TitleGreen Light
ComposerJohn Legend & Andre 3000
ArrangerBrice Olion
EnsembleMarching Band
GenreHip Hop
Rating9.5 / 10
Audio Link (MP3)Green Light
Green Light (in F)
Green Light (short version)
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Description

This is probably my favorite hip-hop song out right now. It's in the key of G and usually the key would've been changed to something that's more "marching band friendly" since marching band players love flats. But for this arrangement the key was left as it was. This means a lot of Gb which can be a tricky note for tuning, but it's a trade off for maintaining the association to the original song.

The playback s the long arrangement that has the first two verses a short bridge and closes with the chorus. There is a shorter version that only has the 2nd verse and the chorus. All in all it sounds fun, and up beat like the original song. But it's fast and certain instruments (mellos) have high parts that can make it a little hard on the chops.

**P.S.**
Ok, so after writing all of that I did go back and transpose the piece into the key of F and decided that the difference was pretty negligible. So now, I have both versions readily available. The playback from the "Download MP3" link is in the key of F, if you want to compare you can listen to the one in the key of G here