Objectives:
- Continue weekly lessons
- Reinforce class expectations and procedures
- Finish working from EE
- Distribute full page pieces and begin rehearsal
- Begin on EE Pg. 13
- Tone Builder and Rhythm Etude on Pg. 12
- Begin playing on EE Pg. 13 with Ode to Joy and continue moving forward with other two full band songs
- Distribute Let’s Rock and Basses are Aces and begin rehearsing
Middle School
6th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working on scales
- Rehearse pieces
- Possibly distribute new piece
- Warm-Up
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
- Chromatic Scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Apollo March
- Perform full runs and reinforce counting and dynamics
- Night at the Symphony
- Continue incorporating dynamics and articulations
- Perform full runs
- Starship One
- Reinforce fp cres. and perform full runs
- Fun with Chopsticks
- Begin working on each variation individually
- Distribute a new piece, read through, and begin rehearsing
7/8th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working scales
- Rehearse Pops Concert Pieces
- Warm-up
- Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds in a selected key
- Chromatic scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Wizard of Oz
- Isolate 6/8 sections and reinforce counting
- Isolate transitions between songs and time signature especially
- Work with percussion and trombone to correct 6/8 counting
- Grease
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Isolate 12/8 and reinforce counting and feel
- Isolate Grease Lightning to correct rhythms and isolate new parts at the key change
- Continue incorporating articulations and dynamics into select tunes
- Begin working on transitions
High School
Objectives:
- Continue working on Scales
- Continue rehearsal for Pops Concert
- Compile list of interest for Solo/Ensemble
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Bach Chorale (TBA)
- Music Rehearsal
- Phantom of the Opera
- Isolate transitions
- Correct rhythms in trumpet section on melody passages
- Reinforce proper shaping and tempi throughout
- Lion King
- Rehearse in sections
- Isolate percussion in final piece
- Begin incorporating articulations in sections
- Continue to work with sections in areas with swing feel to properly interpret swing eighths
- Discuss shaping of long notes throughout
- Collect Wicked
- Phillip Bliss
- Work with brass on a full sustained sound throughout forte section
- Correct pitches in opening woodwind sections and incorporate shaping
- Fate of the Gods
- Isolate upper woodwind rhythmic passages in the beginning and work them in both keys
