Band Assignment, due 4/29/11

Recorder Class:

- work on Recorder Express book p.29-31 all lines

- compose two measures of 4/4 and include at least one beat of sixteenth notes

Intermediate Band:

* Your theory/rhythm test was made available April 1 and is due April 29. It is a take-home, open-book test.

- Long Tones, p. 14-16

- Lip slurs, p. 19 #3 and #4

- Major scales Concert F through Db

- 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.

- Rhythm practice EE 2 p.42 m.21-24 write in counts

- EE 2: #69-74

- Sheet music

Sea Song Trilogy * Pass-off on Sea Song April 29

Flying Tigers

Rockin Robin

-Brass Ensembles

(Remember to practice the breathing exercise we did in class)


Advanced Band:

Lip slurs for brass

Chromatic warmups from white book

Scales in thirds, p. 33. Practice 4-6 a day with articulation #6.

Arpeggios, all 16, same articulation.

9/10 or 11/12 scales for your own level of experience. You have to pass-off scales.

Maxwell: Practice Ex. 12 with quarter note =84. Play straight through #1-#5.

Maxwell: "Looks different, sounds the same" Write in the beats. When switching from cut-time to 2/4 the half-note in cut-time will equal the quarter in 2/4.

Slane

Newcastle March

25 or 6 to 4

Brass Ensembles

Pass-offs on scales will start on April 29th.

In which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. -Colossians 3:7