Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, April 16, 2009
The Afternoon Concert
On Wednesday April 8, the Wahconah Band And Chorus performed a show of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely hearts Club Band for Nessacus Middle School in the afternoon. The show was recorded, and those tracks are presented here.
We also recorded our evening performance, but the auditorium was filled to capacity, and there was quite a bit of ambient noise and thunderous applause on the recordings. These recordings represent, in my opinion, the best audio quality of the recordings we made.
The evening show however, has the most energy. The applause and spirit of the audience really moved the band and chorus to perform with an edge. The music was truly alive, and it was wonderful to be a part of it. I will transfer that electrifying performance to CD soon, but it will be available on DVD sooner as Dalton Community Television was there Wednesday night recording from 2 separate cameras.
I'll keep everyone posted as to the scheduled broadcast times. for now, enjoy the live recordings. If you'd like to go back down memory lane, you can listen to some of the dress rehearsals from February. It's easy to see how far we have come, and how we have grown as musicians and as a cohesive group. It was a pleasure putting this project together.
With Pride,
Brian Rabuse
We also recorded our evening performance, but the auditorium was filled to capacity, and there was quite a bit of ambient noise and thunderous applause on the recordings. These recordings represent, in my opinion, the best audio quality of the recordings we made.
The evening show however, has the most energy. The applause and spirit of the audience really moved the band and chorus to perform with an edge. The music was truly alive, and it was wonderful to be a part of it. I will transfer that electrifying performance to CD soon, but it will be available on DVD sooner as Dalton Community Television was there Wednesday night recording from 2 separate cameras.
I'll keep everyone posted as to the scheduled broadcast times. for now, enjoy the live recordings. If you'd like to go back down memory lane, you can listen to some of the dress rehearsals from February. It's easy to see how far we have come, and how we have grown as musicians and as a cohesive group. It was a pleasure putting this project together.
With Pride,
Brian Rabuse
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A Day In The Life
This was the best we have played this piece so far. That said, we still have a few things to fix. I shouldn't hear any key signature errors in the clarinets and flutes in the beginning, and I do. Listen and you'll hear them too. It's an easy fix. Just mark them with your pencil. Problem solved.
The shaker has to be perfect. You can't slow down or make any rhythmic error of any kind or it becomes glaringly obvious that you are not paying attention. A lot of drummers laugh at the shaker/ maracas/ other time keepers as "easy" percussion instruments. But, it's not easy to keep perfect time.
Victoria was absent today, so we had no alarm clok.
Watch the volume of the timpani in the John Lennon "Ahh" section.
On the dissonant orchestra swell, try not to play the 16th note C,B,C,B, pattern. It should be free of any rhythm (except for the drums).
On the big E major chord at the end, once you run out of air, do not come back in. Just let it fade out.
The shaker has to be perfect. You can't slow down or make any rhythmic error of any kind or it becomes glaringly obvious that you are not paying attention. A lot of drummers laugh at the shaker/ maracas/ other time keepers as "easy" percussion instruments. But, it's not easy to keep perfect time.
Victoria was absent today, so we had no alarm clok.
Watch the volume of the timpani in the John Lennon "Ahh" section.
On the dissonant orchestra swell, try not to play the 16th note C,B,C,B, pattern. It should be free of any rhythm (except for the drums).
On the big E major chord at the end, once you run out of air, do not come back in. Just let it fade out.
Sgt. Pepper Reprise
The only thing we need to fix in this is the little one-measure fills played by the flutes/ trumpets and mallets some are great, some a a little sloppy. Overall, the tune grooves great. The fills are not that hard, and they are short. We'll get them. I'm also a little concerned about the last note being in tune, but George Harrison didn't quite bend his lat note in tune on the recording, so we could just say we're being authentic. :-) Not.
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