Adoration Band from 4/22

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Adoration Band Advanced Band from 4/22

Adoration Band Advanced Band from 4/22

(**Listening links below)

1) Come Thou Fount – playing through all transitions, whole piece

2) Tocatta for Band m154-end *

3) Josh Groban Gold *–Combined Orchestra / Band

4) When You Believe* –Combined Choir / Orchestra / Ban

5) Lord, Listen to Your Children (NO AGNUS DEI) — Combined Choir/Band/ Orchestra

6) Chorale on It is Well – Combined – Adoration & Intermediate Band

Select Band Ensemble from 4/22

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Select Band Ensemble from 4/22

4/29 will be Jazz Day mostly, but bring Passacaille too.

Give Me That Old Time Religion (Beloved Hymns) – especially last 4 measures

Working your lines of A Train – especially 8th note runs

Volunteers should also start thinking solo’s for A Train

Continue working on writing out jazz solo

Kenny’ll Make it (blues)

Now Hear This (blues)

Fairest Lord Jesus

Work hard on Passacaille – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIYh1tXEaV4&nohtml5=False

Blessed Redeemer

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Needing assistance or more information? Director Dan Updegrave 417-849-2515

Intermediate Band from 4/22

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Intermediate Band from 4/22

On 4/29 – Meet all together in Band Room

Book – pg 12 #’s 56, 59, 60, 62

Keep working Tis So Sweet & You’ll Be In My Heart

Keep working Chorale on It Is Well

Clarinets / Saxes – also work # 97 & 107

Concert pieces – Tis So Sweet, You’ll Be In My Heart, Shenandoah, Chorale on It is Well

Others as assigned by teachers

Bring your Rhythm a Week books to class next week.

Needing assistance or more information? Director Dan Updegrave 417-849-2515

Beginning Band from 4/22

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Beginning Band from 4/22

4/29 – Meet all together in Band Room

Memorize #147

Book 1 – #153 Carnival of Venice – concert

& #152 – School Spirit – concert

Continue working on Glory, Joy, & Crown

Clarinets– all exercises on pg 26-30 – squeaks probably mean a finger is leaking; check yourself in your mirror.

Saxes – also working all pg 26-30 (esp. pg 28, 29, 30)

Others as assigned by teachers

Needing assistance or more information? Director Dan Updegrave 417-849-2515

Intermediate Orchestra

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Great job today! Next week we will work backwards through the list below so that we can spend more time on the less familiar pieces.

Concert pieces:
Faith of Our Fathers
March
118
138
142
168
182
188

Beginning violas

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Please work on the personal assignments that I wrote for you in your books/notebooks. See the beginner violin post for a list of the end of the year concert pieces. Look through and see if there are any you may want to work on, either to play in the concert or just work on one on one.