Thank you for sharing this! I love this song and it's awesome to see how some of sounds you don't really think about are made. Great vocals and fun to watch a talented artist at work!
bigjonseattle thanks mate! I thought it would be good to give a bit of an insight! It’s just a really fun show to play, constantly running from one thing to the next and working out what mallets you need!
Chris Greentree Yep, it keeps you moving for sure! I can't imagine what the score looks like - it seems like it must look more like directions for a play rather than a sheet of music with all the different instruments and effects.
The score actually just looks like a regular treble stave luckily! But it is a little more complicated than others... At the top of the first page of each piece there is a list of the instruments for that piece, then above bar 1 a boxed text outlining which instrument to play. Prior to each instrument change there is another box (to - glock.) for example. That way the stave can just stay the same (apart from for timpani where it goes to bass) and you can go from instrument to instrument. Being more of a visual person, my copy of the book was color coded for instruments and groupings, so the text boxes for all of elphebas auxiliary percussion where one colour as they were in one section of the setup, the timpani another, and so on. That way you don't have to read so much, just see the colour and know which direction to head to. Along the way players have added a lot of notes as to what mallets to pick up or place where, and for all of the constant timpani re-tunes in advance. Nothing sucks more than running to the timpani in a 3 beat transition only to have to re-tune and miss the cue! If you look closely you'll see that there are actually 3 books in this setup.. To make it easier than flipping constantly at each station (trust me that get's old really quickly!) the permanent player on this gig stapled the page turns together for each book, so if on one book you didn't play for another 15 pages, those pages just got stapled together so you could flip it as you move on and then when you come back you're in the right spot! I hope that helps a bit! If I played this show for a full run I'd probably run the exact same setup, it was pretty good.
Sure is, the second one for Australia. The show was organised by Gosford Musical Society (www.gosfordmusicalsociety.com.au) who did a brilliant job. The Orchestra was actually placed in a dressing room to make mixing the audio easier and for some staging purposes. From the percussion side of things, it was actually very hard to hear anybody else without the in ears in because of the perspex!
Chris Greentree If you aren’t analyzing your performance and and resting judgement on, “I’m happy with it so that’s good enough” then you probably shouldn’t be a musician. There is always room for improvement.
Thank you for sharing this! I love this song and it's awesome to see how some of sounds you don't really think about are made. Great vocals and fun to watch a talented artist at work!
bigjonseattle thanks mate! I thought it would be good to give a bit of an insight! It’s just a really fun show to play, constantly running from one thing to the next and working out what mallets you need!
Chris Greentree Yep, it keeps you moving for sure! I can't imagine what the score looks like - it seems like it must look more like directions for a play rather than a sheet of music with all the different instruments and effects.
The score actually just looks like a regular treble stave luckily! But it is a little more complicated than others...
At the top of the first page of each piece there is a list of the instruments for that piece, then above bar 1 a boxed text outlining which instrument to play. Prior to each instrument change there is another box (to - glock.) for example. That way the stave can just stay the same (apart from for timpani where it goes to bass) and you can go from instrument to instrument.
Being more of a visual person, my copy of the book was color coded for instruments and groupings, so the text boxes for all of elphebas auxiliary percussion where one colour as they were in one section of the setup, the timpani another, and so on. That way you don't have to read so much, just see the colour and know which direction to head to. Along the way players have added a lot of notes as to what mallets to pick up or place where, and for all of the constant timpani re-tunes in advance. Nothing sucks more than running to the timpani in a 3 beat transition only to have to re-tune and miss the cue!
If you look closely you'll see that there are actually 3 books in this setup.. To make it easier than flipping constantly at each station (trust me that get's old really quickly!) the permanent player on this gig stapled the page turns together for each book, so if on one book you didn't play for another 15 pages, those pages just got stapled together so you could flip it as you move on and then when you come back you're in the right spot!
I hope that helps a bit!
If I played this show for a full run I'd probably run the exact same setup, it was pretty good.
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.
This is wild! Excellent job!
Love that gong - nice job!!
Absolutely superb young man
Is this an amaturre production if so the orchestra is very good
Sure is, the second one for Australia. The show was organised by Gosford Musical Society (www.gosfordmusicalsociety.com.au) who did a brilliant job. The Orchestra was actually placed in a dressing room to make mixing the audio easier and for some staging purposes. From the percussion side of things, it was actually very hard to hear anybody else without the in ears in because of the perspex!
All you can ever judge is your own performance, if you're happy with that then that's got to be enough
Chris Greentree If you aren’t analyzing your performance and and resting judgement on, “I’m happy with it so that’s good enough” then you probably shouldn’t be a musician. There is always room for improvement.
1:50 the timing and pitch fell apart, otherwise decently well done
Amateur production? As far as I know, Wicked has not released rights to be performed by amateurs.
Excellent Triangle
where abouts was this man? i thought our production in Perth was the second semi-amateur production?? haha
This one was Gosford, could be but I was sure we sent the book from Newcastle straight to Gosford
And this is one instrument shorter then from what i see that they do on Broadway
True, we drew the line at 55 instruments!
Could we get the wizard and I!
Sure thing, it's uploading now..
who is elphaba ? amazing job !!!!
Jessica King
Awesome video. Who are playing Elphaba and Glinda in this? They sound incredible.
The show was put on by Gosford Musical Society, (www.gosfordmusicalsociety.com.au). Elphaba was played by Jessica King and Glinda by Kate Leslie.
Chris do you have any tips for a band
Cool
So how exactly is he defying gravity? Just looks like he is playing for a musical of some sort like a regular percussionist would...
It's the name of the song he's playing
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