Practice Notes: Concert Band

Oct 14-16

Technique & Musicianship – page 4 Lip Slurs and page 5 Technique Builder
Saturday, Nov 21 we play the National Anthem at the 7 pm Skyforce Game – Have your music memorized
Concert Pieces: Elfknapped, Childhood Hymn, Mary Did You Know, and Can-Can
Nov 2 Music in Me Homeschool class 10:30 am performance: Childhood Hymn, #117 Stars and Stripes Forever, and Concert B-flat Major Chorale in Tuned In book. And maybe also the National Anthem.

Technique & Musicianship – page 4 Lip Slurs and page 5 Technique Builder
Concert Pieces: Elfknapped, Childhood Hymn, Mary Did You Know, and Can-Can
Continuing working on memorizing the National Anthem; Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 21, as we will play at the Skyforce Game that night at 7 pm.

Technique & Musicianship – Practice 1. Technique Builder on the Slurs and Technique page, and all three articulation options at the top and then we will start moving towards page 4 Lip Slur #2 and page 5 Technique Builder 2
Continuing working on memorizing the National Anthem; Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 21, as we will play at the Skyforce Game that night at 7 pm.
Concert Pieces: Elfknapped, Childhood Hymn, Mary Did You Know, and Can-Can

New Concert piece handed out “Elfknapped”
Continuing working on memorizing the National Anthem; Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 21, as we will play at the Skyforce Game that night at 7 pm.
Technique & Musicianship – There are still a lot of wrong notes being played!! PLEASE practice 1. Technique Builder on the Slurs and Technique page, and all three articulation options at the top
Tune In – Page 4 Concert E-flat Major exercises
Concert Pieces: Childhood Hymn, Mary Did You Know, and Can-Can

Continuing working on memorizing the National Anthem; Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 21, as we will play at the Skyforce Game that night at 7 pm.
Technique & Musicianship – practice 1. Technique Builder on the Slurs and Technique page, and all three articulation options at the top
Tune In – Begin page 4 Concert E-flat Major exercises
Concert Piece: A Childhood Hymn – PRACTICE… it looks simple but that doesn’t mean it sounds good! Practice sounding beautiful!
Concert Pieces: Can-Can (we rehearsed at 110 bpm and will start moving it faster next week) and Mary, Did You Know

Continuing working on memorizing the National Anthem; Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 21, as we will play at the Skyforce Game that night at 7 pm.
Technique & Musicianship – page 2-3 Lip Slur exercises as well as the page of Concert B-flat Major scales and exercises
Tuned In – page 2 Concert B-flat major lines
Concert pieces handed out so far are A Childhood Hymn, Can-Can and Mary Did You Know? Below is a link to a fantastically fun vocal version of Can Can made into a Christmas song that I would love for all to enjoy! And also a link to listen to Mary Did You Know so all musicians can be familiar with the lyrics. I am using the very first recording made of this song which is from 1991 by Michael English.
https://youtu.be/7E-47VmFopE?si=B-hQumWlqAUfcKSt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djEIZOiIzUY&list=RDdjEIZOiIzUY&start_radio=1

Technique & Musicianship – page 2 #1 Slurs and Lip Slurs. Begin practicing #1 Technique Builder on page 3 as well as #2 Slurs and Lip Slurs on page 4.
Tuned In – page 2 #1 Chromatic Intervals in Concert B-flat Major. Begin practicing through the rest of Concert B-flat major lines, #2 Interval Tuning, #3 Isolating Concert B-flat and #4 Chorale.
Book 2 Line # 117 “The Stars and Stripes Forever”, I will pull this out again in rehearsal so practice and be ready
A Childhood Hymn
The Star Spangled Banner – to be memorized, start at measure 7 and we skip measure 40 (the second to last mesure) so go from measure 39 directly to the last measure 41