Rhythm Stand by Jennifer Higdon

Composer: Jennifer Higdon
Grade: 3

Rhythm Stand pays tribute to the constant presence of rhythm in our lives. Incorporating traditional and non-traditional sounds within a 4/4 swing style, this setting encourages students to take a stand for rhythm!

This piece was performed and recorded by the University of Minnesota under the direction of Craig Kirchhoff, Jerry Luckhardt, and Emily Threinen.

BandQuest®, an exciting series of new music and accompanying curricula for band, is a program published by the American Composers Forum. The series was started as a response to feedback from music educators that there is a pressing need for new, fresh band music. The BandQuest® series is distributed exclusively by the Hal Leonard Corporation.

[lsjtts]

Am I the only one that actually likes playing this song?

[sprinkles]

We sightread this song in my band class today (I'm a percussionist). This song is so fun! I like it a lot, but I know many people dislike it.

[sabrinaly]

This is our new song we’re playing for our concert. It’s pretty cool but confusing a bit

[sandraelder]

This will be a perfect piece to play for my budding 5th grade composers!

[rockcatcool]

How many Ex's do you have?
Rhythm Stand:

[heartymcdurianz]

This song is so easy but the rest of my class can’t count for their life. Makes me so irritated when we practice

[amydesrochers]

HEAVILY relied on my foot tapping to get the timing down on this song.

[imthelumpiestlumpy]

We played this for honors band 4 rehearsala in one day then you preform that night we spent a rehearsal and a half doing only this it was pain

[Rainer]

Once you get it down this song is fun on alto

[eventhorizonsingularity]

this song was published on my birthday!

[JDaTopo]

Piano literally gets everything in this song

[deku]

Being in band playing this only for everyone who can’t count to mess up the pencil parts

[youtubeisvideocloudstorage]

I try to play this on my bass clarinet, and my computers loudest setting (it doesn't have a port for a speaker) is still half the volume of my softest playing.

[Nope-ldcanymore]

We are playing this song for World strides and I love it and hate it lol

[RK-tmwb]

Sounds like the sims freeplay music at first lol

[Thetrumpetfromtha]

I get to play this at usf school of music

[radgaming]

Easy song. You just need to have a competent rest of the band

[Magic-npws]

Trombone and i.. hate it.. so, sososo much. It's terrible. It's horrible. My band can play better than this, which sounds like some elementary spring concert shit.

[johndrivess]

hands down worst song our band ever played

[cheryledelman]

sounds like a cheap imitation of West Side Story sorry to say!