Band Ob.

On February 27, I observed the Advanced Band at Bozeman High Band with Kelly Berdahl. This rehearsal was on a Monday and he took about 7 minutes to ask the students what they did on the weekend; he also took this time to make announcements. The band then started with their warm ups. It was based upon the concert Bb scale. The first time though everyone played in unison. The second time though, they played in a round. In the round they started in whole notes, the second time through the round they used four quarter notes instead of whole notes. /For the last portion of the warm up period, they played a warm up called “POP”. During the warm up I really liked the fact that all the percussionist played the scales on the keyboard instruments. The repertoire that they played was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The main goal of that part of the rehearsal was to figure out what parts of the music to cut for time.