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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're going to be discussing

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Dark Lens March by Randall Standridge. Cheers

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to starting the conversation. Darklands March

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is a great standard piece. It is in 4 -4 all

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the way throughout. It's pretty brisk tempo.

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It starts in the key of concert E flat. It modulates

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to the key of concert F. It does have split clarinet,

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alto, trumpet parts in typical standard fashion.

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Lots of percussion, which of course you could

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choose to pair down if you wanted, but I think

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this one needs six percussionists to kind of

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take care of it. of all of the needs. Doesn't

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change tempo, stays similar style until you get

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to what we would consider the trio section, right?

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But great piece. We love Standridge. Yes, and

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this piece is very versatile because you can

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play it as an actual march at your UIL contest.

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You can play it at your fall concert as a march.

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You're introducing the students to march style

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because it is a lot like a march with like the

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same, you know, format of a traditional one,

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but it's got more of like a dark feel to it.

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So it's really versatile, which is great. It's

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got great styles as well. So the whole piece

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starts out with upper people having the melody

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and it's a dotted eight sixteenth rhythm. And

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this goes on and on throughout the whole piece.

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One, a two and three and, and the three and is

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marked as house top accents. So the whole time

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you want to teach the students to play that the

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same style all the way throughout one a two and

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three and and same with the dotted eight sixteen

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there's not a single time in this that the dotted

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eighth note should touch the sixteenth note right

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not a single time yep there's a lot of dynamics

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that get Really really soft and then you build

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them back up or it's forte for two measures and

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piano for two measures So really challenging

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your kids to do all those dynamics is good, too

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So as I mentioned the flutes and trumpets clarinet,

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they kind of start out with the melody Then the

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whole band at measure three drops down to mezzo

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piano and we have accents and we're building

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it up to the end of measure four and At the end

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of four the low people bass clarinet Barry trombone

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and tuba have three and four and one and three

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and one and then they get softer snare drums

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getting softer and softer as well And then we

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get into measure seven and seven is the the melody

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portion and we have a first and a second ending

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here. Okay now I want to talk for just a second

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about we've talked already about Katie addressed

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the house top accents on beat three of those

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eighth notes and then the style of the dotted

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eight sixteenth. I would spend time playing that

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rhythm one two and three and on a concert F with

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everyone in your ensemble or sizzling. We do

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a lot of that in our band hall so I can hear

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their air. And then I can also hear the strength

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of articulation on the 16th note. That is something

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I feel like I'm constantly having to work on

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with my students. They get lazy on the articulation

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on the 16th note. So either practicing it on

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a concert F or sizzling, hearing them go down

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the row or whatever, just sizzle. If that is

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gonna be super helpful. And a quick way for you

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to address something that happens 3 .5 million

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times in this piece. Yeah, and they have it over

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and over even in the first, like in the measure,

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they have one, a two, and three, a four, and

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so you have to do it multiple times even in one

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measure. So the first time through at seven,

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the melody is the... The people that I just mentioned

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it's just clear It's just trumpet and then the

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second time through the flutes and the oboes

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and the clarinets join the trumpets So first

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time through just the trumpets you have to make

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sure that you're teaching them to not breathe

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on the bar line between 10 and 11 One two and

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three a four and one and two and three and don't

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breathe one a two and three So teaching them

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to be sneaky with their breaths either breathing

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after the dotted eight between the dotted eighth

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and the 16th or between the two 8th notes, wherever

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it is, but don't let them breathe every two measures.

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They need to have no breaths written in. The

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way this is written, I really like the way Standridge

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writes this and he does this in a lot of his

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pieces. So like first time through, we're featuring

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trumpet, right? Second time through, even though

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we've added other supporting cast instruments

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on that melody, really the important part is

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the counter melody, which is a new part that

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comes in on horn and alto. He does that a lot

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in this piece. So it's really good for teaching

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and like again, Katie mentioned that this really

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is the format of a traditional march. So you

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can teach that, like, okay, first time through

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on the first string, we want to feature this

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instrument, and second time through, we want

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to feature this instrument, just like you would

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do on a traditional march. But I think keeping

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that same formula and making sure as you attack

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this piece that we are prioritizing correctly.

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Absolutely. The lows just have the same kind

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of ostinato rhythm, one and three, and one, two,

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three. four, one, and three, and that beat four,

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having the tenuto marking is really important

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to teach that style. I also like this march because

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the Tuba Berry Sax Bass Clarinet gets to do cool

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stuff every once in a while. They just have like

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little eighth notes leading into the next measure.

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Three and four and one, and it's like kind of

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chromatic -y. So that part is really neat whenever

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it comes back. It comes back multiple times,

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but in this case it's in measure 10 leading into

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measure 11. Like Laura already mentioned, second

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time through we're gonna feature the horn and

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the sax and then we take the second ending with

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a hard cut off on beat four from the whole band

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which I would mark in their part a slash off

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on four release the time yep at 16 we come in

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and we're soft this is true like a traditional

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March we're gonna do quiet for two measures loud

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for two measures it's the melody is in the flute

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in oboe and then the saxophone has a counter

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melody and you the phonium is also playing again,

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kind of like a traditional march. Then the trumpets

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come in with a response and it's loud and it's

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forte. So it's like kind of creepy is what I

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taught the students, like kind of like you're

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in the background. One and three and four and

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one and two and long. Then the trumpet bum, bum,

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bum, ta, dum, dum. So it's like different styles.

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I would also, the way that this is written, the

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woodwinds play one and three and four and one

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and two and three. It's all slurred and it's

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an eighth note release followed by an eighth

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rest. Like I would write on my kids' parts, A

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-H, to remind them like that needs to end in

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a vowel sound, ah, ah, like don't clip that note

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short, make it as long as possible, ta, ta. Lift

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and keep it open throat release and don't Like,

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it looks like it should be short, but it shouldn't

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be. Yeah, definitely keeping it long. And then

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the trumpets come in and they have that cool

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little moment, and then we go back. The lows

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have another three and four and one going into

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the next part. So they're pretty important in

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this piece. Then we go back to the upper people.

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They're quiet again. They have the same little

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moment. The trumpets now get joined with the

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flute, oboe, and clarinet on the melody when

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it goes forward. again then we do the same thing

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a first and second ending on the second ending

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we all have accents and then we come back into

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the same melody from before at 25 with trumpet

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flute oboe clarinet on the melody sax and horn

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on the counter melody now snare by the way we

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haven't addressed what's happening in percussion

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but percussion is doing a lot of the same rhythm

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one a two and three a four and one a two and

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three and a four that the melody has in this

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particular section here at 25 so use that like

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have the snare play along with the the melody

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players and match articulation and make sure

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that they are moving together the mallet part

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has that as well but also make sure it's not

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loud yeah you know you have to be careful just

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like on a march you don't want the snare drum

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to be super loud even though it's active then

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we end this little melody section with 1, 2,

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3, 4, 1. And we have a key change. We go from

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E flat to F. And it just goes straight into it.

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And this is like the trio section. So the lows

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kind of have 1, 2. three, four. And I would think

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of that like this, it's staccato quarter notes

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for the accompaniment all throughout this section.

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This is all softer. I would think of that like,

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I would teach my kids, think about that like

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you're tiptoeing. You're trying to sneak, be

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real sneaky. So just tiptoe. Otherwise that can

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end up sounding like the psycho, and that's not

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what we want. We want delicate tiptoe. Yep. And

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then we're getting softer. And then the clarinet.

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euphonium and tenor sax comes in with the melody

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and it's lyrical so we have the soft Tiptoeing

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like Lara mentioned behind them and then we have

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this really flowing beautiful melody I would

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absolutely feature euphoniums here definitely

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and if they can use vibrato great if they cannot

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that's okay, too But you want to do like a two

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measure crescendo to measure decrescendo They

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have the melody over and over and over throughout

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this section trombones are having to play e naturals

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and a naturals on the accompaniment So just making

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sure that we're in tune That's something I remember

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was kind of an issue for my band when we played

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this. This color grouping in the melody of the

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euphonium, which Katie said should be the lead

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voice, and I agree completely. And the clarinet

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section is... way below the star clarinet is

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playing in the shallow register which i love

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that color combination of shallow mo clarinet

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with euphonium and then there's tenor sax and

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it's in a really easy middle comfortable range

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for tenor sax but it will be easy for your tenor

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sax to dominate that texture and that's not what

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you want make sure that euphonium is lead i would

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put clarinet second after euphonium and then

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just a little smattering of tenor sax in there

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yep uh then at 42 a bunch of the high people

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come in on beat four and now we have this like

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flowing section again they're the melody everything

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is really connected you want to make sure that

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everybody is you're either making a choice for

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them to all breathe in the same spot, or you're

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stagger breathing. I stagger breathed whenever

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I played this piece. It's one and two and three,

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four and one and two and three, four and one

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and two and three. So I told like, you're the

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A's, you're gonna breathe on the even measures

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after beat three. Y 'all are gonna breathe on

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the odd measures after beat three. And that's

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exactly how I would approach this, because otherwise

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it sounds incredibly immature. You will have

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everyone breathing every measure. and two and

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three, four and one and two and three. Or every

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two measures. Yeah, I mean, it just sounds choppy.

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Yep. Then there's a little half note counter

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melody underneath it, which also needs to sound

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flowing. Then the lows get to be staccato still

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underneath doing the tiptoe. The bells have the

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melody here as well. And then we're all off again

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on one, two, three, short beat three. And then

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the trumpets come in with the melody again, one,

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a two, and three. and the clarinets have clarinet

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one has it with them or both clarinets and then

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there's a little trill that starts on beat four

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you can cut it down so it's not too much or if

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you aren't super loud that's okay I remember

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the alto would being really loud whenever I played

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this piece it's up on an F sharp and it just

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like it kind of cut through but it could have

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just been the kids you know and we're playing

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the whole ensemble when you have these trills

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so like trumpet horn clarinet one two and three

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trill one two three and the whole ensemble lands

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together. And those trill instruments, I think

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it's really important to practice that because

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they don't always come out of the trill in time.

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Yeah, and it's those same house top accents from

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the beginning. Exactly, exactly. Snare again

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is... Continuing to be extremely active this

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whole time. So just making sure that it's not

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overpowering the group Then we have the kind

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of like a recap from the very beginning like

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the intro everybody has the melody or the rhythm

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together in 55 56 we get down to mezzo piano

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again 57 58 we're growing up 59 it's the same

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as before the trumpet the oboe and the flute

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have the melody counter melody in the horn and

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sax Lots of accents this time though Again, same

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thing don't breathe on on long notes. Make sure

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you're holding all the way through trumpets should

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not be breathing on the bar line It's literally

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the same balance here is not like everyone's

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playing and it's now the second or third time

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that they have had this bar so low the trombone

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part is more featured here and that's It's like

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how a traditional march would go to, right? They

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need to be brought out. It's the trombone, euphonium,

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tenor, sax part. But again, focus on trombone

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at 59. They have the more important melody. The

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trumpets and flutes can kind of come down a little

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bit. And we've heard that part. Yeah, we've already

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heard it, right. Then we have the flowing part

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at 67 again from the upper woodwinds. The tenor

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voices go back to playing things tenuto. Again,

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not breathing in the same spot. This is a part

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where it needs to sound very seamless make sure

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even your lows on their half notes You're saying

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you're gonna breathe in 67, but you're gonna

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breathe in 68 and making sure that they're all

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breathing in different spots Then we kind of

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come out of out of it in the end of 73 with an

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accent on beat 4 we go back into the accent and

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style 1 2 3 4 1 and 2 and then the lows again,

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so it's always the the low low reads and tuba

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that have that 3 and four and then we're all

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quiet it and we're gonna lead up one two and

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three four and and then this horn part comes

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in with the last cool thing four one three rest

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two and then lows one and two and three and four

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and one two and three and and that's the end

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so This is such a great piece. The kids love

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it. Everybody gets to have a special part as

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we've already mentioned. There's not just like

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one melodic part that's more important. The percussion

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is kept busy. So this would be a really fun piece

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to program on your fall concert because it's

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kind of spookier sounding. It would be a great

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march to do for UIL as well or any time during

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the year. Especially if you're wanting something

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that's not traditional but still has some good

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- teaching elements, right? Absolutely, yeah.

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Well, we hope you will consider programming Darklands

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March in the future and thank you for joining

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us on this episode of Band BFFs.
