Links to recordings:
2 Feb 2015 Part 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/odjegl32x5z950x/2%20Feb%202015%20Part%201.mp4?dl=0
2 Feb 2015 Part 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yp47l4k0gfmrb6q/2%20Feb%202015%20Part%202.mp4?dl=0
Please note that there are no comments for 2 Feb 2015 Part 2 because it is only 19 minutes long and everyone is expected to listen to the whole video.
2 Feb 2015 Part 1
And Then the Ocean Glows:
- Bar 3: Clarinets and Saxophones your melody must be played smoother and with more flow; no tonguing anywhere in the middle of the phrase
- Bar 10: the crescendo builds up to Bar 11’s melody of Horns, Clarinets and Sax
- Bar 11: Melody please play out, especially timbre of the horn
- Bar 11: Muted 1st Trumpet Concert C can be louder
- Bar 11: Muted Trumpets must taper off the Concert C and Concert Ab, don’t suddenly disappear
- Bar 11: Flutes, accuracy of the sextuplet notes can be improved in terms of making all 6 notes equal and within one beat (no stopping short of the beat and no overshooting the beat); work with a metronome; Listen to 2min 14sec
- Bar 18: don’t break so abruptly between the 2nd beat and the 3rd beat
- Bar 19: flutes, trumpets, clarinets, T Sax can afford to be softer
- Bar 22: slowly build up the climax at Bar 23
- Bar 22: mezzo-forte
- Bar 23: the first beat of Bar 23 is the loudest note, not the anywhere in the crescendo leading up to it at Bar 22
- Bar 29: Timbre of trombones should be more than timbre of the clarinets
- Bar 31: Trombones and Clarinets don’t suddenly disappear
- Bar 32: Reminder to LWWS, Tubass and Eupho that it is only mezzo-piano
- Bar 38: 3rd Clarinet and 2nd Alto Sax DON’T start slowing down. Reminder: Tempo is at 138BPM
- Bar 47: Running notes practice more rhythmically
- Bar 51: LWWS, Trombone Euphonium, Tubass don’t drag. Reminder: Tempo is at 138BPM
- Bar 53 onwards: running notes slackening, especially 2nd Clarinet quavers very obviously slowing down
- Bar 55: Trombones don’t slacken
- Full run through of Tempest portion @ 13min
- Bar 38: melody (3rd Clarinet and 2nd Alto Sax) don’t rush your quavers and then rush the entire phrase; same goes for the other people playing the melody that is passed on
- Bar 50: Holding notes please decrescendo more
- Bar 51 onwards: Trombones, Eupho, Tubass, LWWS please hold your minims to the full value; you sound as though your are very breathless because you cut short all the note values
- Bar 59: Please tune your Concert Ab, don’t go flat
- Bar 76: please make the crescendo more obvious
- Bar 80: please make the crescendo more obvious
- Bar 81 to Bar 85: woodwinds, no matter, all running notes must end together (Clarinets and Saxophones) promptly on the first beat of Bar 85
- Bar 85: Trombones, LWWS and Euphonium MEZZO PIANO please play softer
- Bar 93: melody (French horn especially) please play out
- Bar 103: Timbre of horn should be heard more than timbre of trumpet
- Bar 111: Trombones please clearly articulate the semiquaver and dotted quaver rhythm in the 3rd beat
- Bar 111: woodwinds please articulate the notes very clearly and as you go down to the lower notes, you must still make them audible; don’t “eat up” your last notes (Concert Eb for Clarinets and Saxophones); Listen to 15min 40sec until 19min
- Bar 111: T Sax, Horns and Eupho don’t rush
- Bar 115: Bassoon, Bass Clarinet and String Bass, please tune Eb and make sure you don’t go flat
- Bar 119: 1st horns please watch the conductor and come in on the beat together with the flutes and string bass
- Bar 127 to Bar 128 around there: 2nd Alto Sax please check your notes
- Pick up to Bar 133: 2nd Alto Sax please make your pick up more prominent because you’re the only playing quavers while everyone else is playing crotchet
- Bar 133: Don’t tongue the first Concert Ab, it is slurred from the pick up before
- Bar 133: Clarinets don’t blare out the Concert Ab
- Full run through of Bar 133 to The End @ 21min 50sec
- Bar 155: it’s only FORTE, please conserve some sound for FORTISSIMO
- Last note must have beautiful sound, not scary loud but warm loud; tubas give a rounder sound
- Those who cannot play the chromatic scale properly, listen to 24min 27sec on how to work on it
James Bond (25min 02sec)
- Beginning must be stronger; first notes must be emphasized; don’t drag
- Bar 5: horns please do the crescendo and decrescendo more obviously
- Bar 9: Trombones emphasise the accents and staccato on the semiquavers; Listen 26min 18 sec
- Bar 21: TOTALLY SWING – all quavers must be swung (Clarinets and Trumpets)
- Bar 29: Saxophones play with more swing
- Bar 32: Crescendo more
- Bar 35: slow down already
- Flutes listen to 32min 45sec and a little after on how to transit properly
- Bar 37: Tempo at 104BPM; Goldfinger is not as slow as you think
- Oboe solo in Goldfinger please follow the tempo
- Before “Nobody Does it Better”, please watch the conductor for the accelerando! 6 bar before Bar 81 is when it starts getting faster
- 2 Bars before Bar 81 flutes please watch your entrance, follow clarinets
- Full run through of Nobody Does it Better @ 38min 37sec
- Bar 107: Horns and Eupho(?) melody please play louder and don’t slow down
- Full run through of Skyfall @ 42min 10sec
- Bar 131: Trumpet solo don’t rush the last semiquavers
- After “Live and Let Die” Trumpet solo, band be prepared for double time
- Bar 137: more explosive
- Bar 143: accelerando in ¾, so please anticipate and watch
- Last few bars of the song is quite messed up; please clear up the rhythms, notes and tempo hear
- Everyone listen to 46min 12 sec until the end
