- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal. Make sure the following items are on your music stand:
- Pencil
- Music binder
- iPad, with BandMate chromatic tuner opened
- Write down the homework in your agenda (see below)
- Warm up on your own
Homework: Learn the beginning to 18 of "Rhapsody in Blue"
Today's Objective(s): Sight read a new piece with confidence
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[1:39] First Five (see above)
[1:45] Ensemble Sound Development
- Concert F Articulation
- Symphonic Band Scales & Arpeggios
- Chromatic
- Concert F Major - performed live in class for a grade (pass/fail) soon - BE READY!
- Tune
- All: Concert F (with drone)
- Woodwinds: Concert A (with Brenda)
- Brass: Concert B-flat (with Nathan)
- Padawan Warmups
- Long Tones
- Lip Slurs / Finger Flex
- Concert F Intonation
[2:00] Ensemble Rehearsal
- Sight Reading: "Star Wars"
- Listen to "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Pass out "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Sectionals - "Rhapsody in Blue"
- "Remember Me"
[2:55] Cleanup
- Percussion: cover instruments, put mallets away, organize and tidy up
- Woodwinds: swab, put instruments away, rack chairs
- Brass: put instruments away, rack stands
- Everyone:
- pick up one piece of trash - Leave it better than you found it!
- ALL instruments go home today - PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!