Objectives:
- Continue large instrument-family lessons
- Distribute and explain lesson schedule
- Explain lesson expectations and instrument storage
- Woodwinds (Wednesday)
- Refresh parts of instruments
- Discuss reeds/reed care
- Explain mouthpiece, reed, and ligature assembly
- Explain instrument holding
- Explain embouchures/tone production
- Discuss proper posture, breathing, and articulation
- Begin making sounds and using the book
- Percussion (Tuesday, Thursday)
- Explain percussion instruments
- Discuss basic grip and its importance
- Assign reading of the book and watching the DVD
- Begin reading in the book on mallets
- Brass (Friday)
- Refresh instrument assembly
- Refresh proper holding of the instrument
- Begin in the book with matching pitch
- Explain the music staves and note positioning
- Discuss proper posture, breathing, and articulation
Middle School Bands
6th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working on scales
- Rehearse concert music
- Possibly distribute new music
- Warm-Up
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
- Chromatic Scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Castles in Spain
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Isolate proper rhythmic counting
- Identify areas with independent parts
- Wipeout
- Begin working on unison ensemble parts
- Discuss use of accents in the percussion part
- Possibly distribute a new piece
7/8th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working scales
- Rehearse concert music
- Possibly distribute new music
- Warm-up
- Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds in a selected key
- Chromatic scale
- Music Rehearsal
- The Invincible Warrior
- Perform a full run
- Begin isolating trouble sections
- Identify areas of shared rhythms between sections
- Begin incorporating dynamics and articulations
- Park Street Celebration
- Rehearse sixteenth note passages in WW as well as dotted eighths
- Begin rehearsing in large sections
- Refresh on music with a CODA
- Read through Episode for Band
- Attempt a full run before beginning work on sections
High School Band
Objectives:
- Continue work on Scales
- Begin Rehearsing Fall Concert Music
- Begin memorization of Spania and distribute Teasers
- Discuss T-Shirt Design
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Music Rehearsal
- Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
- Begin by working on full ensemble passages
- Discuss shaping and articulations
- As If On Wings
- Isolate 12/8 section and work rhythms
- Identify like areas between sections
- Begin incorporating accents into rhythmic passages
- Galop to End All Galops
- Work with percussion to correct rhythms and develop speed
- Work to lighten style with winds to increase speed
- Perform a full run
- Pep Band
- Play through Spania with full group to begin memorization
- Teasers
- Proud Mary
- Distribute to Freshman
- Read through and identify problematic areas
- Address any areas as needed
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