Quarter Two Week Five

This week we continue to prepare for the winter concert that will be held on Sunday, December 7th, in the high school auditorium.  In addition to working on the holiday songs for this concert, we continued to learn some new warmups from pg 40 in the back of the book. 

A quick announcement, Solo & Ensemble forms are due next Wednesday November 26th.  Please get these forms in if you want to participate.  Solo & Ensemble is an excellent way to learn new music and to get good instruction from brought in judges.

Quarter Two Week Two

This week we've started working on what will become standard warmups for the students as they progress through middle and high school band.  These exercises are on page 40, and comprise of slurs, lip slurs, and scales.  We have played through exercise 41 in the book, and are beginning to work on some Christmas selections for the winter concert.

Quarter Two Week One

This Friday the marching band is going to Indianapolis to perform at Lucas Oil Stadium for the Bands of America Super Regional.  We will leave from school at 8:30 and return by 3.  Field trip forms have been handed out for this and are due by Wednesday.

This week we continued to work through the beginning method book.  We went over numbers 30-40 in the book.  We learned about and discussed time signatures, key signatures, and ties.  We also discussed briefly some music history on Beethoven, Russia and Ukraine to go along with playing #39 - Russian Folk Song.