This arrangement of common Hanukkah folk themes is one of the most prominent holiday works for band today. I hope you enjoy this cool and exciting piece :-) Performed by the US Coast Guard Band.
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@seattlegrobanite11 жыл бұрын
Yeah but once you get the hang of it it's such an incredible song to play. Out of all the songs I played in my eight years of band, this one was one of my all-time favorites. Wish I hadn't lost the sheet music to it...
@agarprime553810 ай бұрын
6:58 just absolutely SLAPS
@pigeon44228 ай бұрын
the tambourine for that part was so fun didn't know tambourine could be that fun lol
@allriasvylen82578 жыл бұрын
Rest in pieces all 3rd trombone parts. You shall be missed.
@KingKangus3 жыл бұрын
I’m playing this in my band and this song makes the bassoon feel cool
@benrichards6662 жыл бұрын
the bassoon part is great
@maxtherealone54912 жыл бұрын
The timpini part is way cooler 😎
@megastarwarsrocks99 Жыл бұрын
Bassoon was always cool
@ninjameerkat777 жыл бұрын
the sixteenth note 5/8 section for low brass absolutely kills me
@malamutehunter7 жыл бұрын
tori hood it's bad for clarinets too. I've got every part down except for those damn sixteenth notes.
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Alexander Gudschinsky I'm quite literally the only clarinet in my ensemble that plays it well and cleanly. I never thought I'd say this but my three or whatever days on oboe has really helped lol.
@malamutehunter7 жыл бұрын
Kidreo I've never played oboe, but it doesn't look too difficult. Just need a double lip embouchure and different key fingerings right?
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Alexander Gudschinsky it's not that it's super difficult, but it takes a ton of stamina when you first start playing. my lips hurt so much after sustained notes of four beats, and it requires so much air. it's not a hard instrument to learn, but it's a hard instrument to play for long durations when starting on it. of course, I've only played it for nearly two weeks...
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Alexander Gudschinsky also, going from clarinet to oboe is confusing at first because the oboe has some special fingerings.
@meganlong89348 жыл бұрын
I played this piece when I was in high school and it still stands as my all time favorite. The piccolo part was insane and so much fun to learn!
@Anna-qm5gl7 жыл бұрын
Megan Long My concert is in a few weeks and I'm playing the piccolo part for this :D
@meganlong89347 жыл бұрын
I hope it went well! I still whip out the concert picc every once in a while and play back through it!
@venicetaylor14484 жыл бұрын
Megan Long hey do you still continue to play it?
@TMang0 Жыл бұрын
I’m playing the Picc part for my band, the 16th note runs keep getting to me 😅😢
@nubman41 Жыл бұрын
5/8 time signature will never leave my head
@FamilyGuy1269311 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely brilliant. The way it goes from slow to intense is completely seamless, and I forget that they are the same piece many times.
@drdave80095 жыл бұрын
+1 on absolutely brilliant.
@colorguard100110 жыл бұрын
The flute part was hell. I can tell you i wasn't even able to play some parts even in first chair . No one could play the the high notes or the fast part of the 16th notes.
@helenwilbur18299 жыл бұрын
playing this in my high school band, and let me tell you, this peice will be the death of me. I have first flute part and the 16th notes make me so mad. there's maybe two people out of all the flutes who can actually play the whole peice, and im not one of them. I love this song though, it gives me goosebumps. I just wish I got 2nd part.
@friendlyhatespeech33008 жыл бұрын
lol we (trumpets got it easy
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Daisy Wade yes you do, I've seen your parts lol, sadly after third, not counting fifth, chair, my school's trumpets lose their talent and cannot for the life of them play correctly. I don't know how some of them are in a wind ensemble to be honest.
@friendlyhatespeech33007 жыл бұрын
Kidreo I have the same issue in my band.
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Yeah they, as well as saxes and flutes, ruined our performance.
@friendlyhatespeech33007 жыл бұрын
+Kidreo our flutes and saxophones were pretty good, save for a few complex parts. For us it was more of the clarinets and the Oboe solo.
@willhigginbotham22104 жыл бұрын
that french horn part got me like
@nathanmcmahon8144 Жыл бұрын
That's what I'm sayin lol
@TheGuitarmanDK211 жыл бұрын
I think this might be my favorite timpani part I've ever played. Measure 199 to the end is so awesome.
@benjamingore27202 жыл бұрын
It is so Fun
@maxtherealone54912 жыл бұрын
Timpini part is clearly the best part of this song
@Krumpulous9 ай бұрын
I've played this tune on other parts throughout my 15+ years of percussion playing, but I've never had the pleasure of playing the timpani until now. I'm two rehearsals out from the concert and feeling great about the part. I continue to practice the second half of the piece at a slow tempo and at the written tempo to really solidify the syncopation from the 4/4 &3/4 to 5/8 and so on.
@elcabbage23068 жыл бұрын
Ooh, it does sound pretty. Can't wait to play it tomorrow :D bassoon for the win
@eltigre03208 жыл бұрын
+Gabe Grothaus the solo at the beginning is a doozy. The pianissimo is very difficult to fully achieve.
@elcabbage23068 жыл бұрын
+eltigre0320 it was pretty difficult, but I think it was one of the most beautiful I've ever played, it's up there with Bruée 1 :)
@eltigre03208 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it went well.
@venicetaylor14484 жыл бұрын
eltigre0320 are you still alive
@user-vn3vh9sl8i4 жыл бұрын
@@venicetaylor1448 probably not
@robmaster21785 жыл бұрын
God damn people, am I the only one who enjoys the difficult time signatures? Especially how often they change, it makes reading the music fun and gives it an interesting challenge that you don't really get with 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, or 6/4
@calebquinn256 Жыл бұрын
I do enjoy playing them and it is a challenge I agree, but holy shit does it give headaches when learning them
@gnjoiner9 ай бұрын
Playing 2nd clarinet on this. It is driving me crazy! Holy cow, if you ever get out of sync, it is very hard to get back with the other sections. The switching back & forth from 5/8, 6/8 & 4/4 doesn’t make things any easier, either.
@siralonne96195 жыл бұрын
Played this my sophomore year on Eb contrabass clarinet, (really remote/practically unknown instrument within the clarinet family, yet my school somehow had one) and it was a really nice piece! This legit kept me from giving up school because of how much I love this piece. Everyday back in high school, whenever I felt too stressed, too tired, or just didn't feel like it/wanted to give up, I would tell myself "(however many hours left till last period since I have it last) periods left till the eighth candle..." and it would always give me that bit of strength needed to pull through the day till then, nostalgic memories, even till now........
@pigeon4422 Жыл бұрын
I'm actually obsessed like I played tambourine, bells, and chimes/tubular bells on this like 2 years ago and I still come back this was a percussion section favorite for sure
@wadestump97487 жыл бұрын
Jesus, the French horn rips I had were so fun!!!
@mrdonut15336 жыл бұрын
BEST MUSIC I HAVE EVER PLAYED. Go trumpet squad!!!
@lilliansunshine74997 жыл бұрын
Hannukah songs are always my favorite of the winter concert selection
@Tahntahn10010 жыл бұрын
My band is playing this for our Christmas concert.......yyyyaaaayyyy....powers of the flutes unite!!!!!*whispers* why did I think getting first flute part was a good thing???
@jacobahlstrand15978 жыл бұрын
I remember this being the favorite song that I played in high school. It's just such a beautiful arrangement
@patrickhorvat99267 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine calls it the calculator song because of the amount of key signature switches
@bsperoz6 жыл бұрын
John Smith me too! I'm glad my high school is onr of rhe schools that won't keep their band from play Christmas AND Hanukkah music. I'm not Jewish myself, but I know a great piece of music when I play one!
@benjamingore27202 жыл бұрын
I'm playing this piece for my High Schools Christmas Concert this year And I love It, the timpani piece slaps
@caioamado18922 жыл бұрын
Dance is at 4:38
@shawneebowman61099 жыл бұрын
Out of all the Christmas pieces my band is playing this is my favorite. I have the second flute part and the low notes are a killer but they are also my favorite part.
@shellshocker64756 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite tunes to play...i have had a lot of practice with 5/8 so this is easy to count for me..i remember playing a tune in 5/8 counted like 12312 12123 12312 12123 12312 and so on...that was painful ..but the harder the tune=the better the tune sounds I only got this music 3 days ago and i fricken love it
@triggeredpossum67522 жыл бұрын
I’m playing the clarinet part for this song n all of the r runs closer to the end legitimately make me have a stroke. It’s so good tho TT
@lightningblood69756 жыл бұрын
Where are my first cornet/ trumpets at
@KevinMartinez-de6fh3 жыл бұрын
4:59 I love this part its so good
@maloneap647 жыл бұрын
This lovely tune was recently performed in concert by the Westside Community Band on Sunday Dec. 4 in Cincinnati, OH. The changes in meter signatures and key signatures make the Eighth Candle a real challenge to perform of the clarinet.
@SpykerFX7 жыл бұрын
The "5/8th" candle. This was absolutely ridiculous to play >:(
@ainsleysnyder52415 жыл бұрын
I hate 5/8. It's difficult to count and even harder to play. I wanted to die when we played this
@yuh-xl8sk5 жыл бұрын
@@ainsleysnyder5241same
@proccessingunit23375 жыл бұрын
Dude I feel that. 5/8 playing only up beats on Euphonium
@ashtonbowen10324 жыл бұрын
Amen
@bribri80425 жыл бұрын
Where my first-chair clarinets at?! 💙
@devincalderon49192 жыл бұрын
Here
@biancajmr7 жыл бұрын
our band just sight-read this for the first time tonight. I was soooo looking forward to this piece. I was just at ILMEA, too, as a first chair bass clarinet on Saturday, so the beginning brings tears it's different to have a piece where the bass clarinet parts are tear-jerking but I'm definitely not complaining
@thelowlybard7 жыл бұрын
I FOUND YOU
@biancajmr7 жыл бұрын
BOO HISS
@noahvriese45369 жыл бұрын
4:46 this song really picks up
@ryanwhitlock73505 жыл бұрын
I never thought I'd say this, but the tambourine part makes me want to die.
@mayam76087 жыл бұрын
I love this song! It's my freshman year and we play this! I play the upright bass part.
@98djmiller8 жыл бұрын
We're playing but most of the people in my band can't count the 5/8 and they play it like it's 6/8
@ainsleysnyder52415 жыл бұрын
Dude I feel you. There's even a kid in my band who thinks 5/8 is the same as 5/4
@venicetaylor14484 жыл бұрын
Dahré Miller just imagine it like it’s 3/4 but shorter than that
@ChrisTheFlautist12 жыл бұрын
I know. When I had to play this my sophomore year in high school, I was definitely not skilled enough to. Not a fun time.
@DarthSalohcin9 ай бұрын
Playing this in Concert band for my winter concert this year! Have mallets and tambourine and its so fun
@fabricwheels70284 жыл бұрын
Our band didn’t have any official French horn players when we played this, so as a sax player I had to cover both first alto and first horn. I can confidently say that I’ve never had so much fun with instrument changes!
@averyliz52733 жыл бұрын
It’s a wonderful song on horn minus the 50 something measure rest which sucks the life out of you
@alltimerejects6437 жыл бұрын
We're playing this at our Christmas concert and I can't wait. It sounds beautiful. ❤️
@zachsplep9 ай бұрын
Added Flash: Have the Brass stand up on the Precussion break at 7:24 and lift their bells! The rest of the Woodwinds stand at 7:54 ! It's a guaranteed standing ovation from the audience! I have done this conducting my bands, and it is now my trademark! ~ Paul Grustans
@friedmochi5 жыл бұрын
Lol am i the only one who isn’t struggling with this piece? I hve first flute and I’m obsessed with this piece
@paolacarrasco43755 жыл бұрын
Cheeto Puffs :3 sameeeee
@JacobDesselles5 жыл бұрын
Second flute, I had to fake it
@huntergirlswag71947 жыл бұрын
We play this this year! Bass clarinet😊
@KolMan20006 жыл бұрын
This piece is just incredible and the 5/8-3/4 mixed meters are incredibly well arranged. Truly a unique and beautiful piece of music and I loved playing it for my band's winter concert
@russiaexists14999 ай бұрын
My school is performing this tomorrow for our winter concert and I think we sound super awesome, it’s a cool piece
@excuses60169 ай бұрын
Playing this currently in high school wind ensemble and oh my god it is so cool…once we get the hang of it
@ethang24943 жыл бұрын
Playing this for a concert tomorrow French Horn is fun on this piece
@dingbat15146 жыл бұрын
Beautiful music :) I love it
@SteveReisteter12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this but it's not an arrangement of common Hanukkah folk themes. It's an original piece. It was written (in 1997) to sound like traditional Hebraic music but everything is new. That's why it doesn't say "arranged by" on the music.
@drdave80095 жыл бұрын
Thanks for chiming in Steve. I was captivated by this piece when I first heard it at West Park (one of your Christmas in July concerts - it may even have been the debut) and a few years after that, I bought the piece for Parkland High School, where my son was a student at the time. In Macungie Band, we play this about every other year for our holiday concerts and Mike just put it in the book last night. Now that most people in the band have played it several times, we do pretty well running down the piece on the first night. This remains one of my very favorite pieces of wind band music. Thanks for this, and thanks for standing ready to sub in our band on any reed part. About the only thing I have not seen you play is brass. You are an incredible talent.
@bethbogue374210 ай бұрын
What a great piece! I just got the music for this 3 weeks ago and I love it. I'm looking forward to playing in it concert next month and hope to play it many more times in the years to come. Thank you, Mr. Reisteter.
@SteveReisteter9 ай бұрын
Thanks for your kind words! Where are you playing this? Please thank your band director for programming it and also thank your fellow band members for their preparation. Happy Thanksgiving (unless you're in Canada and I'm a month late)!@@bethbogue3742
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
I don't know how many of you will find this funny, but on my friend's bassoon part they scratched out the eighth candle and put "Pirates of the Jewribbean." I love playing the last two pages and ending on third clarinet, it's so much fun and melodic, but I feel terrible for the trombones.
@zachwillis9427 жыл бұрын
the final page and a half is the hardest thing I've ever had to play on bass/3rd trombone in 2 plus years of wind ensemble
@Kiwaloayo7 жыл бұрын
Zach Willis I bet man, the rhythms and jumps are complicated from what a friend of mine tells me.
@ChizAfterHours8 жыл бұрын
We play this at our high school since it was written for the schools first director. Great piece, but a challenge.
@will_yetter5 жыл бұрын
Back in high school I think sophomore year (?) our wind ensemble played this and it was so awesome. I was the snare and mixed percussion part and MAN that was a challenge at the time. First time with mixed meter
@andrewhinchberger97067 жыл бұрын
Why is everyone in the comments complaining about the flute parts? I played first last year and loved it!
@erinfink60565 жыл бұрын
Memories.
@christophergranados563410 жыл бұрын
We used this for our concert.and chair auditions...!!
@theoandurin10 жыл бұрын
I'm diggin the Eb Clarinet part!
@huizexue17942 жыл бұрын
The cover is nine candle
@TieDyeSab11 жыл бұрын
I got the first flute part... Let me tell you... I didn't know I could play in such a high octave
@christophergranados563410 жыл бұрын
Love the trumpet and cornet part at 7:25...awesome
@mickvazquez54246 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite piece I've ever done 😍
@williamperrini56977 жыл бұрын
There are 9 candles in the picture but this is the eighth candle
@Mark992296 жыл бұрын
The 8th candle represents the final night of Hanukkah. There are nine candles because menorahs have nine candles, the middle one is used to light the other 1-8 candles
@qtheronie13234 жыл бұрын
Where my saxophones at?
@venicetaylor14484 жыл бұрын
Here!!
@qtheronie13234 жыл бұрын
Venice Taylor YES QUEEN/KING!!
@midnightcoupe2284 жыл бұрын
Also here
@AlexGonzalez-ye9pc2 жыл бұрын
Rip lungs of all woodwinds😭😭 trumpets only did melody and supporting we had many breaks💀
@sylviahungerford513510 жыл бұрын
Beautiful piece, but I can't count for beans! Will need to listen and play along; hope and pray my director doesn't strangle me. Why did I volunteer to fill in first chair?? :-)
@AComplexMex8 ай бұрын
This piece is fun, Idek why people have to hate on it so much
@princeofsophos43667 жыл бұрын
I've watched this 5 times today thanks good quality
@mattl79387 жыл бұрын
My bands doing this this year and I’m lucky I play bari sax
@sarahdillon48676 жыл бұрын
You know everyone keeps talking about how hard this song is and hating on it. I remember being really sad in 10th grade when this got axed from the concert because I loved it, and through it was so much fun. Well I guess 2nd clarinets must have had the easiest part.
@ryanmatlaga49710 жыл бұрын
my school is doing this song so i hope it is good.
@starwolf12254 жыл бұрын
oh you know how to count?
@vonjt40775 жыл бұрын
Our band instructor keeps yelling at us trumpets for messing up the end 😂
@aeroplano11112 жыл бұрын
Excellent... would have liked the french horn part at the end to be louder though
@zhanhow95413 жыл бұрын
I know I'm late compared to all the other comments but this song slaps on the bari
@meganjones73674 жыл бұрын
7:08
@user-he8se3jc9v9 ай бұрын
The 5/8-3/4 sticking for tymps is giving me full blown panic attacks 🙄🙄🙄
@pigeon4422 Жыл бұрын
Mmmm this song is delicious
@shiko-hirosuki5 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for the clarinets. RIP, old section.
@elijahjohnson74116 жыл бұрын
@5:50
@lyssdish34375 жыл бұрын
This piece isn’t even difficult
@dachangoo5945 жыл бұрын
It really isn't once you get it down. I will be playing this for a second time in 1 month
@queenaro64709 жыл бұрын
I hate this piece with a burning passion. The key signature changes so frequently and many of the notes are SUPER fast. Definitely not a good piece to play unless you are extremely talented. Our high school band played it and some of the trumpet parts made my ears want to bleed. Though it does sound quite nice if you can play it correctly.
@DelaineyHeinz8 жыл бұрын
+Queen Acorn I definitely feel you on that. I'm playing this song for concert band and I'm on the 1st flute part. Not easy, but it's beautiful if played correctly.
@queenaro64708 жыл бұрын
We have improved a bit, but there are some parts that need a LOT of work. I play the sax and that part is hard. I can't imagine 1st flute!
@DelaineyHeinz8 жыл бұрын
It's terrifying, just a lot of 6 tuplets and 16th note and 32nd runs. Awful. But it sounds so pretty.
@friendlyhatespeech33008 жыл бұрын
as a trumpet player, I laugh at the saxophones in front of me. but that's beside the point lol. ( I do respect all instruments FYI ) but I would be able to vouch for that when we first played. but it's easy now, after a few practices. (but then again it is our wind ensemble at our HS. Anyways, just work the song backwards, and you'll have it. good luck!!!!
@DelaineyHeinz8 жыл бұрын
It's easier now with the practices indeed, it sounds really good as well. I'm a senior in HS also.