WEBVTT 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:10.759 Welcome to our podcast, Band BFFs. The podcast 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:12.900 where we make your music selection less complicated. 00:00:13.339 --> 00:00:16.300 On today's episode, we will be discussing Sleigh 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:20.699 Ride by Leroy Anderson, arranged by Michael Story. 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.539 Cheers to starting the conversation. So Katie 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:28.660 and I just had the realization, this was a piece 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:31.960 that I suggested that I play with my beginner 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.100 band every year and so we pulled up the score 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:37.020 and Katie looked at it and was like, you've got 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:39.179 to be kidding me. I do this with my beginner 00:00:39.179 --> 00:00:40.539 band, so we were just laughing. But they were 00:00:40.539 --> 00:00:43.359 different pieces. Different. Mine was part of 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.979 a Michael Storey multi -movement winter piece, 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.359 but we always play the sleigh ride movement. 00:00:50.899 --> 00:00:53.020 And Katie was like, oh my gosh, look at this. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.179 obviously it's by the same dude yes yes yes yes 00:00:57.179 --> 00:01:00.600 so anyway obviously we both like this now this 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.259 would be considered I think a little bit more 00:01:02.259 --> 00:01:05.040 challenging piece for winter concert for your 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.560 beginners something totally appropriate for a 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.359 sub -non varsity obviously it's sleigh ride so 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.780 everybody knows the melody everybody loves it 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:16.180 I like playing it because instead of we also 00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:18.700 do you know like an easy Jolly Old St. Nicholas 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:20.840 or an easy up on the housetop something like 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.099 that but this is like Everybody knows Sleigh 00:01:24.099 --> 00:01:26.900 Ride, right? Of course, everybody knows those 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:28.719 other ones, but this is one you hear on the radio, 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.620 so I love getting to play that. It is about two 00:01:31.620 --> 00:01:34.709 minutes. In 15 seconds in length, it's in the 00:01:34.709 --> 00:01:37.030 key of concert B -flat throughout, though there 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:41.510 are some accidentals. It does not have split 00:01:41.510 --> 00:01:44.530 parts anywhere, a fair amount of percussion, 00:01:45.769 --> 00:01:47.890 so you definitely, but again, that's one of the 00:01:47.890 --> 00:01:50.250 reasons I think it's good for a beginner band, 00:01:50.269 --> 00:01:52.189 because you normally have more percussion, but 00:01:52.189 --> 00:01:55.629 we've got bells, snare bass, sleigh bells of 00:01:55.629 --> 00:01:59.209 course, and then temple blocks, all that fun 00:01:59.209 --> 00:02:03.760 accessory stuff. And this was came out of the 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:05.859 fact that Laura and I were both like talking 00:02:05.859 --> 00:02:08.219 to some people this week about You know, what 00:02:08.219 --> 00:02:11.099 are you programming for your beginner band for 00:02:11.099 --> 00:02:14.080 winter concerts or even your performing bands? 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:17.580 So it is definitely tis the season to be choosing 00:02:17.580 --> 00:02:21.020 that music So hopefully this might help you guys 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:23.539 with choosing some great pieces for the future 00:02:23.539 --> 00:02:27.020 So this version of sleigh ride is in a bright 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:30.960 four four at 136 marked and you can really go 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.620 as fast or slow as you need to go. So if it's 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:37.319 not quite up to tempo just go 120 and no big 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.560 deal. No problem. Still sounds like sleigh ride. 00:02:39.979 --> 00:02:43.300 The low people part is not always the same like 00:02:43.300 --> 00:02:45.879 tuba, euphonium, and trombone are not always 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.819 exactly the same, but a lot of times they are. 00:02:49.259 --> 00:02:51.180 Here at the very beginning all the lows have 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:58.539 one, three, one. three, one, three, one. And 00:02:58.539 --> 00:03:02.139 I like it because we can teach long quarter notes 00:03:02.139 --> 00:03:05.099 touching the rest. And then the last note is 00:03:05.099 --> 00:03:07.889 an accented. note and that lines up with the 00:03:07.889 --> 00:03:10.150 melody that's happening above them. Of course 00:03:10.150 --> 00:03:13.550 all the melody people have 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:17.590 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4 accent and then they keep going 00:03:17.590 --> 00:03:22.530 2, 3, 4, 1, and 2, and 3. Yeah. Yeah. So 1, 2, 00:03:22.530 --> 00:03:25.050 3, and 4. Sorry. There we go. We're in 4, 4. 00:03:25.490 --> 00:03:28.289 But it's nice. It's a good intro. What I love 00:03:28.289 --> 00:03:31.150 about it, especially for beginners, is that it 00:03:31.150 --> 00:03:33.770 gives the woodwinds. So the flute, the oboe, 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:37.439 clarinet, and alto are the ones that are handling 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.639 the bulk of the responsibility of the melody. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.719 So the brass players, who of course move a little 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.060 slower at the beginning, do not have as much 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:52.419 technical demand on this piece as a typical arrangement. 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.479 At measure five, well at measure four, Katie 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.819 was just talking about the melody is in flute 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:01.740 and oboe and they have a pickup phrase into measure 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:05.240 five, two, three, four, and then measure. one, 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.400 two, three, and four. It is flute, oboe, and 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.199 clarinet only with the melody. The low voices 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:15.900 continue with their one, three, one, exactly. 00:04:16.379 --> 00:04:18.420 And then we have the cool harmony part that is 00:04:18.420 --> 00:04:21.699 slurred half notes in the horns and altos. One, 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.639 three, one, three. So great for teaching. And 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:26.980 I always tell them you're like the background 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:29.240 track. Like you're really important, but you're 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.160 not the melody. So you don't want to play too 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.500 loud over the melody. That's exactly right. And 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:36.839 the range, like the range in the upper woodwinds, 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:41.740 it doesn't go above a third line B flat for clarinets. 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.420 I think flutes go up to a B flat at one. Yes. 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.040 But that's it. So the range is not high. So you 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:54.360 want to make sure that all of the accompaniment 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.959 part is not covering up that very middle of the 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.740 range melody. For sure. And I like that the clarinet 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:04.160 part is written in a way that, again, it doesn't 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.939 go up above the break in case you haven't been 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:09.259 able to get there yet. Most people probably don't 00:05:09.259 --> 00:05:11.860 do that in November, December. Or at least not 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:14.399 playing it in a piece. Yeah, in a good way, right. 00:05:15.019 --> 00:05:17.779 And then it ends with a whole note on the melody. 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.639 One, two, three, and four. One, two, three, and 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:27.399 four. One. Rest. Two, three, four. So it's written 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.379 in a nice way where the kids can have built -in 00:05:30.379 --> 00:05:33.800 breath marks. You do want to make sure that your. 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.540 Background music is not breathing in the same 00:05:36.540 --> 00:05:38.860 spot as them. So this is a good opportunity to 00:05:38.860 --> 00:05:42.040 teach even stagger breathing. I have done that 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:44.180 before on this piece. Like you two French horns 00:05:44.180 --> 00:05:47.040 are gonna breathe between measures six and seven. 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.720 You two are gonna breathe between eight and nine 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:51.399 or whatever. She did just say six, seven. Oh 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:57.259 no. People will listen to this now and not understand 00:05:57.259 --> 00:06:00.259 that reference. Yeah. Well, anyway, I had to 00:06:00.259 --> 00:06:02.560 interject. Thanks, middle school band, director. 00:06:02.819 --> 00:06:05.160 Yeah, thank you. OK. So and then the nice thing, 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.600 like Laura mentioned, is the trumpet part is 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:09.639 minimal. They are also the background track. 00:06:13.230 --> 00:06:16.250 And then they do nothing again now. They do have 00:06:16.250 --> 00:06:18.730 a little bit of a fancy part here in the first 00:06:18.730 --> 00:06:21.850 ending So what's nice is also on this piece? 00:06:21.949 --> 00:06:24.769 We have a ton of first and second endings So 00:06:24.769 --> 00:06:27.430 it's a great teaching tool for like how does 00:06:27.430 --> 00:06:30.829 this work in real music? Okay, and I will always 00:06:30.829 --> 00:06:33.649 write in my kids parts like I will draw an arrow 00:06:33.649 --> 00:06:37.709 back I do the same thing and then I'll say You 00:06:37.709 --> 00:06:39.829 know above their music right before the first 00:06:39.829 --> 00:06:43.670 ending at measure 10. I'll say skip to second 00:06:43.670 --> 00:06:47.069 ending second time or something as like just 00:06:47.069 --> 00:06:50.269 their first introduction to how a first ending 00:06:50.269 --> 00:06:53.329 and a second ending will go. And there's a lot 00:06:53.329 --> 00:06:55.389 of them in this piece so it's a good idea to 00:06:55.389 --> 00:06:59.009 write that roadmap for them so they're not confused 00:06:59.009 --> 00:07:01.069 when they're first learning the piece. There 00:07:01.069 --> 00:07:04.089 are some skips in the eighth notes in the woodwinds 00:07:04.089 --> 00:07:09.329 and so it is a little more technical. Flutes 00:07:09.329 --> 00:07:12.769 go F D B flat and so do oboes. that's that's 00:07:12.769 --> 00:07:14.930 kind of tricky at the beginning of the year that 00:07:14.930 --> 00:07:17.889 fast. It is and if it need like I have had oboe 00:07:17.889 --> 00:07:20.290 players before that I have had to modify and 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:22.990 take the D out and have them go F B flat and 00:07:22.990 --> 00:07:26.990 just play quarter notes F G F B flat right so 00:07:26.990 --> 00:07:29.889 you can like you can modify if you if you need 00:07:29.889 --> 00:07:32.529 to if an individual player is not up for it. 00:07:33.389 --> 00:07:35.410 But like Katie mentioned I do love the repeats 00:07:35.410 --> 00:07:39.649 in this as well the first first ending because 00:07:39.649 --> 00:07:42.370 there are multiple. The first first ending I 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:44.949 think is the most challenging for the trumpets. 00:07:45.129 --> 00:07:48.689 They get this cool little part all by themselves 00:07:48.689 --> 00:07:52.050 and y 'all it's okay I think to make this a feature. 00:07:52.069 --> 00:07:54.149 If you've got three trumpet players that sound 00:07:54.149 --> 00:07:56.550 fantastic then man just let those three trumpet 00:07:56.550 --> 00:07:59.949 players play it. It goes up to a B natural so 00:07:59.949 --> 00:08:01.730 you want to make sure that they sound good. It's 00:08:01.730 --> 00:08:08.170 tricky. They have to end on a high B. I mean 00:08:08.170 --> 00:08:11.709 And it was pretty tricky, yeah. And the harmony 00:08:11.709 --> 00:08:13.649 parts are really cool here too and they change 00:08:13.649 --> 00:08:17.610 a little bit. So like horn, sax, they go, two, 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:23.029 three, one. three. So it's like very chromatic 00:08:23.029 --> 00:08:26.029 -y and sometimes that's hard for kids to like 00:08:26.029 --> 00:08:28.529 hear and wrap their ear around this early on 00:08:28.529 --> 00:08:31.449 in their playing career. So just the more you 00:08:31.449 --> 00:08:33.970 can practice that and make sure they can audiated 00:08:33.970 --> 00:08:37.230 the better. On the second ending now the trumpets 00:08:37.230 --> 00:08:39.769 don't have to do that mess now they're just going 00:08:39.769 --> 00:08:45.879 two three one two and then percussion percussion 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:49.940 two three one two and pretty much the whole band 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:52.720 comes in at that point with that same part where 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.009 the lows though are playing one Four one three 00:08:58.009 --> 00:09:00.669 so making sure again that the lows keep those 00:09:00.669 --> 00:09:03.690 quarter notes really full value We are seeing 00:09:03.690 --> 00:09:06.250 we mentioned before in the first ending accidentals 00:09:06.250 --> 00:09:08.370 in the trumpet now We're seeing more accidentals 00:09:08.370 --> 00:09:10.350 in some of the other parts the woodwind parts 00:09:10.350 --> 00:09:15.129 clarinet alto So yeah, so be just be mindful 00:09:15.129 --> 00:09:18.129 of that and of course your kids at this point 00:09:18.129 --> 00:09:20.789 know what Accidentals are and and how to interpret 00:09:20.789 --> 00:09:23.669 them when we get to measure 17. This is another 00:09:23.669 --> 00:09:26.909 section that has another rip in it but this is 00:09:26.909 --> 00:09:33.470 the da da da da da da da da da da da da da da 00:09:33.470 --> 00:09:36.029 da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da 00:09:36.029 --> 00:09:41.450 da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da 00:09:41.450 --> 00:09:56.580 da play the C make it be kind of fun like oh 00:09:56.580 --> 00:10:00.340 you got you got first chair on the last couple 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:02.759 tests you get to do that and I do the same thing 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.940 with my flutes if they can't play the upper B 00:10:04.940 --> 00:10:08.500 flat with a beautiful sound where it doesn't 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:10.440 sound like you're literally just spitting it 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.480 out then we just go down an octave and that's 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.740 not a big deal either yeah yeah the articulation 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:20.149 a very occasionally there we talked about slurs 00:10:20.149 --> 00:10:22.129 like in the quarter notes and half notes there 00:10:22.129 --> 00:10:24.129 are this is a place where you have some slurred 00:10:24.129 --> 00:10:27.929 eighth notes and the articulation is ta ta ta 00:10:27.929 --> 00:10:31.149 ta ha ta and I that I think can be tricky sometimes 00:10:31.149 --> 00:10:33.210 for kids making sure that they tongue that third 00:10:33.210 --> 00:10:38.429 note their tendency is to go ta ta ta ta so that 00:10:38.429 --> 00:10:40.850 again another good teaching thing yeah right 00:10:40.850 --> 00:10:43.370 and the percussion is real fun here because we've 00:10:43.370 --> 00:10:45.809 got the jingle bells going and then we've got 00:10:45.809 --> 00:10:48.549 the temple blocks One, two, three, four. One, 00:10:48.549 --> 00:10:51.870 two, three, four. One and two. Slapstick funnel. 00:10:51.970 --> 00:10:55.710 Nice job, us. I hope that was not too loud. Sorry. 00:10:56.389 --> 00:10:58.929 But it's cute. I mean, it sounds literally like 00:10:58.929 --> 00:11:01.169 the real sleigh rides, so that's fun for the 00:11:01.169 --> 00:11:04.230 kids to hear. Then the same phrase with the upper 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:07.330 people doing those connected quarter notes, lows 00:11:07.330 --> 00:11:10.309 playing on one and four. And then we end with 00:11:10.309 --> 00:11:13.909 a dotted half note. One. And we've got to touch 00:11:13.909 --> 00:11:17.029 beat four, because beat four is... is where the 00:11:17.029 --> 00:11:20.129 clarinet and the sax and tenor sax take over 00:11:20.129 --> 00:11:23.710 the melody. This is the four and one and two, 00:11:23.710 --> 00:11:26.509 three, four, one, two, three, four, that section. 00:11:26.769 --> 00:11:29.590 And this part is trickier. I think this is the 00:11:29.590 --> 00:11:31.889 hardest part of the whole piece, but it's also 00:11:31.889 --> 00:11:34.129 - And the low part is hard too. It is too. It's 00:11:34.129 --> 00:11:36.750 weird, yeah. It's too. In the melody, in the 00:11:36.750 --> 00:11:40.210 clarinet and sax, it's really low, so the clarinets 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:43.289 are playing low A's, B flats, down in that range. 00:11:43.970 --> 00:11:48.899 Saxes are low E's, F's, G's. but the articulation 00:11:48.899 --> 00:11:53.240 is challenging. Keeping their fingers even, not 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.960 compressing four and one and two, three, four. 00:11:55.980 --> 00:12:00.019 So we learn it all articulated first to make 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:03.980 the rhythm very, very even. Then we go back in 00:12:03.980 --> 00:12:06.759 and add the slurs. And you don't even have to 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.519 do that if your kids need to keep them tongued. 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.779 Then you do it. Then tongue it. This is a section 00:12:12.779 --> 00:12:15.779 my kids have to pass off. Oh me too. They absolutely 00:12:15.779 --> 00:12:17.320 have to be able to demonstrate that they can 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:19.879 play this correctly. And then the low brass, 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:22.279 as Katie mentioned, the challenge here. It's 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.740 weird. It just sounds interesting. It's chromatic. 00:12:24.740 --> 00:12:28.019 Yeah. And it's not easy in their ear all the 00:12:28.019 --> 00:12:31.299 time. Accidentals, E naturals right here. E E 00:12:31.299 --> 00:12:38.700 F B flat. And then G G C. See, so it's kind of 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:41.200 jumping around, you know? And like Laura just 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.659 said, it's just hard on the ear. It's not a scale. 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.259 That's right. It definitely jumps around. So 00:12:47.259 --> 00:12:49.379 like we said, this is a little bit more of a 00:12:49.379 --> 00:12:52.059 challenging piece for beginners. Then right before 00:12:52.059 --> 00:12:54.720 the next first ending, before we go back and 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.639 repeat this section again, the clarinets. This 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.259 is probably, I think, the single trickiest measure. 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.980 Nobody ever comes in on time. There is this C, 00:13:04.019 --> 00:13:07.669 B flat, A, G dot. Oh, I thought you were talking 00:13:07.669 --> 00:13:11.649 about the four one. Oh, no that the clarinet's 00:13:11.649 --> 00:13:15.370 going from C to throat tone B flat Yeah, you 00:13:15.370 --> 00:13:18.389 always hear their entire hand going You do you 00:13:18.389 --> 00:13:21.330 do you absolutely do so that I love it because 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:24.850 we use it as a technique exercise for sure we 00:13:24.850 --> 00:13:28.210 practice going from C to A C to A now C to B 00:13:28.210 --> 00:13:30.870 flat C to B flat to get their fingers really 00:13:30.870 --> 00:13:34.090 used to that technique totally and then the first 00:13:34.090 --> 00:13:36.850 ending keeps going and then this part I've found 00:13:36.850 --> 00:13:39.690 children are just not good counters because this 00:13:39.690 --> 00:13:42.330 is a hard rhythm to come in on beat four apparently 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:46.950 so they just played the one two three four one 00:13:46.950 --> 00:13:50.750 and then floor one that's where flute oboe and 00:13:50.750 --> 00:13:55.120 trumpet come in with this little moment for one 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:01.080 two three four one don't breathe one two three 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.340 that measures the hardest one in the whole piece 00:14:03.340 --> 00:14:07.460 32 because the trumpets have to go see C, G, 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.840 C, which a lot of them cannot do that at this 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.740 point in the year, which is fine. So again, you 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:16.679 can have a hot shot, play the C, and then everybody 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:21.379 else can just go C, G, C, or they could go C, 00:14:21.500 --> 00:14:24.679 G, C, and just play the low C. And then the flutes 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.340 have the exact same thing, high B flat, F, low 00:14:27.340 --> 00:14:30.299 B flat. So you could do the same modification 00:14:30.299 --> 00:14:34.139 to make it not sound like. I'm screaming my high 00:14:34.139 --> 00:14:36.919 notes at you, if that is the case. And then, 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:40.360 that's a hard articulation. So they go, one, 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.519 two, three, ta -da -ta, and there's like no place 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.659 to take a breath. So we talk about how, and we 00:14:46.659 --> 00:14:49.360 practice, and it's hard. They have to go one, 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.120 two, three, four, and one. That's where they 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.580 have to take the breath, because their phrase 00:14:54.580 --> 00:14:57.559 doesn't finish. Four and one, two, three, four, 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.759 one, two, three, four, one, and then they get 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.500 to take another breath. But they have to make 00:15:01.500 --> 00:15:04.980 it all the way from. there in a like you have 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:07.600 to take a breath so we talk about practicing 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.960 that we do it without the flute just one two 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:13.720 three four and one and we'll count it just like 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.879 that and then we'll do it on air and then we'll 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.940 do it on the real notes so this this measure 00:15:21.940 --> 00:15:25.440 to me takes a lot of cleaning to make it sound 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.519 really mature and then we go back to 17 play 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.600 the whole thing again, and then we have a second 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:37.179 ending, which this time the trumpets alone come 00:15:37.179 --> 00:15:40.440 in on beat three. So we've ended that melody 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.860 that they had before, which was one, two, three, 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:47.759 four, one, three, four, one, and the trumpets 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:50.720 have it alone. Then we're back to exactly what 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.299 we had at the beginning of the piece. One, two, 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:55.559 three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.240 three, four, one, then it's the exact same thing. 00:15:58.539 --> 00:16:01.860 At 38, it's literally the same, another first 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:04.960 ending, going back to 38, and then on the second 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.759 ending, it's just like the beginning now. So 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.200 it's one, two, three, four, one, two, three, 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.620 four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.860 four, one. And the whole band has just tons of 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:20.919 quarter notes. You want to keep them on the beat, 00:16:21.539 --> 00:16:24.940 long, tenuto markings if needed. Firm fronts, 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.399 but connected. Yep. At 50, we all hit beat one. 00:16:28.570 --> 00:16:30.750 and then we have a rest on two and then the lows 00:16:30.750 --> 00:16:34.470 come in with their big long chord three and then 00:16:34.470 --> 00:16:37.070 the wood block, wood block, tempo block, sorry, 00:16:37.830 --> 00:16:41.179 one slapstick. Everybody and they all have a 00:16:41.179 --> 00:16:45.419 concert B flat now we always Give a trumpet player 00:16:45.419 --> 00:16:48.039 one trumpet player. We teach one trumpet player 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.519 how to do the horse Winnie It is not written 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.720 in the music, but we do it the kids have a blast 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.740 with it So we love getting to pick a kid it sometimes 00:16:57.740 --> 00:16:59.759 we've had years. We've done the entire trumpet 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.720 section It just depends but this let me tell 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:08.240 you what I did one year Had my Super awesome 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.140 assistant high school band director Kent Wallace 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:14.160 Come over because he was there to be a great 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.720 high school supporter and so ahead of time I 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.660 asked him if he would be the horse Winnie in 00:17:19.660 --> 00:17:22.619 the piece and the kids Adored getting to hear 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:25.119 their their future high school band director 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.720 play the horse Winnie on sleigh ride. It was 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.259 awesome He stood up and played it and all the 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:32.940 kids just like Fangirled out that you know he 00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:36.099 could fanboyed that he could like play the horse 00:17:36.099 --> 00:17:39.039 Winnie So there's there's options if nobody can 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.420 do it in your trumpet section and speaking of 00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:45.519 options We know that this is is long all of these 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.200 the the three multiple endings you have like 00:17:49.309 --> 00:17:51.430 You can completely take those out if you want 00:17:51.430 --> 00:17:53.130 and take second endings all the way through. 00:17:53.170 --> 00:17:55.150 If you want to make this a little bit shorter, 00:17:55.509 --> 00:17:58.809 right? So you have some flexibility with that 00:17:58.809 --> 00:18:01.930 if you don't like all the repeats or whatever. 00:18:02.750 --> 00:18:05.190 So encourage you to kind of, you know, make this 00:18:05.190 --> 00:18:06.730 your own. I know Katie and I have talked about 00:18:06.730 --> 00:18:09.109 lots of things that we do to modify if necessary. 00:18:09.410 --> 00:18:11.490 Right, for sure. So don't be afraid to do that. 00:18:11.569 --> 00:18:16.029 I love this. We both do, apparently. I like that 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:17.809 it's a little bit of a challenge for the kids, 00:18:17.849 --> 00:18:20.900 but also some... very recognizable. Absolutely, 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.680 yes. Well we hope you will consider programming 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.319 Sleigh Ride by Michael Story in the future and 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.279 thank you for joining us on this episode of Band 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:31.579 BFFs!