Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Nov. 14-18 Happenings

5th Grade

Objectives:

  • Continue weekly lessons
  • Reinforce class expectations and procedures
  • Continue working through EE Exercises
  • Refresh on goal for Jingle Bells
  1. Begin on EE Pg. 7
    • Play Notes in Review (Quarter and Eighth Notes)
    • Continue playing forward in EE beginning with March Steps
    • Refresh on key and time signatures
    • Refresh goal to get to #38 and 39 before Thanksgiving Break
Middle School

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
    • Wipeout
      • Discuss use of accents in the percussion part
      • Isolate section with trombone melody
      • Continue increasing speed
      • Perform full runs
    • Dark Adventure
      • Identify, discuss, and incorporate dynamics throughout
      • Perform full runs
    • Little Drummer Boy
      • Continue reinforcing dynamics
      • Reinforce counting and performance of triplets
      • Perform full runs
    • All for Chanuka
      • Isolate eighth note passages
      • Reinforce difference in rhythms between sections


7/8th Grade Band


Objectives:

  • Continue working scales
  • Rehearse concert music
  1. Warm-up
    • Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
    • 3rds in a selected key
    • Chromatic scale
  2. Music Rehearsal
    • Episode for Band
      • Continue incorporating dynamics and articulations
      • Isolate sections with rit. or tempo changes
        • reinforce proper tempi
    • Ceremony, Chant and Ritual
      • Begin performing full runs
      • Begin correcting eighth and sixteenth note runs
      • Discuss dynamics and articulations such as accents and fp
    • O Come, All Ye Faithful
      • Continue working on upper woodwind passages
      • Begin working transitions
      • Discuss shaping
    • Possibly distribute another piece
High School

Objectives:

  • Continue work on Scales
  • Collect Veteran’s Day Music
  • Begin rehearsing for Winter Concert
  1. Warm-Up
    • Concert Major Scales
    • 3rds
    • Chromatic
    • Relative Natural Minor Key
    • Bach Chorale (TBA)
  1. Music Rehearsal
    • Mars
      • Perform dotted rhythm sections and correct pitches
      • Begin incorporating dynamic shaping into phrases
      • Correct interpretation on the ending
      • Perform in large sections
    • Cantique de Noel
      • Begin rehearsing in sections
      • Isolate melody section in low brass
      • Correct triplet interpretations
      • Distribute Chime part
    • Syncopated Clock
      • Read through again
      • Begin correcting rhythms in sections

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