Simply playing in tune (is not easy of course) makes editing easier and just makes you sound better because you don’t rely on pitch correction. Thanks for listening!

[@Davis.smith.weightlifting]

I do projects like this several times a year, and I can confirm how insanely hard this is. I usually have to splice parts when I record in garage band. If the videos are what the recording is from, and aren’t essentially a voiceover for recordings that are spliced in garage band or pro tools, that is WILD.

[@VGMBassoon]

@@Davis.smith.weightlifting they are for the most part. I played a couple wrong notes in some of the instruments I struggle with (low brass) but I ended up fixing them with a re-record of just that section. The less editing I have to do, the better the end product is so I just ended up doing re-records if I made a mistake that was dumb.

[@humanfingers]

GAHHH ME TOO! I’m also a bassoonist who can play all the instruments in the band, I also play all the strings. We should totally collab sometime!

[@ABunchofEverything-lb8vh]

I can imagine how hard it was to get the slapstick on the exact beat lol. Ee lent work!

[@TubaDudeLogan]

Gonna be me in a few years just gotta learn how to play woodwinds 🙏

[@headandhelp]

Me when I have nothing to do:

[@AKAFT]

Great! We need to get you a bass trombone as well.

[@VGMBassoon]

TRUE. Would have made 3rd trombone so much easier

[@xmomocha]

this is amazing and the credits are so funny plsssss

[@SilverAg11]

Props for getting through the pain of the 3rd trombone part on a straight tenor lol. 1st -->6th non stop

[@yesiamanegg8081]

YO THIS IS COOL! Very impressive 👍👏

[@Flute.Fantasies]

This is very impressive! 👏

[@watsonfam2511]

Are you using in ear monitors ? How did you synchronize the sessions?

[@krzywadroga6521]

I love it so so much, gives off the Christmas spirit so much!

[@Catttacus]

not trying to favourite here, but Declan was definitely the best

[@PrussiaCountryballs]

But I feel like Declan was better then Declan especially at the end

[@fortissimoh8641]

this is so good 😭🫶

[@NamTheGamer_]

conductor : my grandma can play better than all of you conductor’s grandma :

[@dowfish12]

BASSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

Well done. I really enjoyed this video.

[@Charles-Reardon]

I am seriously impressed

[@paulcurtis2779]

Very well done. . super good.

[@Bxu021]

Epic, this is so good XD

[@anxmo1857]

thats super impressive :o

[@Martin-einer]

So good ㊗️

[@bethschoenknecht5268]

Your tone is AMAZING-particularly on saxes, clarinets and trumpets. Really great stuff!

[@TheMusicMan49]

BEAUTIFUL! GOD BLESS YOU!

[@user-jx3jp3gb4x]

How fantastic is this! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas

[@LiamHardage]

This is awesome, good job 👏

[@Benjamin_Rush]

THE FLUTES WERE THE BEST PART OF THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE THE FLUTE IS THE BEST INSTRUMENT EVER NO DISAGREEMENT ALLOWED EVER!!!

[@Billygoat]

I'm currently doing this, but with all viola!

[@VGMBassoon]

We love the viola

[@GwenMcGill]

Wow that was really cool!

[@Re-Uploader4324]

This had to have taken 2 or 3 hours very nice job!

[@SmokeyTube]

2 to 3 months is a better estimate lol

[@jillianmilton5804]

Wow this is amazing! So impressive! Would have loved to see more close-up shots of the instruments or instrument sections (woodwind, brass, percussion) though. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 🛷

[@angelinestrasser]

Wonderful!!

[@TheSpacePerson]

thats a one man orchestra

[@theguyidk123]

how the heck do you not have more subs wth

[@Dreamlandtalesrobloxthemepark]

thi is the best thing I have ever fucking seen I subbed to u

[@Antvio_]

*Here before this goes viral lol

[@minemaster3157]

ive thought about wanting to do this, ill probably do something similar with just brass, cause idk woodwinds. i love the video though, wonderful playing. Disappointing slapstick though :(

[@JaiPaiPai]

This is rly good, how long did this take u?

[@VGMBassoon]

A couple days, I spent a day practicing and a day recording

[@JaiPaiPai]

​@@VGMBassoon 😱

[@JohnSmith-xb7iw]

POV: Your band teacher (great job tho)

[@NamTheGamer_]

now w/ strings!!

[@KNLDVS2023]

Welcome to the algorithm!

[@smackheadnify]

Dont know what the song is called but i heard it here 1:50

[@eo123smusicstudio-hr7io]

We have met the main character of band

[@tbreindel]

This is so cool! What did you use to record this, and how did you put it together?

[@VGMBassoon]

I used an AKG P420 microphone to record the audio. It's one of the cheapest microphones they have but it does the job better than my phone ever could. I recorded the video at the same time as the audio just with my phone and edited the audio in Logic Pro X, and the video in Final Cut Pro.

[@tbreindel]

@@VGMBassoonthank you! Also, did you use any form of headphones? It is my personal dream to be able to do something like this.

[@VGMBassoon]

@ yes! To stay in sync with myself I had an AirPod in one ear with a click track playing. That way every recording could at least be reasonably in tune with one another. You just can’t see the AirPod in the video and I tried my hardest to hide it haha

[@tbreindel]

@ that’s awesome! Love the video

[@Trumpetmultitracks]

wtf how do you play every concert instrument so cleanly

[@VGMBassoon]

@@Trumpetmultitracks I may or may not have spent all my time during COVID learning them. It was a wild time

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

@@VGMBassoonwhere do you get them from

[@Brickingly]

When you have no partners in band class:

[@BrianGarrison-g8j]

This is great! what program did you use to make it?

[@VGMBassoon]

Logic Pro X for the audio, Final Cut Pro for the video

[@joelwilliammusic]

⛄👍

[@elizabreadd]

i’ve been really wanting to do something like this with an arrangement i’ve made. How do you stay in time and how do you record your videos?

[@Andy001Andy]

You should’ve put a difference in one of the names on the credits to see who’s checking carefully! Alternatively, put a completely different name to have them look at the video more closely

[@VGMBassoon]

Never too late to do that lol

[@Andy001Andy]

@@VGMBassoonomg, do it!! 😂

[@BentleyHarvell]

You should do Les toreadors 🔥🔥🔥

[@VGMBassoon]

That’s a toughie

[@BentleyHarvell]

@ fr with the 16th notes

[@cocacolaman6510]

Do you own all of those instruments or are they from band class or smth 😭😭😭

[@wcc907]

WHERES MY BELOVED BASS CLARINET

[@sandywuori5102]

alr now hes just flexing on us

[@EthanG-y9y]

Impressive, but what about Eb or alto clarinet, and soprano sax?

[@VGMBassoon]

No access sadly, and as far as I’m aware there’s no Soprano Saxophone part

[@EthanG-y9y]

@VGMBassoon I've seen it before

[@robstockton2463]

Or strings. It’s originally scored for orchestra. That said, there are tons of arrangements of this piece, including several by Leroy Anderson himself.

[@krisyeyezz]

How do you get access to so many instruments?

[@VGMBassoon]

Owning them, and my university’s instrument room

[@thealmightyone9817]

do you have a PDF of all the parts by chance? i cant seem to find the music anywhere else

[@MaddoxStoeplerOriginal]

It’s on JW Pepper. Search Sleigh Ride in the search bar there and scroll down until you see one with a blue background with white at the top and some dudes face plastered on the front

[@VGMBassoon]

If you google "Sleigh Ride parts PDF", thats how I found them for this video

[@DeesDNP]

How long did this take you to do?

[@goob27]

Omg how many people's instruments did you have to borrow to not only practice, but record this as many times as it took

[@VGMBassoon]

@@goob27 all of the instruments you see are mine besides the tenor and bari sax, euphonium, and tuba. Percussion I used my conservatory’s studio and the winds I don’t own I got from our instrument room

[@robstockton2463]

Music schools have instruments to loan out.

[@patch7151]

Where tf did you get so many people

[@VGMBassoon]

My cloning machine

[@LeoSnyder-ef1bl]

Which instrument of those is the hardest?

[@VGMBassoon]

@@LeoSnyder-ef1bl I had the hardest time with 3rd Clarinet

[@Mothloverforever]

No bass clarinet?? 😭

[@VGMBassoon]

@@Mothloverforever if I had access to one it’d be in there trust me

[@mprokolos2274]

how do you keep time during these recordings?

[@VGMBassoon]

I use a click track that I follow with an AirPod in

[@madpistol]

But... HOW?!?!?! Do you practice 16 hours a day or something?

[@VGMBassoon]

I learned most of these instruments over COVID, but no 16 hour practice days involved haha

[@TheREALSmaug]

No Bass Clarinet 😢

[@ailee_lyx191]

At this rate, you could probably skip multiple semesters of college if you were to go into music education

[@VGMBassoon]

Tried music Ed, but switched out of it last year haha