Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Band Assignment, due 3/11/11

Recorders

- review fingerings

- p.20 write in counts to #2, 4, 6, 8 and clap rhythms

- p.22-23 practice

* p. 23 pass off on "Starlight, Starbright"

Intermediate Band:

Theory assignment: musictheory.net, choose "lessons" then "steps and accidentals." This is an interactive lesson with audio. Please study these concepts because we will review in class.

Long Tones, p. 14 and 15

Lip slurs, p. 19 #3 and 4

Major scales Concert F through Gb

Chromatic scale as discussed in class

Chromatic warmups

Scales in thirds from White book, practice 4 a day until you've rotated through the entire section, repeat.

Breath control exercises, rotate through all.

Complete #38 in EE 2, (converting 2/4 meter to cut time) if you haven't already done this.

EE 2: #40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46. The next pass-off will be #49 in 3 weeks.

Sea Song Trilogy

Flying Tigers

Solo music

Advanced Band

Theory lesson: Review the 4 types of chords and the "Introduction to Chords" lesson. Play these as broken chords (arpeggios) on your instrument.

New lesson: Triad Inversion

Practice:

Chromatic warmups

Arpeggios p. 45 #1-16

breath control exercises #1-6 with increasing tempos.

Maxwell book: ex. 9 and "Movin' on" I know I've neglected this one and I promise we'll work on this on Friday.

9/10 scales plus chromatic scale in your range

Sheet music

Review musical style vocabulary: dolce, peasante, leggiero grazioso, espressivo, con brio.

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