Sunday, March 4, 2012

Mar. 5-9 Happenings


Be sure to mark your calendars for our 7-12 Pops Concert next week on March 15 in Graettinger. The concert will begin at 7:00.

5th Band

Objectives:

  • Continue weekly lessons
  • Continue rehearsal of full page songs
  • Continue working on full Concert Bb and Chromatic Scales
  1. 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 Bb
  2. Music Rehearsal
    • Let’s Rock
      • Perform full runs
    • Basses are Aces
      • Refresh on repeats and first and second endings
      • Refresh on counting and repeats
      • Continue full runs
    • Featuring the Band
      • Refresh on counting multi-measure rests
      • Rehearse in sections
      • Correct rhythmic problems
      • Perform full runs
    • Possibly distribute a new piece
MS Bands

6th Grade Band


Objectives:

  • Continue working on scales
  • Rehearse pieces
  • Possibly distribute new piece
  1. Warm-Up
    • EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
    • Chromatic Scale
  2. Music Rehearsal
    • Starship One
      • Perform full runs
    • A Hero’s Return
      • Continue rehearsing in sections
      • Reinforce counting for entrances
      • Incorporate articulations as written
    • Korean Folk Rhapsody
      • Begin rehearsing in sections
      • Isolate sections with dynamic contrasts
    • Chant and Tribal Dance
      • Begin rehearsing in sections
      • Correct rhythmic problems and entrances
    • March Zumba
      • Identify new rhythms
      • Read through

7/8th Grade Band


Objectives:

  • Continue working scales
  • Rehearse Pops Concert Music
  • Hold rehearsals with HS Band as planned
  1. Warm-up
    • Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
    • 3rds in a selected key
    • Chromatic scale
  2. 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
      • Continue incorporating articulations
      • Continue rehearsals with HS
    • Discuss Pops Concert guidelines
HS Band

Objectives:

  • Continue working on Scales
  • Continue rehearsal for Pops Concert
    • Continue rehearsals with 7/8th Band
  • Discuss Pops Concert
  • Arrange reading for saxes and clarinets
  • Pit rehearsal on Sunday in Terril
  1. Warm-Up
    • Concert Major Scales
    • 3rds
    • Chromatic
    • Relative Natural Minor Key
    • Bach Chorale (TBA)
  1. 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
      • Perform full runs
    • 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
      • 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

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