Phantom Regiment
Phantom Regiment
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Start next week
The first meeting of summer will be next Friday, 6/27/14, as opposed to this Friday as previously advertized.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Augie's Great Municipal Band
Augie's Great Municipal Band - for bells, snare drums, tenor drums, bongos or congas, bass drum, crash cymbals, whistle, PVC pipe (unless you happen to have an alpine horn), and vocals
mp3
pdf
Notes about the pdf: The weird empty boxes above vocals should say quarter note = 126 bpm. The "x" marks on tenor drums are left-on-right stick clicks (strike the right stick with the left stick). Use wooden sticks on one of the lower pitched tenor drums (say, 14 inch or larger). The idea with the snares, tenor, and bongos/congas is to get that "large marching/processional band" sound as seen on SW III. Crash cymbals and whistle should be played by one player. This arrangement is not an exact translation of the version heard in the movie; for one thing, nobody I know owns a cuica.
Notes about the mp3: Finale's vocals sound very electronic. Deal with it. The five stroke rolls starting in measure 13 do not sound right; they should be played strictly in time - just keep the right hand moving exactly with every 8th note. The sound cuts out on the bells in the last measure because Finale does not believe that my bells go up to C.
If you want to hear a high quality version of the original, always look for one without video; I prefer DarkKnightMatt's on Youtube.
mp3
Notes about the pdf: The weird empty boxes above vocals should say quarter note = 126 bpm. The "x" marks on tenor drums are left-on-right stick clicks (strike the right stick with the left stick). Use wooden sticks on one of the lower pitched tenor drums (say, 14 inch or larger). The idea with the snares, tenor, and bongos/congas is to get that "large marching/processional band" sound as seen on SW III. Crash cymbals and whistle should be played by one player. This arrangement is not an exact translation of the version heard in the movie; for one thing, nobody I know owns a cuica.
Notes about the mp3: Finale's vocals sound very electronic. Deal with it. The five stroke rolls starting in measure 13 do not sound right; they should be played strictly in time - just keep the right hand moving exactly with every 8th note. The sound cuts out on the bells in the last measure because Finale does not believe that my bells go up to C.
If you want to hear a high quality version of the original, always look for one without video; I prefer DarkKnightMatt's on Youtube.
enSambal
enSambal - a samba piece for timbales, drum set, bongos or congas, claves, maracas, train whistle, and hands.
Click the link here to download the 2MB mp3.
Sheet music available here. You need this pdf to read the timbales part.
A few notes - the triangle sound at the beginning represents a train whistle and the bongos in the first two measures and the last four measures are actually hand clapping, but Finale does not have those sounds, so I had to substitute. The maracas sound is strange, too, but I can live with it
To play the timbales properly, buy "Latin-American Rhythm Instruments and How to Play Them" by Humberto Morales and Henry Adler. It is the holy scripture for said instruments and the two dozen latin music rhythms.
Sheet music available here. You need this pdf to read the timbales part.
A few notes - the triangle sound at the beginning represents a train whistle and the bongos in the first two measures and the last four measures are actually hand clapping, but Finale does not have those sounds, so I had to substitute. The maracas sound is strange, too, but I can live with it
To play the timbales properly, buy "Latin-American Rhythm Instruments and How to Play Them" by Humberto Morales and Henry Adler. It is the holy scripture for said instruments and the two dozen latin music rhythms.
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