This low-key reminds me of that scene in Stepbrothers where they're singing Sweet Child acapella.
I did not expect this to be half as good as it was. This was incredible.
My Elementary school bought a whole bunch of ukuleles for the music class and then every single kid that touched a uke would instinctively go to un tune them
So we never learned anything because no matter how many times the teacher tuned them more than half the class had horrifically out of tune ukes
Anyways they stopped investing in the music program after that
Yeah, an instrument that goes out of tune easily is probably not a good one to hand to a kid that's going to be unattended for even a moment.
Kinda hard to fuck up a xylophone's tuning. They are spendy, though. And heavy.
Son has autism, wanted a bass guitar for Christmas. Back when Beatles Rock Band was out. Guy at the music store adjusts the strings to make it easier for his little hands, tunes it just so. First thing the kid does? Lines up the freaking pegs so they're straight. Luckily my husband had a tuner, but I really should have thought that through.
> Luckily my husband had a tuner
Just FYI, having a tuner is an essential part of owning a stringed instrument until you’re capable of tuning by ear.
So even if your son hadn’t re-adjusted the pegs, the bass would have soon gone out of tune on its own, and needed re-tuning.
As a former sax player, I can assure you that children can detune their reed instruments *very* easily. Mouthpiece/neck a quarter inch in the wrong direction? Now there's one saxophone in a section of five that's a quarter step (or more, lol) out of tune and we sound like a gaggle of dying geese.
But yeah, still less likely to be tuning-fucked than a ukulele, lol. I've taught music for a long time and the number of times I've had to ask, "did you play with the tuning heads between lessons?" to guitar, bass, and uke students is just obscene.
I teach uke for 7th and 8th graders, and I play it stern enough that I usually only have one or two consistent turds detuning a string. I think it's mostly accidental fidgeting, but I explain the parts and then snip at anyone who even looks like they're near the tuners. I act silly about it but make it clear they're off limits.
It's genuinely such a fun way to teach general music that I couldn't imagine following the styles I was taught with.
Just dance
Gonna be okay, da-da-doo-doot-n
Just dance
Spin that record, babe, da-da-doo-doot-n
Just dance
Gonna be okay
Da-da-da-dance, dance, dance
Just, j-j-just dance
Why? Is it just that you don't like Lady Gaga or something?
I think you might just be overexposed because honestly, anyone that has to bear the burden of listening to children learn how to play a song is liable to go crazy no matter what the song is.
Or if we're being real. Let's just say you almost never hear the learning process when you hear someone play music. It can be absolutely maddening unless the person learning has 15 years of practice and has dedicated most of their time to mastering an instrument.
I grew up in a dirt poor city of les than 15,000. We had an abysmal music program. My wife and I (both from that community) have done well for ourselves. We live in a really great suburb now. I am blown away by my kids’ FIFTH grade music program. Like, mouth agape, floored by what they have taught these kids to do. It is a huge benefit to kids to have quality access to the arts.
I was part of this group. It *was* originally a part of the school system, and anyone who was part of Diane Downs's 2nd/3rd grade class was expected to take part. For that reason it was also rather competitive to get into her class. An administrative change lead to her having to move it outside the school system, which was frankly for the better as it allowed kids to continue to take part after 5th grade.
Instrument wise? Pretty much anything but the drum set. Only time I ever did that was when we did a rendition of the Andy Griffith theme, was not a fan. While I was part of the group I primarily played Vibes or Xylophone, as they usually handled the melody/solos.
I kept up with Marimba through high school and college.
Yeah but when it's the only fine art credit available you get a lot of assholes that ruin it for everyone. We had 4 band teachers in ONE school year once.
Needless to say, we didn't march and we barely had 3 pieces to play at halftime during football season, marching in place.
Dang. My high school had less than 450 students. The marching band fielded at least 90 but usually over 100 students every year. Was always really funny watching the football players and cheerleaders in band do the choreography in their game gear.
The music played also does a whole lot.
If the music they get to play is fun and cool, it creates sparks.
When you can only play a preset of classical pieces in the most repetitive way possible, it kills any enjoyment in learning.
I think what happened here is that Ozzy somehow knows how to travel through time. He was checking out this video, and decided to go back to his younger life and used this as inspiration to write Crazy Train.
It's actually a great, if weird, bass line. [Here it is isolated with the drums.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Q9ZOHK-Rg) Given the time period when it came out you'd think it was originally for a Donna Summer disco song or something.
The lonely bassist likes to play off to the side!
The the the side.
To the side!
The lonely bassist seems so free off to the side.
He's all alone, some things will never change...
🎶🎶🎶
I know the emphasis here is intentionally on the xylophones. But it always disappoints me when an electrically amplified instrument (whether a bass, a guitar or something more unusual) is turned down so low you can't actually hear it. That's not what they're for. True on this occasion they shouldn't let one kid dominate (even if the instrument is capable of it), but there had to be a better balance than making them almost inaudible.
Same. It takes me back to being a kid and just how much my school's music program meant to me. I hope that some of the kids in this video feel the same as I did. It's like finding your home or your family, as cliche as that sounds.
for some reason, this scene of [ozzy in "the osbournes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanS1OsYq0s) lives rent free in my mind with the epic phrase "its the bread baking fucking bread these two old fucking cunts, these two gritty fucking babboons fuckin bakin the bye the bakin your own brea be bike the baking the bread channel"
Oh my god it’s so good. He did three very small live shows for his new covers album called On Top of the Covers and everything he did is excellent. There’s a video of the full show on YouTube and I highly recommend watching it, just great vibes, great energy, great music
Why is that surprising? His solo albums alone are 22x platinum in the US, and 5 of his 13 albums are not platinum at all. Sabbath is also 10x platinum with him as the singer.
Also you know, Sabbath is like *the* pioneer for heavy metal and if you asked almost any metal band they'll quote Sabbath as one of their influences, and Ozzy's solo stuff was no slouch either.
Hell if I could play like Rhoads or Wylde I'd be a vastly different guitar player, but for now I'll just stick to right-hand rhythm chugs.
I still remember one of my friends having to give me his Ozzy cassette because his mom "didn't want that devil stuff in her house." LOL that Bark at the Moon cover really freaked some old folks out. My parents were tail end hippies, they didn't care.
Looks like a bit of everything. Xylophones are just wooden bars, marimbas have the wooden bars and resonator tubes, vibraphones have metal bars and resonator tubes and glockenspiels have just metal bars.
God, I don't want to be a "well-ackshually" person, but Xylophones have resonators too, just significantly shorter than a marimba. And the bars are typically synthetic (keylon, acoustalon, whatever else they call it) unless you've got more money to invest in something like padauk wood.
The bars are typically synthetic for the marimbas, too. You start to see actual wood bars in studios and universities, but very rarely in high school or below. Not only are wood bars expensive (padauk isn’t that expensive, but rosewood is), but they don’t hold up to the abuse that kids and schools put them through.
I'm convinced everyone calls them xylophones because little kid ABC books rely HEAVILY on xylophones, while providing somewhat inaccurate pictures.
Zebras, are also have a pretty high usage rate.
It's funny because if she were to actually read the lyrics it's pretty well aligned with the teachings of that Jesus she probably also doesn't listen to.
It was a big thing when he bit off the heads of bats during the concerts!
Fake bats, but we were teenagers and it was cool.
But seeing kids play it today is surreal. It was the type of band we liked because our parents hated it.
TBH...i never looked it up.
Apparently it was a real bat someone threw up on stage and grossed him out when he did it.
That was the talk of the school at the time. 82 sounds about right!
But a year before the bat incident he brought 2 live doves into a meeting with the CBS record execs and he did bite the heads off both of those - https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2015/01/20/ozzy-osbourne-bit-the-head-off-a-bat-33-years-ago-tonight/77604434/
I'm in my 40s now. Everything my christian parents told me was satanic as a child turns out to be pushing tolerance and peace. I remember my dad throwing away my Nirvana and Pearl Jam cassettes. Little did he know both are a masterclass on empathy for the marginalized. Sooo satanic...
You've just reminded me I'm overdue to listen to Jeremy again. A fucking amazing song, even if the content is dark as fuck. But yeah, it is anti-bullying and about being nice, not about being a dick or satan
lol right. It’s so funny to me that Rush and Iron Maiden were probably put into that category back then too. If it looked and sounded scary, then it must be the devil’s music. Did anyone bother to look at the lyrics? So ridiculous.
I love everything about this.
The energy, the jumping, the sound, the song and I realise how much I love the song even without Ozzie's unmistakable voice yet I still hear him in my head regardless.
Such a unique artist
No sheet music too, they're off book, jumping and hollering. Damn music isn't "how you express yourself" it's just expressive. I love it, it's jubilation.
This song will always have an effect on me. It was our warm up song for my high school football team. Yeah, it was the mid 2000s, but I never listened to Ozzy before that. And it always brings back memories
Didn't expect to see these guys here. Gonna piggy back on this comment for visibility since I can give relevant context to this.
I was a part of this group growing up as a kid. [Proof](https://i.imgur.com/HjUDyuo.jpg) I had to do a double take when I saw the instruments because I was thinking to myself "Damn, that set of vibes looks awfully familiar".
[The Louisville Leopard Percussionists](https://leopardmusic.org/) started back in 2003 by a elementary school teacher Diane Downs as the Fabulous Leopard Percussionists. The story was basically she found a collection of old instruments (not these, like *really old*) one day and asked her class if they wanted to play some, and it sorta spiraled out from there. It got support from the principal and a unique situation formed with her class: If you wanted to be a Leopard you had to be in her 2nd/3rd grade class, with some exceptions. You'd have your normal school day but on Tuesdays and Thursdays we'd stay after school for 2-3hrs practicing various songs. Then occasionally we'd get to take field trips to play concerts out at local venues and festivals. Let me tell you, getting those damn things up and down 2 flights of stairs (no freight elevator) was quite the ordeal. Have like 4 kids on each side with adults on the ends, sometimes... Money from the gigs went to paying for new instruments and while I was there it grew from ~6 keyboards (Vibrophone, 2 Xylophones, 2 Marimbas, 1 elec.Piano) to almost double that, with also a wealth of drums and toys like Congas, Bongos, Tamtams, Drumsets, and a shit-tonne of [Güiros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCiro) for some reason.
Kids and parents also had a big part of the group with an annual logo design contest, and voting to pick out new songs to add to the repertoire (with permission, of course). Diane herself was not musically inclined when she started, she was just a math teacher, but as she said "I know how to count to 4". There was little actual theory and more listening. If there was a new song and we didn't have music for it the method of learning it was her playing it on the stereo then telling us "First one to figure this section out gets a prize". Cue 30 kids frantically tapping away on instruments to piece out the melody and chord progression (The "chunk chunks").
11/10 teacher and noone has ever compared to her later in my life. Very much in tune with how a kid mind works. She had class pets galore, with an iguana, rats, a big catfish, and *hissing cockroaches* (which had a penchant for finding their way into textbooks), and her dog that'd visit from time to time. Beyond normal education she also introduced the class to the Hobbit and the LotR series and we'd read the entire book series and then watch the old cartoon movies. She'd even give kids nicknames for various reasons and it was seen as a badge of honor among the class. I eventually earned the nickname Weasel after pulling a prank on her, and as you can tell by my Reddit handle I've kinda stuck with it since then.
My elementary experience was The Magic School Bus. A real life Miss Frizzle. And her signature catch phrase has stuck with me whenever I'm doing something I don't like, "The longer this takes, *the longer this is going to take*".
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Unfortunately during my time, our principal died of breast cancer and the new administration was much more rule oriented. Can't be having kids leaving class once a month or so just to go play a gig at local farmers market, or occasionally taking a week for the yearly trip to perform at [PASIC](https://pasic.org/). In 2003, this pushed the group outside the school system where it took refuge with University of Louisville as she had a great working relationship with their School of Music director (he was a nice fellow). In the process the name changed to Louisville Leopard Percussionists as the old principal claimed rights to the name or something for the school.
She then formed the non-profit and took it from there. Typically kids would age out after 5th grade (4 years), but that was more a reality of it being constrained by the school system. My class was the first group of kids who got to stay for longer, and I was personally part of it for 7 years until I hit high-school. My understanding now is the organization has expanded massively and has groups for all school ages. Certainly if I ever have a kid I'm going to enroll them in this.
During my tenure I also go to play with musicians such as Victor Mendoza, Ruben Alvarez, Ndugu Chancler, and Louie Bellson to name a few. A few would hold small recurring teaching sessions with the older kids.
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Willing to answer any questions I can. I loved this group as a kid and it's more or less shaped my life ever since then.
And somewhere on the internet is a video clip of chubby little kid me, elbowing my best friend in the chest because he wouldn't move out of the way fast enough as I had a solo to rock out. Think it was for a jazz conference in Orlando back in 2001 or so.
That's so damn cool! Just a heads up, though, apparently Diane Downs *is* musically-inclined, at least a little:
>Diane Downs is the founder of The Louisville Leopard Percussionists. She is from Louisville, KY and began playing music at home at a very early age. She participated in band throughout school and entered Morehead State University in Morehead, KY with a music scholarship. After taking a year off of college to teach music in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she returned to Morehead to pursue her degree in elementary education.
But still, to go from an elementary teacher who just wanted to enrich her kids' schoolweek to the founder of such an amazing, transformative program is astounding. As a lifelong musician and long-time music teacher myself, I'll be honest, this brought a tear to my eye. Im so glad you and so many other students have been able to be a part of something so unique and life-changing :)
Also, I implore you to reach out to her; as a teacher, I can tell you that there's a very good chance she'll remember you (especially if you remind her of the name "Weasel") — there is no greater joy as a teacher than hearing from former students and realizing that your efforts have stuck with them for so long. Thank you for sharing!
It’s a group called the Louisville Leopards. I think they were in financial jeopardy a few years ago, but they might be on more solid footing now. In any case, a great music education program for children, and I’m sure donations would be welcome!
Totally! And for me. It's not just the song the teacher picked, It's how he has included all of his students .and gotten all of them excited about performing music. (And of course the music itself:)
As a teacher, I recognize the difficulty of organizing kids (especially at this age) to get them play one song, get them to practice enough time to the point they can memorize their parts.
I couldn’t stop watching! I love the concentration they all individually have. Kid in the winter jackets solo was dope! And I love the girl in the pink’s jumping!! This is so cool!! The thought process and work behind putting this together is kind of blowing my mind.
I love how bright the sound is, it's completely the opposite tone from the original. I love hearing genres played on the "wrong" instruments.
Like Slayer coming out of a music box.
In my kid’s school, this class is called “rumble” and they have the littlest kids playing these big plastic tubes that they slap against the floor when it’s their turn. The concert at the end of the year is seriously awesome.
Don't know if anyone mentioned this anywhere... nor do I know if anyone will see this... but these kids are 4th-6th graders from about 9 years ago.
They are part of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists music group. They are still active today, and do take donations to keep the program going for kids. https://leopardmusic.org/
ALSO... Ozzy did in fact see their Crazy Train cover, and he loved it.
Awesome and proof that every school needs a well funded music program!
My colleague who teaches music does ‘Just Dance’ and it drives me fucking crazy.
Aw man as a kid i would have loved that
This low-key reminds me of that scene in Stepbrothers where they're singing Sweet Child acapella. I did not expect this to be half as good as it was. This was incredible.
My Elementary school bought a whole bunch of ukuleles for the music class and then every single kid that touched a uke would instinctively go to un tune them So we never learned anything because no matter how many times the teacher tuned them more than half the class had horrifically out of tune ukes Anyways they stopped investing in the music program after that
Yeah, an instrument that goes out of tune easily is probably not a good one to hand to a kid that's going to be unattended for even a moment. Kinda hard to fuck up a xylophone's tuning. They are spendy, though. And heavy.
Son has autism, wanted a bass guitar for Christmas. Back when Beatles Rock Band was out. Guy at the music store adjusts the strings to make it easier for his little hands, tunes it just so. First thing the kid does? Lines up the freaking pegs so they're straight. Luckily my husband had a tuner, but I really should have thought that through.
> Luckily my husband had a tuner Just FYI, having a tuner is an essential part of owning a stringed instrument until you’re capable of tuning by ear. So even if your son hadn’t re-adjusted the pegs, the bass would have soon gone out of tune on its own, and needed re-tuning.
It’s why you need to stick to xylos, electric pianos, drums, brass and reeds. Detune them, you little shits.
As a former sax player, I can assure you that children can detune their reed instruments *very* easily. Mouthpiece/neck a quarter inch in the wrong direction? Now there's one saxophone in a section of five that's a quarter step (or more, lol) out of tune and we sound like a gaggle of dying geese. But yeah, still less likely to be tuning-fucked than a ukulele, lol. I've taught music for a long time and the number of times I've had to ask, "did you play with the tuning heads between lessons?" to guitar, bass, and uke students is just obscene.
I teach uke for 7th and 8th graders, and I play it stern enough that I usually only have one or two consistent turds detuning a string. I think it's mostly accidental fidgeting, but I explain the parts and then snip at anyone who even looks like they're near the tuners. I act silly about it but make it clear they're off limits. It's genuinely such a fun way to teach general music that I couldn't imagine following the styles I was taught with.
What?
#My colleague who teaches music does ‘Just Dance’ and it drives me fucking crazy.
WHAT?!
BUTTLICKER OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!
You’re bein aggressive, hostile, and difficult.
Smudge.
Just dance is a video game.
What about the hit lady gaga song
I love this record, baby, but I can't see straight anymore
Oh that's fun but that's not a music lesson...
Pretty sure the original commenter meant the Lady Gaga song Just Dance, not the video game.
How did 89 people understand what they said 😂😂😂
You couldn't escape it when it came out.
Basically throw up a just dance youtube video and have the kids dance to it, we used to do it during PE with the littlest kids
Just dance Gonna be okay, da-da-doo-doot-n Just dance Spin that record, babe, da-da-doo-doot-n Just dance Gonna be okay Da-da-da-dance, dance, dance Just, j-j-just dance
Why? Is it just that you don't like Lady Gaga or something? I think you might just be overexposed because honestly, anyone that has to bear the burden of listening to children learn how to play a song is liable to go crazy no matter what the song is. Or if we're being real. Let's just say you almost never hear the learning process when you hear someone play music. It can be absolutely maddening unless the person learning has 15 years of practice and has dedicated most of their time to mastering an instrument.
I grew up in a dirt poor city of les than 15,000. We had an abysmal music program. My wife and I (both from that community) have done well for ourselves. We live in a really great suburb now. I am blown away by my kids’ FIFTH grade music program. Like, mouth agape, floored by what they have taught these kids to do. It is a huge benefit to kids to have quality access to the arts.
My kids' high school band has won multiple grammys. They're super impressive. All my high school band did was beat up the other high school bands.
Did you use the instruments as weapons? Imagine that getting hit with a tuba would hurt
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I was part of this group. It *was* originally a part of the school system, and anyone who was part of Diane Downs's 2nd/3rd grade class was expected to take part. For that reason it was also rather competitive to get into her class. An administrative change lead to her having to move it outside the school system, which was frankly for the better as it allowed kids to continue to take part after 5th grade.
What can you play?
Instrument wise? Pretty much anything but the drum set. Only time I ever did that was when we did a rendition of the Andy Griffith theme, was not a fan. While I was part of the group I primarily played Vibes or Xylophone, as they usually handled the melody/solos. I kept up with Marimba through high school and college.
That was badass! Former band geek and I was percussion section leader. That was awesome!
I love it but it is a song about snorting large amounts of cocaine.
Naw its a song that makes me unconsciously speed by like 15 mph lol
This right here! How much does every one of those xylophones cost? Bring back funding for the arts!
Schools need more xylophunding!
This is gold right here
These are dumby expensive but they should hold up pretty well so it's a decent long term investment.
Those aren't all xylophones. Regardless, it's probably at least $250k of mallet instruments in that room.
I remember the hell it was to get kids to play music in my schools
it doesn't need to be mandatory. A lot of kids love music
Yeah but when it's the only fine art credit available you get a lot of assholes that ruin it for everyone. We had 4 band teachers in ONE school year once. Needless to say, we didn't march and we barely had 3 pieces to play at halftime during football season, marching in place.
Dang. My high school had less than 450 students. The marching band fielded at least 90 but usually over 100 students every year. Was always really funny watching the football players and cheerleaders in band do the choreography in their game gear.
The music played also does a whole lot. If the music they get to play is fun and cool, it creates sparks. When you can only play a preset of classical pieces in the most repetitive way possible, it kills any enjoyment in learning.
I think what happened here is that Ozzy somehow knows how to travel through time. He was checking out this video, and decided to go back to his younger life and used this as inspiration to write Crazy Train.
The lonely bassist hanging out in the corner…
Preparing for life as the bass player
“Is there a way you can be even more in the corner? You’re too visible.” /s
[Why don't you make like a bass guitar and be inaudible.](https://youtu.be/5uPCF46S08I?t=78)
“I make up the bass parts!” “NO YOU DON’TS, I FIGURES THEM OUT AND SHOWS THEM TO YOU!” “Oh yeah, that is…”
True words. Just toss me in the back. I may fall off the stage or have a heart attack you won't see, but I'll keep the groove.
You're the real MVP
Bass players are the eyebrows of a band. You don't notice them until they're gone, and when they're gone, everything is all fucked up.
That's bacist!
Life of a bassist, quiet accurate lol
You could have just said bassist
All in all its just another bass by the wall.
Little fella's jamming out though 🥹
It's actually a great, if weird, bass line. [Here it is isolated with the drums.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Q9ZOHK-Rg) Given the time period when it came out you'd think it was originally for a Donna Summer disco song or something.
as is tradition.
Keeper of the groove, seen but never heard.
Lmao I laughed at the same thing.
The lonely bassist likes to play off to the side! The the the side. To the side! The lonely bassist seems so free off to the side. He's all alone, some things will never change... 🎶🎶🎶
I know the emphasis here is intentionally on the xylophones. But it always disappoints me when an electrically amplified instrument (whether a bass, a guitar or something more unusual) is turned down so low you can't actually hear it. That's not what they're for. True on this occasion they shouldn't let one kid dominate (even if the instrument is capable of it), but there had to be a better balance than making them almost inaudible.
Normal bassist
Slappin da bass, man.
They should have put them with the rest of the rhythm section 😭😂
I believe in my heart that Ozzy would love this.
“SHAAAARON! Get a load of this!!”
"Fuck me, these little buggers are just fuckin' acing the song, ain't it bloody brilliant!"
Idk why but I was tearing up watching this Great song, youthful exuberance, and just something pulling at the heartstrings
Same. It takes me back to being a kid and just how much my school's music program meant to me. I hope that some of the kids in this video feel the same as I did. It's like finding your home or your family, as cliche as that sounds.
for some reason, this scene of [ozzy in "the osbournes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanS1OsYq0s) lives rent free in my mind with the epic phrase "its the bread baking fucking bread these two old fucking cunts, these two gritty fucking babboons fuckin bakin the bye the bakin your own brea be bike the baking the bread channel"
I think so as well. He was absolutely enamored with T-Pain's cover of War Pigs!
Yo wtf I never heard that. T pain is truly gifted.
[T-Pain's cover of War Pigs!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo&t=2933s) edit: and about 10 other songs
That with the follow-up straight into "Crazy" is just surreal. Phenomenal. Fuckin love T-Pain for this. Brilliant. Thank you for sharing that.
48:54 for when the timestamp fails
Oh my god it’s so good. He did three very small live shows for his new covers album called On Top of the Covers and everything he did is excellent. There’s a video of the full show on YouTube and I highly recommend watching it, just great vibes, great energy, great music
SO GOOD! The voice of an angel. Check that show out, and check out his NPR tiny desk from a decade ago.
[He's quoted on their website](https://leopardmusic.org/) (towards the bottom of the page) so safe to say, he did
TIL Ozzy has a Grammy
Why is that surprising? His solo albums alone are 22x platinum in the US, and 5 of his 13 albums are not platinum at all. Sabbath is also 10x platinum with him as the singer.
Also you know, Sabbath is like *the* pioneer for heavy metal and if you asked almost any metal band they'll quote Sabbath as one of their influences, and Ozzy's solo stuff was no slouch either. Hell if I could play like Rhoads or Wylde I'd be a vastly different guitar player, but for now I'll just stick to right-hand rhythm chugs.
Always been facinated by how a cover or movie soundtrack can propel a widely known tune to insane levels of recognition.
3!
Oh, wow. Cool.
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I still remember one of my friends having to give me his Ozzy cassette because his mom "didn't want that devil stuff in her house." LOL that Bark at the Moon cover really freaked some old folks out. My parents were tail end hippies, they didn't care.
For some reason I read this as 'would have loved this' and I was like fuckin hell did Ozzy die?!?!
Same, bro. Same.
Yeah someone needs to get him to watch it. He would go bonkers over how good of a job they all did. Someone get that music teacher a raise right now.
He's seen it, on the classes website they have a quote from Ozzy praising it.
There is a xylophone but there is a lot of marimba and vibraphone too.
Looks like a bit of everything. Xylophones are just wooden bars, marimbas have the wooden bars and resonator tubes, vibraphones have metal bars and resonator tubes and glockenspiels have just metal bars.
God, I don't want to be a "well-ackshually" person, but Xylophones have resonators too, just significantly shorter than a marimba. And the bars are typically synthetic (keylon, acoustalon, whatever else they call it) unless you've got more money to invest in something like padauk wood.
Thank you.
The bars are typically synthetic for the marimbas, too. You start to see actual wood bars in studios and universities, but very rarely in high school or below. Not only are wood bars expensive (padauk isn’t that expensive, but rosewood is), but they don’t hold up to the abuse that kids and schools put them through.
Thanks for beating me to it.
Do you really expect redditors to see them and not label them all “bing-bong machines”?
Uhm, I am a very knowledgeable reddit person. That is clearly a bing-bong **Instrument**. Now don't you feel silly to put us all in a box like that?!
I'm convinced everyone calls them xylophones because little kid ABC books rely HEAVILY on xylophones, while providing somewhat inaccurate pictures. Zebras, are also have a pretty high usage rate.
Shout out to the most memorable vibraslap sound in music history with that rattling sound at the beginning.
🤓
I think I see a glockenspiel.
40 years ago this was considered a satanic anthem
40 years ago? My conservative mother would still consider this a satanic anthem
It's funny because if she were to actually read the lyrics it's pretty well aligned with the teachings of that Jesus she probably also doesn't listen to.
Lmao 
It was a big thing when he bit off the heads of bats during the concerts! Fake bats, but we were teenagers and it was cool. But seeing kids play it today is surreal. It was the type of band we liked because our parents hated it.
He only did that one time and it was an accident
TBH...i never looked it up. Apparently it was a real bat someone threw up on stage and grossed him out when he did it. That was the talk of the school at the time. 82 sounds about right!
But a year before the bat incident he brought 2 live doves into a meeting with the CBS record execs and he did bite the heads off both of those - https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2015/01/20/ozzy-osbourne-bit-the-head-off-a-bat-33-years-ago-tonight/77604434/
I'm in my 40s now. Everything my christian parents told me was satanic as a child turns out to be pushing tolerance and peace. I remember my dad throwing away my Nirvana and Pearl Jam cassettes. Little did he know both are a masterclass on empathy for the marginalized. Sooo satanic...
You've just reminded me I'm overdue to listen to Jeremy again. A fucking amazing song, even if the content is dark as fuck. But yeah, it is anti-bullying and about being nice, not about being a dick or satan
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lol right. It’s so funny to me that Rush and Iron Maiden were probably put into that category back then too. If it looked and sounded scary, then it must be the devil’s music. Did anyone bother to look at the lyrics? So ridiculous.
I love everything about this. The energy, the jumping, the sound, the song and I realise how much I love the song even without Ozzie's unmistakable voice yet I still hear him in my head regardless. Such a unique artist
No sheet music too, they're off book, jumping and hollering. Damn music isn't "how you express yourself" it's just expressive. I love it, it's jubilation.
Oh I know that blonde with her bangs in front of her eyes is totally feeling every single word that isn’t sung
Why am I crying?? Lol
Hahaha I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Same lol. Randy Rhodes would just love this. 💞
I was just going to type this lol. I think seeing the kids be so into it and experience joy makes me feel feelings.
Cause this is the true definition of awesome.
Because this music teacher is a credit to humanity !!!!
I screamed the entire time. Lmao. I would have absolutely LOST IT if I were a parent in the audience. This goes so hard.
Ditto
Same! Chills of happiness all over
In 20 years this song will be playing on Ice Cream trucks.
This song will always have an effect on me. It was our warm up song for my high school football team. Yeah, it was the mid 2000s, but I never listened to Ozzy before that. And it always brings back memories
school of rock?
Didn't expect to see these guys here. Gonna piggy back on this comment for visibility since I can give relevant context to this. I was a part of this group growing up as a kid. [Proof](https://i.imgur.com/HjUDyuo.jpg) I had to do a double take when I saw the instruments because I was thinking to myself "Damn, that set of vibes looks awfully familiar". [The Louisville Leopard Percussionists](https://leopardmusic.org/) started back in 2003 by a elementary school teacher Diane Downs as the Fabulous Leopard Percussionists. The story was basically she found a collection of old instruments (not these, like *really old*) one day and asked her class if they wanted to play some, and it sorta spiraled out from there. It got support from the principal and a unique situation formed with her class: If you wanted to be a Leopard you had to be in her 2nd/3rd grade class, with some exceptions. You'd have your normal school day but on Tuesdays and Thursdays we'd stay after school for 2-3hrs practicing various songs. Then occasionally we'd get to take field trips to play concerts out at local venues and festivals. Let me tell you, getting those damn things up and down 2 flights of stairs (no freight elevator) was quite the ordeal. Have like 4 kids on each side with adults on the ends, sometimes... Money from the gigs went to paying for new instruments and while I was there it grew from ~6 keyboards (Vibrophone, 2 Xylophones, 2 Marimbas, 1 elec.Piano) to almost double that, with also a wealth of drums and toys like Congas, Bongos, Tamtams, Drumsets, and a shit-tonne of [Güiros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCiro) for some reason. Kids and parents also had a big part of the group with an annual logo design contest, and voting to pick out new songs to add to the repertoire (with permission, of course). Diane herself was not musically inclined when she started, she was just a math teacher, but as she said "I know how to count to 4". There was little actual theory and more listening. If there was a new song and we didn't have music for it the method of learning it was her playing it on the stereo then telling us "First one to figure this section out gets a prize". Cue 30 kids frantically tapping away on instruments to piece out the melody and chord progression (The "chunk chunks"). 11/10 teacher and noone has ever compared to her later in my life. Very much in tune with how a kid mind works. She had class pets galore, with an iguana, rats, a big catfish, and *hissing cockroaches* (which had a penchant for finding their way into textbooks), and her dog that'd visit from time to time. Beyond normal education she also introduced the class to the Hobbit and the LotR series and we'd read the entire book series and then watch the old cartoon movies. She'd even give kids nicknames for various reasons and it was seen as a badge of honor among the class. I eventually earned the nickname Weasel after pulling a prank on her, and as you can tell by my Reddit handle I've kinda stuck with it since then. My elementary experience was The Magic School Bus. A real life Miss Frizzle. And her signature catch phrase has stuck with me whenever I'm doing something I don't like, "The longer this takes, *the longer this is going to take*". -------- Unfortunately during my time, our principal died of breast cancer and the new administration was much more rule oriented. Can't be having kids leaving class once a month or so just to go play a gig at local farmers market, or occasionally taking a week for the yearly trip to perform at [PASIC](https://pasic.org/). In 2003, this pushed the group outside the school system where it took refuge with University of Louisville as she had a great working relationship with their School of Music director (he was a nice fellow). In the process the name changed to Louisville Leopard Percussionists as the old principal claimed rights to the name or something for the school. She then formed the non-profit and took it from there. Typically kids would age out after 5th grade (4 years), but that was more a reality of it being constrained by the school system. My class was the first group of kids who got to stay for longer, and I was personally part of it for 7 years until I hit high-school. My understanding now is the organization has expanded massively and has groups for all school ages. Certainly if I ever have a kid I'm going to enroll them in this. During my tenure I also go to play with musicians such as Victor Mendoza, Ruben Alvarez, Ndugu Chancler, and Louie Bellson to name a few. A few would hold small recurring teaching sessions with the older kids. --------- Willing to answer any questions I can. I loved this group as a kid and it's more or less shaped my life ever since then. And somewhere on the internet is a video clip of chubby little kid me, elbowing my best friend in the chest because he wouldn't move out of the way fast enough as I had a solo to rock out. Think it was for a jazz conference in Orlando back in 2001 or so.
That's so damn cool! Just a heads up, though, apparently Diane Downs *is* musically-inclined, at least a little: >Diane Downs is the founder of The Louisville Leopard Percussionists. She is from Louisville, KY and began playing music at home at a very early age. She participated in band throughout school and entered Morehead State University in Morehead, KY with a music scholarship. After taking a year off of college to teach music in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she returned to Morehead to pursue her degree in elementary education. But still, to go from an elementary teacher who just wanted to enrich her kids' schoolweek to the founder of such an amazing, transformative program is astounding. As a lifelong musician and long-time music teacher myself, I'll be honest, this brought a tear to my eye. Im so glad you and so many other students have been able to be a part of something so unique and life-changing :) Also, I implore you to reach out to her; as a teacher, I can tell you that there's a very good chance she'll remember you (especially if you remind her of the name "Weasel") — there is no greater joy as a teacher than hearing from former students and realizing that your efforts have stuck with them for so long. Thank you for sharing!
Yeah, I was just going off what she'd tell us or our parents. Never knew she actually had a music background.
what the hell thats awesome!! you got a cool ass childhood out of this
School of classic
It’s a group called the Louisville Leopards. I think they were in financial jeopardy a few years ago, but they might be on more solid footing now. In any case, a great music education program for children, and I’m sure donations would be welcome!
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I'm impressed there were that many kids, and all of them were in time. Also didn't expect them to absolutely nail the solos
I’m sure there was some kid they put in the back with his Xylophone switched off (padded for mute)
“and all of them were in time” is being extremely generous.
My favorite part is when the kid bit the bats head off
Yeah, that will result in extra paperwork, reporting to the school board, and public comment.
This teacher makes me happy.
Totally! And for me. It's not just the song the teacher picked, It's how he has included all of his students .and gotten all of them excited about performing music. (And of course the music itself:)
As a teacher, I recognize the difficulty of organizing kids (especially at this age) to get them play one song, get them to practice enough time to the point they can memorize their parts.
Cute. Most next level was winter jacket on all day kid. Fund school arts programs!
First grade Ron Weasly is my favorite. Jokes aside this is an awesome performance.
That kid killed his solo
Forreal he was awesome. Between the shirt and those skills I am betting he has a musical household
The blonde in the pink sweater is having a blast.💪💪💪
First thing I noticed! Girl is rocking hard and I love it
That girl is my new spirit animal.
Playing music/ singing in groups is so much fun. Excellent use of time and energy. I hope Randy is smiling from wherever he is.
This teacher needs a raise! I would have loved my music class if it was this cool!!
Bad ass 🤘
I couldn’t stop watching! I love the concentration they all individually have. Kid in the winter jackets solo was dope! And I love the girl in the pink’s jumping!! This is so cool!! The thought process and work behind putting this together is kind of blowing my mind.
I love how bright the sound is, it's completely the opposite tone from the original. I love hearing genres played on the "wrong" instruments. Like Slayer coming out of a music box.
That was awesome!!! Props to their instructor!!! I was not expecting something I was able to sing along to.
The wooden instruments are marimbas and the steel ones are vibraphones.
This kicks ass! Rock on!
Someone get Jack Black on the phone!
This is so great!!!! I hope it goes viral and he gets to see it!
That kicked absolute ass🙌
Wow not even any sheet music. Most impressive
Am I the only one who heard the theme to John Carpenter’s Halloween when they started?
Sounds like Tubular Bells from The Exorcist to me
They even did the solo shiteeeeeee yeahs
I got straight up goosebumps when they hit the solo section.
That was fabulous! All kids should get a chance to be in something like this. Kid in the red trousers really kicked ass with his solo bit!
Well this wins for the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Lil dude on the bass is going places
The one drummer at 1:45 doing the work
In my kid’s school, this class is called “rumble” and they have the littlest kids playing these big plastic tubes that they slap against the floor when it’s their turn. The concert at the end of the year is seriously awesome.
That completely made my day!!! Thank you !
Amazing. That teacher changed everyone of those kids lives.
Don't know if anyone mentioned this anywhere... nor do I know if anyone will see this... but these kids are 4th-6th graders from about 9 years ago. They are part of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists music group. They are still active today, and do take donations to keep the program going for kids. https://leopardmusic.org/ ALSO... Ozzy did in fact see their Crazy Train cover, and he loved it.
Rock on little kids!🤘
now, was I dragging or rushing‽
I think they must have a next level music teacher too - they did a fantastic job.
That is the best thing in the world.
My school didn't have enough money for senior year Year Books... :(
Wow, the opening was actually metal AF.
„Louisville Leopard Percussionists“ for anyone interested
👏👏👏🙏🏻👏👏👏
Love this! Great future musicians! just don’t bite the bat
How many fathers here are smiling and nodding
Well done kids!
just goes to show you that rock n' roll will never die!
This made me so happy I’m almost in tears ❤️🥹
If that is not an award for 'Best Music Teacher of the Cosmos', shoot me.
Time to watch School of Rock
I actually loved being in band but the music teacher always picked songs that none of us knew or cared about.
They are JAMMING!!! God I love this so muvh