Jan. 26-30 Happenings

5th

Objectives:

• Read and rehearse full band pieces
• Learn Concert Bb Scale

Warm-Up:

1. EE Pg. 12 Tone Builder and Rhythm Etude
2. Rehearse Chromatic Scale from Concert Bb to Concert F
1. Up and Down
3. Rehearse Bb Major Scale on Pg. 28 #147

Music Rehearsal:

1. Let’s Rock
1. Rehearse in sections focusing on accurate rest counting
2. Identify melody vs harmony/supporting parts
3. Goal to perform full runs
2. Distribute and read new piece
1. Discuss sight-reading techniques

MS

6th Grade

Objectives:

• Rehearse Pieces, focusing on dynamics
  

Warm-Up:

1. EE Pg. 40 #1, 2 in all four keys
2. Bb Chromatic Scale

Music Rehearsal:

1. March Zuma
1. Continue identifying dynamic changes and rehearse
2. Isolate second strain melody in brass
3. Perform full runs
2. Danse Jubliante
1. Continue working to increase tempo on first half
2. Isolate second half and read in sections
3. Focus on pushing snare for faster tempo in sixteenth note passages
3. Bay Town Festival
1. Isolate syncopated eighth note passages in first section
1. work to identify similar rhythms throughout the piece
2. Focus on identifying the melody and counter lines

7/8th Grade

Objectives:

• Rehearse Pops Music

Warm-Up:

1. Two selected major scales
2. Perform 3rds in an additional key
3. One Octave Bb Chromatic Scale

Music Rehearsal:

1. Superman Theme
1. Rehearse transition into and out of 4/4 from 6/8
2. Begin to incorporate accents throughout
3. Work to increase tempo of 6/8
2. Defying Gravity
1. Continue to reinforce syncopated passages from previous rehearsals
2. Isolate short passages of melody for rhythmic accuracy
3. Begin to work from the end back in short passages
4. Work to encourage finding syncopation individually in parts
3. Tomorrow
1. Discuss important rules for sustained parts
2. Isolate chorus section for rhythmic accuracy in all voices

HS

Objectives:

• Rehearse Pops Music
• Pep Band Friday
• Determine date for Marry Poppins

Warm-Up:

1. Two selected major scales
2. Relative minor and 3rds in selected keys
3. One Octave Bb Chromatic Scale
4. Selected Bach Chorale

Music Rehearsal:

1. Mary Poppins
1. Isolate “Feed the Birds”
1. work to soften breaks in all voices
2. discuss proper balance
2. Isolate the moving sixteenth passage at the end/closing section
1. Work on repeated sixteenth/eighth passage to improve counting through
2. Sinatra!
1. Refresh sections in “Come Fly With Me”
2. Discuss the importance of matching and listening for articulation
3. Move to “Wichcraft”
1. Begin reading in sections, focusing on rhythmic accuracy
2. Develop balance in backgrounds throughout
3. Somewhere
1. Rehearse opening with solo
1. Incorporate vibrato 
2. Begin adding shaping to supporting lines
3. Continue to develop accents in chorus