Thriller by Rod Temperton/arr. Paul Murtha

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Series One Marching Band - Grade 2
Here is Michael Jackson's signature rock hit from the '80s in a solid arrangement for the field or stands, playable even by smaller bands.
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[@Johnwicklover1994]

1:54 when the band director emails y’all about the band camp dates

[@madisonpinckney361]

Im in tears😂😂

[@adventuretime5366]

Omg same

[@DavidThePercussionist]

I just had my band camp

[@adventuretime5366]

Durr Burger I did to

[@emilyymclartyy]

@@DavidThePercussionist i leave tmr for band camp im in guard tho...

[@angelicaburgos-peraza1410]

1:54 is when mom gets home and you and your siblings forgot to take out the trash

[@edithg6259]

cheez whiz so true 😅😅😅

[@lillywilliams1451]

That was so random XD

[@Jorge-kd7ww]

lel

[@aquagrip6876]

Forgot to defrost the chicken lol

[@Piankhi_the_Greater]

When ye fail to wet the sponge properly!

[@dakotababyak1842]

This brings me back to my 8th grade year of marching band. The seniors were allowed, every year, to pick out three songs of their choice, and this was it! This version as a matter of fact! They did the dance to it, and then they hopped back in to play the rest! Thanks so much for posting this! It brings back memories.

[@allieburns5806]

im in 8th grade now and were playing this for a concert/choir/drama show and i cant wait (im in drama and band and i play trumpet)

[@dakotababyak1842]

+Allie Burns Stay with it! It's going to be a hard song at first. There are a lot of articulations in this arrangement. I love Paul Murtha's work. He does an amazing job on every arrangement. Good luck this year! Have a great year of marching band! One under you belt, and four more afterwards!

[@allieburns5806]

+Dakota Babyak lol ive been marching since 7th grade (last year) but thanks and my faverite part of it so far is the first part lol

[@dakotababyak1842]

+Allie Burns As in the first measure? Or after that?

[@jahlissam921]

I'm in eighth grade and I twirl a baton for my marching band! I've been doing it for 3 years now!

[@maryrochelleanne]

This piece is always included in our concert list. I remember when I first saw the Trombone music sheet I was like, "DAMN, WHAT IS THAT?'

[@noah64exe]

1:09?

[@maryrochelleanne]

@@noah64exe yeah bro that's the one HAHAHA

[@noah64exe]

@@maryrochelleanne I don't find it that hard tbh. You also have support from the tenor as well

[@maryrochelleanne]

@@noah64exe At first I find it difficult but eventually through time I've realized that it wasn't bad and it kind of easy.

[@maryrochelleanne]

@@noah64exe Glad that it was easy for you hahaha

[@bristewart1391]

That scream describes my entire life.

[@coralbits8967]

Bri Stewart hahahahahaha like that is so true and funny.

[@michellejansma165]

lol

[@Crxmsxn]

Same

[@residentguy8349]

Very much so in 2020

[@EmilieSLund-pw8hz]

1:54 yep can relate

[@snhsbdb]

My marching band plays this EVERY Halloween.

[@excitedpatsfanwx681]

Same we pull it out every year around Halloween

[@Evangelionfan15]

We do as well Wich instrument do you play

[@excitedpatsfanwx681]

@@Evangelionfan15 this season I was on bass drum 1. Next season I’ll likely be Drum Major

[@Evangelionfan15]

@@excitedpatsfanwx681 that is awesome

[@excitedpatsfanwx681]

@@Evangelionfan15 I mean being the only Junior/ Senior in our HS marching band helps as well 😂

[@gtsgicariantoyshow5432]

I had to play this for 5th graders and they voted baby shark over this -_-

[@dfaafia36]

At least you tried

[@hiiexist479]

Kill them, literally grind their little bits of bone marrow into milk shakes and drink it in front of their families while showing them their dying children, then do a horrible fortnite dance on their graves

[@goldenninja1085]

@@hiiexist479 geez dude

[@hiiexist479]

@@goldenninja1085 do you want worse?

[@goldenninja1085]

@@hiiexist479 naw, im good. that would be evil enough for me

[@marekblaisx]

Dat scream doe

[@drakhos5820]

Ikr

[@CaptainJohn1]

Toboto for my band we had scream auditions it was bad

[@cadewatson2163]

I have to scream win the day every single day

[@hannaplaza2323]

Toboto lol

[@abbykay6068]

lol

[@tootsiepopparis]

were playing this for our marching show this year! this is the only song my director didn't write himself.

[@p1ish]

I'm going into high school and if you're in band you are automatically in pep band too, every year as a half time show we do a tribute to an artist in the past we've done styx and fallout boy. this year it's micheal jackson and I'm super excited!

[@malayabittle4100]

Trombones: the same thing *over and over again*

[@Duffmaninsulator]

Same thing with the tubas so annoying

[@josh44026]

Isn't it the same though out

[@leviathan4514]

bass drum is literally quarter notes over and over 😭

[@danimal41014]

Literally any tuba part

[@liv-lx6wy]

as a trombone i can confirm

[@d3miden]

Memories of marching band... I'm trombone.

[@danis3150]

This song gives me MAJOR flashbacks to middle school band when we played this every rehearsal for the Halloween parade

[@greengamer6868]

Our marching band is playing this for field shows, and the trombone part is awesome!!

[@aelakrubsack4483]

This is the song that my band is playing right now, and I have it memorized. (Which isn't that hard because the tuba part just repeats a whole bunch of times)

[@tomasfelix3154]

same

[@diogenes6809]

Aela Krubsack tuba part is so lit though. I play that part at the beginning, even though I play trombone.

[@fatherandie]

anyone and everyone who plays the bass line just repeats so, as a bass clarinet, octave jumping is not your friend if you have small hands.

[@xiiao6704]

Aela Krubsack ikr. Playing this in my concert. I'm scared. Really one of the music pieces that I'm afraid of. Don't know why.

[@sobasicallyme978]

Oh are u a tuba, too? Ik what ya mean we needa play all the time the same it's just...😂

[@sling6118]

There is this one band that does this song (I don't think it is the same arrangement) that is doing an 80s theme show, in which during the drum break they do the Thriller and I get chills every time.

[@Marshal6000]

This helped me a lot with the Trombone melody. When I first saw it I was just like: "WTF is this section supposed to be?" xD

[@coralbits8967]

Marshal6000 hahaha :) You are livin trombone life

[@thomasmara3599]

me 2

[@thomasnash6479]

Baritone and tuba for the win

[@annikahaug4827]

Same here. We always get some weird thing thats not the melody, but still hard.

[@annika8225]

Annika Haug OH MY GAD DO YOU PLAY TROMBONE TOO?

[@Hausmaus]

My band played this at our town Halloween Parade! It was so awesome! I just held the banner of my band since I'm not in drumline sadly ;~;

[@hiiexist479]

I was in drum line and we did it except we didn't play quarter notes the whole time and we just made up a part

[@mariar.4893]

That scream is me when I see how much homework I have

[@emilymedecke5987]

Flutes for life

[@tct8305]

your videos are so good omg. you hear no errors, no squeaks, no explosions! omg this is great

[@jacksmevik4466]

We’re playing this at my middle school, and omg the seventh graders in my alto section need to listen to the rhythms.

[@fruitbat9704]

Just got this piece today for MB, as a first picc I'm very excited. Especially for that scream

[@ferret9263]

We played this last night and it was a banger like always

[@chopinnicolas936]

Beautiful!!!

[@IsabellaPutney]

We playing this for marching band rn for our Halloween parade

[@IHateMelatonin]

Same

[@crimsonflame525]

I played this during halftime at my hs's football senior night it was so FUN 🤩 We did dances on the football field, and when the tubas did that "BUM BUM" thing we did zombie walks and stuff and it was fun

[@Yourfavkynzie]

Same in in 6th and we have to play this oct 6 at a football game with the 8,9,10,11,12 graders😢 I’m so nervous

[@jumsh1811]

that scream tho im dying

[@angxla-sw4hk]

yoo we were playing this song (King of Pop) in band for 7th grade and i still remember when the drum had a solo and we’d always look at each other because the beats were ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! great song

[@meagynfranklin7304]

This years marching season wya?

[@kbell1019]

Meagyn Franklin here

[@mamiro2148]

Arthur está evoluindo demais, está decorada já!!

[@Dene_dofie_Animations]

We are playing this for marching band and I’m honestly so exited

[@yoongi_bear22]

Playing in band right now! Imma flutieeeeee

[@anthonyvasquez58]

im trumpet 😛

[@Metamario68]

More of Dr.Muffin I'm Sousa!!!

[@quinnmcmath4393]

Im a Sousa!!!

[@anthonyvasquez58]

Quinn McMath that was my other choice

[@thehiddenpenguin]

There both good but drums are the best

[@justinw6590]

That scream

[@jessehorst7637]

AMAZING!!

[@loganpruzek2738]

Just played this in 8th grade for a parade, was so much fun with 250+ of us

[@calliemartin863]

I am doing this right now actually this is one of my fav michel Jackson songs ❤❤

[@NomadHorizon]

I’ve played many instruments in band, can’t say I have a favorite. Trumpets FTW!!!

[@robintst]

Through the form of a marching band, it sounds like it should the theme for an early-70s spy movie.

[@kaylajay2170]

I'm marching to this song this year in band 😄

[@djnovice113]

I was practicing this version instead of the other one and I like this one 10x better

[@Nightmaresss2]

I enjoyed playing this song it was so much fun

[@killerr.miller]

Favorite thing to play! The drumline gets to "zombie march" and scream!

[@bremackey370]

I love playing this song...I'm a tenor saxaphone player and it's a lot of fun

[@hiiexist479]

Tenor sax gang

[@ferret9263]

Trombone player here, cheers to you because trombones and tenor sax's have a lot in common :D

[@iisummonedsun4091]

The other middle school in my town got to play this for their spring concert

[@mirandamcnatt523]

I so wanna play next school year and I will be a senior!

[@oliviamorgan4510]

This was part of my half time show last year with Hempfield Area Marching band

[@nicholaspederson17]

The base is so awesome it's good to be a baritone player

[@wick3dxgaming761]

+Brickbuster Films agreed ;)

[@hectorhernandez5567]

Bass

[@hannahfolk3930]

+Hector Hernandez clarinet

[@hannahfolk3930]

+Hector Hernandez me and my friend Carl Humphreys did this song for marching band

[@hannahfolk3930]

+Hector Hernandez my friend he played the brass

[@mr_brickman_games]

Were playing this on Friday!!

[@zacharymartinez445]

I don't have this, but I'm in 8th grade so that explains everything

[@-katie--zelda-3997]

Last year we were supposed to play this for the game that was on halloween, but we didn't. The rival band did instead

[@Spencer-pu7ox]

Tuba and baritone part SLAPS

[@blankbros3994]

Trumpets 4 life 🎺🎺🎺🎶🎶🎶

[@coralbits8967]

Blank Bros How bout those trombones though. Like my name, Trombone 4 Life

[@jayblack8]

💪💪💪

[@loboros3458]

Blank Bros am a trumpet player

[@brokenchair853]

I’m a fellow trumpet player :D

[@korilawson3767]

Yeah GO TRUMPETS

[@matthew0757]

Playing this in band!!! #ilovetuba

[@johndeereman3363]

Right there with ya. We just got the music last week for it and I pretty much have it down. It's so easy.

[@CakebDrums]

gotta love dem stock drum parts baby

[@matteojmusic5234]

Can’t wait to play this in our October parade!

[@jdtheoriginalg8521]

U Mansfield

[@pantasticalcat]

One of the reasons that I PERSONALLY think that band is better (just an opinion, please don't reply saying 'OMG ORCH IS WAY BETTER') is that we get to dance when we play! During this song and many others, the entire saxophone section (me too!) in the top band in middle school dance randomly! Us four like to plan it out, but it's so much fun and when we played for the elementary kids, we were dancing all over the place! My little sister said that everyone was talking about us.

[@kelliwilloughby9224]

Band is soo much better I agree

[@Mike-dd2hu]

Especially if your a sousaphone you get to dance

[@DerGeraet205]

In our school band even we trombones shake our instruments in the rhythm while playing:D So much fun playing this

[@jackwood6234]

I'm in both (trumpet and violin)and I agree

[@jackwood6234]

same

[@hithere5011]

My band is going to a parade and playing this

[@user-jt5uw2ty6h]

I played this in my band class in 6th grade

[@coasterfurby6815]

I’m totally recommending this song with another couple of Halloween songs for a marching show for next year. This song is too good to not play.

[@klassicevil5349]

The marching Band memories as a clarinet player

[@nathanieltakao2023]

Lyrics It's close to midnight Something evil's lurking from the dark Under the moonlight You see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream But terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze As horror looks you right between the eyes You're paralysed 'Cause this is thriller Thriller night And no-one's gonna save you From the beast about to strike You know it's thriller Thriller night You're fighting for your life Inside a killer Thriller tonight, yeah You hear the door slam And realise there's nowhere left to run You feel the cold hand And wonder if you'll ever see the sun You close your eyes And hope that this is just imagination (Girl) But all the while You hear a creature creeping up behind You're outta time 'Cause this is thriller Thriller night There ain't no second chance Against the thing with the forty eyes, girl Thriller (ooh, ooh) Thriller night You're fighting for your life Inside a killer Thriller tonight Night creatures calling The dead start to walk in their masquerade There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide) This is the end of your life They're out to get you There's demons closing in on every side They will possess you Unless you change that number on your dial Now is the time For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller Thriller night 'Cause I can thrill you more Than any ghoul could ever dare try (Thriller) Ooh, ooh (Thriller night) So let me hold you tight And share a (Killer, diller, chiller) (Thriller here tonight) 'Cause this is thriller Thriller night Girl, I can thrill you more Than any ghoul could ever dare try (Thriller) Ooh, ooh (Thriller night) So let me hold you tight And share a (Killer, thriller) Oh I'm gonna thrill you tonight Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorise y'alls neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell And rot inside a corpse's shell I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller, ooh, ooh, yeah) I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller, oh, darling) I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller) Ooh, ooh, babe I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller) Oh, darling Thriller night Ooh The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty-thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller

[@loulourocks3495]

BEST SONG EVERRRRR TENORS FOR LIFE!!!

[@firelordwolffang]

Fun song playing this Halloween :D

[@gracecameron2071]

Where my flutes at?!?!

[@natalieestrada4879]

Grace Cameron ello

[@oil1252]

Grace Cameron dead

[@johnivorholland]

Oh, Paul must have fun arranging this. 😊

[@wearetwentynepiltsandsoare5124]

*French Horn Love playing this

[@user_28373]

We Are Twenty Øne Piløts And So Are You I love your username

[@lilcasocool]

This is one song that we're playing this year lets do this trumpets

[@Asteroid44yay]

yall are lucky getting to play cool stuff like this. my family always asks me what songs we're playing for concert season and i always have to say "i dont know some shit written by some guy no one has ever heard of before?" my aunt played the et flying theme. what i wouldnt give to play that at a concert

[@wesleyevans9112]

This sounds amazing, I don't know how you pulled this off, but I certainly couldn't, at least not at my current level of playing skill.

[@razorleaf135]

I can’t wait to play this for 3 and a half hours

[@kayleewilliams7204]

I play trumpet this help me play a lot better thanks allot 🤘🤘

[@thehiddenpenguin]

Epic but where can I get the sheet music for all of your these songs

[@hiiexist479]

The website if you haven't found out by now

[@ewennneraut7570]

J’adore

[@pedrostacos4451]

helps me out with the tuba alot cuz i get an idea of how much air i need to use

[@Amourliss]

We’re my clarinets at💙

[@peytonamicone7453]

I'm a sax but I love the clarinet section

[@mad-maxi]

Yess right here 💙

[@masha_hertz]

As a Tuba player, this arrangement is so cool and i got it 😅

[@wilmermartinez7564]

Hermoso

[@AudieS23]

LETS GO BOTTOM BASS DRUMS! GOTTA LOVE THAT BEAT I PLAYED SO MANY TIMES

[@Cocoiii]

as a baritone it's just Eb,F,Ab, and Bb over and over again.. but i love playing this so it's alright lol

[@caitlynnclark6652]

We played this for my Halloween halftime show

[@hannahfolk3930]

me and my Carl Humphreys did this song in marching band🎼🎵🎼🎵🎼🎵 this thriller night Michael Jackson

[@boiledegg6801]

Our high school band only has like 30 people total with only 1 trombone and he did such a great job with every bit of this song lol

[@ayeitsfoxy]

CUZ THIS IS THRILLER THRILLER YEAA

[@Logan-ey4ge]

If you're not out of breath and you're a trombone are you playing this correct

[@KyBear._.]

Playing this tm I'm in 8th grade and I play drums I like this alot it is fun

[@user-wv1pt2kr6d]

i like!!!

[@cccrchvaz]

i remember doing this for my 8th grade year in marching band for halloween

[@nikettrindol5010]

Ack that pick up note for tuba. It’s so good

[@maple6261]

played this for our marching band :O

[@lazymarvelfan2729]

11th grade pep band loved it! We added a blood curdling scream to it that we sadly had to cut out though

[@alejandra40100]

you guys have got to do smooth criminal by michael jackson , that is a good one

[@hannahfolk3930]

why

[@youngthug8342]

we are playing this for halftime show this year and don't stop believing to. and, i play the alto sax and alto recorder, recorder, Keyboard/Piano to . so, yeah. and, i in Middle school and 7th grader but going into the 8th grade so yeah. so, yeah. well, by !

[@haydenhudspeth9494]

Young thug ALTO SAX HELL YEA

[@coralbits8967]

Hayden Hudspeth aye yes well, not saxaphone player but that is tru

[@hannahfolk3930]

in 2014 my best friend Carl Humphreys and I did this song in marching band and I was crying and I had to say goodbye to him 😭😧😨😩😰😟

[@ashleyorellana3260]

piccolos for life !

[@vishnuvijayan5773]

Percussion❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@brandonkenney6675]

I PLAY THIS

[@--Moondrop--]

I played this and Ghostbusters for a Halloween event for band and I was on the drum set for the first time any other people in percussion?

[@tomshields5210]

Trumpet 4 life

[@MiguelMartinez-sp3kx]

alguien tiene el pdf de esta cancion o las partituras someone has the pdf of this song or scores

[@dellsykes5047]

We have played almost everything on this channel !!!