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  • 7th graders participating in MPA need to follow their rehearsal schedule and come in during your recess time on B days. We will have one after-school practice on February 9.
  • 8th graders, click here to access recordings of our MPA music that we've made in class. The goal is to listen to the recordings and use them to improve our performance. MPA is March 7, 2012.
  • If you are going to Busch Gardens in April, your second payment of $35 was due on Friday, January 13. The balance is due Friday, March 2.
  • Here's what's coming up:
  • January 13 - 2nd payment for Spring Arts Trip due
  • February 7 - Jazz Band after school until 4:30
  • February 7 - MPA registration due
  • February 7 - 7th grade MPA during recess
  • February 8 - Perform-a-thon Fundraiser kicks off!!
  • February 8-9 - Jazz Band meets during enrichment
  • February 9 - 7th grade MPA after school until 4:30
  • February 13 - 7th grade MPA during recess
  • February 14 - Jazz Band after school until 4:30
  • February 15-16 - Jazz Band meets during enrichment
  • February 17 - 1/2 day
  • February 17-18 - East Region Jazz Band clinic and concert at UNCW
Click below to go directly to information about that specific grade level or area of interest:


For all grades:

  • All students are expected to take their instruments home daily to practice (homework!). 7th & 8th grade band students that pick up their instruments to take home at the end of the school day will receive a good time ticket.
  • All students are encouraged to pick up a chromatic tuner for their instrument. The school's tuners keep breaking. A guitar tuner will not work with your band instrument; make sure you get a chromatic tuner.
  • SmartMusic will be used again this year. If this is your first time on the program, please use your NCWise number as your password. Write your information down so you don't forget it!
    You will be able to get SmartMusic at home for the reduced rate of $36 per year. Parents, click here to access the website and follow the instructions to get the program. It is an amazing program that makes practicing fun and it is HIGHLY recommended!
  • Websites to check out: Try out www.musictheory.net, www.musicracer.com, and music flashcards to test your theory skills.
  • Finale Notepad: This is a composition software that you can download. Click here to download it.


6th Grade: Brass

  • We have written out our warm-up, concert g minor scale and concert B-flat Major scale
  • We have started working in Opus 4. We took a quiz on time signatures and will take another quiz on note/rest math soon
  • If you were note satisfied with your playing test on 3.31 or 3.33, come in at lunch to play for me, or get on SmartMusic to try again
  • We will test on B-flat concert scale this week
  • We have learned F concert scale and will review it before writing it out
  • We are continuing to learn how to clap and count new rhythms

6th Grade: Woodwinds

  • We continue to learn new notes, and have learned E-flat concert scale
  • We have written out our minor scale, and will write out F concert scale this week
  • We will test on F concert scale at the end of this week, plus test on one of our new lines that focus on slurs
  • We have started working in Opus 4. We took a quiz on time signatures and will take another quiz on note/rest math soon
  • Welcome to our newest members! Thanks to those who have volunteered to tutor!
  • We are continuing to learn how to clap and count new rhythms

Beginning Band students need to get a copy of "Measures of Success" for their specific instrument:

Since we are working mainly out of the book now, you will be lost in class without it!

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7th Grade: Intermediate Band

  • If you haven't already done so, please pick up your own copy of "The Simple Rhythmatician" at Finkelstein's (downtown on Front Street) or at Modern Music (17th Street near NHRMC and Pizza Hut)

Make sure you get the book for your specific instrument, which is listed at the top of the book
  • Students who sign up for MPA should be willing and able to come in during recess and after school to practice the music we're not working on in class
  • We have begun using the white Foundations binders, playing Concert F Around the Band and Articulation Exercises
  • Keep Concert G, Concert C, Concert F, Concert B-flat, and Concert E-flat Major scales under your fingers
  • Come in during recess if you'd like to raise playing test grades, or get extra help on your sheet music
  • You need to get your own copy of the Simple Rhythmatician; there are assignments in the book you will need to turn in for credit!
  • We will receive new music to learn for Eagle Society this week
  • You have received "Sea Song Trilogy" to work on for MPA and the spring concert
  • You will receive our two other MPA pieces this week
  • We will continue working on "Music from Titanic" this week
  • We can't move forward as quickly as we should unless each of you PRACTICE!!
 

 

8th Grade: Percussion Ensemble

  • We have begun working independently of the 8th grade band
  • We will begin each class with clapping and counting rhythms
  • We need to transition quickly so we can get more things done during class
  • We will keep playing all the major scales
  • We are working on MPA music
  • We have begun working on Percussion Ensemble Music

 

 
 

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8th Grade

  • We are now playing "Concert F Around the Band", "Articulation exercises", "Warm Up Sets" and chorales out of the white binders
  • We are done testing scales!
  • Thunder Bay March: listen to our recording, critique our performance, and work on problem areas
  • Mystic Dance: work on transitions and putting this together to record
  • Sea Song Trilogy: listen to our recording, critique our performance, and work on problem areas
  • We will begin working on sight-reading this week

 


Percussionists

  • Congratulations to Alex S., Reid C., Danny V., and Zack K. for making the percussion section! You should get a bell kit with practice pad (with mallets and sticks), a stick bag, and "Measures of Success" for Percussion so you can begin playing percussion in class by November 1
  • 8th grade percussionists are now meeting on "A" days. You will get more individualized attention, and we can work on percussion ensemble skills in addition to our concert music

Check out the link below to assist you with your rudiments and technique!

  • Vic Firth's Student Center
    Choose which set of audio or video lessons you want to try! You will need to download Quicktime first, otherwise the videos won't work. Click here or at the bottom of each link from the Vic Firth page

 

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Tri-M Music Honor Society

  • Tri-M will meet on Wednesday, February 22


Jazz Band

  • Jazz Band has begun, and we've had a pretty good start! We still need saxophones
  • We will meet on Tuesdays after school, 3:45-4:30, and during enrichment every Wednesday and Thursday


Parent Volunteers

  • Parents that are interested in volunteering for the band program should e-mail Mrs. Knauf.
  • Volunteer opportunities range from helping out in the classroom on a weekly basis by filing and organizing, to working on the band scrapbook, to helping out as needed by chaperoning trips or supervising students at concerts.

If you are able to come in once every week or so, I need help with the following projects:

  • organizing catalogs, magazines, worksheets and memos into file folders in filing cabinets in the band office
  • keeping a record of receipts on an Excel spreadsheet
  • working on the band scrapbook
  • cataloguing CDs on an Excel spreadsheet

If you would like to help on an "as-needed" basis, the following activities are coming up:

  • Perform-a-thon Fundraiser Concert on Thursday, March 1

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