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Welcome to our podcast, Band BFFs. The podcast
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where we make your music selection less complicated.
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On today's episode, we will be discussing Choose
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Joy by Randall Standridge. Cheers to starting
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the conversation. This piece is a grade three
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on the Texas PML It is but it is something you
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could program. I think it just about any time
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of year not just for contest season It's about
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four minutes in length. It's in the key of concert
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e -flat double clarinet alto trumpet and trombone
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parts and in typical standard fashion a lot of
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percussion you you really really in order to
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cover all of the parts really well need a bodies
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and like I am currently weird playing this for
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a winter concert I think because it is it quotes
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owed to joy I thought it would be appropriate
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and fun to do at a winter concert I only have
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seven percussionists so even one of my percussion
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teachers is sitting in and helping cover a part
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because I didn't want to leave anything out so
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lots of percussion this piece is super high energy
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super high energy like the entire piece yeah
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there There is no downtime. Well, that's not
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true. There really is a calm middle section to
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it, but it is book -ended with lots of energy.
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It's marked at 160 in 4 -4, so the tempo is incredibly
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brisk. We have this idea at the very beginning,
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it opens with a two measure percussion, kind
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of build one and two and three and four and,
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and then the winds come in on beat four and there
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is four e into one, two e into three, four e
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into one, two and, and four. one. So there is
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this technique that happens in the flute, oboe.
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alto saxophone and first trumpet. Of course,
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it's doubled in some of the mallet instruments.
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It lays pretty easy in the fingers. So even though
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the speed is really fast on it and it's 16th
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notes, it's scalar and does lay relatively. And
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that's the easiest scale on trumpet, obviously.
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But that first trumpet part, you have got to
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put somebody who has a great range. You need
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a host. It sits in a high tessitura the entire
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time. So they need to have the range. and they
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need to have the clarity of articulation. The
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second trumpet part is not the same, so definitely
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put people up there that can function. That can
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handle it, that's right. So when I've heard some
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groups play this, I think one of the things that
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stands out to me most to be like a Danger Will
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Robinson is on this 16th note, four E into one,
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two E into three, do not clip the quarter note
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short. Oh yeah. Four E into one, two E into three,
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four E into one, that is gonna be the kid's natural
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tendency. that we get air all the way through
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those quarter notes and through that really that
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entire measure every time that happens. Lots
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of accent and style there's there's accent and
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style in all of the accompaniment parts in here
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so making you know sure that we execute that
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really well. I love this this whole introduction
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repeats a couple of times through the piece so
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that's kind of nice once you get it down it's
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a nice copy paste. You have a forte piano measure
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five a whole note tied to a dotted half note
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where everybody needs to get out of the way and
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make room for the horn and saxophones two and
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three and four and one two three it's a really
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really cool part and again like I said it comes
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back several times and then the horn is gonna
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end up sitting on a top line F for a little bit
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of time. So again, this one's a big horn feature
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type piece. And then this in particular is a
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big little feature moment. When we transition
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into measure 11, it does get a little calmer
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right here. We've got some really cool vibraphone
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and bell and xylophone stuff going on. This is
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a flute melody. So the clarinets and tubas and
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Load full transcript
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some of the tenor reed people are just sustaining
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with like a harmonic foundation and the flute.
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have a melody in a very nice comfortable range
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for them four and one two three four one two
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three very easy very calm beautiful playing the
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altos end up joining them with the same little
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idea we add some horn interjections in there
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as well but this really pretty melody very little
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percussion in this section except for mallet
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percussion and the euphonium doubles that horn
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interjection that she was talking about and it
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goes up a little bit higher to like high E flat
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and high F so your euphoniums need to be pretty
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good at being able to do that kind of stuff too
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because they're sitting in the same range. So
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back to percussion for just a second we had that
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really high energetic opening and I know we talked
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about some of the mallet instruments the snare
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part when it is big and full is often really
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active and of course at that tempo at 160 BPM
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when you're playing that digga that digga that
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digga digga digga that that's that's not easy
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and there's accents you need to make sure that
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they can play that and then that they can play
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that with a pretty soft touch otherwise that
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can get that can get noisy it can get really
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really noisy for sure and then at 19 we've got
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this really cool like big moment again with everybody
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kind of having a similar rhythm together one
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two and and four one two and and four one and
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and it's again it's written real high up for
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pretty much all the brass the trumpets are at
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the top of the staff trumpet one um the horns
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are up on higher e flat trombone is above the
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staff the lowest low brass is a high b flat yeah
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that's the lowest low brass yeah so it's it's
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It's up there, yep. The range sits up there.
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So this is kind of a full band moment where we're
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restating this one, two, and, and four, one,
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two, and, and four. When we get to measure, the
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whole ensemble is doing this together, when we
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get to measure 25, we have a dotted quarter,
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double 16th, one, and a three, and a lot of the
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upper voices have that first trumpet, the horn
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has it, your upper woodwinds, your altos all
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have that rhythm. So being really and lining
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that rhythm up together. Obviously when you learn
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it slower I would do it tongued and then add
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the slur and then speed it up so until their
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fingers are really comfortable with what that
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rhythm is. Yep at 27 the whole band is kind of
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coming down we have a tied note but now the two
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mallet parts get to really be featured we add
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in sleigh bells so percussion is kind of getting
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a little moment and then there's a chimes little
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feature, one, two, three, four, one, two, three.
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So that's pretty fun. And then it goes into a
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really pretty little flute solo. Now once the
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sleigh bells come in, they stay in for most of
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the piece and they are straight eighth notes
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at 160 BPM. So you are either going to need to,
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we have not gotten to this point in our preparation
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on this, but I know when I've played a piece
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similar, well it was a standard piece, Brave
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Spirit, before that had the sleigh. that were
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like that at a really fast pace, we mounted,
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we had like a single rack sleigh bells that were
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flat and we were able to mount it and have the
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student play it with mallets. So it kept the
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tempo really consistent and the jingle really
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consistent all the way through. That is so smart,
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I've never even heard of that. So that may be
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something you consider doing or at the very least
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you may have to trade it out between players
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because that... is physically taxing. Yes, no
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kidding. And like that would slow down. Yes.
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Yeah, playing it with mallets is way smart. Yeah.
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That's awesome. When we get to 31, now we're
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in this new idea. So the mallet instruments like
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Katie mentioned are doing all of this one and
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two and three and four and one and two and three.
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So there's this busyness there. And there is
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a flute solo. It starts off similarly to the
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beginning, four and one, two and three, four
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and one and two and three, four and one and two.
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It's a nice little, it sounds like a little,
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like you're riding on a sleigh. Really, really
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cute little melody. It passes off, the solo line
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passes off to the altos. And then there is accompaniment.
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There is support coming from the low reeds, but
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most of it really is in this flute clarinet.
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A clarinet comes in with a little small interject
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in solo as well. And they join the sax and the
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flute part. But it really is like these three
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solos. and percussion. Yep, yep. and that's only
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for eight measures though and then 39 now the
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trumpets are gonna take over the melody and they
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have something real similar but now both trumpet
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parts are playing the same thing but it's written
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down the range is easy finally yes and then it's
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just four one and two and three and four you
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know one and two and three four one and two and
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three and four you know one so like the rhythms
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are not ridiculously difficult it's just the
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execution of the time every They do the 16th
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notes. It's slurred. Yes, so that's good where
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you're not having to articulate at that speed
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But it doesn't mean that everything is slurred
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So you have to kind of make sure that you clean
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up all the stuff that isn't the slurred moments
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then the lows get this little like three and
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four and one, leading into measure 43, which
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I just always think it's fun when lows get to
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do something cool. And then we have this part
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where everybody's tonguing together. One and
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two and three and four and one and two and three
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and four and one and two. Yeah, so. Just lining
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that up is gonna be like I would put brackets
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around 43 and 44 and like do that probably on
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a loop just to make sure that it all lines up
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because then the melody part and the trumpet
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and the clarinet now is still 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
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1 & 2 & 3 so they're moving but the accompaniment
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is all on one note It needs to be way underneath
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and that's not easy to articulate that fast,
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that staccato, that soft. Right? All of those
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factors. This would definitely be a rep section.
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Then you've got the trumpets continuing on. And
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then horns. Then trumpets higher. All the way
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up to an A. Yeah, so it goes up pretty high for
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those trumpets, first trumpets. Then another
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little percussion feature for our measure and
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then we're back to four and a one, two and a
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three. The recap of the beginning. It's exactly
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like the beginning. So this is where it comes
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back for the first time. Now this next section,
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this is one of my favorite sections when we arrive
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at measure 59, it gets softer, it goes to a feeling
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into, it feels almost like this, well it says
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into, like it's in cut time. Like we have totally
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stretched out the melody just a little bit. The
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percussion still stays active. So there are still
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eighth notes in the mallets. The sleigh bells
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are still going. We got the little chimes moment
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again. One, two, three, four, one, two, three,
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four. But then we get this really, I love this
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section. It is in the tenor voices. They are
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playing, you know, one, two, three, four, one,
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two. and cut time, but it's one, three, one,
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three, one. It's really lovely, very pretty.
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They do have a measure. An octave jump from 67
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to 68. And we have spent a lot. Six, seven. Oh,
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God, Katie. I had to do it, I'm sorry. You guys,
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please don't judge. Just judge her, not me. Just
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me, not Laura. We really have spent a lot of
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time. I'm glad I haven't
actually identified
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the measure to them, but we have spent a lot
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of time working that octave. Oh they know. I
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assure you they do. Because it is slurred and
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it needs to sound relaxed. This whole N2 thing
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is very calm. Very calm. And then it continues
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on. The bass line is just supporting it. Then
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after they've had their, the tenor voices have
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had their moment. Now the upper woodwinds are
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going to come in and have the same little, like
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it's not the same melody. It's a counter melody,
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but it's got to be featured this time around,
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but it's still smooth. It's slurred. It's in
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like Laura mentioned, like it's the melody, but
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stretched out. And then the trumpets trumpet
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one comes in and kind of has its own little moment
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for two measures. And then it's, 79 we get this
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cool horn and alto part that is marked soaring.
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So it needs to be coming out of the mix and now
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the tenor voices have gone down. Flute and oboe
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are just doing straight up eighth notes. Kind
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of like what the marimba part has been the whole
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time. It's doubling what's happening in the xylophone
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here and it needs to be a whisper. It really
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is just the feeling of like... Kinetic energy
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underneath the other part, but you don't you
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really don't want to hear it, right? You want
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to feel the movement, but you don't really want
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to hear it So it needs to be very very controlled
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very subtle not overbearing in any way What needs
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to come through is the alto and horn line like
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Katie said and it's really beautiful The trumpets
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still have this kind of melodic idea, but then
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this horn and alto have this cool counter melody
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that soars over It's really really pretty rhythmically.
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It's very easy. What is no easy is making it
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sound calm, making it sound relaxed, and the
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range in the horn is up there. It gets up to
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E flats and Fs at the top of the staff. That
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really really pretty section. Yep. then this
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continues on for a while but now as Laura mentioned
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the trumpets are kind of like playing a different
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part with the horns and they just keep going
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higher and higher and higher so they're just
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doing like three one three one three one three
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one three one and they're going up to high A
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flat and possibly B flat. I don't know, it got
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cut off on this score. But I mean, it's going
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up really, really high and then it kind of comes
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down. So your first trumpets, like she mentioned,
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have to be really solid because we are 100 measures
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in and that's when they're playing above the
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staff. then we reach like another moment and
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now it says in four back to the energetic moment
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so we're less like slurry now we're going back
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to like the feeling from before with the transition
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we've got a big percussion moment again big chimes
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moment again times are super important yep and
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then we go back to the and the flutes but now
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the upper brass and well the trumpet one trombone
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one and you phony get to have the Ode to Joy
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melody. And tenor sax. They actually, yes. So
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there's still this active stuff in the woodwinds
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and percussion. This is one of the parts I'm
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talking about about the snare drummer needing
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to be able to like demonstrate great control.
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Great control. It's marked piano or it's marked
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forte but it does not need to be forte. Get them
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down. Let that Ode to Joy melody and the tenor
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voices and first trumpet come out and we've heard
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the four A into one, two A into three, four A
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into one. yeah that we can keep those upper woodwinds
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secondary. Yep and so they just have one two
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three four one two three four one two three four
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one and three don't breathe one two three four
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one two three four and then trombone two and
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trumpet on the second phrase add in so it's like
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getting stronger just by sheer numbers one and
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three four and now Everybody in the band is playing
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articulated eighth notes at 160. One and two
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and three and four. It's not everybody in the
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band. I mean everybody who's playing. That's
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right. It's the low brass and low reeds. My low
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brass and low reeds love this section. It is
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the section they practice more often than anything
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else. But the clarity of articulation, it is
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just them and xylophone. Xylophone is not playing
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the same thing, but what I have talked about
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is even though xylophone doesn't have the same
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part, same melodic part they are doing eighth
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notes like the wind players are and to listen
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to the clarity of articulation and the xylophone
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and try to match that so it's one and two and
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three and four and one and two and three four
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and one and two and three and they are moving
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they are moving that slide is moving those fingers
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are moving keeping everything nice and light
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it's mezzo forte it's not meant to sound heavy
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it's not meant to sound loud it's meant to sound
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clean mm -hmm so that is the key just making
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sure that it is really really clean and then
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the trumpet add in and they're playing not the
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melody but they're just doing like straight eighth
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straight eighth notes on one note and you want
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to make sure that you're they're not the focal
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point because you still want to be hearing the
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lower people that are being featured and then
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there's a melody in the sax and horn part for
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one for one for one it's a nice little counter
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idea to what you've been hearing the low breast
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and so that's the part that needs to be brought
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out and everybody else needs to be underneath
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then at 119 besides those voices now everybody
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is entering like flute and oboe and clarinet
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are now coming in and joining and they are also
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on the eighth note part so like Laura said this
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is about being clean and precise because there's
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a lot of people playing straight up, you know,
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staccato eighth notes together. And some people
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are changing notes and some people are staying
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on the same note. So making sure that that's
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appropriate. Yep. And then the trumpets have
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a little moment of melody. Then horn and clarinet,
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then the trumpet. It's kind of like the beginning.
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And then trumpets are up nice and high on A,
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G. Then it goes back to the beginning again.
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Oh, and there's one little key. Yes, the adorable
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little ding. Three ding on the bells. Oh my,
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on the bells. It is, it's so adorable. Yep, then
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it's literally like a recap from the beginning
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again. We still have another little horn and
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alto feature We go back to a little flute moment
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like the flute solo But now it's the flute oboe
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and first clarinet playing and it's easier Rhythms
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and everything and then the trumpets take over
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that melody and then we're building everybody
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up again one two three four one and The xylo
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and marimba and the flute oboe clarinet get a
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little moment of a cute little scale one two
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and three three, four, and one, three, four,
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one, and dum, bum, bum. And then it goes to the
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flutes. Then it's every one. Then it's the little
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flutes there. Yep. And then we get another little.
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Ode to Joy -ish moment. Yep, in the low grass
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and low reeds. Yep, and then this is like the
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end of the marching band like part. And down.
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This is really what I think of. It's like Forte
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piano and the upper people. I mean this literally
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could be a marching show. So you've got the bum
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bum bum bum bum bum bum and then flute and trumpet.
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They're getting the excitement going. Everybody
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else has one, three, one. Three and then horn.
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It literally and down. Yeah, it it does sound
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like be a marching band. Yeah, it could be a
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show Yeah, so it's like the most high -energy
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It piece ever like you definitely have to choose
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joy every day when you play this like it is super
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high energy It definitely has some technical
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demands and some articulation. Yes and huge kid
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magnet. Yes. Yeah, kids will love it because
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it's fun and The rhythms are not you're not gonna
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have to sit there and be like when do you come
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in, the and, beat one, blah, blah, blah, right?
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Like the rhythms are a little bit more easy.
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It's just, it's a long piece and just lots of
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fun stuff. And the range, I think the range is
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one of the more challenging aspects of the piece.
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For sure. Lots of fun, your kids will love it.
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So fun, yes. Well we hope you will consider programming
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Choose Joy in the future and thank you for joining
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us on this episode of Band BFFs.