1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,080 Welcome to our podcast, Band BFFs. 2 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,440 The podcast where we make your music selection less complicated. 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,260 In the next few episodes, we're going to have another special for you. 4 00:00:17,260 --> 00:00:23,560 This one is going to be on winter concert music programs that could be chosen for your 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,280 awesome bands. 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,880 We are going to have different episodes ranging from easier music all the way to more difficult. 7 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,880 And today's episode will start us off with the easier pieces. 8 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:42,080 And they are entitled Holiday Rock by Chris Bernotas, Diary of a Grumpy Elf by Timothy 9 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,800 Loewist and African Bell Carol arranged by Robert W. Smith. 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,800 Cheers to starting the conversation. 11 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,220 All right, Holiday Rock. 12 00:00:52,220 --> 00:00:53,680 This is such a great piece. 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,560 I love how it's written out. 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,520 It is about two minutes in length if you play it at a pretty brisk tempo. 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,220 It has very, very simply written parts. 16 00:01:04,220 --> 00:01:10,160 This could be something you could even do with a beginner band or a really young group. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,660 There are no eighth notes in it. 18 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:16,480 It has a six note range for all instrument parts. 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,500 Very, very playable. 20 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:20,800 No dotted half notes at all. 21 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,800 It even has a flex band capability. 22 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:24,800 That's right. 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,520 It's not a true flex band piece, but it's arranged in a way that you can absolutely 24 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,000 play with the instrumentation. 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,540 So it can fit any group. 26 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:38,240 It's also really cool because in the percussion parts, there's a drum set part, which you 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,560 can probably play on a drum set or separate it out. 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:46,480 But of course that makes it more fun for the kids because it just sounds really fun for 29 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,520 the concerts. 30 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:49,600 This is a medley. 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,560 So it's a combination of several different popular tunes. 32 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,800 I like that even though there's not a single eighth note in this piece at all, but one 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,920 of the things I like about it, even though it's very simply written, it's melodies that 34 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:06,140 the students and the audience will recognize and they are not so watered down that you 35 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:08,400 can't tell what it is. 36 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:09,720 So I think it's very smartly written. 37 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:16,440 So at the beginning, it starts off with angels we have heard on high. 38 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,380 There's an introduction and then it's angels we have heard on high. 39 00:02:19,380 --> 00:02:23,400 There also isn't a key signature at the beginning and instead all the accidentals are written 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,560 into the parts. 41 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,920 So that's something also for younger bands. 42 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,000 The trumpets typically have the melody followed by low brass or woodwinds and trumpets, but 43 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,720 it's nice because the low voices also get the melody and it's not only in the upper 44 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:39,720 parts. 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,800 They do have more of a simple like one, three, one at times, but they do get their moments 46 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,400 of glory, which I think is important for our budding low brass children. 47 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:55,600 I also really like that this is written, it's very kind of chunked into these sections where 48 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:01,280 there's not any one instrument besides percussion that is playing for like 30 measures at a 49 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,280 time. 50 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:03,280 They always get a little bit of a break. 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,060 So if you are dealing with a beginner group and endurance is an issue, it's built in to 52 00:03:07,060 --> 00:03:08,480 help you with that. 53 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:09,480 Yes. 54 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:15,280 The French horn part does go up to an upper C in this first medley, but if you wanted 55 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,600 to flex band it and move it to the fourth part, which is with the low people, you could 56 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,580 do that or you could of course just have them take the C down an octave or whatever if you're, 57 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:29,700 if you do end up playing this with a beginner group and they're not quite there yet range 58 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,120 wise in your band. 59 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,720 Then at 17 we have God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen as the melodic feature. 60 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,980 And as Laura mentioned, there's not even a dotted half note. 61 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:43,780 It's a half note tied to a quarter note. 62 00:03:43,780 --> 00:03:47,840 So they probably have learned about ties by this point and this is written so that if 63 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:54,260 you haven't talked about dotted quarter notes, then you don't necessarily have to. 64 00:03:54,260 --> 00:03:58,840 So just very typical and upfront on that one in the low brass get a lot of the melody, 65 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,540 but again, it is passed back and forth between lows and highs. 66 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:08,480 Then there's Deck the Halls and again, it's a tied half note to a quarter note, lots of 67 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,940 upper woodwind melody followed by the low brass melody. 68 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:16,680 It's very back and forth and playable and very 2D most of the time. 69 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,300 It continues on until you get to the dreidel song, which of course is something that everybody 70 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,080 will recognize. 71 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,100 And there's no style markings either. 72 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:30,040 Everything is just very connected how you would want to teach students to play. 73 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,960 And the thing that I like about that is I always think it is we do a disservice to students 74 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,100 when there are style markings on the page and they aren't ready to play them and we 75 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:45,480 teach them to ignore them because we're just training them to ignore those in the future. 76 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,140 But this you don't have to tell them they're not ignoring anything. 77 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:50,000 There are no style markings. 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,680 And then we have Jingle Bells after that and of course that's very playable and it's back 79 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,440 and forth four measures of upper woodwind and trumpet melody, four measures of low melody. 80 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,080 And I do like every time the low voices have a chance to shine almost every time they have 81 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,560 the melody they're by themselves. 82 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Right. 83 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,760 Everybody else isn't playing whole notes on top of them and covering them up. 84 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,720 It's written in a way where they can shine. 85 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,440 They truly do get their moment to shine. 86 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,680 And that's it. 87 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,400 It's a great little piece, very easy to put together and would be wonderful for training 88 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,920 up a younger group. 89 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:27,160 Our second piece is Diary of a Grumpy Elf by Timothy Loewest and this piece is super 90 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,800 cute. 91 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,040 It is so much fun to play with your students. 92 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,520 It is about three and a half minutes in length. 93 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,360 Now don't let that scare you. 94 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,400 That includes an optional narrator part. 95 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:45,200 The narrator part is really what I think makes this cute because it is diary entries from 96 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,880 a grumpy elf in Santa's workshop. 97 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,760 So you know it helps to tie everything together. 98 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,080 But that the narration never takes place on top of the music. 99 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:00,640 The music has these little interludes and then the diary, the narration is read in between 100 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,680 all of those. 101 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,120 So it's three and a half minutes when you add the narration. 102 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,280 It's in the key of concert B flat. 103 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,220 Some of these are in minor mode just because the elf is grumpy. 104 00:06:10,220 --> 00:06:11,220 We do have more. 105 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:13,480 It goes into three, four at the end. 106 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:14,480 Yes. 107 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,400 One little section of three, four at the end. 108 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,040 And lots of transitions in this. 109 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,120 But again they're broken up by the narration which I think makes these transitions a little 110 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,120 bit more. 111 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,840 This is great for a younger band because you can talk about things like Rotardandos and 112 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:33,840 Formada and how you look up and start together after a pause. 113 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,960 Because of course the band has to come back in after each narration. 114 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,520 So it's a great teaching piece overall. 115 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,240 Not a lot of percussion either. 116 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,880 So it's pretty easy. 117 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,600 You know it's got sleigh bells and crash cymbals, cowbell, things like that. 118 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:52,640 But you could easily play this piece with three or four students or even less if you 119 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:53,640 had to. 120 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,200 If you have lots of percussionists you can double up on marimba, vibraphone, lots of 121 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,240 keyboard doubling you could do. 122 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:05,680 So it starts off with just a little interlude and then the grumpy elf talks about being 123 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,520 upset about something. 124 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,440 And then it's jolly old St. Nicholas in a minor key. 125 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,280 The rhythms are very easy. 126 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,140 Quarter notes, some eighth notes, easy percussion. 127 00:07:17,140 --> 00:07:21,520 Then the band gets to say ho, ho, ho, humbug or whatever. 128 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,200 So they think that's really fun. 129 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,480 It's got just a couple accents in that section. 130 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,320 Then the next narration. 131 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,660 After that it's a march like. 132 00:07:29,660 --> 00:07:34,360 So you get to teach different styles of music even within this piece. 133 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,360 Then there's some staccatos. 134 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,040 Staccatos and this. 135 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:43,560 This is like the march of the wooden soldiers here back and forth between. 136 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,760 There's a little instead of it all being 2D there's like a little conversation where 137 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,300 we get a little counter melody in the upper woodwind. 138 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,680 So it is a little bit more complex than what we saw in the previous piece. 139 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:55,680 Yep. 140 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,360 There's another ritardando followed by a fermata. 141 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,360 Then this is cute. 142 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,360 I think it's so cute. 143 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,560 It's like little rocket bombs going off. 144 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,440 So all the kids get to whistle at random and then the bass drum just gets to hit randomly 145 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:14,880 in different spots of the bass drum to make it sound like fireworks going off. 146 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,020 It's very, very cute. 147 00:08:17,020 --> 00:08:18,560 Then another narration. 148 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,280 And then we have he's very disgruntled and upset at this point. 149 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:29,000 And so we have deck the halls melody but it also has song of the vulgar boatman underneath 150 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 it. 151 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,080 So it's got like this very like sad feel to it. 152 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,160 And it's got for the first time dotted quarter eighth note rhythms. 153 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:44,400 So it's progressively getting more difficult in rhythm but it's not horrible and it's 154 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,800 adding little styles at a time but not multiple. 155 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:53,560 So in this one it only has staccatos or no style markings indicated other than slurs. 156 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:58,240 And it's almost like each of these little segmented pieces is like learning a line out 157 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,200 of a method book. 158 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,720 You can treat them as their own individual ideas because you're starting and stopping 159 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,860 each of them on their own between the narration. 160 00:09:07,860 --> 00:09:12,800 So I mean it really is only like learning a long line out of a method book. 161 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,400 Then we have another narration followed by jingle bells and it's more bright and exciting. 162 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:25,920 A low brass gets the melody again and then we have a fun little glissando for the trombones. 163 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,920 Another narration and it's we wish you a Merry Christmas. 164 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,960 This is the first time it goes into three four. 165 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,480 No key change but just a time signature change and stays in three four all the way to the 166 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,480 end. 167 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,300 So this piece is fun because it gets a chance to teach the students lots of different ways 168 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:47,680 of going about reading music and starting and stopping. 169 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:50,200 And it's kind of like the old sight reading pieces right. 170 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:56,000 Like you're getting different time signatures different modes of music different styles. 171 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,680 So I think it's great for introducing transitions in music because none of the transitions are 172 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:04,120 complicated because you get to start and stop at every one of them. 173 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,080 So you're not having to worry about holding a fermata and coming in on a phrase afterwards. 174 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,760 So it's a great introduction to transitions in music. 175 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,240 And our last piece is African bell Carol. 176 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:21,560 This is obviously very famous and I there are so many versions of this out there. 177 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,600 But this is like a Latin bell. 178 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:24,600 There's so many. 179 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,160 It's all the same. 180 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,080 Really all that changes is the percussion. 181 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,080 Right. 182 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,080 Instrumentation. 183 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:31,080 I love this piece. 184 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,680 In fact we play it every single year on our elementary tour and when we go play at you 185 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:42,720 know different places during the holiday season because you can put as many kids on percussion 186 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,680 as you want. 187 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,380 It's got that cool flavor to it. 188 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:51,640 It's pretty easy and it's well written where when you have the melody you get to be pretty 189 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,840 important and very very repetitive. 190 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:55,840 That's the other thing. 191 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,360 So again so it's like you teach these chunks of music and then it comes back and repeats 192 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,600 itself several times. 193 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:07,320 So it's super fast in three four and the key of concert B flat. 194 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,840 The faster you can play it the better. 195 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,560 That really obviously only as fast as your kids can play it successfully and you need 196 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:18,600 every bit of percussion equipment that is there in order to make this really effective 197 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:19,880 and really cool. 198 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:25,320 And again another reason why it's so fun is there are like lots of different shaker and 199 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:30,900 djembe and all kinds of cool musical instruments the kids don't always get exposed to. 200 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:36,260 So the more you can add in different things and different pitches in the percussion that's 201 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:37,260 even cooler. 202 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:42,040 I will double up on the congas part every time I play it too because it's like louder 203 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,400 and just really fun. 204 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,240 And even one year it was really cool. 205 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:51,760 I gave the one little part to some of the fifth graders in advance and they learned 206 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,800 it and then they joined us and they played it with us when we came to the elementary 207 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:55,800 tour. 208 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,760 So that's a fun little just like idea you could do because it's not difficult rhythmically 209 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,400 to where a fifth grader couldn't learn it. 210 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,320 And if your percussion section is strong every time I play this piece if it's a really solid 211 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,920 percussion section I stage the people on that percussion at the front. 212 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,280 And you can even kind of do them antiphonally on both sides of the stage because there's 213 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,480 a soloistic part in the piece where they're kind of going back and forth you can do a 214 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,480 little trading fours with them on opposite sides of the stage but your percussionist 215 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,520 gets stuck in the back of the band all the time and never gets seen. 216 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,160 So anytime you can do something that can feature them. 217 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,720 I think it's a cool opportunity. 218 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:38,200 The whole piece starts off with percussion for eight measures and this piece is great 219 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,880 because it's in eight measure chunks. 220 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,680 So you have like a new voice come in every eight measures it's easy for kids to know 221 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:45,960 where the voices come into. 222 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,200 Flutes come in at nine followed by a little counter melody and clarinet four measures 223 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:57,200 later then at 17 we get the oboe harmony in there we add in a few more woodwinds on the 224 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:04,880 counter melody at 25 we add in the saxophone on the melody and then we get more more voices 225 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:06,800 in but still no brass yet. 226 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,640 Yeah your brass have been resting this whole time. 227 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:16,040 The trickiest part of this whole piece I believe are the four measures the second half of 25 228 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,560 so starting at 29 the one and two and three and one and two three because of the speed 229 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,160 because of the speed. 230 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,160 That's it. 231 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:27,440 So once your kids get that under your finger under their fingers the rest of this goes 232 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,440 together. 233 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440 Yep. 234 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,760 Super simply at 33 the brass come in for the first time and we get this cool little like 235 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:39,800 horn and euphonium and tenor sax counter melody with the regular melody still on the top we 236 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:45,760 get to do some crescendo decrescendos too which is fun because it's not anything terribly 237 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,920 difficult but the whole band does it kind of sounds like a swelling. 238 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:55,560 At 41 we now get the alto and horn gets the counter melody part. 239 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:57,520 I know I love it too. 240 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,640 Let your horns play the range is not difficult. 241 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,400 It goes up to a D I think and that's the highest note. 242 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,800 So if you've got strong horns man let them play. 243 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,400 Let them play on this. 244 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:16,000 Then at 49 kind of the same thing except now we get these cool like little interjections 245 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,240 from the low brass on beat two with accents kind of like little bell tones. 246 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,800 Trumpet range goes up to an E the first trumpet part so you want to you want to make sure 247 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:30,000 that you've got you've got the players for that or at least a player that can sound good. 248 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,520 At 57 we get a cool part again in the horn euphonium sax alto part. 249 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,780 It just sounds really awesome and the kids love it and again like Laura said let those 250 00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:41,920 horns go for it. 251 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:43,480 They go up to an F there. 252 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:48,120 And I mean this is something I've had my horns in this section I have rewritten this down 253 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,120 an octave for them. 254 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,480 You know they're doubling another conical brass instrument in the euphonium so if the 255 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,480 euphoniums can play that and play out and be really strong you're still you're still 256 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,120 going to get the projection you need. 257 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:05,860 Then at 65 everybody's got accents and it's like the biggest moment so far in the piece 258 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:07,840 we all in together. 259 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,360 Then it's a percussion groove like Laura said it's like back and forth between congas 260 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,680 and I think toms and they go back and forth on this cool part here. 261 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:24,520 And listen and you can like this can be as long as you want it or exactly the length 262 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,440 of time that's written kind of he leaves that flexibility there so let your kids have some 263 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,040 fun with this if they're if they can play it really well. 264 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,520 They do not have to play the solos that are written. 265 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:39,620 They can kind of improv and do their own thing which I think is another great thing to expose 266 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:45,720 them to as long as we all get right back together at measure 87. 267 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,720 That was my deal with everybody. 268 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,760 Well you mean the two measures into it. 269 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,440 As long as all the percussion land together you kind of have a cue or whatever to give 270 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,440 them that this is how you know we're landing at 87 and then the rest is smooth sailing. 271 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,760 And then there's just eight measures to the end so it's very powerful exciting when we've 272 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,960 played this at concerts like the audience loves this piece because it's just got a lot 273 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:09,960 of excitement. 274 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,680 It is a big crowd pleaser and again so even though it is one of the easier pieces range 275 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,920 is something to consider for some of your brass players but you just need a you need 276 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,960 just need a couple of hot shots that can that can play with that range or take it down an 277 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,560 octave because it's doubled in upper woodwinds too. 278 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Well we hope you found a piece from our easy holiday tunes that for your winter concert 279 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,480 that could help your band. 280 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:47,680 Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of BAM BFFs.