Turkey
Tunes 2013
2. ALL Wind players: Play LONG
TONES! LONG TONES! LONG TONES! Use a metronome (or your steady foot action) at
beat = 72/minute. Think Brick body of sound. Hold for 8 counts; expand to 12;
then 16. Crescendo -- diminuendo half and half. Percussionists work on single,
double, and concert (buzz) rolls in auditions style. Guard do 4 sets of 50 drop
spins in front of a mirror or video recorder. If you drop, the count goes back
to "0"!!
3. Wind players... work on
legato-staccato-marcato articulations, using duple, quadruple, and sextuple
groupings (2 eighths, 4 sixteenths, 6 double beamed triplet groups). Pass your
tongue through the sharpener! Percussionists work on single, double, and triple
paradiddles.
4. Concert band: pick 32
measures of A Winter's Carol, 12 bars of Grinch; 8 bars of Stille; and an
entire section of Christmas Pops Medley to work on. Guard: Make up 32 counts of
routine to any Barry Manilow dance tune!
5. Practice something on ever
day that ends in the letter "y" (to include yesterday and
today....notice that tomorrow does not qualify for this distinction!)
6. Pick
up and put away 4 things in your room.
JSquare, NBCT
Director of Bands
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