Dec. 12-16 Happenings

Please be sure to attend our two upcoming Winter Concerts. Friday, December 16th will be our 5th Grade Band Concert in Terril beginning at 7:00. Parents please be sure to have your students in the band room by 6:30 so we can tune and prepare for the show. Then on Monday, December 19th our 6-12th grade bands will be performing in Graettinger beginning at 6:00. We would greatly appreciate your attendance and support.

5th Band

Objectives:

• Continue weekly lessons
• Reinforce class expectations and procedures
• Run through pieces for Winter Concert
• Perform Winter Concert

1. Begin on EE Pg. 9
• Play Notes in Review (Quarter and Eighth Notes)
• Rehearse concert selections from EE: 8, 14, 31, 38
• Continue rehearsing When the Saints Go Marching In on Pg. 13 (Possible Concert Piece)
• Refresh students on concert expectations for behavior/dress

Middle School

6th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Continue working on scales
• Rehearse concert music in program order
• Possibly distribute more pieces

1. Warm-Up
• EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
• Chromatic Scale
2. Music Rehearsal
• Wipeout
• Perform full runs
• Dark Adventure
• Perform full runs
• Little Drummer Boy
• Perform full runs
• All for Chanukah
• Perform full runs
• Possibly distribute new music and begin reading through

7/8th Grade Band

Objectives:

• Continue working scales
• Rehearse concert music in program order

1. Warm-up
• Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
• 3rds in a selected key
• Chromatic scale
2. Music Rehearsal

• Episode for Band
• Continue incorporating dynamics and articulations
• Perform full runs
• Ceremony, Chant and Ritual
• Continue performing full runs
• Discuss dynamics and watching director
• O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Perform full runs

High School

Objectives:

• Continue working on Scales
• Pep Band Thursday
• Continue rehearsing for Winter Concert

1. Warm-Up
• Concert Major Scales
• 3rds
• Chromatic
• Relative Natural Minor Key
• Bach Chorale (TBA)

1. Music Rehearsal
• Mars
• Continue with dotted rhythm sections and correct pitches
• Isolate low brass with the dotted eighth-sixteenth passages
• Perform full runs
• Cantique de Noel
• Continue dynamic shaping
• Perform full runs
• Syncopated Clock
• Isolate the clarinet jazzy lick
• Work for fuller clarinet sound throughout
• Perform full runs
• Possibly distribute new pieces