7th Grade PLC!

You will need your instruments and music. Today we will be working on Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, our three chorales and a new steady beat / rhythm game.

Our goal today is to keep Les Mis polished and start polishing Lord of the Rings, and Jurassic Park.

We will be covering 3 major scales and the chromatic scales in warm ups, and making sure we have Smart Music and Embouchure / technique goals set for everyone, and that you know what those goals are! There is a TON to do. Drummers, we need to make sure our 6 essential rudiments are memorized and that our multiple bounce rolls sound "tight" and controlled.

This may help:

Our Plan:

1) Welcome!

2) PACK and Band! (review)

     a) BRIEF review of our norms

     b) IMPORTANT. Is there anything you need today to be successful.

3) Yale New Haven Trip - Chaperone groups and field trip list

4) Warm Ups and Tune - "Tradition of Excellence Book 2 - Page 2 and page 42. Explain Bb, Eb, and F Concert major scales, the chromatic scale, the chorales.

5) Run entire concert. Discuss strengths and weaknesses. Prioritize agenda based on agenda.

6) After we discuss agenda and begin rehearsal techniques will include direct instruction, teacher modeling, and sectionals.

7) Run entire concert again. Was there growth? If yes, why? If not, why not? Use feedback discussion to drive next rehearsal.

8) Email Mr. Akter for exit ticket.

8th Grade PLC!

You will need your instruments and music. Today we will be working on Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, our three chorales and a new steady beat / rhythm game.

Our goal today is to keep Les Mis polished and start polishing Lord of the Rings, and Jurassic Park.

We will be covering 3 major scales and the chromatic scales in warm ups, and making sure we have Smart Music and Embouchure / technique goals set for everyone, and that you know what those goals are! There is a TON to do. Drummers, we need to make sure our 6 essential rudiments are memorized and that our multiple bounce rolls sound "tight" and controlled.

This may help:

Our Plan:

1) Welcome!

2) PACK and Band! (review)

     a) BRIEF review of our norms

     b) IMPORTANT. Is there anything you need today to be successful.

3) Yale New Haven Trip - Chaperone groups and field trip list

4) Warm Ups and Tune - "Tradition of Excellence Book 2 - Page 2 and page 42. Explain Bb, Eb, and F Concert major scales, the chromatic scale, the chorales.

Break for Lunch

1) Briefly re-warm

2) Run entire concert. Discuss strengths and weaknesses. Prioritize agenda based on agenda.

3) After we discuss agenda and begin rehearsal techniques will include direct instruction, teacher modeling, and sectionals.

4) Run entire concert again. Was there growth? If yes, why? If not, why not? Use feedback discussion to drive next rehearsal.

5) Email Mr. Akter for exit ticket.

6th Grade PLC!

Hello, and welcome to our 6th Grade Band Rehearsal!

I am very excited for today's rehearsal.

Today we'll be working on all three of our wonderful songs! I want to begin with the songs we are excellent at already (The Hanging Tree and Radetzky March) and focus our energies on Pirates after we warm up with the stuff we know well. We will be ending today's rehearsal with a run through of the entire concert!

These may be of help: 

Pirates: http://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10034521

Radetzky March: http://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10032893

The Hanging Tree: http://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10521227

Lesson Plan:

1) Sign in, field trip and permission forms. The due date was Friday. I will be reading the names of the people who turned in forms already just so we can catch any mistakes or missed forms. 

2) Warm up - Tradition of Excellence Book 2. You should all have the book. Today we are going to be talking about lip slurs, long tones, the chromatic scale, the Bb major scale, and the concept of a chorale. 

3) Just like last rehearsal we will run through an imaginary concert to see what needs work. We will make mental notes of what it is we need to practice, and just let the "train wrecks" happen (if there are any). Do you have everything you need for each song? If not, now is the time to get it. 

4) After run through discuss: what needs the most work and why? Is it Pirates that needs the most work again, or did we remember everything from last rehearsal?  Based on our discussion we will decide what piece we are going to focus on first. 

5) We did not get to this agenda item last rehearsal so we need to get it to today: we are going to be using student conductors to practice Pirates by section. I also have a challenge for you on student conductors. Can we use student conductors on this song for concert? Why or why not? 

6) Start opening up the rehearsal to solo auditions where solos are available. 

7) Run the concert again. Was there growth? If yes, why? If not, why not?

8) Exit ticket and closure.