The High School Band Students are out selling items until November 28th to raise money for our upcoming 2013 music trip. Any support you can offer them toward this venture is greatly appreciated. Also, with the upcoming Thanksgiving Break band students need to remember to bring their instruments home and practice hard as our Winter Concerts will be here quickly. Be sure to arrive back on November 28th with your materials and with your practice logs completed and signed if you are in 5-8th grade band.
5th Grade
Objectives:
- Continue weekly lessons
- Reinforce class expectations and procedures
- Continue working through EE Exercises
- Begin on EE Pg. 8
- Play Notes in Review (Quarter and Eighth Notes)
- Continue playing forward in EE beginning with #27
- Refresh on key and time signatures
- Try reading #38
Middle School
6th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working on scales
- Rehearse concert music
- Warm-Up
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
- Chromatic Scale
- 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
- Perform full runs and work to improve low brass
7/8th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working scales
- Rehearse concert music
- Warm-up
- Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds in a selected key
- Chromatic scale
- 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
- Continue working transitions
- Perform full run
High School
Objectives:
- Continue work on Scales
- Continue rehearsing for Winter Concert
- Discuss BB Pep Band
- Continue Fundraiser
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Bach Chorale (TBA)
- Music Rehearsal
- Mars
- Perform dotted rhythm sections and correct pitches
- Begin incorporating dynamic shaping into phrases
- Correct interpretation on the ending
- Perform full runs
- Cantique de Noel
- Isolate melody section in low brass
- Correct triplet interpretations
- Perform full runs
- Syncopated Clock
- Continue correcting rhythms in sections
- Isolate the clarinet jazzy lick
- Define style
- Perform full runs
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