Still Alive for Brass Band
This is Still Alive from the video game Portal. It's written in B-flat to easily be played by a Brass band. I've included an untransposed version to listen to and a transposed version with treble clef for all instruments. No bass trombone and only drumset but no other percussion.
I'm sure Valve owns all rights to this song.
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| Still Alive Brass Trans.mscz | 40.24 KB |
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By the way, my brass band just got a new glockenspiel so any ideas for a glockenspiel part would be amazing!
In reply to Glockenspiel by Mvilhel
It's on my instrumentation. Please add dynamics, since I can't get any that fit.
If you have a .zip reader, it works.
I think it sounds great, but I would change what instruments are going on. Mind if I change it a bit?
In reply to Mabye change the instrumentation. by Anonymous
No, please do! Any new thoughts or improvements are always good:)
In reply to No, please do! Any new by Mvilhel
I will after I finish my thing which you will see soon...
In reply to Okay. by Anonymous
It took a while.
In reply to HERE IT IS!!! by Anonymous
I like this! :)
Personally, I don't like saxes (due to my brass band background) but here they actually worked.
My first impression is that this sounds more focused due to less instruments. I'll listen to it some more when I get home from school and study it. I think you've changed a couple of notes but it didn't sound wrong. I might find some new ideas for my brass arrangement!
In reply to Yeah!! by Mvilhel
That's why I put them in there. Also, I changed a few notes due to some experimentation. My school now wants it in 5-4-4 format for a Jazz band with a rhythm section. Great. More work for me.
In reply to Where I am, the saxes are in the brass section. by Anonymous
Though the Sax may be made of brass, it still use a reed mouthpiece, and therefore is counted as a woodwind instrument (in Europe atleast). A brass band in Norway, (and the rest of Europe, I think) consists of:
One soprano Cornet in Eb
Four Solo Cornets in Bb
Two 2nd Cornets in Bb
Two 3rd Cornets in Bb
One Repiano Cornet in Bb
One Flugelhorn in Bb
Three (Solo, 2nd, 3rd) Alto horns in Eb (some places called tenor horns)
Two (1st, 2nd) Baritones in Bb (usually in treble clef) (these also might be called tenor horns)
Two Euphoniums (also TC)
Two or three (1st, 2nd and sometimes 3rd) Trombones (TC)
One Bass Trombone (BC)
Four Tubas, usually two Eb (EEb) and two Bb (BBb) (usually TC)
And varying amounts of percussion. Usually drumkit, Glockenspiel and timpani
In reply to Brass band by Mvilhel
But from where I live, AKA America, this is what usually seems proper. Plus, in my bands, although I hate it, saxes are between horns and trumpets.