Objectives:
- Student group lessons
- Continue individual lessons
Music Rehearsal:
- High Brass
- Refresh on hand position/posture
- Refresh tonguing
- Begin reading from book
- Encourage foot tapping
- Pg. 4-5
- Woodwinds
- Refresh on holding the Instrument
- Refresh tonguing
- Begin from book
- Encourage foot tapping
- Pg. 4-5
- Low Brass
- Refresh on holding the Instrument
- Refresh on tonguing
- Begin from book
- Encourage foot tapping
- Pg. 4-5
- Continue individual lessons
Middle School
6th
Objectives:
- Rehearse EE. Scales
- Rehearse Music
- Begin looking for Winter Concert music
Warm-Up:
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, Ab #1, 2
- Chromatic
Music Rehearsal:
- Infinity March
- Begin performing full runs
- Begin increasing tempo
- The Sound and the Fury
- Isolate passages between flute and clarinets
- Reinforce slurred melody lines in alto sax and trumpet
- Work on developing tempo
- Change of Pace
- Reinforce performance of first 10 bars
- Begin working backwards from the end
- Distribute possible Winter Concert pieces and read
7/8th
Objectives:
- Rehearse major scales
- Rehearse pieces
- Begin looking for possible Winter Concert music
Warm-Up:
- Concert Major Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds
- Chromatic
Music Rehearsal:
- Irish Ballade
- Begin adding shaping to the piece
- Reinforce tempo chance, and work to avoid rushing
- Correct unison section
- March
- Work to reinforce steady beat throughout
- Work with percussion to correct rhythms in timpani
- Perform full runs
- Sojourne 2000
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Isolate sixteenth note passages
- Isolate off beat hits
- Distribute potential Winter Concert pieces and read
High School
Objectives:
- Rehearse for Fall Concert
- Finish collecting for music trip accounts
Warm-Up:
- Major Scales: Group 1
- 3rds in given key
- Chromatic
- Possibly distribute and begin reading from Bach Chorales
Music Rehearsal:
- Them Basses
- Begin isolation release points of tied rhythms
- Increase tempo with percussion
- Isolate moving lines in upper woodwinds in second half
- Continue to work on balancing parts throughout
- In the Bleak Mid Winter
- Begin isolation areas for intonation
- Isolate moving sixteenth passages in woodwinds
- Isolate opening clarinet solo
- Constellations
- Begin establishing style contrast for each movement
- Continue incorporating articulations
- Begin addressing dynamic changes
- Isolate percussion parts throughout