Download Digital Sheet Music of Get Off for Brass Quintet: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba

Get Off

Brass Quintet Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1251231 Composed by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo. Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. 20th Century,Comedy,Pop,Standards,Traditional. 37 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #845507. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.1251231). This song starts with the narrator/lyricist saying that he overheard a guy at the train station trying to say farewell to his girl. Â The guy would kiss her, bid her adieu, get on the train, then get off and do the whole thing over again. Â And, he did this seven times! Â What would he say to her each time? Â Heâ€™d tell her that heâ€™s leaving, that she shouldnâ€™t cry, that heâ€™ll write and that if she does not hear from him she should assume heâ€™s been arrested. Â What a romantic line!Â Â Â Anyway, thatâ€™s the gist of the â€œToot, Toot, Tootsie!â€ lyrics. Â Credited to Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo, New York Cityâ€™s Leo Feist, Inc. first published this upbeat, leave-taking song in 1922. Â It had been one of 29 numbers featured in the 1921 Broadway production Bombo, a vehicle designed to showcase the talent of Al Jolson. Â Six years later Jolson sang it in The Jazz Singer, generally recognized as the first sound feature film. Â Additionally, all three composers, plus Ted Fio Rito and Eddie Cantor, also made early and very popular recordings.Â Â This bubbly, cheerful arrangement opens in the key of F major with a suggested tempo of 120 BPM. Â After an 8-measure introduction, the piece goes right to the familiar chorus with Trumpet 1 and Trombone switching leads and ending with a wonderful Fillmore-style smear. Â The tempo then slows dramatically for a somewhat pensive interpretation of the verse, the narratorâ€™s observations, Horn and Trumpet 1 alternating the lead. Â At measure 67 the chorus repeats faster than ever, a recommended 132 BPM, as Trombone and the two Trumpets take turns with the melody. Â This leads right into a repeat of the verseâ€”this time played at full speedâ€”and a change of key to D-flat major. Â Trombone and Tuba play in unison, exchanging the melody with Trumpets, right on into the third go-round of the chorus. Â The piece wraps up with a vaudeville-style conclusion and eventually fades away. Â (But donâ€™t miss Trombone's four-measure reference to â€œCharlottetown Is Burning Down/Goodbye, Liza Janeâ€ at measure 141.)Lots of fun!Â Â Completed in 2023, performance time at the suggested tempo runs about 2 minutes, 47 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge. Â He would like to receive your suggestions, comments, corrections and criticisms. Â For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the Sheet Music Plus or Sheet Music Direct search box.