Dec. 13-17 Happenings

Congratulations to the Middle School Band Students on a job well done at Thursday's concert. All of your hard work paid off! Make sure to bring your instruments home over the break and practice up as we will get right back to work after the break in anticipation of our next concerts. Also, remember that all band students in grades 5-8 will be playing a solo in April. We will begin selecting your pieces toward the end of January or the beginning of February. To those of you that are reading this thank you for taking a moment to see what we are doing and I wish you and your a happy and safe holiday season!

Middle School

5th Band

Objectives:

• Reflect on Concert
• Set Goals
• Continue working from EE

Warm-Up:

1. Page 12 perform Tone and Rhythm Builders
1. Begin having percussion rotate through mallets

Music Rehearsal:

1. Discuss Concert
2. Begin playing through performance pages 12-13
3. Possibly play a full run through the book up to their current location
4. Distribute new sheet music as appropriate

6th Band

Objectives:

• Reflect on Concert
• Set Goals
• Distribute new pieces and read
• Continue working on scales

Warm-Up:

1. Play through EE Pg. 40 Concert Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1, and 2
1. Work articulations on number 2 and push tempos
1. Work to make the second note of the slur short
2. Play chromatic scale

Music Rehearsal:

1. Collect Concert Pieces
2. Discuss Concert
3. Distribute new pieces and begin reading

7/8th Band

Objectives:

• Continue scale rehearsal
• Distribute new pieces and begin reading

Warm-Up:

1. Play through Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, and G
1. Continue playing scales in cut-time
2. Play one major scale in a 3rds pattern
3. Play Chromatic Scale
4. Tune

Music Rehearsal:

1. Distribute new pieces for Pops Concert and begin reading
1. Identify key and important rhythms
2. Set goals to read straight through the pieces without stopping

High School

Objectives:

• Collect Winter Concert Music
• Refresh Pep Band Music
• Hand out Holiday Tunes
• Continue rehearsing major scales

Warm-Up:

1. Play through all Major Concert Scales
1. Begin playing scales in cut-time
2. Goal of all scales in 2 minutes
2. Play one key in 3rds
3. Play one relative-minor scale
1. Natural Minor
2. Harmonic Minor
4. Play Chromatic Scale 3x’s

Tune

Music Rehearsal:

1. Collect Concert Pieces
1. Discuss Concert
2. Distribute New Pep Band Selections
1. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
2. Frosty the Snowman
3. Basketball Intro
3. Refresh Pep Band Pieces
1. School Song
2. Star-Spangled Banner
3. Build Me Up Buttercup
1. Refresh rhythms and modulation
4. The Stripper
1. Distribute
2. Read through
5. Born to Be Wild
6. Celebration

Possibly distribute some potential Pops Concert pieces