Aug. 23-27 Happenings

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Remember your chair-placement auditions will take place next week during your regularly scheduled band lesson so please come prepared and well practiced.

Middle School Bands

5th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Discuss audition groups and times with Mrs. H.
• Welcome Students
• Explain Instrument Demo Process
• Discuss Rental Night
• Begin Demos in Groups

1. Welcome to 5th Grade and Band
1. Keep an open mind
2. May not play what your first choice is
3. Stick it out at least through Christmas Break
2. Demo Process
1. Break into groups of 5
2. Play through different mouthpieces and give some rhythm tests to possible percussionists
3. Rental night

6th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Welcome Students
• Explain Expectations
• Explain Classroom Rules/Grading
• Set Goals
• Begin Playing

1. Welcome Back!
1. Glad to have you here
2. Recruit others
2. Expectations
1. Practice for lessons and band
2. Be on time
3. Come prepared with all materials
4. Be respectful of teacher, students, and materials
3. Rules/Grading
1. Do not talk or play while teacher is talking
2. Raise your hand
3. Keep the room clean
4. Grade is made of lessons, performances, and participation
4. Set Goals
1. Play through scales
2. Improve solos over last year
5. Play
1. Begin with EE scales Pg. 40 Concert Bb, Eb, and Chromatic
2. Distribute music and begin reading

7/8th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Refresh scale transpositions
• Distribute music to read through
• Begin Playing

1. Warm-Up
1. Refresh on the transposition process for the given instruments
2. Play through Concert Bb, Eb, F, Ab, G, and Chromatic Scales
3. Discuss tuning
2. Distribute Music
1. Hand out one piece at a time (Remind Students to Take Care of Music)
3. Read Through Pieces
1. Sight-Read through pieces after handing them out
2. After sight-reading is complete begin working on select areas as needed

High School Band

Objectives:

• Students Sign-Up for Lesson Times
• Distribute Chair-Placement Materials
• Discuss T-Shirt Design
• Rehearse Pep-Band and Parade Music

1. Warm-Up
1. Play through Concert Bb, Eb, F, Ab, G, D, A, and Chromatic Scales (Refresh Transpositions as Needed)
2. Play one or two scales in a thrids pattern

1. Distribute/Discuss

1. Send around Lesson Schedule, Students write in desired time with lessons beginning next week
2. Distribute Chair-Placement packets and discuss the process. Auditions will take place during their first lesson
3. Prompt discussion for this year’s Band T-Shirt

1. Rehearse Music

1. Star-Spangled Banner
1. Play through working on middle section and balance between parts
2. School Song
1. Work for proper tempo and balance
3. Celebration
1. Distribute parts as needed
2. Read through and work areas as needed
4. Barbara Ann
1. Distribute parts as needed
2. Read through and work areas as needed
5. Proud Mary
1. Distribute parts as needed
2. Read through and work areas as needed
6. Possibly Distribute Other Pieces (Gonna Make You Sweat, Don’t Worry Be Happy, Crunch Time, Born to be Wild)