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.