Wednesday, 17 July 2024

JULY 18TH REHEARSAL PREPARATION INFORMATION

By James Adkins on July 17, 2024

Hello all! Starting today I will be sending you preparation information for each rehearsal on our schedule. Please take a few minutes to review my plan realizing that time is golden. The more unified our rehearsal are the more we can achieve. We have made great progress and are now at the halfway point of my planned Rehearsal Schedule. Each rehearsal has a purpose and is a steppingstone toward musical understanding and a top-notch performance on August 25th.

We will start each rehearsal with an important Scale of the Day. We are starting out with Concert Db major. C instr. play written Db. Bb instr. play written Eb. Eb instr. play written Bb. F instr. play written Ab. Perc. instr. play the Adkins warmup 2024. Please play these scales before you come and before we begin rehearsal. Secondly please look at the Moore Warm Up. We will be starting with Section B. The Principal Woodwind and String Pitch will be played by Marilyn and the Principal Brass Pitch by Dave. The Principal Tutti Pitch will be played by Abye. Please also look at the explanations for section D. The word DIRCTION has to do with UP and DOWN or moving HIGHER and LOWER through the slurred pattern. Starting next Monday, we will play the entire Moore package as our 5 minute warm up.

Here is the entire rehearsal Plan for tomorrow July 18th at F.E.C.

6:00 - Moore Warm Up

6:10 - Let Freedom Ring (The Final Chop!)

6:20 - Beatles in Concert (final cuts)

6:40 - Strike Up

7:00 - Queen

7:10 - Break

7:15 - Fascinating

7:45 - Hands (flute chorus)

7:55 -Bye!

I'm Excited!! Jim