Rhapsody in Blue, arr. Gordon Goodwin - Score & Sound
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Rhapsody in Blue
By George Gershwin / arr. Gordon Goodwin
Item: 00-33370
Series: Gordon Goodwin Series
Category: Jazz Ensemble
Format: Conductor Score & Parts
Level: 6 (Professional / Very Advanced)
This is a tour-de-force, GRAMMY® Award-winning arrangement by Gordon Goodwin of Gershwin's masterpiece. The sax doubles call for piccolo (alto 1), clarinet/flute (alto 2) and bass clarinet (bari). The second alto part has the well-known clarinet solo. This chart has it all---the thematic material, swing, key changes, solo space for alto, tenor, bari, trumpet, and trombone; and lead trumpet range is to written high F. The percussion part calls for mallets and timpani. Overall, a grasp of both jazz and classical concepts will make this chart stand apart from anything else. As recorded by the Big Phat Band. (2:20)
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Пікірлер: 394
Bars 56 to 61 are killer for saxes. The next time a high school jazz band plays that correctly will be the first time.
@nizablo6426
6 жыл бұрын
sorry , but that was really dirty
@natmcveigh3904
5 жыл бұрын
@yami yeager Yeah, they played that set twice, one after the other, (evident when the 1st trumpet passes out at one point,) and the 1st was a bit cleaner. That was the year they won a competition at Berklee. I'm a member this year, and unfortunately it's taken a turn for the worse what with our school switching schedules to a non jazz friendly one as it were. Still good tho.
@WillTheBassPlayer
4 жыл бұрын
@Nathaniel McVeigh I hope the bass has fixed his left hand by now
@Dualis58
2 жыл бұрын
Texas
@classified9668
Жыл бұрын
@@Dualis58 yes
Texas band kids: yeah I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy
@EmanSax03
4 жыл бұрын
frs
@DanielReyes-lg4eo
3 жыл бұрын
As a Texas band kid, I can admit that I played this in 6th grade but like twice as fast it was super easy
@peanuts.w.
3 жыл бұрын
@@DanielReyes-lg4eo lmao
@gabrielnersessian3134
3 жыл бұрын
@@DanielReyes-lg4eo փ
@quest_17
3 жыл бұрын
We’re actually playing this in my HS jazz band lol
I can imagine playing this would be like playing in a musical, those damn key signatures, high tempos and constant tempo and feel changes...
@henryfoabdarbangldfut
3 ай бұрын
as i have played in two musicals. y e s,
I remember listening to this before hearing the original and not being able to get through the first minute. Several months later I came back to find this as a masterpiece. Guess my taste in music has changed.
@loganmoon380
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I play a lot of classical piano and I thought this song sucked but I got tricked into joining the jazz band at my school and now I think it's actually good
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
Жыл бұрын
@@loganmoon380 Could I recommend you a couple great charts. This is more of a fake jazz style I'm not going to lie.
Holy Shit...that is some chart.
This goes in so many directions and I love it
@MG-ts1xs
4 жыл бұрын
saw ur comment on birdland
Grade 6? Wow didn't know it could get that high...
@adamcollester2655
7 жыл бұрын
ikr
@devinsalazar7568
7 жыл бұрын
Shwarzmen Duddlehaeven That's not even the highest the highest is 7
@randomguywhostoleallofyour88
7 жыл бұрын
example please, Devin
@devinsalazar7568
7 жыл бұрын
Ok like grades 4-5 is like high school level music and grades 6-7 is like college level music. Random guy who stole all of Your doritos
@randomguywhostoleallofyour88
7 жыл бұрын
Devin Salazar I meant like an example of a garden 7 piece lol. like a chart name.
This is definitely my favourite score as of now
@TrashCanBoiBoi
2 жыл бұрын
How about now?
@DylanRyan8
Жыл бұрын
@@TrashCanBoiBoi lol
@TrashCanBoiBoi
Жыл бұрын
@@DylanRyan8 I still wanna know lol
@SethSalinasMusic
4 ай бұрын
5 years later update when?
As a bass trombone player I was heavily satisfied with the last section and much so on the very last note ohh it’s amazing
@kevinhornbuckle
4 жыл бұрын
Alexander Clark Wicked!
Me on the first page: this doesn't look that hard actually Page turn: so you have chosen... *death.*
0:05 start 0:31 original start of Rhapsody in Blue 2:56 saxophone solo 4:40 adagio or something similar 6:19 ending of the piece
@GreenBoy9000
9 ай бұрын
Pretty sure that adagio's the Love theme.
The Trombone at 5:18 is so beautiful. Gives me chills
doctor: you have 7 minutes and 41 seconds left to live me:
@Nerd-dp6pz
4 жыл бұрын
What you gonna do with the extra second?
@pootluv
4 жыл бұрын
Penguilion appreciate the arrangement
@Ulookedcompany
4 жыл бұрын
It'll take me 7 minutes and 41 seconds to choose a song
2:25 sounds like Mario Kart music
@asphosunderscore2281
4 жыл бұрын
The beginning drum run at 2:18 sounds similar to the drum run in Mario Kart 8's Title theme. A call and response technique is used here, played by trumpets and responded by the saxes. This is rather common in many of Nintendo's OST. Also, the major key also helps it stay light and airy, like Nintendo's OST. But then again, that is just my take...
@TotallyMazza
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds exactly like delfino square
@MarkZickefoose
3 жыл бұрын
No, Mario Kart music sounds like George Gershwin (as interpreted by Gordon Goodwin).
The Big Phat Band drum set player is literally a god
Listening on 2x makes it crack city in blue
@nicksipich1024
4 жыл бұрын
Python Kick this is the gateway to hell
@selenersavage
3 жыл бұрын
this is the only genuinely funny comment I’ve seen on one of these videos
Honestly the band kid/ music maker faction of KZread is one of the best!! Love y’all
3:29 THE LICK!!!
@nicholasz2510
4 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it 😂
@CristianVasquez_
4 жыл бұрын
I heard it too!!
@MrYeet-ip4qj
4 жыл бұрын
It go like that
@amritcheema549
4 жыл бұрын
Looooool
The trombone solo was so clean 👌🏽
Holy mother of trumpet solo
That bass bone part 🔥🔥🔥
@user-qv9tg5su9v
8 ай бұрын
I play the Bass Trombone in Jazz. I gotta play this someday.
Legit, this is the goal, to learn to play this song with no mistakes😂😂😂😂
@mjb9295
3 жыл бұрын
if you can do this i will cash app you 20 dollars
@dominiquesmith5734
2 жыл бұрын
@@mjb9295 so will i
I remember seeing this in concert, clairnet solo was killer... incredible that this is charted by Alfred
That it works so well in this format proves that, at its core, it is jazz,
That bass bone is godly
Heaven, is that you?
@hmm2084
6 жыл бұрын
nope, thats gordon goodwin's big phat band
@agreenunderripebanana8901
4 жыл бұрын
@@hmm2084 so, heaven.
@sleepydesigner
2 жыл бұрын
No, this is patrick
I'm able to play the high trumpet solo on my clarinet and I'm gonna try to learn it on trumpet but wow (5:32) this is an amazing piece
@classicalytrumpet9190
4 жыл бұрын
8-BitPlayz I can play it but it’s very much hitting the top of my range
That clarinet gliss tho
wtf are these key signatures
@Bokuwahoku
6 жыл бұрын
PoopFaceBomb hell
@shamiothebrave9882
6 жыл бұрын
Hell's heaven
@alexsmith716
5 жыл бұрын
Torture
@MrJellyton
5 жыл бұрын
just like any other... but mostly underappreciated...
@guardianknight5842
5 жыл бұрын
Sharp pain
Me and the other Clarinets: ~*sweats nervously*~
@joechavez784
4 жыл бұрын
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo true 😂😂😂😂😂
@samaldag478
4 жыл бұрын
The solo itself isnt actually that hard once you learn how to do a glissando. It's actually super fun.
@amambababoon1410
2 жыл бұрын
OMG SAME! My band is really tiny (the high school concert band has 7 people, and the jazz band has 10) so whenever I get it wrong it's super obvious. (I play b flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and trombone, and a range of bari to soprano in vocals btw; whichever is most need in the song we're playing).
@FNBRVolts
7 ай бұрын
the solo really isnt that bad, I know if my band did this piece I would be put on alto 2, even though im primarily a bari player on sax. My primary is clarinet and I also play flute which is all required for this.
I’m in love
can i marry a piece of music
@anthony-pj6xn
4 жыл бұрын
Shawn Luo yes
@lopez4292
4 жыл бұрын
@Shawn Luo yes
4:02 and on has honestly the greatest solo backgrounds
I really hope that I’ll be able perform this song one day 🥺
@bruhmomenthdr7575
Жыл бұрын
Which part
@salems.bytche
Жыл бұрын
@@bruhmomenthdr7575 I play Bari sax. :)
Sounds more like a Coltrane piece instead of a band arrangement in the middle....
@musical_lolu4811
3 жыл бұрын
What are you on about? That's a sax improv section, so effing what?
I wish I could play this good!! Maybe one day though.
Good god, Gordon Goodwin is a mad scientist
Can you upload some more Big phat band scores please
That trombone! So lush!
that note at 0:37 gets me every time
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad its so understanding
Thrilling! Thank you for the upload!
Come on, this is really easy to play... as an audio file. Nope, not possible to play on an instrument unless many days or months of practice. (Or you could be a Jazz Legend and be able to sight read the whole thing)
@rocioanguiano2480
6 жыл бұрын
Bluejay0608 more practice than that
@jaiden1121
6 жыл бұрын
DAVID MELLA oh wait. nobody humble enough would brag about stupid shit like that. So shush
@Skweepz
6 жыл бұрын
Bluejay0608 Bruh it ain't that hard lmao
@slimbro1494
6 жыл бұрын
"many days" as in 2920 days (8 years)
@devanmallory5304
6 жыл бұрын
Bluejay0608 eh, the top jazz pros could probably learn it in like two weeks, but I'm talking about players in the high jazz orchestras
Reading all these comments, made feel like a Philistine. Imagine the mind of the genius who wrote it.
Bari sax could be an actual bari sax part ya know
@JackLanhardt
6 жыл бұрын
what do you mean?
@Bruh-wt9zv
6 жыл бұрын
Definitely. For god sakes it’s part of the sax section. I don’t understand arrangers who give bari nothing parts
@brandonm7952
5 жыл бұрын
justin pfeiff Because its not really like a sax. You don’t see bari’s in these sax-melodies cause they’re not like saxes really, they fit better with the bones
@ShinySilverGamer
5 жыл бұрын
This is FAR from the worst bari part
@teddavies5898
4 жыл бұрын
@@brandonm7952 bari is kinda rough to write for. as a bari player and arranger, this is really evident; it's the lowest member of the sax family so a lot of times when altos and tenors are playing a melody, it's too high for the bari to play. bari fills the role of a 5th trombone quite a bit, as it blends well (especially in the mid-low register) with bones, especially when there isn't a bass bone present (unlike this piece.) it's just an awkward instrument to write for a lot of the time
I wonder if this is where Scott Watson got inspiration from for the saxaphone part of Secret Agent Sugar Plum
Absolutely freaking epic
really amazing.......unbelievable.......so good........heaven level........top 10.........
We’re playing thus piece in band and it’s 😍
@agreenunderripebanana8901
4 жыл бұрын
Thats the best pfp ive ever seen
@jwaj
2 жыл бұрын
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 it’s been two years, and I’m gonna assume that the pfp hasn’t changed yet
@agreenunderripebanana8901
2 жыл бұрын
@@jwaj no it has, but my statement still stands
@jwaj
2 жыл бұрын
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 exactly, this commenter has some good taste in profile pics
@jwaj
2 жыл бұрын
@@agreenunderripebanana8901 yours is pretty good too
I've finally learned how to play the glissando 😭 it took me 3 months
@DPHMUSIC.
5 жыл бұрын
I'm on month 1 so hopefully I'll get it soon, congrats dude
@zenixrl_
5 жыл бұрын
not to brag but it took me like 3 hours
@tsuki5625
4 жыл бұрын
Howwwwwww
@zenixrl_
4 жыл бұрын
you just gotta roll your finger off the hole then lift it slowly off the ring and bam you have the glissando to rhapsody in blue
@joechavez784
4 жыл бұрын
@@zenixrl_ me too😂😂 probably like 1 tho
Oh my gosh! So many sharps for alto sax. 6 sharps! 0_0
@Jon-kx3ut
5 жыл бұрын
ForteRosé it ain’t that bad
@zenixrl_
5 жыл бұрын
it’s honestly not that bad, i’m a tenor player but i play alto
@bradenhoeffner4627
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah man my all state music has like 9 😂😂
@brandonm7952
4 жыл бұрын
Braden Hoeffner wym 9 huh... double sharps?
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I would love to master this song. I would love to play Alto 2 so I could play that clarinet solo.
That ain’t no alto that’s a clarinet
@jayjusto9580
5 жыл бұрын
Kensword fam what instrument do you see in the parentheses under alto 1
@slamirghalayini6185
4 жыл бұрын
Jay Justo piccolo
@8PedroFerreira
4 жыл бұрын
Jay Justo mayonnaise
@jeffarc
4 жыл бұрын
Kensword the saxes usually switch to clarinet or flute in jazz if there is a part of the song that has that kind of note, like a bari sax one time at a concert playing a bass clarinet solo
@natmcveigh3904
4 жыл бұрын
@@jayjusto9580 alto 2
1:11 sexy trombone mode activated
@peanuts.w.
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
Never once in my life did I think I would get to play timpani in jazz band.
I could probably play the fourth trumpet part...yay me👍😢
The ballad omg
7:00 ends with a bang
@zachsmith4471
4 жыл бұрын
Guy Smiley the last chord when it’s just the trumpets and altos before the trombones come in is godly
@guysmiley1940
4 жыл бұрын
@@zachsmith4471 Yeah
Oh my gosh 1:39 the freaking note in the saxes that stick out
Trumpet one is beautiful 😭
Amazing!
i wish i was that good of a trumpet player
Can’t wait to give this for my jazz band students on my very first year as a band director! And does it start in 6/4 time signature?
@GreenBoy9000
3 жыл бұрын
4/4.
@jwaj
2 жыл бұрын
Talk about first impressions 💀
@ShockzG5
Жыл бұрын
@@jwaj LMAO
Can someone transcribe the clarinet solo for flute
Saw this live. Was fire as shit
I love this song
Revisiting this chart after 2 years now it’s much easier
Gabriel, you must be an incredible virtuoso
This is sooooo cool, Thanks very much!!
very nice arrangement!!
WOW
How come at measures 149 - 166, the bari sax's and alto sax’s keys is written in flats, while everyone else's is written in sharps?
@thatonetrombonist9385
2 жыл бұрын
it would be too many sharps for them
@thatonetrombonist9385
2 жыл бұрын
7 sharps
My band director gave us this music during the summer and we've been working on it since for our spring concert, its not that we don't know the notes its just with all the tempo changes and key changes and stuff that makes it so hard
If y'all could do the 2nd version of this can't be love that would be great
4:37 to 6:06
Had to play the clarinet part on Soprano sax, then swap to my alto… this song was insane to play… felt like musical pit band all over again
6:59
Try listening at 2.0 speed 0_0
@seanbarras2995
4 жыл бұрын
0_0
The bari goes to low g... Extension?
@tremyers9102
5 жыл бұрын
Where?
@bobthechimp5431
5 жыл бұрын
4th beat of pg 2
@bobthechimp5431
5 жыл бұрын
Nvm it said bass clarinet on 1st pg
Did a song that was created perfect have to be arranged by Gordon Goodwin?
Yeah, level 6
2:19 to 4:30 It would be good boss music for cuphead or Mario bosses.
@FNBRVolts
7 ай бұрын
ACTUALLY
I'm gonna be real this is one of Goodwin's easier charts. Sure very dependent on the soloist but other wise not that hard. My band plays Goodwin charts all the time.
@hmm2084
6 жыл бұрын
jesus, you want a fucking medal?
@ZHL242
6 жыл бұрын
You're actually right, technically speaking it's not one of his most difficult or complicated. The only things that would give most bands trouble are the sax triplets at 56, the range of the 1st trumpet part, and finding a clarinetist good enough to do justice to Gershwin's intro. Obviously the Phat Band members are all incredibly virtuoso musicians and their tone and inflections make this definitely the best recording of this arrangement, but that doesn't mean it's unplayable. Count Bubba and some of Goodwin's other tunes have much harder technically challenging components to them.
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
6 жыл бұрын
BMACS02 2:19 is an excruciating pain to master...This song is a classic and yes it's not "professionally difficult" but it is one of Goodwin's Most famous and popular. A semi difficult would be take 5 or maybe Nyan Cat (I know that sounds silly but gee think about it ) so say something with less ignorant bliss, like "I have had an epiphany that this song had noble and hard working artists that devote there emotions to creating this breath-taking literature with a mix of jazz, symphony, and a conundrum of ancient sound and besides this run on sentence I honestly have no idea if I'm giving a argument or just stating my observant opinion to you but I do know one thing. I have absolutely and without a doubt on my mind have not a clue for what I'm awkwardly trying to explain...
@JDSnowb
6 жыл бұрын
If you look at the 1st trumpet part, you’ll find you need a god to play those high notes. It’s like a ballad or chorale piece, sure the rhythms and notes are easy but you have to go beyond the page and stylistically play it correctly. That’s the difference between an average musician and one that takes it to the next level.
Jazz
3:28 the lick
2:55
I just heard that the Reddit Symphony will be playing this!
@lorddisappointment1792
4 жыл бұрын
wholesome 100 keanu reeves everyone liked that big chungus baby yoda
@zacha7856
4 жыл бұрын
lord disappointment shut the fuck up
I could just imaging somebody sneaking the mario kart dolphin shoals lick in that sax solo
Why does it get so depressing at 4:35
@applepieisgud8780
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful you mean?
@venomouus
4 жыл бұрын
I guess(rlly beautiful)
@samaldag478
4 жыл бұрын
Listen to the original Rhapsody in Blue and it will make more sense. There are certain sections that are basically required in all versions of rhapsody in blue and that's just one of those sections.
I’m on tenor 2 in eighth grade lol.... I’m dead
@lorddisappointment1792
4 жыл бұрын
i doubt your actually playing this, this is for at least grade 12s not middle schoolers
@a3toenail313
4 жыл бұрын
lord disappointment Normally, yes that would be the case, but let me inform u that I’m second chair in a group of 9 saxophones. Two of them being seniors. We have a 2a sized band, so our band director chose me to play it.
I'm trying to learn how to play the clarinet beginning solo and the glissando is so hard! I can't get it right lmao, it's getting there though it just doesn't sound that great.
Licc spotted at 3:28
The clarinet that the 2nd Alto doubles as is in Eb right?
@FNBRVolts
7 ай бұрын
No, classic Bb clarinet solo from this piece. The keys switch when it goes to the clarinet part and the flute part shortly after.
Game of inches or Hunting Wabbits should be next
upload no l in swing and doctor noel
why does the alto sax sound like a clarinet
@ejzeiberg
5 жыл бұрын
cause it is a clarinet. 2nd alto doubles on clarinet in the beginning
@calebprovencher7727
5 жыл бұрын
Eric Zeiberg as a Clarinetist who has played the Rhapsody in blue solo, cudos to any primary sax player who learns the gliss. If anything, it may be a Clarinet player doubling on the sax part lol
@ejzeiberg
5 жыл бұрын
Cthepro 321 Sal Lozano plays 2nd alto chair in BPB and he’s an amazing clarinetist as well.
@zacharyholmes2600
5 жыл бұрын
Eric Zeiberg and flute as well. Lead alto plays a piccolo and bari plays a bass clarinet
5:14 they all took a breath at the same time lol maybe a breath mark?
1:11
Wow. I'm in augh on how someone could even THINK a band could play that
2:17