Practice Tip: Repertoire Retention Day Theme

For each repertoire retention day choose an overall theme. Examples of themes are: use your hands a lot to shape the sound; use a lot of tremolo; use extreme dynamics (extremely soft-softs and extremely loud-louds); play amplified; give the band the opening speech (key, groove, where the form starts, and count the band in) and give all signals as you play (like the ending signal); and play into a vocal mic.