The Great Locomotive Chase - Bristow Middle School Band (7th & 8th Grade)

[@taylor8117]

They got more flutes and clarinets than my entire band

[@jessicarc7368]

Hahahahaha 😂😂😂 same

[@lilliegvmi]

same lmao

[@suziemccall3732]

It's not the high school band .

[@The_Rat_Master]

so true

[@clovertherapper2536]

Hell they have more flutes than my band

[@jaredferrin]

That is a frickin huge band!

[@sleepyyprince3050]

Jcuber14 we are the largest middle school band in california

[@sleepyyprince3050]

Jcuber14 wow... but that just means the more time you band teacher gets to help you all individually, which makes you better sounding in a way! :3

[@magpulmoepistolgrip1507]

hi

[@brawseranimations4063]

Jcuber14 SOMEONE WAS BUSY

[@brawseranimations4063]

Jcuber14 Someone took time to make all these kids. There all daddy's lil squirt! (this is a home school).

[@marymorris6683]

I remember listening to my high school band play this and we only had one kid doing all the percussion, so he was running all around in the back trying to get to everything. He did a fantastic job and really made me remember this piece

[@howard856]

We have like 10... Je(sus) Christ

[@BrownieBoy.]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ACTUALLY ME RIGHT NOW, I'M THE ONLY PERCUSSIONIST LEFT IN OUR BAND AND I HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE INSTRUMENT TO ANOTHER EVERYTIME WE PRACTICE THIS, WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS IN 2 MONTHS AND I HOPE I DON'T MESS UP 😭😭 ( Sorry for the all caps- )

[@rmjstrikecat]

@@BrownieBoy.how’d it go

[@BrownieBoy.]

@@rmjstrikecat Sadly not well, some high schoolers (i'm in middle school) were also playing with us and we were sometimes switching between schools to go up on stage for different songs, so sometimes we played together or separate, and this song plus another piece, (Santa at the Symphony) were our second to last songs to play, and i don't know why one of the high schoolers messed up and told me and my friend that we weren't supposed to go up on stage yet even tho we were and so we listened to them not suspecting anything wrong until our teacher mentioned The Great Locomotive Chase and me and my friend were so confused and we asked another high schooler that was down stage if we could join fast and she said it was too late, so we missed it and it was so sad because we spent months and months practicing and because personally The Great Locomotive Chase was the main reason i was even excited about this event because it's so suspenseful and cool. I asked my band teacher if we would play it in another event and he said yes, so i hope it's true. 😕

[@SearchRR]

1:40 *Turns volume up a lot to hear flutes* *train whistle* my ears are fine

[@smrvbpt]

Searchis i

[@em-xx1py]

OW

[@SteelBump8]

Those whistles were a little extra

[@SyncytheShredESP]

It’s a part of the piece sorry for the late reply but the train whistle is written in the sheet music. I remember every cue it comes in because I as well played this when I was in middle school, snare drum.

[@zachwatkins05]

@@SyncytheShredESP they don't need to cut so much

[@mr.mendoza4285]

Yea the bands huge but HOW TF DID THE SCHOOL AFORD ALL THE FREAKING INSTRUMENTS

[@alexmarie8652]

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[@alyssamanrique2223]

Some people rent their own

[@braydengirard5315]

at our school herters supplies them and we purchase them at discount through the school

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

Some people buy their own instruments.

[@swtchs.]

our school makes us rent our own instruments unless you play oboe bari bassoon or bass clarinet

[@Blitz_Spencer]

Holy cow did the band get huge. I remember when I was an Alto Sax in this band. Too bad I couldn't see this live.

[@sleepyyprince3050]

TheNerdyGeek I play flute in it, and yah, it got biiiiiiig XD

[@dinderdockx5287]

Spencer lies

[@naomimiyoshi9657]

did you guys go "SHHHHHHHHHHHH" we got the piece today

[@jamesbareng4304]

Naomi Miyoshi I got the piece today

[@Caleb-su9bw]

I got it last week

[@Joel-mx3oo]

Got it know ✌️

[@Nater21]

The train whistle not only made me deaf the the sound waves from my phone ruptured my hands

[@idioticlemon2861]

Nate M How could general vibrations rupture your hand?

[@amaraerb]

@@idioticlemon2861 i know i am 6 years late but he was obviously joking

[@demarcuscousins913]

imagine having several ppl play on a solo

[@jackgrenda9020]

jesus that train whistle made me jump 1:40

[@brawseranimations4063]

OMFG!!

[@jamallerobinson3067]

Hahaha😂😂

[@lavathecake4946]

i still love the low brass part at 3:16!!! it's probably my favorite part of the song ^^

[@Octopat]

Lava The cake if I lived there I'd be a trombone

[@MikIsEmoBiAndLovesTX2]

actual best part yesss

[@intellectualchicken7303]

Im a trumpet but I just have to say, those flutes killed my brain cells. Srry

[@selahnardoni4387]

Im a flute and i have been working on this piece on my band and the trill can get really annoying and it hurts my ears😂 also i run out of breathe cause i dont normally play as loud as im supposed to

[@trashguy4148]

The ones at my school sound like flutes but its 101% air

[@liv_theolivetree]

Literally. As a flute player there is no reason to have that many flutes. I am the only flute in my band and it’s good enough.

[@drake7262]

ok so the band is like 2729x larger than my high school band I stg

[@cierramiddleton8276]

The first row is the size of my band and this whole band is like the size of my whole grade😂😂

[@jocelynfranks13]

As a flutist, this piece is extremely hard, and everyone who is complaining about *how out of tune they are* or *how slow they are* are the people who do not understand that this is a 3 PAGE piece and these students worked *SO HARD* to make this happen. They are 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS. I am in a 7th and 8th grade band, and never has anyone said that one of our pieces is going *no where* . Please have some respect for the people who are actually going somewhere in life.

[@jesusmartinez6731]

Jocelyn Franks I agree and I’ve heard from 6th graders saying that there playing this piece. My high school band was barely able to play this

[@starrycalista]

3 FUCKING PAGES?!!!

[@cyanosis8520]

Super late but I remember playing this in freshman year and how CHALLENGING the breath support was on this piece. I absolutely loved it and our inclusion in the piece, but I felt like I was going to pass out after the song was over.

[@ishita6076]

this piece is so easy and ima flute too

[@mez3468]

@@ishita6076 fr

[@doggo2369]

things that I noticed? 1:14 that trumpet (or trumpets) rip 1:40 death at its finest 2:05 holy trombones 2:45 I think those are French horns but overshot? note 3:03 trumpets again loud af I guess 3:16 hell yeah 3:39 WASNT EXPECTING THAT OUCH 4:02 I gues- *CRASH* it was *CRASH* I’ll have to wait then... 4:24 overall good performance, not gonna lie

[@choco_L8]

the trumpets never crescendo and decresendo back down at 3:04 and the other times they're supposed to and it annoys me. middle school trumpets are almost always louder than what they're meant to play

[@bonku9863]

2:45 is the French horn solo part

[@CCL2107]

I'm a trombone

[@acetraineraster5171]

@@bonku9863 yeah ngl the chimes/bells/whatever percussion it was overtop overpowered the everloving heck out of the poor F. Horn player, they got to have the solo of that part and got way overpowered

[@anthonyewell3470]

when the trombones stood up I laughed so hard. This isn't a band, it's a mini army

[@sonuvahsans9971]

1:49 lady on the bottom left can't get her little button thingy to stay up

[@ms.lizzyblitz3474]

A girl on the far right corner holding what I assume is a guitar, dabbed on 1:14

[@rexr3306]

How tf did you notice that

[@deusvult316]

holy crap ur right

[@subzerodogememeharris7632]

I saw here lol

[@doggo2369]

wow

[@SC4RRL3TT]

Good eye, Tuck. Seriously tho how tf, I actually spent 10 minutes just looking for that girl. It kinda looks like she sneezed tho

[@MexicanWolverine]

Shout out to the snare players. I could’ve never played the part in middle school at that speed

[@ItsMe-bt4zr]

Everyone is talking about how slow the band is but I'm watching this conductors arms go sonic speed XD

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

Slow? 0:57 also band: Accelerates to a full on 190bpm

[@maddylynn6000]

So upset that I wasn’t attending Bristow yet to perform this! Sadly this was my only year here, gonna miss you all next year! Hope to be able to go to Area Festival! Love you guys!

[@maddylynn6000]

Btw, percussion, fourth period, we’re amazing haha

[@Kermiewormie]

I’m playing this in my band right now, but im just going to say that this conductor is really going at it, props to them!!

[@stevenanderson3688]

Loved the trombone solo -Fellow trombone player

[@oscararcadia4003]

Same fellow tromboner lol

[@419waywardkid5]

I was one of the clarinets that played the solo and honestly did we know what tuning was?

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

Oof that hurts

[@itsFive_]

They got more clarinets then my whole band

[@no.6265]

0:57 this is probably my favorite part, it’s so cool how a drum can sound like a literal train also 2:35

[@dibbler1225]

Haha I found the account that I don’t have access to anymore

[@gothgirlfriend2338]

*why is there so much percussion*

[@IceColdFireGAMING]

Shrek and the percussion still isn’t loud enough.

[@maddylynn6000]

Cause percussion is great mate

[@_das_a_mood_2795]

Shrek Because percussion is awesome but they were so quiet but then again they where in a gym

[@Misty_Haze]

Because percussion plays a lot if instruments that are very common

[@MajesticCatto]

Why not

[@ruzander1632]

IM GOING TO LEARN THIS IM DETERMINED TOO!!!

[@ruzander1632]

it's Just so beautiful and old GRACEFUL

[@brawseranimations4063]

RUZ ANDER Warning you, not for rookies

[@Bob-dq4rj]

They were really slow in beginning

[@toshirohitsugaya551]

the clarinets has a rocky start then the upper brasses and the low brasses has a semi solid sound there is to many percussionist my band only have 7 percusionist, 3 trombones, 2 euph, 2 tuba, 3 trumpets, 3 flutist, 5 saxphones and 4-5 clarinets but we sound better. And the tempo they played is way to slow. (like if u agree with me)

[@419waywardkid5]

It’s a bit different when you have 30 people vs over a 100

[@KoolKat_YT]

That trumpet solo in the beginning was perfect! Very good for a middle school band, better than mine!

[@kaelynmarcus3518]

I HAD A HEART ATTACK AT 1:40

[@Cecehandle]

Jeez! and I thought my band was huge!

[@selahnardoni4387]

My band has 70 people and i absolutely love how loud those trombones and baritones play.

[@lilliegvmi]

the amount of flutes makes up my whole band

[@proddelle]

god the uniforms look like prisonmates

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

LOL

[@kmarie1331]

mine are bright orange. that’s a prison uniform right there.

[@grace3853]

The flute and clarinet sections are literally the size of my entire band

[@sudriansignalman9387]

I'm glad the general and Texas survived but I'm sad we lost the other locos involved

[@JohnThyScotsman]

HOLY CRAP THIS SONG SOUNDS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

It's really interesting tbh. 1st clarinet is one of the best parts

[@jamesbareng4304]

I like trains...

[@coleehrhorn3687]

Same!!! This song is about Thomas the train and it's friggin lit fam🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jamesbareng4304]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🎷🎺🎷🎺🎷🎺💯💯🔥🔥🔥👌🏿👌🏾👌🏽👌🏼👌🏻

[@wilsoncurrie1469]

I was a clarinet

[@Anna-vi3xm]

WILSON WILDFIRE I was flute

[@sleepyyprince3050]

WILSON WILDFIRE I was a flute

[@ghostkidgamerez3917]

I was sax

[@seanywaterpark2238]

Same

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

1st was the best part (im playing it as well)

[@_meh_bri7957]

We’re playing this song for our spring concert if we ever go back to school

[@rylie5190]

“Category: Sports”

[@Guhhgur]

7th and 8th..Christ..huge band man.

[@leavmealonee_]

woahh, the band is huge ! btw just some notes for people who are viewing this comment (i know that i can’t correct this band, but if you’re currently learning this piece or you have once played this piece, we can use this as a reference to spot the mistakes and learn from it :> !) - 0:10 the band started rlly slow - 0:16 the clarinets were out of tune (wait, the clarinet section isn’t playing it solo, but the flute sounds like as if it’s a solo player) - 0:43 the lower brass isn’t following the chimes and therefore going out of beat - 1:18 trumpets, didn’t decrescendo properly at the end - 1:40 the whistle ... scared me slightly (the whistle was also supposed to come in at 1:47 but came in 1 bar late instead) - 2:05 trombones did a great job, maybe they could have taken a quicker breath or take a bigger breath before playing that phrase bcos it’s slightly awkward to hear the gap in between - 2:17 omg my dear percussion, the triangle can glock slowed down ... geezzz, that’s why conductors even exist. just look at the conductor (even though i felt like the conductor had sped up slightly as well tbh but ... yea) - again at 2:17 i feel like the articulation from the woodwinds can be better bcos each articulation sounds different (the one that’s playing “g, g, g, f”) - 2:50 the glock was playing in tempo but, please watch the conductor bcos there’s a ritardando at that section - 2:56 i think the brasses came in a bit harshly - 2:59 the woodwinds can also have a slightly more gentle entrance - 3:09 trumpets, the same problem, copy the way the brasses do it pls, bcos they set a good example of how it should sound like ! - 3:23 (okay this might just be might own preference but ...) the trumpet is a bit overpowering - 3:40 again, the train whistle ... (i assumed the whistle came in a early at 3:45 as well) - 4:13 your “fp (?)” can be slightly softer so that you can do a huger crescendo if there are anything you want to mention, just reply to this message, i might take a look at it ;)

[@alyssamanrique2223]

TINGGG oh god

[@knateyvia1]

I wish my band was that big

[@ghostkidgamerez3917]

1 year anniversary, Area Festival Today!

[@ryxnsmith]

I was tenor in that band

[@selinachen8645]

i think i remember Robert actually set up a train and he went in a hotel to take his break,and then some people took over the train and drove away. Robert started to chase the train, and yeah that's why it's called that.

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

The part where the train accelerates just hits different.

[@midgtkarell]

That trombone glissando(maybe, I don’t remember) but it was fire

[@knateyvia1]

Why is there so many omg 😮

[@sharcholee7]

I just wanna say before its too late I'm a clarinet I think fourth row fourth chair oki doki

[@emilyrangel7700]

I don’t want to judge at ALL but the band is sometimes fighting for who can be the loudest and needs to work on dinamics and was sometimes out of tune or off tempo but over all they were pretty good. My band is playing this song this year but we are much smaller than this huge ass band that I personally think can maybe be the promblem considering how many they are in each section and not being able to control their sound.:))

[@kyliedourgarian]

Really miss being in this band. I was a flute in the fourth row :))

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

OK, can we talk about, HOW BIG THIS BAND IS??

[@Chirchy]

Bruh that trumpet at 1:14 chill

[@calebjackson5678]

How can you have that big of a band and not have something like a theater?!? Also jesus christ they literally forgot about dynamics....every section is fighting over who's going to be the loudest....AND JESUS CHRIST THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS TOO MUCH

[@idioticlemon2861]

Stop hating on Bristow.

[@alyssamanrique2223]

Katherine LastName ty we’re just middle schoolers 🥺

[@idioticlemon2861]

hey guys im back, uhhhh please hate on bristow it SUCKED

[@vyingforlife]

the 15 or so trombones coming up all at once 😮my school's band has THREE

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

The woodwind and rest of the over powering band ratio was a little insane. 1st clarinet is a key part in this song and I could barely hear them throughout the piece!!

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

3:15 this is why trombones are the goat

[@ka4620]

They slowed down the beginning 😭

[@justinweisberg1634]

DAMN, that train whistle sound fix, HOW!!!

[@vp_0916]

I played in a play set with this song with a Tuba, it was fucking amazing.

[@dennishuang7764]

Wth is making that train whistle noise at 1:41

[@ryxnsmith]

we got an actual train whistle to make it realistic

[@isabella-hv6om]

a train whistle

[@maddylynn6000]

An actual train whistle my dude

[@edwardford8710]

They slowed down at 1:32 out of tune im playing this with my band now and i will record so go subscribe and listen

[@Euphoriq_.]

That band is like my band, orchestra, choir, and drama combined 💀

[@chadicusiii7583]

how many people are there im doing this song rn and our band is half of that. maybe less.

[@xailixkern6008]

I love this song!!!!!! IM THE ONE in the back WITH THE REd hair,A

[@mrmilkyshakes5657]

You know what's boutta happen when the trombones put up their horns at 1:59 😈

[@Starlee123]

My band did this too

[@nicksgamingcorner290]

There one row has more people than my entire band..

[@Nishimura.R]

Dang my band got 3 flutes and 10 clarinets 😧

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

Can someone please tell me what was making the train whistle sound?

[@prozombie3692]

Someone tell me how many people are in this concert I see about 50 plz let me know we are doing this with like 30 OMG about

[@alexmarie8652]

pro zombie 369 at that point in time there were like 200-300 of us.

[@winterwolf7739]

when they started it off one that was the wrong key signiture played by like 2 people and its two slow

[@AaliyahPrest]

If half of my school were in band:

[@Verycoldwater]

Bro we only got 3 flutes in my band 💀💀💀💀

[@Octopat]

I love dis and I play this song

[@abbylewis8336]

THAT TRAIN WHISTLE THO

[@IAmCrucifix]

So many flutes we only got 5 flutes in my band😢

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

1:40 first of all, how did they get their train whistle to be that loud?

[@johnmonroy]

There is more flutes and clarinets then people in my band

[@Amongus13136]

That’s a big band!

[@Da_Monkey2008]

The most flutes I have ever seen

[@krystof1270]

this really hurts me to say as I play FRENCH horn but the french horns are so out of tune and they are really bad

[@ryxnsmith]

keep in mind.. Im in this band and theres around 250-300 of us and it may not seem like it but we are split into three periods and we had ONE day to get together and practice together.. soooo yeah pls dont hate unless u know its just a small group and we dont have a lot of time together like an hour and a half the most.

[@plainki4171]

Yeah I agree this wasn't the best performance

[@bonku9863]

I hope we sound better,we have 5 horns for our top band including me and if I get chosen for the solo(which I probably won't) I hope I don't mess up because I really don't like playing on the spot

[@joemurgolo4917]

the entire band needs to learn what dynamics are. its was like MF - FF the entire time.

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

It's the recording quality which is what made it earrape

[@joemurgolo4917]

@@valeahvanalverson6351 yes I know, I am an Sound tech. LOL I understand recording quality.

[@valeahvanalverson6351]

@@joemurgolo4917 did u think I knew that im-

[@piercetheveilllllll]

I like his conducting lol

[@changchang6806]

Just why? Why destroy this piece? Where's the balancing?

[@alyssamanrique2223]

Koay Poh Suan we’re just middle schoolers 🥺

[@starrycalista]

Alyssa Marie That’s what she said

[@hollowclarisaa5802]

Imagine if you guys were highschooler marching band probably 4A division !

[@Keantul]

Trumpets 🤣🔥❤️

[@maddylynn6000]

LanaThe Loser Percussion’s where it’s at mate

[@brendan9590]

What school is this?

[@starrycalista]

Brendan Bristow I think

[@leothetwinkie]

Damn im a clarinet and my band got like 9 clarinets 5 flutes this band got like 30 clarinets and 30 flutes

[@GuidingRanger17]

There percussion is huge in my band we have like 7 lol

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

1:40 Death at it’s finest 🤣🤣

[@Sycle24]

What is that noise at 1:40 no other band I've heard has that

[@CyclonesFan24]

Cowbell.

[@kamronpeete602]

this band is bigger than my HS marching band...

[@scottwaldo]

That middle school band is like 2x the size of my high school marching band……good grief

[@c3ts_]

I relized that at 0:45 the frenchs horns are suppose to have a solo there, not the alto sax. hmmmmmmm