5th Grade
Objectives:
- Continue large instrument-family lessons
- Monday Percussion
- Wednesday Woodwinds
- Friday Brass
- Continue weekly lessons
- Reminders in Announcements
- Begin full band next Week
- Percussion (Monday)
- Continue EE Pg. 6 with playing
- Refresh on half notes and rests as well as counting
- Refresh on note reading
- Discuss whole notes and rests
- Refresh on notes in review
- Woodwinds (Wednesday)
- Refresh proper posture, breathing, and articulation
- Continue EE Pg. 4 with playing
- Play all even exercises
- Discuss notes in review
- Encourage listening
- Reinforce foot tapping
- Brass (Friday)
- Refresh proper posture, breathing, and articulation
- Continue playing EE Pg. 5
- Begin with 10 and move forward
- Practice notes in review
- Encourage listening and pitch matching
- Reinforce foot tapping
Middle School
6th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working on scales
- Rehearse concert music
- Warm-Up
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
- Chromatic Scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Wipeout
- Discuss use of accents in the percussion part
- Isolate section with trombone melody
- Begin increasing speed
- Dark Adventure
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Isolate and clap problem rhythms
- Isolate tempo changes
- Penguines on Parade
- Begin rehearsing in sections
- Isolate the drag in the percussion part for accuracy
- Little Drummer Boy
- Read through and rehearse in sections
- Identify any new notes or rhythms
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
- Episode for Band
- Begin incorporating dynamics and articulations
- Perform full runs
- Possibly record performance
- Eaglerock Overture
- Continue rehearsing in large sections
- Reinforce proper tempos at tempo changes
- Discuss strategies for the page turn at the CODA
- Begin incorporating dynamics
- Ceremony, Chant and Ritual
- Isolate opening section and correct rhythms
- Begin correcting eighth and sixteenth note runs
- Discuss dynamics and articulations such as accents and fp
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Read through and isolate any trouble rhythms
- Discuss shaping
High School
Objectives:
- Continue work on Scales
- Distribute and read pieces for Veteran’s Day and Winter Concert
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Bach Chorale (TBA)
- Music Rehearsal
- Battle Hymn
- Isolate transitional section and correct entrances and rhythms
- Read through and identify all key changes
- Begin incorporating shaping and phrasing
- Navy Hymn
- Identify key changes
- Discuss interpreting conducting gestures
- Perform in sections
- Mars
- Distribute and read through
- Possibly listen to recording
- Distribute others as time allows
