PLAYING TEST:

• No test this week, Dec. 4-8

PRACTICE ASSIGNMENTS:

• Warm-up: long tones (every note learned) (demonstrated on Friday, Oct. 6)
• Essential Elements 2000, See below (You should play these every day.)
• Preparation of concert music:
  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • #38 Jingle Bells
  • #39 My Dreydl
  • #49 Hey, Ho!
  • #53 Aura Lee
  • #55 When the Saints ..
  • #56 Old MacDonald
  • #57 Ode to Joy
  • #58 Hard Rock Blues
  • #78 Up on the Housetop
  • #79 Jolly Old Saint Nick

 

DAILY WORK GRADING CRITERIA:

• Proper warm-up
• Proper Instrument assembly
• Rehearsal Discipline (See BAND BASICS)
• Posture
• Hand and mouth (embouchure) position
• Care of instrument and music
• Preparation of concert music

 

 COMING EVENTS:

Winter Concert

December13

7:00 pm

at Riverside Meadows

All band members report to the Band Room by 6:30. 

 

Performances are required, graded band assignments.

Students must fully participate.

 

GRADING:

• See Syllabus (On this site)
• Daily Work 60%
• Tests, Quizzes & Assignments 20%
• Performances 20%

 

PLAYING TEST:

• No test this week,December 4-8

 

PRACTICE ASSIGNMENTS: 

• Play warm-ups - Long tones (demonstrated on Friday, Oct. 6)
• Band Scales - B flat and A flat Concert
• Over the Break
• Yamaha Warm-ups - B flat and E flat Concert
• Concert Music (See below)

 

THIS WEEK'S GRADING CRITERIA: 

• Rehearsal Discipline (See Band Basics)
• Playing technique (See Band Basics)
• Proper warm-up using:
  • Long tones
  • Scales
  • See above
• Knowledge and application of musical concepts as discussed in class, i.e dynamics, articulation, style, etc
• Vocabulary: Key signature
• Preparation of Concert Music
  • Wexford Carol**
  • Joyful, Joyful
  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Patriotic Medley
  • When I'm 64 (period 7 only)
  • Hogan's Heroes
  • Star Spangled Banner
  • Olde English Christmas

 

 COMING EVENTS:

 

Winter Concert

December13 (Tentative)

7:00 pm

at Riverside Meadows

All band members report to the Band Room by 6:30. 

 

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2018 Northern California Junior High Honor Band audition recordings must be completed by

January 10

 

 

GRADING:

• See Syllabus (On this website)
• Daily Work 60%
• Tests, Quizzes and Assignments 20%
• Performances 20%