Practice Notes: Intermediate Band

Week of Apr 8-10

  • Concert pieces: “The Curse of Tutankhaumun”, “All Glory, Laud and Honor” and “Upbeat”
  • Concert Band Audition:
  • Concert E-flat Major Scale, line #16
  • one other major scale of your choice that is NOT Concert B-flat
  • Concert G Melodic Minor scale, line #45
  • Chromatic Scale, page 42
  • line #46
  • line #66

Week of Mar 25-27

  • page 42 Concert B-flat Major Choral “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” for Concert
  • “The Curse of Tutankhamun” and “Upbeat”

Week of Mar 11-13

  • Practice the Blues Scale on pg 13 and prepare your own 2-3 beat riff to play for me next week
  • Concert Pieces: “The Curse of Tutankhamun” and “Upbeat”, and our newly added piece from the Blue Book is “Rain Dance” on page 23. Practice all of these pieces diligently as we still have a lot of work to do to be ready for the Concert!

Week of Mar 4-6

  • Practice all lines on page 12
  • Blues Scale on page 13
  • page 15 #69, #70 and #71
  • Two Concert Pieces: “The Curse of Tutankhamun” and “Upbeat”

Week of Feb 25-27

  • Enharmonics lines #94 and #95 on page 19 and we will start lines #96 and #97 next week so please practice ahead to those
  • Blues scale and line #61 on page 13
  • All lines on page 12
  • We will start lines #68 and #69 next week on page 15
  • Two Concert Pieces: “The Curse of Tutankhamun” and “Upbeat”

Week of Feb 18-20

  • Chromatic Scale and the Enharmonics lines #94 and #95
  • Blues Scale on page 13
  • Al lines on page 12
  • Concert Piece: The Curse of Tutankhamun
  • Print off and put in your folder “Happy Birthday” PDF file that I emailed to you

Week of Feb 4-6

  • Practice all lines on page 9 and practice ahead to lines on page 10 as we will begin those lines at next rehearsal
  • Concert Piece: The Curse of Tutankhamun

Week of Jan 28-30

  • We completed page 7 in rehearsal this week and will be working on page 8 and 9 next week in rehearsal. Please practice all lines on pages 8-9 to prepare.
  • Please bring your folder with your Concert sheet music to every rehearsal. I handed our first Concert score, “The Curse of Tutankhamun”, on Friday. The music scores that I hand out are to be returned in good working condition to use again another year. Please only write on these scores in pencil!!! Keep and store them in the folder I provided at all times, unless they are on the stand while you are practicing. If you make your own copy to use, then please return my score back to me at the next rehearsal. All others I will collect after the Concert performance.

Week of Jan 21-23

  • Practice through all the lines on pages 7 – 8
  • Line #37 (transposing exercise) needs to be completed at home and ready to play next week in rehearsal