Hi everyone! Look for your orchestra below to learn what we did on Monday.
Our field trip is next week! If you haven’t already, please be sure to turn in your permission slips, or you won’t be allowed on the field trip. We will meet at PVHS at 9am and we will be back around 3pm. Lunch will be provided and you don’t need to bring your instruments, so just bring yourself! I’m so excited for you to see some really great musicians!
Beginning Orchestra
This week, we went over each instrument’s “pattern” in Royal Promenade. This pattern is found in these places:
- Cello and Bass: measures 5-9
- 2nd Violins and Viola: measures 9-13
- 1st Violins: measures 13-17
These measures will be your final playing check-in in April, so be sure to practice them! We also went through the beginning of Royal Promenade. These patterns return at the end of the piece, so if you learn this, you know most of it!
We also quickly went over On a Swing and The Salamander Samba. Be sure to practice with the practice videos at home!
Intermediate Orchestra
- Guldfaxe — We need to really start focusing on this one! This week, we went through the beginning until 43-ish. Violins and violas, your final playing check-in will be on measures 59-end, and Cello and Bass your final playing check-in will be on measures 19-27. We will start recording for these after Spring Break.
- Abandoned Funhouse — This is sounding great! We played with the practice videos which ended up helping a lot.
- Icicles — We are pretty solid on this one, but we did have to talk about making all of our staccatos the same. We want our bows to do a U shape, not a V shape — we still want some bow on each note so it doesn’t sound scratchy.
- Momentous — We are cutting Momentous from the program — no need to practice it!
Advanced Orchestra
- Turbulence — We were still having some difficulty around measure 44 until the end, so be sure to practice it! Cellos and Bass, be sure to practice measure 60 until the end especially!
- Bones — We went through our next playing check-in spot, which will be measures 47-52 for Violas and Cello and measures 51-55 for Violins. Bass, yours will be on the Coda! We got through the whole thing, although the coda is a bit rough! Please be sure to play the whole thing at home.
- Appalachian Sunrise — We are still getting the hang of how all of the parts fit together, but we are getting there! We especially worked on measures 37-53, where 2nds, Violas, and Cellos have the melody and the 1sts have a counter melody. We still need to work on the end more — be sure to practice it at home!
- Momentous — We are cutting Momentous from the program — no need to practice it!