May 2-6 Happenings

Please be sure to attend our High School Fine Arts Performance immediately following the Graettinger Open House at 7:00 in the Gym. The High School Band has been working very hard and will surely put on a great performance. Please come and cheer them on as they prepare to travel to Algona on Friday to perform at State Large Group Contest in hopes of a Division I Rating. That performance will be in the Algona Bishop Garrigan Gym at 5:25 on Friday evening with a $5 admission charge. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at: tpedersen@gtschools.k12.ia.us.

Middle School

5th Band

Objectives:

• Continue full octave Bb scales
• Continue Chromatic Scale
• Rehearse concert pieces

Warm-Up:

1. Page 40 Concert Bb #1, 2
1. Begin working in Concert Eb
2. Chromatic Scale

Music Rehearsal:

1. Dragons of Komodo
1. Reinforce triplet rhythms and practice counting and playing in percussion
2. Reinforce trumpet parts and full sound
3. Continue full runs
2. Rock, Roll, Row Your Boat
1. Reinforce melody sections
2. Perform in full runs
3. Sultan’s Saber
1. Continue playing in cut-time
2. Work to correct tambourine part
4. Mach Winds
1. Continue rehearsing in sections
2. Begin full runs
5. Kum-Ba-Yah
1. Read through
2. Begin rehearsing in sections
3. Discuss new elements

6th Band:

Objectives:

• Continue scale rehearsal
• Rehearse concert pieces

Warm-Up:

1. Play through Concert Scales: Bb, Eb, F, Ab in EE Pg. 40
2. Chromatic Scale

Music Rehearsal:

1. All the King’s Men
1. Perform full runs
2. Bay Town Festival
1. Rehearse syncopated rhythms in woodwinds/brass
2. Begin incorporating dynamics
3. Russian Sailor’s Dance
1. Begin correcting full ensemble rhythms
2. Perform in sections
4. Signed, Sealed, Delivered
1. Perform full runs

7/8th Band

Objectives:

• Continue scale rehearsal
• Rehearse concert pieces

Warm-Up:

1. Play through Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, and D
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. Loch Lomond
1. Rehearse 6/8 section for supporting parts
2. Continue rehearsal for entrances and rhythmic counting
3. Begin incorporating shaping
2. Tailspin!
1. Begin incorporating articulations and dynamics into passages
2. Work with upper woodwinds on unison passages
3. Begin increasing tempo and performing full runs
3. Eagle’s Triumph
1. Continue to build speed on opening section
2. Rehearse slow section and bring out melody
3. Perform full runs

High School

Objectives:

• Continue rehearsing major scales
• Rehearse Large Group Pieces and perform concerts
• Begin looking for Memorial Day Pieces

Warm-Up:

1. Play through all Major Concert Scales
1. Continue playing scales in cut-time
2. Play one key in 3rds
3. Play one relative-minor scale
1. Natural Minor
2. Harmonic Minor
4. Play Chromatic Scale 3x’s
1. Change articulation pattern

Tune

Music Rehearsal:

1. March King March
1. Incorporate proper dynamic contrast for sections
2. Begin rehearsing delayed stinger
2. Yorkshire Ballad
1. Reinforce listening for pitch
2. Work with flutes and bells on pitch for last chord
1. Discuss adding vibrato to flute parts
3. Continue incorporating shaping elements
4. Perform full runs
3. Celebration and Dance
1. Continue incorporating articulations and accents
2. Continue working with clarinets woodwinds on fast passages to improve rhythm and pitches
3. Reinforce dynamic contrast for sections
4. Continue working on sextuplet with upper-woodwinds
5. Work on all sixteenth note runs throughout for correct pitches and shape
4. Continue timing selections for Contest Performance
5. Continue reading possible marching pieces and begin reading Memorial Day pieces