Adoration (Advanced) Band from 10/2 Assignment: Rhythm a Week 25-26 Book 3 – pages 6-7 Movie Favorites — — Star Trek Patriotic Favorites – Star Spangled Banner Beauty & Beast – up through m32 God Bless America (sheet music) Few Adoration Band Members are tracking practice times; it’s important! We’re […] Read more »

Intermediate Band Assignments from 10/2 Assignment: Book 1; pages 30-34 Also begin work on #184 – 1812 Overture Begin first half of Rainbow Connection Practice Goal: 150 minutes Read more »

Beginning Band from 10/2 Assignment: Up through page 8 in your band book Review notes with your flash cards Work hard to know note names on staff Online Access Information: website: https://www.essentialelementsinteractive.com/ School Code: PlayHisPraBand67 Student ID: Student First Name + Last Initial; example: DanU for Dan Updegrave Practice Goal: […] Read more »

Beginning Band from 10/2 Working up through page 8 Online access information: Assignment: Practice Goal: 150 minutes Read more »

Work on the 1812 Overture (exercise number 184). This looks intimidating, but just break it down into "bite sized" chunks. Each chunk contains stuff that’s playable and familiar: it’s only when viewed as a whole that it becomes "impossible." A good example of a chunk would be the first four […] Read more »

Practice pg. 6 on bells, and exercise 18 on ph. 6-B on snare. For the bell pieces, remember that you can remember the lines on the staff by thinking of the phrase, "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge," and you can remember the spaces in between the lines because it spells […] Read more »

Great job this week! Keep practicing! EE book 1 #28-32 Read more »

Work on page 5 of your Essential Elements book on bells (keyboard percussion). Remember, this will be found in the back half of your book. Work on holding the mallets properly and playing the notes correctly. Read more »

Practice pages 32-A and 32-B. Remember, by figuring out the counting for difficult rhythms, you can realize how to play them easily! Again, work on exiting rolls as well as providing good time keeping (play with a metronome!), and don’t get frustrated when you can’t seem to get a song. Read more »

Select Band Ensemble Assignments from 9/25: Keep working jazz pieces at end of Book 3 Fairest Lord Jesus, (Beloved Hymns) with CD; Memorize Concert F Blues scale Next Week we work classical pieces – Sounds of Celebration books, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Practice Goal: 150 minutes Remember your […] Read more »