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Topic: So You Want To Play a Broadway Show...Look at This.. |
Bill Hatcher
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Posted 6 Jan 2011 5:37 pm |
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started a new show here in Atlanta. show about cheerleaders...musical. i have done several shows where it was the first incarnation...all new music/production...do it here and then it head to broadway...color purple, aida etc.
here is a sample of my part on one song...there are 25 or so in the show. i am playing acoustic and elec guitar.
you want to play broadway shows...this is what you are expected to learn to read. crazy!!!
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Mike Neer
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Posted 6 Jan 2011 5:43 pm
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Bill, at least it's steady rhythms. Looks like a bunch of rock arpeggios and chords with no 3rds (and it looks like fun!). Good luck with it.
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Dave Little
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Atlanta
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Posted 6 Jan 2011 8:03 pm
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Piece of cake. The fretboard diagrams are right there!
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Tony Prior
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Charlotte NC
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 2:52 am
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I'll wait for the movie...
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 9:30 am
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| Get the Cliff Notes. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 11:51 am
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Better yet, scan it into Smart Score.
Bill, I'll bet you can play this in your sleep.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 12:51 pm
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I agree, Mike. Bill is a great player and he should have no problem with this. It looks pretty straightforward. A few years ago one of my guitar students, a high school senior, was playing guitar for his school's production of West Side Story. He brought in his score of the guitar parts and we worked on them for a few weeks. It was pretty tough. Unusual rhythms, lots of syncopation, and lead parts several ledger lines above the staff. I was cursing Leonard Bernstein for weeks! 
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 1:42 pm
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working hard..three days into rehearsals...they havent run me off yet!!!
just wanted to post something from the new crop of young writers tom kitt wrote this. imagine writing all techno pop grooves and raggae rhythms and rap stuff and disco etc.
i cannot even imagine if and when this show goes on the road, picking up a rhythm section and rehearsing this in one 4 or 5 hour session and then doing the show that night!! |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 6:17 pm
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If things have changed at all over the years, then there seems to be a greater frequency of guitar-friendly keys in modern musicals. Here's an example of that.
I did 'Fiddler...' last Spring, and that was a struggle (yet horribly boring at the same time!!!)
This looks challenging but logical - but if every page required this much concentration then ..... well, I'd be glad Bill has the gig and not me!
Good luck with it, Bill, and 'break a leg'!
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Bo Borland
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South Jersey -
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 7:57 pm
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| I can name that tune is 6364 notes |
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Bill Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2011 9:19 pm
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At the Alliance I gather Mr. Hatcher? Maybe I can come hear you one night.
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2011 7:24 pm
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| I had a session with Betty Buckley, back in November, that was totally unexpected. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 13 Jan 2011 9:55 pm
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| I would ask for the tablature..... |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 6:13 am
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| Bill Cunningham wrote: |
| At the Alliance I gather Mr. Hatcher? Maybe I can come hear you one night. |
you like cheerleaders.......come on! |
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Bill Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 3:10 pm
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| you like cheerleaders.......come on! |
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| I would ask for the tablature..... |
Maybe just write it in numbers?
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Bill Cunningham
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Have fun with it.