Hello,
Thanks for a great second rehearsal and first for me. It’s great to see/feel that they got the AC fixed up for us. I’m also looking forward to meeting our new EE players coming in this week (more low-end!).
Please read below – it will take a few minutes. There have been some changes to the plan since last week.
-Adrian
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Band notes are posted on the website at: https://ottawanewhorizons.com/for-members/band-notes/
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.
(!) ONHB’s first AGM (Annual General Meeting): 15 October at 2PM.
(!) Potsdam, NY mass band: 04 November, 1-7PM. We go to Potsdam!
(!) Concert Date: 10 December, 3-5PM (TBC).
- You are invited to contribute$2 for breaktime juice and biscuits. To whom TBA as it is possibly someone delegated by Cathy in Bytown Beginners.
- Attendance: Pleasemark 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 needreplacement parts, please coordinate with your neighbourto acquire them.
- Brass: Please bring a towelto empty musical condensation on.
- Band room music stands:priority will be given to those with larger instruments. Upper woodwinds and altos: pleasebring your own music stands just in case. Everyone will need their music stand for clinics, which you can grab from your car at the break if need be.
- Coats and cases may go into the practice rooms under the “maximum capacity: 8000” sign. (The staff room will be available once winter hits.) Remember not to leave valuables unattended.
ORDER OF REHEARSAL
(Last week: Country Road, Invicta, Whispers from Beyond)
This week (week 3):
Take Me Home, Country Roads
I’m a Believer
Buccaneer Suite, movements 2 and 3.
Phantom of the Opera
Next week plan (week 4):
I’m a Believer
Buccaneer Suite, movement 1
Whispers from Beyond
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
Please put chairs and desks back to their classroom format at the end.
This week (week 3)
FLUTES and OBOES-SHEILA Room 112
CLARINETS-ANGELA (with basses: Sandy and Grant) Room 114
We need some upper woodwinds or trumpets to wheel chairs over from the stage to the far rooms before clinics. It is not practical for bass players to do this (3 trips…).
ALTO SAXOPHONES-PETER Library 108
TRUMPETS/FLUGELS-JESSICA Room 115
LOWBRASS/TENORS/BARIS-ADRIAN (with Leslie and Abby) Room 142 (Staff Room)
PERCUSSION-KYLE Stage or Room143 (guidance office)
Next week plan (week 4)
FLUTES and OBOES-SHEILA Room 112
CLARINETS-ANGELA Room 114
We need some upper woodwinds or trumpets to wheel chairs over from the stage to the far rooms before clinics. It is not practical for bass players to do this (3 trips…).
ALTO SAXOPHONES-PETER Library 108
TRUMPETS/FLUGELS-JESSICA Room 115
LOWBRASS/TENORS/BARIS/ALL BASSES-ADRIAN Room 142 (Staff Room)
PERCUSSION-KYLE Stage or Room143 (guidance office)
Side note: Room 110 available and free.
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
Upper woodwinds refers to piccolo, flutes, oboes, and clarinets.
Alto saxophones are “middle woodwinds” and “all woodwinds,” but not “upper woodwinds,” “lower woodwinds,” or “brass.”
Trumpets includes flugelhorns.
Electric basses and percussion always play*, unless indicated otherwise. *Snare Drum make a judgement call for appropriatenessJ.
Please use the “order of rehearsal” section above to prioritize/prioritise what you practise.
INVICTA
ALL: attached is an Invicta reduced score and a practice file, especially geared towards: ALTOS, TENORS, BARIS, EUPHS, TROMBONES, and BASSES, but all can use it.
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
Trumpets@A-B: flugelhorns only. This is originally a cornet solo and would like to use most conical (euphonium-like) trumpet sound available.
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.
