Hello. We will be having a Marching Band Jam in New Paltz for the Halloween Parade on Sunday October 31. It starts at 6pm on North Manheim Blvd. and marches down Main Street into town. Please join us for this intense musical experience, where we try to play a single song for an hour long. Bring your own instrument, use one of our percussive toys, or play the membranophone of your own body. We also need lots of singers!
We will be performing a classic ’80s hip hop dance groove. It’s got 4 notes and is super easy to play. The scale is know as A Minor Pentatonic.
If you can’t play the low E in the 1st and 3rd measures, just sub in another G to play a 3-note version. The 4th measure has plenty of rest to either drop out or pick up the melody once again. We will also have plenty of drum-based vocal sections where lyrics to various 80’s and 90’s hip hop hits will be sung out and shouted.
Some songs we will sing are:
“Everybody Dance Now” – C+C Music Factory
“Pump Up the Jam” – Technotronic
“Wiggle It” – by 2 in a Room
“Push It” – Salt ‘n’ Pepa
“Can’t Touch This” – MC Hammer
“This Beat is Tecnhotronic” – Technotronic
“It Takes Two” – Rob Base
“Who Let the Dogs Out?” – Baha Men
If you can think of more songs, please write them down in the comments section of this post. Here’s the facebook event page that we had David Fincher make for us.
Hope to see you there!
I can’t be there, but I still request “Push it”