What we did:
- Band Skills:
- Breathing exercises (In 4, hold 4, out 4; In 3, Hold 4, out 5, In 2, hold 4, out 6, etc. with increasing out counts)
- Look up! Conductors give cues to section during the band music
- Playing Skills:
- Lines 8, 11, 14, 17 18
- Abide with Me: beginning and ending.
- Watch for cues if you get confused
- hold notes as written to have the proper effect
- Practice:
- In difficult passages, try learning one note at a time instead of trying to do all of them. Play one, then 2, then 3, etc.
- Other
- Concert is December 15 (a Sunday)
- Email me if you are missing music, so I can have it ready when you come in (I don’t always have extra copies lying around)
- If you would like to volunteer for social committee or would like to run for Band rep, let me know!
- Theory pages available on my site (Please email me so I can steer you to ones that would be helpful to your individual needs):
What we will do next week:
Essential Elements book: 34, 41-49
Maya: the lost empire 1-8; 12-20
Clinic Rooms:
- 110: flute
- Music room practice rooms: oboe
- 112: clarinet
- 114: trumpet
- 115: trombone
- 143: french horn
- library: saxophone
- staff: electric bass
- Music room: percussion
Listening Links:
