Band Assignment due 10/23/14

Hello Everyone!

Great rehearsal today.  Time to really dig in and practice our concert pieces with a metronome!

Please practice diligently and efficiently on your sheet music this week- especially on Frozen. We will be playing this piece on the Fall concert.  Pick out problem spots, isolate them and work on them until they are correct. Then, incorporate them into larger segments of the piece.  Please don't hesitate to ask me questions about the music both inside and outside of class.  That is what I'm here for!  =-)

Don't forget to be prepared for your memorized pass-off this week also.

Heads up on group pictures to be taken Oct. 30 at 2pm for all students.  Be sure to wear your blue polo and jeans (Adv and Int Bands) and white shirts with jeans (Jam Session and Beginning Band).

Have a blessed week!

Mrs. Karen

Practice each of these excercises daily or at least five days of this week:

*  Technique and Musicianship book p.4&5 lines A&B Slurs and Lip Slurs/Technique Builder
    (Be sure to work on this excercise with the metronome- especially woodwinds and mallets)

*  Technique and Musicianship book p.43
                                                              Percussion #1-4  stick control
                                                                                        rudiments (F scale-flam taps, Bb-5 stroke roll, Eb-flam, Ab-7 stroke roll)
                                                              Winds and Mallets  GMEA Middle School scale sheet

*  Technique and Musicianship book p.16 #4 Articulation and Technique etude

*  Essential Elements book lines #50-55

*  Pass off on Concert F scale (2 octaves) memorized on 10-23-14

*  Work on pieces- Afterburn- all
                           -Frozen
                                 Flutes- m.51-62/m.77-80/m.89-98 for rhythmic accuracy/all
                                 Clarinets- m.43-55/m.73-76/all
                                 Alto Sax and Horn- m.114-end/all
                                 All other instruments- work on finding and playing melody parts accurately
                           -Star Spangled Banner- all
                           -Somewhere Over the Rainbow- all

     WORK ON ALL PIECES WITH A METRONOME, ESPECIALLY FROZEN.


Advanced Band:

You will get a "free pass-off" if you attend the Athens Flute Choir Concert on Sunday, October 19, 2pm, State Botanical Garden of Georgia Conservatory.

Please practice and learn all of the sheet music for Intermediate Band. Their assignment is also yours, except for the pass-offs.

Practice with metronome: Serenade, The Thunderer, and Eternal Father. Continue to practice For the Beauty of the Earth although it's unclear if we will perform this.

11th and 12th grade scales from the GMEA scale sheet.

Chromatic scale complete range.

GMEA etude for your school grade

Pass-offs on any of the above. Pass-offs will be done with metronome.

Practice everything with metronome!