Dallas Brass Kicks Ass!
So, Friday we had an opportunity to go to United High School for half of the day and do a workshop with the Dallas Brass Band.
I decided to go and dear lawd! It was great! There were six guys in the band and they were phenomenal! They were fantastic musicians, great at giving advice and tips, and not to mention that they were all really funny and great to hang out with.
We got there and they came out and performed a selection from "The Incredibles". The Tub a player, Nat, did this technique called multiphonics. Which involved him singing into his tuba and playing at the same time. It sounded awesome and he even performed a piece that he wrote himself. You should check it out here....REALLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZp6aBpERwk
After that, the middle school students and the high school students broke up into their seperate bands and practiced the piece that they would be performing with the Dallas Brass at the concert that night. It was really cool, the Trombonist, Mike, who wrote our piece, conducted us.
Jeff, their drummer, was there as well. Oh boy...Jeff...*wants to marry him* He was amazing. The best drummer that I've ever seen, hands down. Not only that but he was as funny as hell too!
When we were done rehearsing, we went to eat dinner and noticed that the SNOW STORM FROM HELL was happening outside. It continued on through the night and we ended up getting around 6-7 inches on top of the 3-4 we already had.
But, despite all that, the concert went off with out a hitch. And it was amazing too, so amazing that I bought one of their CD's so I can listen to them always.
My mum filmed the piece that we performed with them, it's on a little DVD, so I'll see if there's any way that I can upload it onto the computer. Any help would be appreciated! ^_^
I decided to go and dear lawd! It was great! There were six guys in the band and they were phenomenal! They were fantastic musicians, great at giving advice and tips, and not to mention that they were all really funny and great to hang out with.
We got there and they came out and performed a selection from "The Incredibles". The Tub a player, Nat, did this technique called multiphonics. Which involved him singing into his tuba and playing at the same time. It sounded awesome and he even performed a piece that he wrote himself. You should check it out here....REALLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZp6aBpERwk
After that, the middle school students and the high school students broke up into their seperate bands and practiced the piece that they would be performing with the Dallas Brass at the concert that night. It was really cool, the Trombonist, Mike, who wrote our piece, conducted us.
Jeff, their drummer, was there as well. Oh boy...Jeff...*wants to marry him* He was amazing. The best drummer that I've ever seen, hands down. Not only that but he was as funny as hell too!
When we were done rehearsing, we went to eat dinner and noticed that the SNOW STORM FROM HELL was happening outside. It continued on through the night and we ended up getting around 6-7 inches on top of the 3-4 we already had.
But, despite all that, the concert went off with out a hitch. And it was amazing too, so amazing that I bought one of their CD's so I can listen to them always.
My mum filmed the piece that we performed with them, it's on a little DVD, so I'll see if there's any way that I can upload it onto the computer. Any help would be appreciated! ^_^