Band blog

I hope your band lessons this month are continuing well! 

First, thank you SO MUCH for signing up for zoom lessons! They are going incredibly well. I have open sign up on Fridays, but I am now going to be making myself available for Zoom lessons on Tuesdays as well, from 9-1. Also, I am going to do a Jazz Band Zoom this week, Friday, at 2:30pm till 3:00pm (Thank you parents for all these incredible suggestions from our survey... you will see many of those suggestions added to this post). 

Second,  students should have finished up triple meter work last week. If not, no worries! Each video is just 3 minutes long and you can watch them at any time. They are on classroom as assignments. You can start them now! 

Third:  We are making a concert video!! I am really excited about this project. However, for it to work we need a lot of people to submit videos. That's the key here. The more of you who participate, the cooler our concert video will be. Here is how our concert video project will work

I will create a video of me conducting each song. Your job is to watch the video and while watching make a video of yourself playing the song, using screencastify submit, OR the video submission tool of your choice. 

Once I have your songs I will create a montage video with everyone participating.

Here is our concert program:

Theme from Symphony #9
Frere Jacque
Jurassic Park
Ming Court
Patsy Ory Ory Aye

Jazz Band
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerricho



This concert is of course shorter than it would be if we were in school, but I still think it will be fun and rewarding. The conducting videos are going up this week and I will break this down into a series, of assignments you must submit in order to participate in the concert.