Sunday, November 27, 2011

Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Happenings

Reminder to all HS Music Students that your fundraiser orders are due on Monday so please arrive prepared with these materials.

5th Grade

Objectives:

  • Continue weekly lessons
  • Reinforce class expectations and procedures
  • Distribute Jingle, Jolly, Chirstmas
  • Continue working through EE Exercises
  1. 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
    • Read #38
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
      • Reinforce new percussion parts
      • Isolate section with trombone melody
      • Continue increasing speed
      • Perform full runs
    • Dark Adventure
      • Identify, discuss, and incorporate dynamics throughout
      • Rehearse transitions and fix percussion rushing
      • Perform full runs
    • Little Drummer Boy
      • Continue reinforcing dynamics
      • Reinforce counting and performance of triplets
      • Perform full runs
    • All for Chanuka
      • 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
  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
      • Continue 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 runs
High School

Objectives:

  • Continue work on Scales
  • Continue rehearsing for Winter Concert
  • Refresh for BB Pep Band
  • Collect Fundraiser Orders and Send In
  1. Warm-Up
    • Concert Major Scales
    • 3rds
    • Chromatic
    • Relative Natural Minor Key
    • Bach Chorale (TBA)
  1. Music Rehearsal
    • Mars
      • Continue with dotted rhythm sections and correct pitches
        • Isolate low brass with the dotted eighth-sixteenth passages
      • Begin incorporating dynamic shaping into phrases
      • Correct interpretation on the ending
      • Perform full runs
    • Cantique de Noel
      • Isolate melody section in low brass
      • Bring out inner voices
      • Begin incorporating more dynamic shaping
      • Perform full runs
    • Syncopated Clock
      • Continue correcting rhythms in sections
      • Isolate the clarinet jazzy lick
      • Define style
      • Perform full runs

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