Product Description
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)
Beginning dynamic, forte. No changes, in recording, but band leader can adjust to taste.
This is a swing/Big Band version of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz by Tchaikovsky.
Age/skill level: Hal Leonard level 4
Time signature: 4/4.
Performance time: approx. 3:10 (optional ending at about 1:50--tune can be played again from the top, or resumed)
Additional YouTube links:
Full Band with countoff https://youtu.be/KGoKfz487bc
Piano Tutorial https://youtu.be/bky_8tWxrDo
Scoring:
Scores: 1 Concert, 1 Transposed
Saxes: 2A, 2T, 1Bari
Trumpets: 4 (highest notes, lead concert G (approx. 5); lowest note 4th, Gs and As (blatty/intonation?)
Trombones: 4 (highest note in lead, Ab, several Gs) (2nd Trombone, measure 8, should be a D (13th of F7, but might sound better as a C)
Piano/Guitar:
1 Lead Sheet (quasi Condensed Score) with possible piano cues
1 Written-out notation version (beginner),
I can send a Piano Jazz Tutorial showing some suggestions for beginners or classically-trained (i.e., quartal vice triadic voicings). I didn't have time to include it.
Bass: Lead Sheet with optional notes (for beginners)
Drum Set: 1 Kick Sheet, 1 Notation version (beginner)
Rhythm section play-along: https://youtu.be/rhlifLTzHC8
Swing/Big Band version of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz by Tchaikovsky. Educational piece for the rhythm section, especially for classically-trained pianists (like me), and drum parts are available as kick sheet or notation (I send both; you just choose which you want to print).
Age/skill level: Hal Leonard level 4, Finale range ability level "Intermediate". Highest trumpet note: concert G. Some 3rd-line lead trombone G's. Saxes stay within "Intermediate" range.
ProblemsPlease send me an e-mail at klazzkeys@aol.com for any issues that need to be addressed. However, I am forced to treat e-mails with typos as spam.
Intromaybe slight staccato in lower Rhythm Section parts with the pedal Fs. Chick Webb and Ellas Undecided (1939) is the ideaemphasizes the syncopation.
Dynamicsthe only dynamics Ive left are in the rhythm section, from early sketches. They might work, but dont need to be followed.
Optional Ending (bar 71)there could be a fermata on it, but I thought that might be confusing. If playing through, the quarter note on beat 4 seems to sound best played short.
Minor 6th (mi6) chordsI try to recall the 1930s with this sound. This chart is kind of all over the place, historically, and I try to touch on the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Wrong notesthe only playdowns have been from a group that calls themselves The Pretty Knitty Skirt Band, a small consort of grandmothers who gets together occasionally when not spoiling their grandchildren.
Measure 85the anticipation on the & of 3 is technically broken by the saxes on beat 4, but it comes across sounding more Dixieland than bad swing (I hope!). In the Trombones, the & of 2 should be a dotted quarter, but I chose the two-eighths and a quarter to show that they should NOT shorten the & of 2. Its awkward writing, and wont help on the initial playdown, but the harmonic change from beat one to beat two may be more sure to register.
Drum Kick SheetMeasure 65, the prep doesnt have to be 16th notes, but I didnt know how to write a half-beat virgule without putting a note stem on it!
Falls and Scoopslength doesnt mean anything on this chart. Its the notation software and my aging laptop. They should be played however the director thinks it sounds best.
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