001Adrian, right? Oh, I am so excited. I tried it. All the way down action. Good boy. Hello. Good morning. So on stage on stage is the Beaver Dam High School Wind Ensemble and we're going to perform uh three pieces for for everyone today and between each one of the pieces we're going to kind of showcase the um each one of the instruments in the band to let everybody see um each of the instruments in the band. At the end um we're going to kind of uh go around the auditorium um on the along the sides and play and play a few things and let everybody let everybody see each one of the um instruments in the section. So, hope hopefully everybody enjoys the concert and uh thank you very much. It's Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.
002Heat. Heat. Heat. Hello. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. All right. So, there there are many types of instruments in the in the band. So, we're going to we're going to introduce them by instrument family. So, first we're going to start with the woodwinds. So, um can we have everybody who uh plays a woodwwind instrument uh stand up? All right. So, we have So, we have the flutes if you could and the oos and clarinets. There's uh bass clarinet and bassoon. So, oos and bassoons are what they call double reads and clarinets are are single reads. And then for uh and then we also have uh we also have saxopones. So we have uh alto saxopones. We also have uh uh tenor saxophones. And then uh and then there's uh baritone saxophone.
003And so clarinets and saxophones are are single reads. And so they have a they have a read and a mouthpiece. So can everybody uh give them a hand? Thank you. Thank you everybody. So before we play our next piece, just uh just to kind of add to this, um I'm I'm on the I'm on the podium conducting. So um so for the conductor's job to uh to keep the tempo, set the tempo and how how uh big I conduct in terms of my conducting gesture is how how loud or soft the dynamic is. So if I so if I uh conduct um a smaller conducting gesture, it's a softer dynamic. And if I conduct a bigger conducting gesture, it's a louder dynamic. And sometimes sometimes I'll cue sections with my uh with my left hand
004to uh sometimes they're they're counting rests and and they're and they're entering in the music. So I'll cue them. That's that's part of the conductor's job. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. All All right. So before our last number, so introducing some of the instruments from the from the brass family. So if everybody uh who plays a brass instrument, if you if you'd stand up. So we have uh horn and trumpets and euphoniums, trombones and tubas. Thank you very much. Can we give Can we give everybody uh uh in the brass section a hand? What is Oh Jesus. Father. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. All right. >> All right. So, um we have and um we have another instrument family in
005the in the band and that's and that's percussion. Uh, and just kind of showing some of the some of the percussion instruments we've got. Um, drum set and timony, bass drum. There's uh snare drum and uh and toms. There's symbols and gong. And then there's um then there's uh mallet instruments. So we have the bells, the xylophone, and the mima. And then over over on the uh over on the stage right side, we've got we've got chimes there. Can we give everybody in the percussion section a round of applause?