Songs/Pieces You Never Want to Play Again (Unless Required).

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:09 am

tubatooter1940 wrote:1.Margaritaville
2.Cheeseburger in paradise
3.American Pie
4.Freebird

I've never seen an arrangement of those for a tuba

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:52 pm

I never want to play Sousa! again.
It's a horrible medley of 4 Sousa's marches arranged in the worst way possible.

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:59 pm

Mannin Veen by Haydn Wood

Mostly slow tuba part with long phrases at a "sensible" dynamic level.

STOP BREATHING IN THE MIDDLE OF PHRASES, JACKSON.

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:09 pm

Chicken Dance..........250 times a summer is 249 too many.

John Corigliano: Circus Maximus, I don't know if I'll even survive to play this piece once before I rip my hair out, my ears off, and slap Corigliano in the face for writing it.

Richardrichard9 · Post by **Richardrichard9** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:12 pm

KevinMadden wrote:Chicken Dance..........250 times a summer is 249 too many.

Haha, I agree with you there. In one of the marching bands I play in we just started playing that piece. The crowd loves it, but I don't.

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:17 pm

Cowboy Joe (I can still remember every single note of the song and it has been almost 5 years now)
Come On Wyoming

More to come.

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:29 pm

Bayou Breakdown, shoot me please, hard, in the face.

Pop arrangements/medleys for band.(i.e. Earth Wind and Fire in Concert, All Shook Up, and other #%^$^$##$@ like that.)

Anything by Samuel Hazo.

Do people program this crap in community bands because traditional band literature is too difficult? Seriously. There is SO MUCH great literature written for wind band. Just because someone writes it doesn't mean it should be played.

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:31 pm

Salvation is Created. we played it with a choir again and again and again. then again for a band concert. For the band concert we stood in the aisles in the auditorium and played by memory. There were no 'memorization' rehersals we just played it so many damn times it was embedded into our minds permenently.

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:33 pm

Shenandoah

Ghost Train

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:43 am

tubatom91 wrote:Salvation is Created. we played it with a choir again and again and again. then again for a band concert. For the band concert we stood in the aisles in the auditorium and played by memory. There were no 'memorization' rehersals we just played it so many damn times it was embedded into our minds permenently.

haha, that piece seemed to do the same thing last semester at IC, was it like national Salvation is Created performance year or something? Several groups, (i know at least the Brass Choir and Symphonic bands) performed it, I believe a few others did as well.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:43 am

ThomasDodd wrote:
tubatooter1940 wrote:1.Margaritaville
2.Cheeseburger in paradise
3.American Pie
4.Freebird
I've never seen an arrangement of those for a tuba

You may never see them written down but the lines for tuba, bass and rhythm guitar are burned into my brain for all eternity. I dream at night that I am playing some sleazy bar - playing this horrific list of cliched, tired tunes over and over.

I once dreamed that I went to hell and the devil locked me in a closet with Donnie and Marie Osmond for all eternity - and Marie turned into a guy.

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:31 pm

tubatooter1940 wrote:I dream at night that I am playing some sleazy bar - playing this horrific list of cliched, tired tunes over and over.

Then you wake up and it's not a dream

(FWIW, I'm not sure why, but smilies and my sig was off off on that post. So I "fixed" it, 3 years after posting

)

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:55 pm

the elephant wrote:I also hate Valdres. Burn it. Please.

That takes me back to a now-deceased former conductor of the San Antonio Municipal Band, for whom this was a staple. I don't know if it was the music or the way he conducted it that was the most annoying.

Rick "who can do without most TV tune medleys" Denney

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:57 pm

KevinMadden wrote:Chicken Dance..........250 times a summer is 249 too many.

Is that all? What, did you not have many gigs?

Rick "who played the Chicken Dance approximately 600 times in 1992--a lifetime supply" Denney

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:00 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
KevinMadden wrote:Chicken Dance..........250 times a summer is 249 too many.
Is that all? What, did you not have many gigs?

Rick "who played the Chicken Dance approximately 600 times in 1992--a lifetime supply" Denney

I love the Chicken Dance. Playing it twice a set just isn't enough.

Jim 'If you believe that, do I have a deal for you..' Wagner

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:49 pm

bloke wrote:- - Bankelsangerlieder

Yeah, our quintet plays it a lot. But we call it "Bang your sister later"!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:38 pm

the elephant wrote:"Bang-A-Gang-A-Cheerleaders"

Is THAT all!? Just a gang? (They got pills for that now!)

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:04 pm

Bang-Her-And-Drink-A-Liter.

Chuck

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:53 pm

KevinMadden wrote:
tubatom91 wrote:Salvation is Created. we played it with a choir again and again and again. then again for a band concert. For the band concert we stood in the aisles in the auditorium and played by memory. There were no 'memorization' rehersals we just played it so many damn times it was embedded into our minds permenently.

haha, that piece seemed to do the same thing last semester at IC, was it like national Salvation is Created performance year or something? Several groups, (i know at least the Brass Choir and Symphonic bands) performed it, I believe a few others did as well.

our school does a rotation of salvation and some other song every other year.

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:55 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
KevinMadden wrote:Chicken Dance..........250 times a summer is 249 too many.
Is that all? What, did you not have many gigs?

Rick "who played the Chicken Dance approximately 600 times in 1992--a lifetime supply" Denney

Nah, its just a tune in The Festhaus Book at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. The summer cast plays about 200 shows a season and the chicken dance (in Db!

) is in every single show.
I don't gig at all August-May, so ~250 times in ten weeks is plenty