This Week - 2nd February
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
This Week - 18th January / 22nd January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
Brecknock & Torriano
Primary Federation
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Coleridge Primary
Orchestra
Fleet Primary
Brass
Watermelon Man
Original version
Our version
The easy part can be played on trumpets and/or trombones
There are 4 trumpet parts ranging from quite easy to quite hard:
- Trumpet 1: Simple with low notes
- Trumpet 2: Simple with high notes
- Trumpet 3: Complicated with low notes
- Trumpet 4: Complicated with high notes
The trombone part is easy. It's fine to play the trumpet parts on
trombone if you want more of a challenge!
STRUCTURE:
- 4 bars intro
- Play the tune twice
- 4 choruses for solos
- Play the tune twice
- Pay the last 2 bars 3 more times
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Easy brass
Trombone
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Trombone
Trumpet 1
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Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
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Trumpet 2
Trumpet 3
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Trumpet 3
Trumpet 4
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Trumpet 4
E minor pentatonic
E blues scale
Your Performances
Send us a video or audio recording of you playing and, if you want, we can put it up here.
Here's Brecknock Year 5&6 playing it in Summer 2018,
after some workshops with saxophonist Tony Kofi.