Crunchy Frog, by Gordon Goodwin- Score & Sound

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Crunchy Frog
By Gordon Goodwin
Item: 00-38690
Series: Jazz Band Series
Format: Conductor Score & Parts
Level: 3
Bass and guitar begin the chart with a captivating rhythmic pattern you won't soon forget. This chart has plenty of ensemble writing---some in unison, some in harmony, and solo space for all winds with suggested written-out solos. Lead trumpet range to written G-sharp on top of the staff and the tempo is around 115 BPM. This title is available in SmartMusic.
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[@quailen]

All Jazz band kids who play or played this should all come together to form an army

[@Inactive_archived]

Y e s

[@ChronoJonah]

Alright I am joining the army we are learning this song lol

[@Evielicious]

Wooo!

[@gabrieldietz5315]

You have gained 3 tenors, 3 altos, 2 bari's, a bass player, 3 trumpets, a drummer, and 3 trombones, one being a bass trombone from our band. I'm one of the tenors

[@the-sewage-man]

I'll provide my services as guitarist

[@fivelines6609]

The bari solo frickin slaps!!

[@nathalieontour]

Yesss I love to play it!😂

[@bethanyscott639]

the groove gets to you, and not even an old guy getting in the way could throw it off.

[@Steveiegaming]

The anxiety this gave me before soloing was unreal

[@toad_is_ur_mom]

Fr, we had three or four solos for some reason and I was last to go, the pressure was real after the 2nd one

[@zackwoods5077]

The challenge isn't the sixteenth note rhythms but those chord changes as a soloist. This is one of the few songs where I've seen chord changes on a sixteenth note rhythm and it isn't a chord change where you can get away with screwing up (A7 -> D7 for example) as it's a half step change. This is my favorite Gordon Goodwin chart though and I wish we could've played it in high school.

[@APerson-lh3iw]

Do you have any tips for me? i plan on soloing on this but then when my time came up I'm like damn wtf are these chord changes, they arent even close to the difficulty of those normal combo charts you do for warm ups

[@zackwoods5077]

@@APerson-lh3iw All you can do is pay attention to them and build your solo around it. They aren't everywhere, so being in rhythm with them or resting on the difficult changes will work.

[@teamsidabutar6398]

The drum part is 🔥🔥🔥

[@JamesCrafton]

DRUMMER FROM ALL COUNTY !!!

[@finnbreismeister8136]

I drummed for this song and damn is it a banger, pissed it’s not on Spotify

[@monkeyboy1647]

I got a national competition where i gotta play this for school on drums i dont know it that well😅

[@amireallyprepared2823]

I was looking for it because my jazz band was playing it and I was so mad it wasn't on Spotify

[@literal-tree]

love them crunchy frogs

[@peechtheleech4468]

my jazz band just got this song and the first thing one of my classmates said was C R U N C H Y

[@Not-the-Pope]

Bass bone = crunchiest

[@clamchowder893]

As a bass boner facts

[@The_Burber]

Im a beginning bassist and dear lord i want to play this.

[@boppy_6381]

2:00

[@ishi_gho9695]

Playing bass on this with my jazz band

[@markthemedic6672]

How did this song get its name...

[@tomfoolery4490]

Frog legs?

[@aidan4473]

Gordon ate a frog and thought it was crunchy

[@greenmovie13]

It sounds Cancun or Caribbean, and frog legs are popular around there I think, so that’s likely the reason

[@captivatingcarnivore557]

The song is meant to sound funny and quirky and the keys its modulates to are what musicians call "crunchy"

[@grunk8052]

Gordon himself said he got it from the Monty Python clip.

[@jacobugath420]

CRONCH

[@hobbedgoblin10]

put it at 1.50 and it sounds like a mario kart track

[@robbysmart6853]

Thats literally what i thought when i heard it too

[@WholeWheatDough]

True

[@crowdnine9588]

nice

[@lennonlehman9072]

Man spitting straight facts

[@zao1590]

Lol it does

[@The_Burber]

Quiet solos are always interesting

[@halfacubey389]

there’s a version with the tuba that follows the baseline and it’s arguably better

[@cm4n63]

HalfACubey link??

[@petervance7268]

yeah, link?

[@halfacubey389]

Don’t have a link, It’s a optional instrument so it’s rarely included in the recordings

[@AlexAlex-hs2sp]

That actually sounds kinda sick

[@panicinthestudio3978]

I played bass trombone in a band with 5 trombones and played the tuba part. It was super fun!

[@MakeMusic88]

Wow great solis !
I wanted to hear them live, thumps up !

[@foreverdinoz1021]

my jazz band just started learning this today, and it's very hard cause the notes are so fast and I also have to learn the solo part for trumpet

[@iezfri6353]

I wanted to play this so bad, but right before my schools jazz band decided to play it I had quit band because the directors were embezzling money and didn’t care about the kids in there. Not to mention the constant bullying. Depression kicked in. Principal tried to force me to stay in band, vice principal helped me out and let me quit. Long story short, I hate my old band directors and principal and don’t see how they haven’t been fired. But I like the song😃

[@sharonyae-jinha9863]

Quite an EAR for storytelling you've got there!

[@tonyreynolds1829]

This is great I love playing this song

[@Scrafty_Simp]

Drummed this 6 times this week 😅

[@robbysmart6853]

I used the Bari solo and modified it a bit when I played this. (In case you actually want to see, it's on my channel)

[@annaleisballans4250]

Playing this as a pianist in my jazz band and I might have to solo😰 definitely scared for that one

[@greenmovie13]

Cronchi

[@adamlaceky8127]

If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

[@marzp._]

so what would it be?

[@l.e.n.1002]

@@marzp._ it would be sassy

[@sketchbook_worm]

as a pianist IM GONNA DIE

[@russellmattesich9200]

dude my middle school jazz a played this like a literal piece of cake 💀

[@birchtree5884]

When is a video version of The Chicken by Kris Berg coming out?

[@natemaclachlan]

crunchy chicken

[@jazzyasian8819]

Crunch

[@ethansezai]

i play the tbone for this song

[@alexwalsh8528]

i play the clarinet for this song

[@MEEEEEEP-]

@@alexwalsh8528 Same here

[@suneedee3376]

Same

[@itsburrg]

What did alto 2 do?

[@yuta_kida]

What key is this written in? I’m trying to come up with a guitar solo to play for my jazz band

[@ethanwaits2388]

im late but i believe its in b flat blues

[@KellonMelon65]

D dorian

[@approblade]

I play 3rd trumpet for this and I am NOT good enough to play that solo

[@zackwoods5077]

The D7 -> Eb7 -> E7 chord progression all in one measure with the Eb7 -> E7 transition happening on the "a" of beat 2 and not beat 3 is definitely tricky. It's also a relatively long solo so you will want a solid improv vocabulary as well. The song itself or what's written is really easy in comparison.

[@flangdiddly7104]

Sounds like a jojos bizarre adventure op

[@mememasterjim1633]

shit go hard

[@Dukkes]

3:15

[@aeouuuauausauuas]

2:09

[@tarnishedsphincter8672]

bangs

[@thejoithh]

who r u

[@mayapfarr2422]

I play piano for this song

[@marzp._]

same

[@bigmamma3533]

yes

[@leannomalay3456]

who the hell named this

[@Poultrycooker1237]

The writer?

[@IvanGama-yx6jj]

This is the jazzuest dong

[@lederpsterderpster3566]

It do be kinda crunchy though

[@Marsh370]

C. Romnhc

[@bdasher8556]

lmao, EWI solo go *brrrrrr*

[@fliam47]

Crazy frog reference??

[@bethanyscott639]

maybe

[@Gio2321_]

..no

[@fliam47]

@@Gio2321_ what if you’re just not being open minded enough

[@Gio2321_]

@@fliam47 maybe… I’m not enough to understand knowledge from further beyond..

[@tammiesisson1668]

i love this song "I play clarenet in 5th grade "I pay it in band

[@alexandramurillo926]

I play clarinet in this song

[@jbrewerbass]

Alexandra Murillo do you play the trumpet or tenor sax part?

[@tammiesisson1668]

i do to

[@tammiesisson1668]

your army sounds cool, but in not in a jass band

[@toast3526]

Top 10 worst licks ever

[@thatonetrombonist9385]

when you like your own comment

[@ChronoJonah]

LMAO

[@number-1-Saxman]

Wow this song sucks big time.

[@acoolperson3606]

How so?

[@evangault1392]

I'm gonna make this song go from Crunchy Frog, to Limp Human after I'm done with you.

[@thatonetrombonist9385]

@@evangault1392 tru dat

[@lawsonacton8595]

**dislikes**

[@shadybat3183]

but its so crunchy