Band Assignment, due 3/4/11

Recorder Class

Complete page 19 by writing the counts under numbers 3, 4, and 5. (Skip the next two pages.) Practice numbers 1, 2, and 3 on page 22. The pass-off is "Bransle de Champagne" on page 18.

Intermediate Band

- Long Tones p.14-15 (white book)

- Lip Slurs for brass p.19 #3&#4 (white book)

- Scales Concert F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db

*be sure to get 9-10 GMEA scales off of website at www.gmea.org

(go to band, then All-State, then 9-10 scales for your instrument)

- #32-39 (EE bk. 2)

- do #38 on cut-time in EE bk. 2

- finish working on pass off #31 if not already played in class

- work on solos

- sheet music: Sea Song and Flying Tigers


Advanced Band

Always warm-up properly, as discussed in class and in past assignments.

GMEA 9/10 scales

Chromatic scale in the 9/10 range for your instrument

White book, breath control exercises #1-6 with increasing tempo (always play with metronome) rotating through the different articulations from p. 54

Begin working on arpeggios, p. 45, #1-16.

On musictheory.net/lessons/40, do the lesson on introduction to chords. Study and be prepared to define major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords. Listen to the chords from the lesson. Play them on your instrument.

Solo music

Band sheet music

Review the tempo vocabulary from class last week: largo, adagio, andante, allegro, vivace, presto.

Scripture of the week: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27