EE (Lots of Information): 26 September

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).

 

  1. 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.
  2. Attendance: Pleasemark in the dates that you will be awayon the attendance sheet at the front of the room.  This helps with planning.
  3. Music: ONHB will provide you an initial set of music.  If you needreplacement parts, please coordinate with your neighbourto acquire them.
  4. Brass: Please bring a towelto empty musical condensation on.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.