- More air; more sound (BIGGER sound)
- Note shape
- Attacks
- Releases
3:00 - Quietly and efficiently set up for rehearsal
- Make sure there is a pencil on your stand
- Warm up on your own
3:10 - Ensemble Sound Development
- Concert F Articulation
- Tune
- Festival Band Warmups
3:20 - Ensemble Rehearsal
- Fanfare
- Unison Articulation - winds as loud as possible
- Unison Articulation - as loud as possible, with a good tone
- Unison Articulation - as loud as possible, with a good tone, and with good balance and blend
- 48-53 - as loud as possible, with a good tone
- 48-53 - as loud as possible, with a good tone, and with good balance and blend
- Accents - concert F quarter notes, half notes, with and without accents
- Isolate the lines, then put them back together
- Melody - alto, tp. 1
- Counter-melody - tenor, tp. 2, horn
- Melody support - fl, ob
- Rhythmic ostinato - clarinets, snare drum
- Bass line - B cl, Bari, tbn, euph, tuba, timp, bass drum
- 62-end - as loud as possible, with a good tone, and with good balance and blend
- (48-53 and 62-end should be the loudest sections in the entire piece)
- Tune brass chords at 55
- 48 to the end - apply what we worked on!
- 45-46
- Add tenuto to beat 4 of 46 - make sure that note has length
- NO SOUND on beat 1 of 47 (sus. cym.)
- 45-48
- Percussion start 47 beat 2 as soft as possible
- 25-46 - solidify tempo
- Snare drum slows down
- Clarinets rush
- Listen and lock it in!
- 21-28
- Don't start slowing down until beat 3 of measure 23
- 16 - dynamics
- 8 - dynamics
- Beginning - AIR and accents, no breath in measure 2
- Spring
- Style
- as much air as necessary - take HUGE breaths
- as little tongue as necessary
- Phrasing - play all the way to the end of the note/phrase, keep it in tune, release together
- Style
- Sight Reading
- Full Run
5:00 - Announcements / Reminders
- Turn in your permission slip for Tuesday
- Call time Tuesday is 12:15 p.m.
- Festival Band members are responsible for all work/assignments/learning missed during Festival field trips
- Knott's payments are due by the end of this month via BookTix (Festival Band members only