Online Performance Recordings
Below are recordings we are currently practicing. They are listed mostly in alphabetical order. They are provided for you reference, practice, etc. Use these recordings as desired. Here are some suggestions:
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Listen to get the feel of the piece.
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Listen and follow along with the music.
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Sing, hum or whistle your part.
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Play along with your instrument.
When possible the publisher's recording will be provided. We may not take it at their speed, and we may make adjustments, but they should definitely help with tricky rhythms. YouTube videos will be provided too, some of which are publisher recordings too. YouTube videos will mostly be other bands, so their quality may not be as polished as the publishers recording.
YouTube allows you to:
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Queue a video to a specific location in the recording. Do this via the Share button, which allows you to create a time stamped URL for that location, which you can copy and paste into a new browser tab or window. When you refresh your browser, the video will start at that spot. This is useful when working on a specific tricky section in the music repeatedly.
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Adjust the playback speed without affecting the pitch. Do this via the Settings button, which looks like a gear. You can adjust playback speed in 25% preset increments or in 5% increments if using the slider bar. This is useful for complex passages that are too fast at first. Slow them down to understand them better, then increase playback speed to normal. Consider faster than normal to really know you've mastered it.
Our current selections:
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At the Movies - The Classics
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The Golden Age of Broadway - The Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein II
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Selections from GREASE
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Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
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James Bond Suite - NOTE: We are not pausing between movements. We are not taking the D.C. al Coda in the second movement, Live and Let Die. We are playing straight from the D.C. to the Code as if there is no gap.
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The Phantom of the Opera (Selections from)
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No Strings Orchestra with organ
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The Music of the Night after Night after Night - This is a 22-minute audio story from This American Life about the repetitive (and horrific) life of being in the orchestra pit for Phantom of the Opera on Broadway playing the same music everyday for decades.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
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West Side Story (Selection)
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Go The Distance (Vocal Solo)
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Bring Him Home (Vocal Solo). Not finding many only recordings. These may not match our arrangement.
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The Stars and Stripes Forever