Hello,
One week of sectionals to go! Hope to see you on Hallowe’en! Trick or treat? (trick only if you’re a bass player)
-Adrian
ATTACHMENTS (on email)
-Buccaneer suite movement 1 reduced score
-Buccaneer suite movement 1 practice file with reduced tempo
-Buccaneer suite movement 1 new electric bass part
-Invicta reduced score
-Invicta reduced tempo practice file sent in a separate email.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Band notes are posted on the website at: https://ottawanewhorizons.com/for-members/band-notes/
Flutes: I will provide an Invicta part without so many high notes at rehearsal
Altos 1 and 2: Buccaneer Suite movement 1: pls omit 2beforeB to 4afterB, and omit first two bars of coda.
Alto 2: Buccaneer Suite movement 1: play cue at E always. Thanks!
Basses: New bassline part for Buccaneer 1 and 2 will be provided.
Full band: Music Room 154 from 6:30-7:30PM.
Refreshments: Room 142 (Staff Room) from 7:30-7:45PM.
Sectionals: 7:45-8:45PM.
(!) Potsdam, NY mass band: 04 November, 1-7PM. Sign up with Jackie!
(!) Concert Date: 10 December, 3-5PM (TBC).
- You are invited to contribute $2 for breaktime juice and biscuits.
- Attendance: Please mark in the dates that you will be awayon the attendance sheet at the front of the room. This helps with planning.
- Music: ONHB will provide you an initial set of music. If you need replacement parts, please coordinate with your neighbourto acquire them.
ORDER OF REHEARSAL
This week (week 6):
I’m a Believer
Phantom of the Opera
Buccaneer Suite, movement 1
Next week plan (week 7):
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Whispers from Beyond
Invicta
Buccaneer Suite, movement 1
Warmup: A good individual warm-up involves literally warming (temperature) up your instrument, reinforcing beautiful tone with long notes while controlling starts and ends, reinforcing smooth transitions between notes that are spaced apart (brass harmonics, octaves in flutes and saxophones, and clarinet 12ths), and practising clean articulation via scales and arpeggios. Following this, one may look over musical sections and steadying rhythm.
SECTIONALS
This week plan (week 6)
FLUTES, OBOES, and CLARINETS-SHEILA Stage
ALTO SAXOPHONES-ANGELA Library 108
ALLBRASS/LOWSAXES/ALL BASSES-ADRIAN Room 142 (Staff Room)
PERCUSSION-KYLE Room 143 (guidance office)
Next week plan (week 7)
Full band both hours. EE may either be in the music room, on the stage, or in the library: TBC. I expect the stage.
PIECES
Buccaneer Suite
http://www.lakestatepublications.com/index.php/buccaneer-suite.html
Phantom of the Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojNvEnZ1W2c
Whispers from Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7bX1_lYxA
Invicta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmtUYDXuKLU
I’m a Believer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6j91Feey3E
Take Me Home, Country Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2Yj6I7Xbg
SECTION NOTES (refer to order of rehearsal for pieces to practise – same notes as before)
INVICTA
Upper woodwinds/altos@23: note that this rhythm is a straight half and two quarters whereas the bassline has syncopation (dotted quarter, dotted quarter, and quarter per bar).
Upper woodwinds@70-78: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 2:15.
Alto saxophones@62-70: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 1:58.
Alto saxophones@78-94: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 2:30 (listen for the middle horns that share your line).
All low instruments@1-6: practise for confidence in changing time signatures, especially for bars 2 and 4.
Trombones/TSax@9-13: listen to the recording for this rhythm. Bar 9 must be fluent as I will have no opportunity to help aside from giving the tempo. Bar 11 is an immediate quietening of dynamic.
Trombones/TSax@132-144: look over rhythm and pyramid chord 7 bars in.
Percussion@25-30: solo passages, to look over.
Percussion@124-132: solo passages (SD, BD, Timp), to look over.
percussion@last4bars: look over.
BUCCANEER SUITE
movement 1
Upper woodwinds/altos@top-5: look over for rhythm; practise with metronome to cross-check.
Low woodwinds/low brass@top-B: practise with recording for feedback on time signature changes.
Trumpets@C-D: look over; use recording for feedback on rhythm.
baritone sax/tenor sax/euphonium: A-B practise melody.
movement 2
all good J
movement 3
Percussion: SD feature; look over.
Basses: E-G. No others have that bassline except bass clarinet (which we do not have).
I’M A BELIEVER
Flutes/Obs/Clarinets/Trps@29-35: look over melodic passage rhythm, especially the tie-overs between 30-31 and 31-32.
Altos/Clarinets@13-15: practise rhythm
Altos/Clarinets@35-54: look over melodic passage rhythm
WHISPERS FROM BEYOND
Upper woodwinds@67-73: look over.
3rd Clarinets@17-18: only you are playing here! Enjoy.
Notes for other parts withheld for now pending possible changes.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Everyone except percussion: look over 8-18
Everyone except basses and percussion: look over 102-110
Drums@38-58: look over
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS
Polishing: dynamics, musicality, etc.
