Band Assignment, due 2/17/12

Beginning Band

- Breathing exercises

- EE Bk. 1 #86-#89 Daily Warm-Ups

- EE Bk. 1 #92-#104

- EE Bk. 1 p.43 m.37-44 Count, clap and buzz each line

- Mickey Mouse March

Intermediate Band

- Practice breathing exercises

- Work on Concert F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb scales. Work especially on Db and Gb scales with a metronome starting at a slow tempo and working to get faster playing in the scale pattern.

- A pass-off will occur on Concert Db or Gb scales (my choice =-)) on Feb. 17

- Work on the full chromatic scale for your instrument (Hint: It is all the notes on p. 46-47 of your EE Bk. 2.)

- Practice solo and be ready to play with the accompanist this Friday (Feb. 17)!

- Blue Maxwell bk. 14

- Work on EE bk. 2 #69-74

- Continue working on God Bless the USA and This Is My Country

- Work on March of the Irish Guard and Themes from 1812 Overture

Advanced Band

12 major scales, one or two octaves according to your scale sheet.

Chromatic scale full range

Hilliard: p. 46, Arpeggios. Practice #1-4. Play with the following articulations from p. 45: #1 (articulation 3) #2 (articulation 4) and so forth.

Solo

Maxwell: Review all the patterns from Exercises 1-11. Make sure you're proficient in each rhythm. Practice "Tune from 91st Psalm"

The Pink Panther,

The Thunderer (rhythms need work),

Walking the Blues

"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." ~Ephesians 4:29