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Grade 7 Band

Grade 7 Band

Grade 7 & 8 Virtual Band Project - Loch Lomond
This week's videos are posted below. Archived videos can be found on RDPC Band's Grade 7&8 Youtube playlist.

Help Videos ​for Loch Lomond are below!  

Star of the County Down - Practice Tracks

70 BPM
80 BPM
100 BPM
Grade 7 Deerwood Festival of the Arts Recording Project

Loch Lomond Practice Track

65 BPM

Instrument Exemplars

Flute - Jorge Pardo - Spain (with Chick Corea live in Barcelona)

Clarinet - ​Clarinet Quartet - Candide Overture 

​Trumpet - Alison Balsam - Hummel Concerto

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Trombone - Trombone Shorty - Second Line 

Euphonium - David & Robert Childs - Brilliante (with Gwent Alumni Brass Band)
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Percussion & Electric Bass -
           - Mark Walker, feat. Berklee percussion faculty - Island Hopping
           - Steelpan and Jazz Vibes - Village Vibe

Brass Ensemble - The Canadian Brass - Carnival of Venice

Cleaning your Instrument

​Flute: 
- Wipe the lip plate with an alcohol wipe.  

- Swab the inside of the instrument using the tuning rod and the cleaning cloth.  Run it through a few times until the instrument is dry inside.

- Wash the cleaning cloth in the laundry.  If you are concerned about the colour running, you can hand wash with laundry detergent.


Clarinet:
- Fill a short, narrow glass half-full with mouthwash.  Place your mouthpiece upside down, ensuring the mouthwash does not touch the cork part of your mouthpiece.  

- Swab the inside of the instrument using the cleaning cloth.  Run it through a few times until the instrument is dry inside.

- Wash the cleaning cloth in the laundry.  If you are concerned about the colour running, you can hand wash with laundry detergent.

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Saxophone: 
- Fill a short, narrow glass 3/4 full with mouthwash.  Place your mouthpiece upside down in the glass.  The entire mouthpiece can be submerged, as sax mouthpieces don't have cork.  Soak for a few hours, rinse and dry.

​- Swab the inside of the instrument using the cleaning cloth.  Run it through a few times until the instrument is dry inside.

- Wash the cleaning cloth in the laundry.  If you are concerned about the colour running, you can hand wash with laundry detergent.
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​Trumpet, Trombone & Euphonium ONLY:  How to give your instrument a BATH

*Make sure you have a cleaning snake, slide grease, and valve oil*
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- Fill bathtub with warm (not hot) water and squirt of dish soap

- Take apart entire instrument (but set valves aside as the felt must not get wet.  Also take note of the numbers on the valves) 

- Soak instrument, slides and mouthpiece for 20 minutes

- Use snake to clean inside each piece

- Rinse, remove from water, and set all pieces on a towel to dry 

- Grease all slides and then reassemble (the valves have numbers and must go back in the right order)


​2020-2021 Dates

All concerts and other events are currently on pause.  We look forward sharing our music with the community in alternative ways for now!