Smells Like Teen Spirit arranged by Michael Brown

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Easy Contemporary Marching Band - Grade 2-3
Still popular after 20 years, this hit epitomizes the grunge rock style of rock band Nirvana. This arrangement trades the melody between low brass and trumpets before closing with the familiar and powerful chorus.
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[@Firefly07]

It’s times like these I love being a Mello. My section may be dwindling, I may not be able to see the drum majors or feel my neck, but sometimes I get to sound sick as hell and it not even being that hard 😎

[@michaelacross3282]

Another Mello player! I can never find fellow mellophone player!

[@spencerparker8406]

That horn part is awesome

[@AnneWestphall]

Horn player here! We're playing this song this season, it's the best! (Our closer is the best actually but this one is fun too!)

[@tgrgfgdf7601]

i get to play this for my show this year can't wait

[@rorysensabaugh-tn3iw]

we played this piece this past season and we made a whole bunch of music changes and it was awesome, look up lakeview high school marching band you should see it in most of the earlier ones like ones from june or august

[@BOT_Maximus]

Are y’all the Lakeview from Colorado?

[@noddlejamaa5896]

so glad we are doing this for band.

[@someguitarist2729]

god your so lucky

[@grantdarnell4318]

The dislikes are just trumpets that are mad that they have to split the melody😂😂😂 Or any other part that is jealous that they don’t play horn to have that horn part (which is glorious and the best part in the song)!

[@henrischwank1796]

Trumpets ruined the song

[@KadenTaylor-hk8sx]

​@@henrischwank1796 ngl I kinda agree

[@R0seAm3]

As a trumpet that's kinda mean-😢 but options are options

[@adus2821]

god forbid low brass get melody!

[@VenomousFlowers-pz7fr]

​@@adus2821for once in their life!

[@fatdogbella4416]

my band is doing this song this year but we haven’t been doing good so i’m hoping we’ll sound good since we have more people now

[@aepchelseys5053]

my band did it a couple years ago! it was so fun :) we also did how far we’ve come, enter sandman, and i think one other song that i can’t remember the name of 😅

[@fatdogbella4416]

@@aepchelseys5053 That's a good song, our first game is coming up this friday and we actually sound pretty good this year so i'm excited

[@Chromedium]

I’m learning how to play this in my school band

[@roboknight52]

for those of you saying that the trumpets ruin it i’m not a trumpet player but if they sound too bright that’s the individual players problem not the entire instrument it’s like y’all don’t know how music works smh

[@sauce_martinez1859]

I play the tuba and this song is awsome

[@samuelolsen5694]

its too easy on bass guitar xD

[@StetSYT]

Angel 174 I play the bass drum and this is my favorite song we play 😍

[@zilla2760]

Tuba friend!

[@bonnieblue2674]

I have to learn this song in a week 😭😭😭

[@ee5447]

Play it 1.25 speed, sounds way better for pep band members

[@lynleyserrano4557]

E E Believe me, I hear you on pep band stuff, but setting it to the higher speed makes the song lose its groove. It just doesn’t jive

[@ajnorcal0671]

We where playing this today for pep and all the trumpets where complaining bc it was slow

[@ajnorcal0671]

I'm a trombome btw

[@brittenvangorder8629]

I think its great at 1.25

[@matthewheidorn7766]

As a snare drummer... Maybe

[@Fuzzy._.l]

Bruh this sounds like what would be given to the Jr. High kids.

[@TheOnlyDRAGONSZONE]

This is amazing

[@elyziumlights8565]

if they replaced the trumpets with low brass at some of the main parts it would sound better

[@flan2816]

ElyZium Lights just stop

[@ieatpowertools]

@@flan2816 look an offended trumpet

[@jaymcgray]

I feel like for the verses it should’ve been low brass and for the main melody it should’ve been both.

[@syds613]

Stop the cap the low brass sounds better than the trumpets and plus trumpets get more sound attention not very many low brass parts are ever melodies

[@weason8096]

No

[@reylis.8916]

Wow i never fhorns where heard

[@gabinlefebvre7334]

So good

[@EliMartin-y4p]

I agree with bro

[@dreemsnake1]

More drums, lower, louder. More bass.

[@TheDumbTwin]

Right on

[@brittanymoldovan6050]

👏👏👏

[@torimiller4501]

My class is doing this and it is our favorite song and its sounds amazing

[@jaalahdech8918]

when we got this for band I was sooo happy. finally some good music not stupid shit like best sobg ever and horrible ear raping songs that make us cry because they are so bad

[@merrionnapierce1605]

Jaalah Dech same my son did to

[@merrionnapierce1605]

He plays drums

[@thegreatmarstino9903]

What drum

[@milkman3106]

Jh kids can so play this

[@blazefirecat2293]

I'm playing this in high school band rn it's so lit

[@austinhouser774]

Can I get sheet music for this? I'd love to show it to my teacher as a pep band tune :)

[@thatoneannoyingsoprano8066]

You have to buy it.

[@q-q9257]

We already play it

[@ps_retiredcomputer296]

this is the sheet music run it on musescore

[@scrubara]

The sheet music is literally right there

[@holly_reagan2157]

Me too

[@rileyhenry4243]

smells like team spirit

[@zman42]

Only song ever that makes the clarinet's Bb good 😆

[@Jay-Mad]

what about bass clarinet ?

[@craigthecrackhead2658]

French horn yummy

[@ee5447]

Holy crap not hating but our pep band plays this and we play it so much faster and it sounds so much better

[@kijoh7474]

mine too

[@meganveite5678]

E E you’re lucky! My pep band never played this. I’d love if we played this, that’d sound so amazing!

[@haileyhoward51204]

We playing this as one of our show songs this year I'm so excited 🤯

[@JacobElsworth]

your doing quarter notes as 1/8th notes

[@TheDumbTwin]

I have a hundred strong band with a huge low brass

[@adastrapgh]

this should not work, but it does

[@ella_winstons_cigs13]

Should have let the basses and low brass take the part of the trumpets, i hate the trumpet part here

[@paulabertone4489]

Is Nirvana biuriful

[@bluwolf098]

If I can I would rewrite all the parts that are actually cringe and make it better. Like not have the melody split between sections.

[@jarviskattagen7655]

I like it how it is

[@Docmcstufffinzz]

as a trumpet i hate how much trumpet is in this song.

[@ddsvelder9866]

You can't just have the melody switch sections in the middle of a phrase ew

[@bluwolf098]

Dødsvelder I hate it and the fact that it’s not even the right rhythm for the beginning and other parts with that same rhythm

[@elyziumlights8565]

the trumpets ruin it

[@ezekielproctor7858]

You're Happy*

[@chucklove8709]

ElyZium Lights as always - trombone player

[@supermule4474]

not rlly

[@henrischwank1796]

Yes and why do trumpets have 90% of the parts in every band piece and in 80% it’s Sound Bad

[@ella_winstons_cigs13]

Yea, it makes this song too bright

[@Leafanaa]

As much I love Nirvana, I don't think their music translates very well into stand tunes :/

[@boingokky]

Whomever arranged this missed the overall feel of this song! It's watered-down and meant to be a playable level for junior high, not high school. Shameful.

[@mbell985]

it's a marching band arrangement of a grunge rock song...of course the "feeling" is lost. Also, JH kids need music too...

[@bb5bucks]

Of all songs to water down, it had to be this one. They need an advanced version

[@iraccoon8830]

We played it just fine in middle school marching band

[@briannaseaman7647]

boingokky we are actually playing this song for our show right now and let me say if you gave this to middle school / junior high students it would be a death threat, at least at my school

[@KCH732]

This one is pretty watered down. But listen to the arrangement of Monster by Skillet. It's pretty true to the original.

[@A-Warthog-hm2tl]

That's disgusting dood I would hate myself if I had to play that in my school band

[@commanderxbox3602]

That drum part is horrible

[@jarviskattagen7655]

Shut up no one likes you