Oct. 3-7 Happenings

Homecoming Week is here! This will be a very busy week for the Graettinger-Terril Bands as they continue rehearsing and preparing for the big game. High School Students are being asked to please bring a pan of bars for Tuesday's Coronation Dinner. Middle School Students and parents please remember that practice logs must be completed, signed by a parent or guardian, and present at each weekly lesson in order to receive full credit. A failure to do this will result in a lowered grade. All that being said, it will be another great week for our band students and we hope you will all come out to hear the HS in the parade and at the game Friday night. Also, be sure to mark your calendars for our HS Fall Concert on October 13 at 7:00 in Graettinger.

5th Band

Objectives:

• Continue large instrument-family lessons
• Monday Percussion
• Wednesday Woodwinds
• Friday Brass
• Continue weekly lessons

1. Woodwinds (Wednesday)
• Refresh mouthpiece, reed, and ligature assembly
• Refresh proper posture, breathing, and articulation
• Discuss Music Staff, Clefs, Notes and Rests
• Begin EE Pg. 4 with playing
• Encourage listening
• Reinforce foot tapping

1. Percussion (Monday)
• Refresh music staff, notes and rests, and note names
• Refresh basic grip and its importance
• Continue EE Pg. 5 for mallets
• Discuss Notes In Review
• Begin exercises on Pg. 6

1. Brass (Friday)
• Refresh proper posture, breathing, and articulation
• Continue playing EE Pg. 4 and 5
• Encourage listening and pitch matching
• Reinforce foot tapping

Middle School Bands

6th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Continue working on scales
• Rehearse concert music

1. Warm-Up
• EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
• Chromatic Scale
2. Music Rehearsal
• Castles in Spain
• Work to control the sound with woodwinds
• Continue rehearsing in sections
• Isolate proper rhythmic counting
• Identify areas with independent parts
• Wipeout
• Refresh on the D.S. al CODA
• Discuss use of accents in the percussion part
• Begin full runs of the piece and push speed
• Dark Adventure
• Begin rehearsing in sections
• Isolate and clap problem rhythms

7/8th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Continue working scales
• Rehearse concert music
• Possibly distribute new music

1. Warm-up
• Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
• 3rds in a selected key
• Chromatic scale
2. Music Rehearsal
• The Invincible Warrior
• Begin incorporating dynamics and articulations
• Perform full runs
• Possibly record performance
• Park Street Celebration
• Rehearse sixteenth note passages in WW as well as dotted eighths
• Reinforce Rit. and tempo changes
• Refresh on counting/playing syncopated entrances
• Refresh on music with a CODA

• Episode for Band
• Begin incorporating dynamics and articulations
• Perform full runs
• Possibly record performance
• Eaglerock Overture
• Continue rehearsing in large sections
• Discuss strategies for the page turn at the CODA
• Begin incorporating dynamics
• Possibly distribute another piece

High School

Objectives:

• Continue work on Scales
• Continue Rehearsing Fall Concert Music
• Complete memorization checks of Spania
• Discuss T-Shirt Design
• Perform Coronation Dinner
• Perform Homecoming Parade/Game

1. Warm-Up
• Concert Major Scales
• 3rds
• Chromatic
• Relative Natural Minor Key
• Bach Chorale (TBA)

1. Music Rehearsal
• Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
• Perform full runs
• Work with low brass on adding accents for drama
• Discuss shaping and articulations
• Possibly arrange a time to meet with Grace and Caroline
• As If On Wings
• Work or meet with upper-woodwinds on the sixteenth and triplet passages
• Continue to work the pyramiding/timpani solo section
• Begin adding shaping elements and dynamics
• Continue incorporating accents into rhythmic passages
• Galop to End All Galops
• Work with percussion to correct rhythms and develop speed
• Work to lighten style with winds to increase speed watch for dynamics
• Perform a full runs
2. Pep Band

• Play through Spania

• That’s the Way
• Old Time Rock N Roll
• Proud Mary?