The week all 5-8 students, and those HS students performing solos, will begin rehearsing with their accompanists. Please be sure that you are aware of the altered lesson times for the next two weeks. Schedules have been mailed home and are available in the band room in both buildings as well as via email by contacting Mr. Pedersen directly at tpedersen@gtschools.k12.ia.us
5th
Objectives:
- Continue rehearsal of full page songs
- Continue working on full Concert Bb and Chromatic Scales
- Continue Solo Spotlight
- Begin Lessons with Accompanists
- Warm-Up
- Pg. 28 EE Bb Scale
- Continue work on Chromatic from Bb to Bb
- Music Rehearsal
- Basses are Aces
- Isolate the ending and correct entrances and rests
- Continue full runs
- Featuring the Band
- Refresh on counting multi-measure rests
- Correct rhythmic problems
- Perform full runs
- March Winds
- Isolate section with eighth note pick ups
- Practice beginning at different marker points throughout the music
- Begin incorporating dynamics
- Creepy Crawlies
- Isolate eighth note passages in woodwinds
- Isolate slurred sections in brass
- Begin rehearsing in sections
- Possibly distribute a new piece
Middle School
6th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working on scales
- Rehearse pieces
- Select final Spring Concert Piece
- Continue Solo Spotlight
- Begin accompanist lessons
- Warm-Up
- EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, and Ab #1 and 2
- Chromatic Scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Korean Folk Rhapsody
- Continue rehearsing in sections
- Isolate sections with dynamic contrasts
- Reinforce proper counting of sections in 3
- Chant and Tribal Dance
- Discuss dynamic sections
- Correct rhythmic problems and entrances
- Isolate trombone parts and work for independence
- Add more of the percussion parts
- March Zumba
- Isolate trombone counter-lines
- Begin incorporating dynamics and articulations
- Distribute other possibilities for Spring Concert and read through
7/8th Grade Band
Objectives:
- Continue working scales
- Continue rehearsing music for Spring Concert
- Continue Solo Spotlight
- Begin accompanist lessons
- Warm-up
- Concert Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
- 3rds in a selected key
- Chromatic scale
- Music Rehearsal
- Distribute and read possible Spring Concert pieces
- Mambo Cubano
- Work with percussion to correct parts and build confidence
- Incorporate proper articulations to winds
- Reinforce bass line
- Ashford Variations
- Begin incorporating dynamic and musical shaping
- Reinforce proper rhythms and articulations throughout
- Grease!
- Continue correcting rhythms in Beauty School and Grease Lightning
- Begin rehearsing transitions under tempo and build speed
- Incorporate dynamics throughout
High School
Objectives:
- Continue working on Scales
- Arrange reading for saxes and clarinets
- Continue working for Fine Arts/Large Group Contest
- Warm-Up
- Concert Major Scales
- 3rds
- Chromatic
- Relative Natural Minor Key
- Bach Chorale (TBA)
- Music Rehearsal
- Philip Bliss
- Continue working on shaping and proper tone
- Work with Brass on fullness and marcato sounds
- Reinforce breathing goals concerning barlines
- Perform full runs focusing on musicality and intonation
- Fate of the Gods
- Continue working on runs with upperwoodwinds
- Correct pitch at end fermata between bass clar. and bari sax
- Isolate ending for intonation
- Obtain into permission to arrange
- Brighton Beach
- Work with brass on proper articulation of dotted quarter/sixteenth areas
- Continue working on developing unified interpretation of articulations
- Begin increasing tempi
- Work with percussion for proper performance and look into adding crashes
