Holy moly people! I haven't written a review on anything since August?! I am so sorry! Let's see, an update on my life... I am now a music ed major! That's all pretty much.
Anyways, I felt like only doing one song today, so I chose "Rivet Town Parade" from the movie Robots. It was composed by none other than John Powell. (Love that guy!) Though it is really short, it is my all time favorite piece in the entire soundtrack. If my school had a marching band, I would figure out some way to get us to play it at some game or convention. If anybody has tried to call me recently, and you happen to be near me, (why are you calling me while you are right next to me?) you will hear that it is my new default ringtone :). Anywho, on with the review.
Now for any of you have read my previous blogs, you will notice that I'm not very good at writing reviews on music. I more just like to talk about what I like and don't like about stuff and that's pretty much it. Hopefully as time goes on, my reviewing skills will improve. Also, I think it would help if I didn't just grab stuff out of my own music library to review because that's kind of biased. So suggestions from you guys would be awesome!! It can be from anything you want, movies, tv shows, random bands, the like. Seeing as I really have no practice using any other form of reviewing practice methods, I shall continue with what I know how to do if everybody is ok with that.
Ok, so as I mentioned earlier, this is a great marching band piece. Obviously a marching band played it. (No duh) But what's great about it is that it's one of the few pieces that I've heard that actually truly features the bass line so prominently. This can be nice for the bass instrument players because I know many who dislike marches because the bass parts are just so dang boring! (yes, I know bass instrument players, my BF and BFF are bass players, so don't question me). :P Also, it's an awesome brass piece! Do you hear all that awesome brass along with the bari sax??! It just sounds so fun to play! And it definitely gets people moving and grooving. :)
So if I have inspired you with my lame review skills to want to try to get your marching band to play this piece, just first think about how good your trumpet players actually are.... because you know they are going to try screaming with this piece and they will most likely be out of tune for sure, especially if they aren't very good in the first place and that's just obnoxious. Also, I recommend a good strong and large bass line.
So yeah to finish my review, I give this piece 7 eighth notes! ♫♫♫♪
Happy Turkey day this week! Don't forget to send your suggestions to be reviewed!! :)
-Trumpetgirly
