Richard Oberacker
Breathe
[WAYNE, spoken]
Um, you’ve got a mistake in the voicing.

[DONNY, spoken]
Where?

[WAYNE, spoken]
Bar 74. The chords coming on the bridge. I should be on the fifth, move everyone else up.

[DONNY, spoken]
No, it’s fine.

[WAYNE, spoken]
Trombone on the third in that register is like breaking rule number one of-

[DONNY, spoken]
Then I’m breaking the rule, Wayne. Relax, the sky won’t fall. Come on, guys. Do those bars. Everyone. Two, three, four...

[DONNY]
Hallelujah

So just
Breathe through the instrument
Breathe through the end of the phrase
And as everyone plays
It gets easier
Easier
[DONNY, spoken]
It’s good but watch out on “proud and tall”, you’re making it minor and it should be major. You’re doing

[DONNY]
Proud and tall

[DONNY, spoken]
It should be

[DONNY]
Proud and tall

[JULIA]
Proud and tall

[DONNY, spoken]
Yeah again

[JULIA]
Proud and tall

[DONNY, spoken]
With me

[JULIA & DONNY]
Proud and tall
[DONNY, spoken]
That’s it!
Now when you guys play those stabs at the end, can we jump on that syncopation more and make the fall off bigger?

[JOHNNY, spoken]
There should be choreography there. Horn-ography!

[DAVY, spoken]
I hear Nick gives lessons

[NICK, spoken]
Piss off

[DAVY]
It's good you're one of the best

[WAYNE, NICK, & DAVY]
Because putting up with you
Is an endurance test

[DONNY]
But I know that all this
Is worth all the sweat

[DONNY, JOHNNY & JIMMY]
Because when we're named the winners
We'll finally get
[DONNY, JOHNNY, JIMMY, & WAYNE]
To have

[WAYNE]
Order out of chaos

[DAVY]
And money to burn

[NICK]
No more need for teaching

[JIMMY]
The promised return

[JIMMY & JOHNNY]
To life the way it was

[WAYNE, NICK, JOHNNY, DAVY, JIMMY, & DONNY]
And we can have this all because
I look to my left
And look to my right
And see other guys
Who fight the same fight
And during those few
Short hours a day
The noise in my head goes away
And I breathe through the instrument
Breathe through the end of the phrase
And as everyone plays
It gets easier