Band Assignment, due 11/4/11

Beginning Band:

Expecting 30 minutes of practice a day, 5 days a week. Focus on moving your air and making a good sound. Your making good progress!

- Practice breathing with PVC

- EE Bk. p.6 (top of page) Five Note scale up and down in whole notes

- Rhythm handout #33-38 Clap and Buzz mouthpiece

* Be sure to practice tapping steady beat with your foot while clapping eighth notes

- EE Bk. #40-45

- Pass Off on #44 on 11-4-11

Intermediate Band

• Warm-up: Brass players p. 18, #1-6, lip flexibility. Woodwinds, chromatic warm-ups p. 14, #1-8.
• Finish pass-offs next week on your chromatic scale. The scale range for your grade and instrument can be found in the Allstate band page on gmea.org, or call/email me if you don't know your range. Pass-offs will be done in class.
• Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
• Pass-off anytime between now and Nov. 18 will be your Allstate lyrical etude.
• White book p. 65 Chorale #1 Play and tune each note with a tuner, if you have one...

Sheet music: Festival of Hymns, Armed Forces Salute, America the Beautiful, The Star Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes Forever. Please work hard each day on these pieces.

Advanced Band

• See above for warm-up assignment, and upcoming pass-offs. Your pass-offs are the same. (Intermediate Band)
• White book rhythm: p. 62 #2
• Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
• The relative minor scale for each of your major scales. (Harmonic minor)
• All the sheet music from above. We are depending on you to play these proficiently and to be leaders for the younger players since we will perform these pieces together. We will be performing Immortal, Invisible and Vaudeville Bounce on our own.
• Bring your EE 3 book. We will work on sight reading from this book.

Band Assignment, due 10/28/11

Beginning Band

Be sure to keep the air moving while playing. Expecting 30 minutes of practice a day, 5 days a week. Thanks for faithfully turning in your practice records!

- Practice breathing with PVC

- Rhythm handout #27-32 Clap and Buzz mouthpiece

* Be sure to practice tapping steady beat with your foot while clapping eighth notes

- EE Bk. #33-39

- Pass Off on #38 on 10-28-11

Intermediate Band

• Warm-up: Brass players p. 18, #1-6, lip flexibility. Woodwinds, chromatic warm-ups p. 14, #1-8.
• Finish pass-offs next week on your chromatic scale. The scale range for your grade and instrument can be found in the Allstate band page on gmea.org, or call/email me if you don't know your range. Pass-offs will be done in class.
• Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
• Pass-off anytime between now and Nov. 18 will be your Allstate lyrical etude.
• Rhythm: White book p. 85, #66-80.
• Maxwell: Exercise 4 and "Gloria." Write in each of the six eighth note beats in each measure!

Sheet music: Festival of Hymns, Armed Forces Salute, America the Beautiful, The Star Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes Forever and Immortal Invisible. Please work hard each day on these pieces.

Advanced Band

• See above for warm-up assignment, and upcoming pass-offs. Your pass-offs are the same. (Intermediate Band)
• Rhythm: p. 63 #6.
• Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
• The relative minor scale for each of your major scales. (Harmonic minor)
• Maxwell: "Hoedown"
• All the sheet music from above. We are depending on you to play these proficiently and to be leaders for the younger players since we will perform these pieces together.
• Bring your EE 3 book. We will work on sight reading from this book.

Band Assignment, due 10/21/11

Beginning Band

Great class today! Very encouraged by your consistent practice from week to week. Keep up the hard work!

- Practice breathing with PVC

- Rhythm Handout #21-#26 Write counts, Clap and Buzz mouthpiece

- EE Bk. #27-37

- Pass Off on #31 on 10-21-11

Intermediate AND Advanced Bands

• NO change from last week's assignment. Please go back and look at the assignment.
• Reminder: If you haven't passed off your chromatic scale you'll still need to do that. The next pass-off is the Allstate lyrical etude.
• Thanks for working hard and cooperating so well in rehearsal!

Band Assignment, due 10/14/11

Beginning Band

Once again, all of you amazed Mrs. Jennifer and I! Please keep up the practice efforts at home- they are definitely paying off! =-)

- Practice breathing with PVC

- p. 42 #29-36 Clap and Buzz mouthpiece

- EE Bk. #20-29

- Pass Off on #26 on 10-14-11


Intermediate Band

Warm-up: Brass players p. 18, #1-6, lip flexibility. Woodwinds, chromatic warm-ups p. 14, #1-8.
Pass-off next week on your chromatic scale. The scale range for your grade and instrument can be found in the Allstate band page on gmea.org, or call/email me if you don't know your range. Pass-offs will be done in the hall with Ms. Jennifer.
Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
Pass-off on Oct. 21st will be your Allstate lyrical etude.
Rhythm: p. 85, #66-80.
Maxwell: Exercise 3 and "Triangle." Write in each of the six eighth note beats in each measure!

Sheet music: Festival of Hymns, Armed Forces Salute, America the Beautiful, The Star Spangled Banner. Please work hard each day on these pieces.


Advanced Band

See above for warm-up assignment, and upcoming pass-offs. Your pass-offs are the same. (Intermediate Band)
Rhythm: p. 62 #3, 4, and 5.
Major Scales from your Allstate sheet.
The relative minor scale for each of your major scales. (Harmonic minor)
Maxwell: "Kindness"
All the sheet music from above. We are depending on you to play these proficiently and to be leaders for the younger players since we will perform these pieces together.
Bring your EE 3 book. We will work on sight reading from this book.

Band Assignment due 10/7/11

Beginning Band

Much progress made by several students this week. Remember to keep practicing 20-30 minutes a day, 5 days a week to get great results! Our band is only as good as it's weakest student... Let's all earn next week's yellow belt! =-)

- practice breathing exercises from class with PVC
- p. 42 EE bk. 1 buzz or crow rhythm measures 1-36
- p. 6 EE bk. 1 practice 5 note warm-up at top of page
- #15-26 EE bk. 1 practice buzz/crowing and with the CD or DVD
- prepare for pass off on #18 on 10-7

Intermediate Band

Chromatic warmups, chromatic scales as before.
Major scales for your school grade from memory. See the GMEA website.
Chromatic scale pop quiz. Play the range for your school grade that corresponds to the GMEA chromatic range.
Allstate lyrical etude all the way through
Rhythm: Hilliard p. 85, bar #36-65. Play on a single pitch at least once a day. If you are having difficulty with this write in the counts.
Maxwell: Exercise 2 and Mr. Bach
Sheet music: Armed Forces Salute, Festival of Hymns, America the Beautiful, The Star Spangled Banner.

Advanced Band

Chromatic warmups, major scales, chromatic scale
Allstate lyrical etude all the way through
Minor scales: learn and play the relative harmonic minor scale for each major scale that you're required to know. They are ALL in the Hilliard Book but you need to play them from memory.
Maxwell: Thanksgiving
Sheet music: same as Intermediate band, add Vaudeville Bounce.

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