- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal
Today's Objectives
- Play 16th notes
Homework - due Wednesday
- Concert F Major Scale (scale #3 on the District Honor Band Audition sheet)
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[1:39 p.m.] First Five
[1:44 p.m.] Ensemble Sound Development
- Concert F Articulation
- Scale Study
- Slur the 16th notes if it's too fast
- Good luck, trombones!
[1:49 p.m.] Tune
[1:54 p.m.] Ensemble Sound Development
- Lip Slurs
- MOVE SOME AIR!!!
- Long Tones
- Big ears!
- Listen carefully and adjust for pitch, balance, and blend
[1:59 p.m.] Count Rockula
[2:05 p.m.] Dark Adventure
[2:45 p.m.] Midnight Madness
[2:50 p.m.] Announcements / Reminders
- Jazz Band! We need trumpets, trombones, 1-2 more saxes! Don't play one of those? You can learn a second instrument! Every Tuesday after school.
- Fall Concert is October 6th
- Attire is Benton Music Polo and khaki slacks or shorts. Note that this is different from last year! If you need a polo order one ASAP via the link on Schoology.
- Exit Ticket: MusicRacer.com
- Winds: Fingerings - Level A
- Look up any you don't know in your fingering chart!
- If you do not have a fingering chart, they are available in the music drawer!
- Percussion: Note Names - Levels A and B
- Show your Section Leader when you are finished with MusicRacer
- Section Leaders: check in with me before leaving or your entire section will lose points!
- Winds: Fingerings - Level A
- Percussion: clean up and put everything away; make sure everything is covered; all mallets in the bag
- Woodwinds: swab, put instruments away, rack stands
- Brass: put instruments away, rack chairs
- Everyone: pick up one piece of trash