Band Assignment due 10/30/14

Hello Everyone!

Okay...we got some great metronome work in class today on Afterburn and Frozen.  Are you working as diligently at home?  Hmmmmmm.....

This coming week we will be working in sectionals the first part of rehearsal on Frozen and Afterburn.  Be prepared for a surprise pass off on anything in each of those pieces.  Our band in only as good as its individuals.  Are you practicing regularly and efficiently in order to do your part?

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)

*  Scales
            Percussion   Technique and Musicianship book p.43 #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.20 #4 & #6 Articulation and Technique etude

*  Pass off on any part of Afterburn or Frozen on 10-30-14 

*  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.