Now try it with Notation C
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
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Watermelon Man
Our version
Original 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
Easy brass
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Easy brass
Trombone
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Trombone
Trumpet 1
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.