Count to Ten - Flex Ensemble & Opt. Audio Track

Having the students play along with any of the audio tracks is optional, but the additional, cinematic sound makes everything sound better, and may inspire themeven more!

With the goal of giving every teacher as many options and tools as possible, there are four accompaniment track options. The first threeare for rehearsal purposes:

1.PULSE only (more interesting sounding than a metronome);
2.DRONE only (helpful with intonation);
3. PULSE plus DRONE.

The fourth track is the most compelling and is for performance, as well as rehearsal. It includes the PULSE, DRONE, and GROOVE.

Each of these accompaniment tracks is offered at four tempi/durations: 120bpm (1:06), 110 bpm (1:11), 100 bpm (1:18), and 90 bpm (1:27).
The performance goal is 120 bpm.

The parts are designed to ensure that each of the students willinterchangeably get to play the drone, play the moving line part, andsingspiel the numbers of the time signatures. The percussionists play and singspiel simultaneously throughout the piece.

The singspiel may be vocalized as either a purely spoken number, or sungat the pitch indicated by the crosshead note, in any comfortable register. By the final 1/4 bars, musicians are invited to shout!

Each wind part contains an indication reminding wind students to raise their instrument up to their lips during their final measure of singspiel, in order to make a rhythmically smooth transition and quickly prepare their embouchure for sounding the first played note of the next bar. At the faster tempi, should students have any difficulty with this, it's fine if they don't vocalize the final number of the bar, thus allowing more preparation time. The percussionists will always be vocalizing the meter count.

3-part Flexible Ensemble - Grade level .5 - score and parts included