- Set up chairs, music stands, and percussion equipment
- Place Weekly Practice Records in HW drawer
- Prepare your instrument for rehearsal
- Summarize the DLT in your agenda or on a piece of paper
- Create or update your HW reminder on your device
Daily Learning Target
- By the end of class today, I will be able to play a A and B-flat concert with good intonation as demonstrated by my performance of #86.
Homework
- Remington's Up (F) - check your high notes with a tuner, especially brass
- Lip Slurs / Finger Flex Bronze (daily, with tuner)
- "The Simple Gifts of Christmas"
- "Hark! the Herald Trumpets Play"
- INT: pg. 10 in book
- ADV: pg. 22 in book
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[5] Do Now
[10] Ensemble Warmup
- Breathing Warmup
- paper airplanes (piano)
- bow & arrow (forte)
- Remington's Up (F)
- piano
- Lip Slurs / Finger Flex - Bronze
- forte
- B-flat tuning sequence - listen and eliminate beats
[60] Ensemble
- [5] pg. 22 #86 - listen and eliminate beats
- [5] pg. 26 #113 (review)
- [35] "Hark" - 2nd read (spot the dotted-quarter-8th rhythms!)
- trumpets / snare mm. 2-3
- bells / flute mm. 2-5
- isolate trumpets then everyone else at 6
- check accidentals at 12-13
- call & response at 14, melody bouncing around
- dotted-quarter people at 18 / flutes at 18
- trumpets at 26
- flutes / oboe / bells at 32-33 (add clarinets)
- trumpets and snare at 33-35
- flutes / oboe / clarinet / bells at 36
- [15] "Simple Gifts" (record)
[9] Closure
- Did we achieve our DLT?
- Scheduling for next year
- Wind Ensemble
- Double blocking
- Wind Ensemble
- Looking ahead:
- Wear your VAPA shirt on Friday for extra credit!
- Holiday Concert Dec. 7 & 8. See board for concert repertoire.
- INT: Progress Check on #35 Friday, next Performance Quiz #49
- ADV: Progress Check #91 next week, next Performance Quiz #98
- All chairs / stands / equipment must be put away before you leave this class!!