Attention Players!
PowerPoint score updates are available. Contact Karlin for your copy if you haven't already received it by email. There are 2 versions: 1.3MB silent version or a 5MB version with rehearsal audio.
If you want a CD with other rehearsal audio tracks, like the low F and low D we'll be playing the riff over, let me know that too.
Your mission over the next weeks is to find the strongest and clearest sounds on your instrument and get enough control over them that they come out when you want them to. Convincing tone and clear rhythm are more important than 'right' harmonies. Play your best sounds over the low notes on the practice track or PowerPoint and choose those that fit best to your ear. During the riff, especially, please try to use notes you think fit well over the bass during the long notes and for the last note. The bass notes will be either the F or D we practiced with.
Your section will have at least 2 rehearsals, I hope, before the 22nd. The more comfortable you are as a section, the more convincing you'll sound. And if you make up some other good tunes, we can use them in the lunchtime concerts or the first half of the big Friday night concert. Section leaders will be appointed to organise rehearsals (if they haven't already).
Thank you so much for being part of this. It is such a remarkable project: bringing out the voices of these beautiful sculptural instruments and joining them together in a powerful collaborative creation.
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