Today was our first group rehearsal of All The Things You Are, for the MYP curriculum night on the 14th of June. We are playing as a whole music major class: two pianists, two vocalists, one drummer, one percussionist, two saxophonists, four trumpets and one trombonist.
There are four trumpets: Steven, Illit, Marcel and myself. I felt that we were having some very large and obvious intonation problems that we need to sort out. Not all of the trumpets could play the head, even though we have been playing it for four weeks. This was rather disappointing, but hopefully we sort it out before the performances.
Our class has decided to involve question and answers between different instruments. We have not finalised who will be doing these, and who will be performing solos, but hopefully the question and answers will demonstrate what our class have been learning.
Our structure that we worked on today, was: Head (only percussion, drums, trombone, guitar and piano), head (same instruments plus vocalists), head (everyone), multiple solos, question and answer, multiple solos, head. This structure works well, but we need to finalise the soloists.
I found that Luca and Scout's solos (on vibraphone and vocals) were really great because they both used the correct notes, and had a strong sense of rhythm and dynamics.
Hopefully by the time of the performance, the trumpets will be able to play the head in time and with the correct pitch, and everyone else will be able to do the same. If so, it should sound great.
There are four trumpets: Steven, Illit, Marcel and myself. I felt that we were having some very large and obvious intonation problems that we need to sort out. Not all of the trumpets could play the head, even though we have been playing it for four weeks. This was rather disappointing, but hopefully we sort it out before the performances.
Our class has decided to involve question and answers between different instruments. We have not finalised who will be doing these, and who will be performing solos, but hopefully the question and answers will demonstrate what our class have been learning.
Our structure that we worked on today, was: Head (only percussion, drums, trombone, guitar and piano), head (same instruments plus vocalists), head (everyone), multiple solos, question and answer, multiple solos, head. This structure works well, but we need to finalise the soloists.
I found that Luca and Scout's solos (on vibraphone and vocals) were really great because they both used the correct notes, and had a strong sense of rhythm and dynamics.
Hopefully by the time of the performance, the trumpets will be able to play the head in time and with the correct pitch, and everyone else will be able to do the same. If so, it should sound great.