- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal. Make sure all the following items are on your music stand:
- Pencil
- Music Binder
- Essential Elements book
- iPad, with BandMate chromatic tuner opened
- Write down the homework in your agenda (see below)
- Warm up on your own
Homework:
- All students: #125 (due after break)
- Festival Band students: practice "A Jubilant Spirit," "Midnight Sky," and "Plaza de Toros"
Today's Objective(s): Accurately read, count, and play dotted quarter note and single 8th note patterns
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[8:35] First Five (see above)
[8:40] Ensemble Sound Development
- Concert F Articulation
- #86, 87, 88 - continuously without stopping (take the repeats)
- Tune
- B-flat Intonation
- Chorale No. 1
[8:50] Ensemble Rehearsal
- #112 - passoffs will continue after Spring Break
- #117 - I will grade this over break; if you do not pass (8/10) via video it becomes a live passoff in class
- Brass - lip slurs
- #119
- #120
- #121
- #122
- More?
[9:23] Announcements / Cleanup
- Sunday, April 7th - Jazz Band Rhythm Section Audition videos due
- Friday, April 12th - Leadership Applications due
- Festival Band:
- Music: "A Jubilant Spirit," "Midnight Sky," "Plaza de Toros"
- Wednesday, April 10th: Rehearsal after school
- Monday, April 15th: Rehearsal after school
- Wednesday, April 17th: Regionals at Excelsior
- Exit Ticket:
- MusicRacer.com - Note Names - Level A and B
- If you do not finish in three minutes without mistakes you must come in during Nutrition to finish
- Instruments in lockers, lockers locked
- Tidy up the chairs
- Pick up at least one piece of trash - leave it better than you found it!
- All instruments go home today - PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!