A few important notes for this week: First, we will begin rehearsing with the 7/8th band and HS combined at 11:15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays so Middle School Students please plan accordingly. Secondly, we are planning a meal to be served on March 24th as part of our production of Annie. The money raised will go toward the trip accounts of all the students eligible for our 2013 Music Trip. Students must, however, participate in the meal in order to receive funds from the money raised. In light of this please make sure you keep that evening open in your calendar.
5th
Objectives:
- Continue weekly lessons
- Distribute Solos
- Continue rehearsal of full page songs
- Continue working on full Concert Bb and Chromatic Scales
- Warm-Up
- Tone Builder and Rhythm Etude on Pg. 12
- Pg. 28 EE Bb Scale
- Work with clarinets on the register key
- Continue work on Chromatic from Bb to Ab
- Music Rehearsal
- Let’s Rock
- Perform full runs
- Basses are Aces
- Refresh on repeats and first and second endings
- Identify new notes or markings
- Multi-measure rest
- Accidentals
- Begin full runs
- Try to distribute new piece by Friday
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
- Starship One
- Perform full runs
- A Hero’s Return
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Reinforce counting for entrances
- Incorporate articulations as written
- Korean Folk Rhapsody
- Read through
- Chant and Tribal Dance
- Read through
7/8th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working scales
- Rehearse Pops Concert Music
- Hold rehearsals with HS Band as planned
- Warm-up
- Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds in a selected key
- Chromatic scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Wizard of Oz
- Perform full runs
- Continue with trombone on short solo section
- Continue with articulations and reinforcing dynamics throughout
- Great Locomotive Chase
- Isolate sections with woodwind runs
- Work with percussion on rhythms and tempi
- Begin incorporating articulations
- Begin rehearsals with HS
High School
Objectives:
- Continue working on Scales
- Continue rehearsal for Pops Concert
- Begin rehearsals with 7/8th Band
- Arrange reading for saxes and clarinets
- Pit rehearsal on Sunday in Terril
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Bach Chorale (TBA)
- Music Rehearsal
- Phantom of the Opera
- Reinforce proper shaping and tempi throughout
- Perform full runs
- Lion King
- Continue working with percussion throughout
- Reinforce articulations, especially accents throughout
- Reinforce transitions
- Phillip Bliss
- Work with brass on a full sustained sound throughout forte section
- Isolate and demonstrate the Marcato sound for brass
- Correct pitches in opening woodwind sections and incorporate shaping
- Fate of the Gods
- Continue upper woodwind rhythmic passages in the beginning and work them in both keys
- Isolate low brass chords and rhythms in opening measures
- Begin working on 3/4 sections
- The Great Locomotive Chase
- Re-asign percussion parts
- Continue working to increase tempi for clarinets and alto saxes
- Isolate sections with the eighth note runs and trills
- Perform full runs and rehearse with 7/8th band
