The Great Locomotive Chase by Robert W. Smith

Everyone knows this song... c' mon.
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[@KwabenaL.]

I always enjoy reading your stories.

[@ferret9263]

As a trombonist, my band teacher directly told me and the rest of our section to make the glissandos "as nasty and out of tune as possbile"

[@a_beeble]

Same man. Our teacher said play so chaotic to the point where is sounded like a total mess

[@Luigi0909]

Same, it was so fun

[@snakesanity]

my teacher told one of the trombones to play the flute part bro 😭 unfortunately, that means he sits right near the flutes. drowns us and the clarinets out and he's the best trombone in 8th grade, but that doesnt mean he's good at it 💀 he complains a lot bc he doesn't get his way

[@ferret9263]

​@@snakesanity bro wtf how would a trombone play the flute part, most trombones players dont read treble clef, we're bass clef 💀

[@ratmckee]

@@ferret9263maybe they play baritone 🤷‍♂️, we got this absolute G, Josh, he can read both

[@nwisegaming1237]

Every middle schooler or high schooler has laid eyes on this piece. And what a magnificent composure. I never got to perform it with my group due to covid. But it was a memorable rehearsal. ✌️

[@buni_babe]

I was supposed to play this piece and 2 other songs for the *essentially* the whole county, but the day of it got cancelled because of covid. That was my sophomore year.

[@stephenchristiansen]

I haven’t. I graduated 9 years ago and never played this in band.

[@a_usernamethatworks8413]

I deadass got this music the day before a concert

[@okman-u1697]

Lol practice it for 10 hours

[@ephronium]

same bc i went sanford honor band and got this music

[@marioiscool845]

Lmao me too, but luckily the 4 parts I had in the percussion section were pretty easy

[@a_usernamethatworks8413]

@@marioiscool845 I got all the mallet parts.

[@user-km8xt2st1f]

Same

[@tenderjoenugget7416]

Played this song on the snare drum let me tell you it's way faster faster than it looks😳

[@owentobias3270]

Imagine playing this with 15 trumpets in a small auditorium

[@tacocraft604]

one e and a two e and a

[@katieinamorati2053]

i played too, it’s not that fast

[@SyncytheShredESP]

Yessir I agree with you I as well played the snare for this piece and it is mighty fast!

[@ethanneddenriep7082]

My band just introduced it and lemme tell you I’m a little scared for my forearms cuz I’m snare

[@branch2359]

3:20 oh my lord I love it so much

[@romilycalic7244]

Ikr! That sounds so cool!

[@igurostan3830]

it’s a trombone feature too!

[@daniellathompson3173]

For real

[@T-Dawg75]

@@igurostan3830Don’t forget Euphoniums got it too

[@MaxHolleyBC]

Low brass player I guess?

[@fliam47]

playing this on chimes was incredible

[@10Kgaming123]

reallllll

[@ratmckee]

Other side of the room and still love hearing the chimes

[@Viviensss]

I GET TO DO IT FOR MY BAND THIS YEAR IM SO EXCITED

[@tired-p762]

I just got this song today- ngl it’s pretty bop-

[@vlsea]

Cactus kid I got it like a few months ago :) I love it so much

[@waaahau7436]

@@vlsea got it today. I'm the snare drummer. I'm feeling out out over it

[@vlsea]

Waaahau nice I play clarinet

[@SpencerRoth-sj6er]

2:27 French horn solo!!! I love playing that part

[@sunkey6093]

Bro I played this at band camp for going into middle school lemme tell you something playing this as a clarinetist and only having eighth notes throughout the whole thing is so hard with the temp! But love it! ❤❤❤

[@superiorcatapult]

How did middle school go? If you played this piece at camp, I can imagine eight notes are easy now

[@ThatGirl_Jayden]

I am a flute I am very excited for this, I am playing it for my spring concert

[@iamchosen8741]

Same here! It’s my favorite piece we’re doing for our spring concert

[@jessica.lynn.]

playing this for our spring concert i play the flute part

[@iamchosen8741]

Same here! 🫶🏻

[@pinkalliums]

i remember getting a trumpet solo on this song, it was the first time i felt like i was finally getting good at playing :) this song brings back so many good memories...

[@sunnyrecipes]

I think we are playing this for our spring concert, and I play horn... wow I'm so excited......💀

[@julia2680]

Same! But I am the only horn in our band, so I have to hold up my part, and I have 2 solos! I am really nervous!

[@sunnyrecipes]

dude!! I used to be the only horn but then my friend switched, but she is still learning so I'm gonna automatically get the solo but hey you're gonna do great!

[@julia2680]

@@sunnyrecipes Thank you! I am getting help from a senior ( she is the best horn player in my state). She is giving me lessons because she wants to be a music teacher. I hope you do great too!

[@sunnyrecipes]

@@julia2680 that's awesome!! thank you

[@casjiminson]

nice! we played this one last spring

[@GengarYes]

My brother played this when he was a freshman. Keeping the tradition alive

[@Tkelley3285]

I'm playing this song in my band at the moment and having full playthroughs of the music really helps when practicing at home :)

[@andrealambert2959]

I'm so excited because my band director told us we were playing this!!!!!

[@BellaT10]

i got to play this yesterday for our spring concert and it was so fun. i play oboe and 69 would always give a heart attack.

[@Viviensss]

FR I PLAY OBOE TOO😭

[@goingmango2778]

Are we sure this is grade two

[@Sid-gk2zf]

Fr it's giving 2.5-3 with the speed I won't lie😂

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

Grades for music are different then actual school grades. Let’s say The Great Locomotive Chase is a grade 3, the song wouldn’t be actually played by 3rd graders. The Great Locomotive Chase is actually a Ninth Grade level song.

[@zachjenge3601]

@@6am1ng4L1f3yeah we know

[@superiorcatapult]

@@6am1ng4L1f3 Not ninth grade. Definitely not. Schools in Texas can play this in 7th grade with ease.

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

@@superiorcatapult only cuz ur band is good

[@najiapooh8200]

Im playing this, this year and omg the flute part is so hard cause its so fast and my fingers cant change that quick cause we have alot of trills

[@bluelightning0614]

The trombone part is hard ngl cuz to make the original sound it’s playing in the song u needa lot of air

[@randombirbo]

Same, our band is going to play this and when I looked at the sheet music for flute I felt like I wanted to kill myself because it looked difficult ;-;

[@saladlady1454]

@Wise Name no. Just no.

[@doveariaa]

the trill from d to eb kills my pinky

[@iamchosen8741]

As a 2nd chair flutist I feel your pain 😭

[@abby19283]

rip snare drum oh my gosh

[@Viviensss]

ITS HARD I PLAY SNARE FOR IT trust me it’s faster than it sounds😭 rip my arms

[@haley__graham6714]

We’re playing this right now and I’m on snare and Oml. This song can go really fast

[@307Squishy]

Me too. Im a bass clarinet though. I listen for my bass drum.

[@LoganColes-iu4dz]

Love this song, we playing this May 09!

[@StarryNight_xo09]

I got this music recently because of a band group of mine and… it’s so good! I’m excited to preform it at the concert!!!!

[@Trixx_the_Person]

I played this for my spring concert in 7th grade got reeeaaally jealous when our 8th grade section leader got snare and not me (second chair) but break drum was still fun

[@eastonearnest3208]

I’m playing brake drum lol

[@kcculla]

1:40 if you got this as bass clarinet in middle school it probaly felt really hard because you got really easy pieces for the rest 2:17 I play bass clarinet and the rest of my band besides the trumpets and trombones suck so I have to keep the band together here, also measure 69, nice, c'mon I just had to

[@matthewflory7877]

No bassoon

[@rachelvmayhill]

I'm a bass clarinet

[@doggowarexpert7109]

I play bass clarinet too!!!!!!!

[@307Squishy]

I love the bass clarinet part on it. I am playing it now with my high school band

[@I.love.my.bassclarinet.]

I was gonna play this for band but the honor band played it last year so where not playing it anymore ugh it would of been so fun as a bass clarinet

[@AndroEnergenic]

I played this in my freshman year as a clarinet player. IT WAS TORTURE AND MY GOD IT WAS NOT THIS FAST. IT WAS SLOWER. I WOULD'VE DIED IF MY BAND DID THIS

[@307Squishy]

I played this with a combined band 2 weeks ago. My band director was surprised that we could play it up to speed. Im also playing this in our spring concert in May.

[@Doodlerontheroof24]

We had to do it at this speed. I was a 7th grade clarinet player at the time.

[@AbelAlemu-uy5il]

we played it up to speed when I was in 7th grade.

[@icecoaster]

I played this to speed in the second half of 7th grade… lol

[@silverskies6459]

I completely love this song.

[@Beerbob4]

This has got to be the coolest song I’ve ever played on snare

[@caseythemistake3894]

I got this song in band, and I love it

[@UnknownUnknown-nb2bk]

@2:45

[@username7849]

The one time the tenors get the melody I’m the only one that can keep time 💀

[@GengarYes]

Gotta be specific on when you say tenors, us high schoolers get confused wether someone is talking about Tenor Sax or Tenor Drums

[@tutorials5024]

im playing this piece in my school and we've already learned how to play the whole thing and i play the trombone solo 3:20

[@T-Dawg75]

It’s not a solo, Euphonium plays it too

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@T-Dawg75what about tubas?

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@T-Dawg75nvm I figured out tubas aren’t there😞

[@orianavazquez5670]

bro, i’m playing the horn part for our spring concert…..ITS SO HARD BUT COOL😎😎

[@snonjqjwqqkqball4214]

3:20 goes hard!

[@GoldLeafPress]

It irks me that the clarinets are soooo soft. They need to be louder. That’s what is the “music” piece. Everything else is the sound of a train.

[@fr3ddyfazbr106]

b r o

[@fr3ddyfazbr106]

if they were any louder, it would song more like music, and lose it's train effect

[@LandonJ0805]

Playing tenor sax with the trombone feature is almost completely pointless, they overpower it entirely

[@spenkerwenker]

PLEASE tell me if you can relate but having to maintain a tempo while the snare has an accelerando is one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do because I have that musical mindset to keep the same tempo as everyone else

[@tiffsmusic5383]

My band played this last year and we don’t have horn and i got the horn solo Bc I’m an alto sax and we had the cues

[@KayC352]

alto sax gang gang

[@beanie1772]

I'm a pretty new percussionist (2nd year) and I just got this piece for festival season. I was given the keyboard parts. Time to learn 4 mallet technique

[@vlsea]

I am playing this and I love it playing 2nd clarinet or 3rd I forgot

[@soarin6783]

I thought there was only 1&2-?

[@iLoveTheatreGal]

I play clarinet 1 on this and part of this over the break is torture

[@madisonwells3603]

i had the baritone solo for this song😍

[@stefflacy_0318]

be fr my director told me to play the clarinet solo in the beginning as smooth as possible and slurred and it isn't even like that in this recording.

[@giannaavila2926]

Came to listen to this because I'm playing snare for my student led band currently crying

[@DrummerEvanFren23]

PLAYING SNARE TOO ACTUALLY INSANW

[@LambMisfits6]

I’m playing this for spring concert on trombone I’m beyond excitef

[@6am1ng4L1f3]

3:20 🚂 🚂 General Texas I can’t stop listening to this part. Best 14 seconds of my life.

[@brooklynnkiely]

Last year I played it, I had the flute solo. 8th grade last year lol

[@Stormwizard0754]

epic

[@dillpickle352]

I have snare drum and it’s fast like really fast 😳

[@FrostRblx957]

What is as that sound at 1:05 it messes with my frequency a little bit, like it gives me chills

[@lunarbacongrill]

i think it is a bowed Suspended Cymbal

[@FrostRblx957]

@@lunarbacongrill yeah I figured

[@gamingwithabby5092]

It's people going "Shhhh"

[@FrostRblx957]

@@gamingwithabby5092no it was a suspended cymbal it a hi hat being bowed

[@xFailage]

2:50 was there usually that triangle/jingly part in there? :o

[@slay7225]

The bells?

[@CascadiaFA]

r.i.p me a clarinetist with low quality reefs that squeak really easily

[@gavynwinston4670]

I have to play baritone and have a solo👉🏽👈🏽🥺🌝🌚

[@ephronium]

sighs* *its* *a* *euphonium*

[@thedarksun2148]

@@ephronium They're both the same thing

[@ephronium]

The Dark Sun it’s not the same thing a euphonium is in the tuba family is actually a tenor tuba while the baritone is in the saxhorn family and the euphonium has more tubing and larger tubing

[@cheesea55]

@@ephronium it’s not necessarily true the the euphonium has more tubing. if it has 4 valves then yes but they also have baritones that have 4 valves so the statement that the euphonium has more tubing isn’t true

[@307Squishy]

Im getting ready to play this with my high school band. I play bass clarinet. I love this. This song is one of my favorites that we have ever done. I love it and the history behind the song.

[@nicholaivaldez1454]

I play bass clarinet as well but I'm struggling with the 3 beats per measure bit with only bass clarinet, bassoon, and clarinets plus precession

[@TheSnake0112]

I wish tubas got a chance with the trombone/euphonium melody at 3:21

[@T-Dawg75]

Imagine not being a Euphonium ;) Man i feel sorry for Tubas sometimes

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

It’s always us, always getting left out, all the directors say tuba is the most important sound and we’re the bass of the band but we always get cut or get left off like, weren’t we the most important sound💀

[@Jazzy_Tuba]

FRFR

[@user-pk2lb2hs9g]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@user-rr2le4tu2k]

I'm a second Trumpet who can play all the first Trumpet parts

[@Sid-gk2zf]

It's crazy how my middle school band is playing this. 7th and 8th graders like what-

[@stinker145r6]

Lol I play marimba on it ☠️

[@tegteg5558]

my guy me too

[@cassandra9778]

3:21

[@ephronium]

cassandra i play euphonium so i play that loud part

[@footfungusanti]

@@ephronium was it hard? Like i am going to play it but it looks hard

[@ephronium]

@@footfungusanti nah it’s pretty easy tbh

[@Drestax]

Who’s here from ms shivley😭