ORCHESTRA warm up question?

Question

HI i have to do a warm up for my orchestra class tomarrow!!!!!!!!!! and i am freaking out, i want to do a fun one like a game maybe with groups? please help me!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Try scales. You can even vary the scales, maybe by adding articulation, separating notes, etc.

Answer 2

<<<<<guodlibets>>>>>

This was the favorite pasttime of the Bach family in Thuringia.

In his "Unbegun Symphony," Peter Schickele runs "Oh, Susannah!" with the Lone Ranger theme.

You can also fit "Suwannee River" with Dvoark's "Humoresque."

Someone should start a Website for possible quodlibets.

<<<<<bichordal songs>>>>>

Have some of the members sing "Found a Peanut," have some of the members play the melody, and have everyone else plays the tonic and dominant chords.

Check to see if there are any absentees tomorrow.

Here is a song which I sing whenever there are any absentees in my English class.

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<<<<<transposing practice>>>>>

If a song uses only a few notes, as "Hot Cross Buns" does, transposing that song could be easier than some might think.

Here is a song using only the notes of the major triad.

For that reason, transposing this song would be especially good music theory practice:

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I have found it to be easy enough using a chart with the 12 keys on one axis and do-mi-so-do on the other axis.

You may or may not think it would be too difficult to add the chords.

I always play the chords myself on a keyboard rigged up to sound like an organ.

Singing slowly, softly, and reverently about elbows and little fingers adds a touch of humor.

<<<<<the English handbell game>>>>>

This pasttime has been used in Suzuki violin class.

Assign one note to each individual or group, and go through the song with each individual or group playing only the assigned note.

<<<<<canons>>>>>

See if you can locate "The Book of Rounds" by Taylor & Dyk.

It has several canons using only do, mi, so, and do.

You can play them as canons, you can play two or more as quodlibets, or you can mix the two.

I got the "My Foot" song from that book.

Answer 3

Row, Row, Row Your Boat", played as a round, with each section taking a round.  Simple, but fun.  After making all the rounds, you can change the key and start all over again.

Relax, and have fun!