I can use help with the Newport City Area Volunteer Band this week! I'm especially short on drummers. The music's not too tough, and we always have a fun performance! Post by NCUHS Band.
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There are many strategies you can use to tackle tough sections of music, like many of us are encountering in Troika. What are some strategies you use and recommend for other students to use?
**3 points** With only a few more days remaining, what can our band do to make this a great concert? What can you do personally to make it great?
Answer at least two (or more!) of these questions:
What is working well in class so far? Where do we need the most work? What went right at pep band? How could we improve our pep band performance? Answering these questions will help me to plan our rehearsals, and earn you an extra five points. Thanks! Hopefully the band room will be accessible tomorrow for late summer work. Only a few more weeks until school starts. I need to replace drumheads, organize my office area, get the Apple computers whipped into shape, prepare for classes with the Smartboard, and a whole lot more.
Let's set a date for the section leaders meeting, and maybe even a separate date for a pre-season band session, where we'll play some pep-band music and maybe the Maniatti piece. COMMENT here if you're a section leader - when's a good day/evening? Band online comments will be here next year, not on the WIKI. This way we can comment on other comments and carry on actual discussions. We will have other online assignments also, like completing major/minor scales on noteflight, perhaps using http://www.musictheory.net. Hopefully someone in the Applied Music Theory class will write something for band. Depending on the difficulty we can play it in the March or June concert. Let's see if I can post a sample Noteflight assignment here: I don't think Jazz Band is working in the morning. Attendance has not been any better than when we had it after school. I think after the next concert we'll switch to after-school rehearsals. The question is, which days? I wish every day was like today.
My day was all band. Due to NECAP testing, I was able to solidify the uniform order, I fixed a huge mistake concerning the Northeast Festival Handbook, planned for Band and practiced the music. We had Band, where we really focused on Portrait of the Land and made excellent progress. We didn't work on the other pieces as much, but that's okay. I made sure we played Runaway Baby too, since on Friday we'll be playing it at the pep rally, along with many many dancers. They almost kept the tempo up... In the next block a new drummer had a lesson. He played the whole time, and we recorded him playing a duet with himself using the iPad and the Smartboard together. I guess I wasn't doing any Band work during the staff meeting, but then I had a long tenor sax lesson. She worked on some scales and rhythms, as well as some specific problems. Tonight I worked on the two band websites, updated some Disney stuff and some grades, and now I'm going to do some Band reading and research. And the 5th Element is on TV, so the night is even better. The new Music Appreciation class has textbooks on the way. They're the 6th edition of Roger Kamien's book MUSIC: AN APPRECIATION. Makes sense, huh? I got a cd set with them, and it's a really good book. The class isn't going to be easy. Listening, reading & writing every week. I don't believe in strict memorization of facts. Students will have to actually be thinking and participating.
I've picked most of the pieces for next year's concerts, although that can change if necessary. I started studying scores, but need to take a break from that while I learn the pieces I'm conducting next week with the Newport City Volunteer Band. Physically, the band room is progressing also. They've put in a new door, although the door doesn't go anywhere yet. They've removed the stairs and door to the other room, also, and a closet exists there now. Pictures will follow when I get a chance. Why doesn't my Twitter feed work over on the right!? |
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