- Find your seat according to the seating chart and place your backpack under your chair
- Take your instrument case out of the storage room
- Set up your instrument (only Vets need bows!), then put your case back in the storage room
- Sit quietly in your seat
Today's Objectives
- Rookies: Complete all remaining Boot Camp lessons before Friday
- Vets: Play D Major Scale
Homework
- Everyone:
- Get a copy of Essential Elements for Strings - Book 1 [purchase online: J.W. Pepper | Hal Leonard]
- Get a 1" black 3-ring binder with at least 50 plastic sheet protectors. Yes, it must be black!
- Rookies: Complete all remaining Boot Camp lessons before Friday
- Vets: Practice the D Major scale - first Performance Assessment video is due Wednesday!
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[10] First Five (see above)
[5] Rhythm Studies
[30] Ensemble Rehearsal / Tuning
- Posture
- Rehearsal etiquette
- Instrument and hand placement
- Pizzicato technique
- G string
- A string
- D string
- Rookies: Boot Camp
- Vets: D Major Scale
- Vets: D Major Scale (vets)
- Everyone: Review pizzicato
- Put instruments in cases, leave cases next to your chair
- Stack chairs on the racks