- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal. Make sure the following items are on your music stand:
- Pencil
- Music binder
- Write down the homework in your agenda (see below)
- Warm up on your own
Homework: Practice ALL of "Rhapsody in Blue" - do NOT come to rehearsal on Monday unprepared!
Today's Objective(s): See Ensemble Rehearsal, below
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
- 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] Sight Reading
[2:10] Ensemble Rehearsal
- Heart, Soul, and Voice - 82 to the end
- Star Wars - 1 to the tempo change
- Rhapsody - 18-28
- Rhapsody - 1-28
- Remember Me - all
[2:50] Announcements / Cleanup
- Exit Ticket: MusicRacer.com - Note Names - Level A and B
- BRASS and PERCUSSION ONLY: once you have earned "Congratulations" on level B, come up and show me your screen
- 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!