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 beginning and 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 and field trip discussion. What did you think of the trip? What did you like? What did you not like as much? What did you learn? Sharing of the band blog and the lesson I learned. 

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) Continue 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.