Intermediate Band – Oboe Assignments for 10.6.2017

Also look for the general Intermediate Band post from Mr. Dan.

Needed materials:

 – Oboe swab (long, thin, usually silk cloth to clean out your instrument) – I forgot to check. If you have these ignore this.

 – Minimum of 2 GOOD reeds

 – Tuner (I prefer stand-alone [not smartphone/internet], chromatic tuners. Clip-on are fine.)

This Week’s Assignment:

Straw exercises to work on keeping air in diaphragm, NOT in chest. RELAX! (shoulders and neck.)

To build endurance, do short, frequent practice sessions until you’ve built up some stamina. 2 – 15 min. sessions or 3 – 10 minute sessions are preferable.

Continue warming up with pp. 30-31; 32-33, p. 40 #1-6 – Continue to use these for warm-up/practice fingering facility.

*Memorize Eb scale – Work with a tuner for intonation and do long tones to build endurance.

Rhythm a Week #1-6

Patriotic Favorites  –  Battle Hymn of the Republic

*Film Favorites – Pirates of the Carribean

*Chair Audition Material

Successful practice time:
1. Quiet space
2. All materials present
3. Good Posture
4. Warm up with deep breaths for 1-2 minutes (10 seconds in, 10 seconds out)

Successful music practice:
1. Look for time signature, key signature(s), tempo(s), dynamics, and accidentals.
2. Clap, tap, or buzz rhythm before playing.
3. Silently finger/position through the piece in tempo.
4. Play through the exercise.
5. If you can play through it 4x without a mistake you have mastered it.