התמלול המלא של Upbeat

WEBVTT 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:10.320 Welcome to our podcast, Band BFFs. The podcast 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:12.660 where we make your music selection less complicated. 00:00:13.099 --> 00:00:15.859 On today's episode, we will be discussing Upbeat 00:00:15.859 --> 00:00:18.719 by Randall Standridge. Cheers to starting the 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:23.620 conversation. This piece is a blast. So cute. 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:27.899 It is a publisher grade 1 .5. It's about two, 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.059 two and a half minutes in length. It's really 00:00:30.059 --> 00:00:34.560 fast. Lots of energy, lots of repeated syncopated 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.520 rhythm, massive amounts of percussion, of course. 00:00:38.579 --> 00:00:41.880 There is a split clarinet part and split trumpet 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:46.380 parts. Everything else is pretty simplified except 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:48.960 percussion. There's an optional drum set part. 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.060 So like if you have a that can play that this 00:00:52.060 --> 00:00:55.079 this room this is like funk to me right so fun 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.899 so a drum set would be awesome but you can also 00:00:57.899 --> 00:01:00.740 split that out amongst lots of lots of different 00:01:00.740 --> 00:01:03.439 players if you need to and it is not on the Texas 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:06.959 PML and so Laura and I both said oh my gosh this 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.159 would be so fun to do with a region band because 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.219 it's just beefy enough but also not too out of 00:01:14.219 --> 00:01:19.560 reach so super super fun so the whole piece is 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:23.780 it's marked upbeat rock, it's at 144, it's in 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:26.060 the key of concert E flat, and it starts out 00:01:26.060 --> 00:01:28.859 with everybody having the same rhythm. One, and, 00:01:28.859 --> 00:01:31.640 and, and, and one. Little chromatism in there. 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:34.379 And then like timpani and drum set. One, and, 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.859 and, and, and one. Concert E flat, by the way, 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.340 I forgot to say that, sorry. So at the beginning, 00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:41.959 the first time you have that little part for 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:45.519 everybody, the final note on measure two, downbeat 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.680 of measure two goes down. One, and, and, and. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.599 and won. then it goes one and and and and one 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.439 and it goes up to the upper octave so the reason 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.920 I bring that up is because just for teaching 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:02.280 opportunities that's pretty cool you can teach 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.280 like your flutes how to play the lower C and 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:08.000 how to play the upper C with a good sound trumpets 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.360 same thing D with the kick slide upper D without 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.240 being out of tune things like that not everybody 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.500 goes up and down the octaves it's just flute 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:19.500 and trumpet but that's an excellent opportunity 00:02:19.370 --> 00:02:23.150 to always teach how to sound good in ranges of 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:24.810 your instrument that you don't always go to. 00:02:25.469 --> 00:02:26.849 As you mentioned, the drum set part. And that 00:02:26.849 --> 00:02:28.870 unison octave, right? I mean, this whole thing 00:02:28.870 --> 00:02:32.110 is unison. A lot, a lot of unison, yeah. So then 00:02:32.110 --> 00:02:34.389 there's this little rim shot, little snare jump, 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:37.610 digga digga rim shot. And then at five, it's 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:40.250 so cute. It's a digga digga rim shot. Digga digga 00:02:40.250 --> 00:02:42.849 rim shot. Lots of cymbals too, which you know 00:02:42.849 --> 00:02:46.650 Standridge loves, so just use with caution. Yes. 00:02:47.590 --> 00:02:50.430 So then the... drum set part kind of keeps going. 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:53.909 You've also got like a tambourine part like you 00:02:53.909 --> 00:02:55.789 really do just think of like a little. It is 00:02:55.789 --> 00:02:59.990 rock yes. At five the sax and the horn have the 00:02:59.990 --> 00:03:03.349 melody and it's got some accents one two and 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:07.629 three four and one two and and and then at seven 00:03:07.629 --> 00:03:10.449 the low people come back in with that same rhythm 00:03:10.449 --> 00:03:15.370 one and and and one and and and one and then 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:18.030 they play it once alone and then at eight the 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:19.979 the upper people join in and play it with them. 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.900 I told Laura before we started this, we're playing 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:27.199 this right now with our Sweet Sub -Non -Varsity 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.210 and they love this piece because... They're like, 00:03:30.409 --> 00:03:33.810 it's so hard. It's so fun. Cause it's the same 00:03:33.810 --> 00:03:35.909 rhythm over and over. And they're like, but there's 00:03:35.909 --> 00:03:38.069 a style marking on everything, right? So like 00:03:38.069 --> 00:03:41.090 there, I mean it does, it can look a little intimidating. 00:03:41.330 --> 00:03:43.169 The rhythm with all the eighth rest and then 00:03:43.169 --> 00:03:45.169 the accidentals and then the style, but it comes 00:03:45.169 --> 00:03:48.990 together so sweetly. So I, I just, I love this 00:03:48.990 --> 00:03:51.069 piece. So you're going to hear me sing it a lot. 00:03:51.069 --> 00:03:53.469 And I just think it's so fun. I come home from 00:03:53.469 --> 00:03:57.330 work singing it. So it's very catchy. Um, so 00:03:57.330 --> 00:04:00.009 then the horns and the altos. Take over again, 00:04:00.330 --> 00:04:02.889 same little rhythm. One, two, and three, four, 00:04:03.030 --> 00:04:07.050 and one, two, and one, and, and, and, and one.