Practice Notes: Beginning Band

Week of Feb 25-27

Brass practice page 40 Chop Builder 2A
Percussion practice line #48 (Flam Tap and Flam Paradiddle), #60 (multiple bounce stroke exercise), #73 (Flam Accent and ghost sticking) and #79 (sixteenth notes)
Concert B-flat Major Scale line #83
Practice all lines on page 17
Concert piece on page 20 “March Across the Seas” and we will start “Procession” next week so please practice ahead and be ready

Brass practice page 40 Chop Builder 2A
Percussion practice line #48 (Flam Tap and Flam Paradiddle), #60 (multiple bounce stroke exercise), and #73 (Flam Accent and ghost sticking)
Concert B-flat Major Scale line #83
Begin practicing all lines on page 17
We started our first Concert piece on page 20 “March Across the Seas”, continue working on that piece and we will start the others on pages 20-21 soon so look ahead and practice any/all of them
If you do not have a tuner at home, I use the app on my iPhone “Tuner Lite” to tune students during rehearsals. It is free. It would be great for all students (not percussion) to have the ability to tune themselves at home as well, as we learn to control our tone and balance better this semester.

Continue practicing Improvisation with line #55
Practice all lines on page 16 and remember to think about the Key Signature (the sharps/flats next to the clef) in line #58-B
We learned line #61 and the new 3 beat note – dotted half note. Begin working on line #62.
Brass practice page 40 Chop Builder 2A
Percussion practice line #48 (Flam Tap and Flam Paradiddle), #60 (multiple bounce stroke exercise), and #73 (Flam Accent and ghost sticking).
If you do not have a tuner at home, I use the app on my iPhone “Tuner Lite” to tune students during rehearsals. It is free. It would be great for all students (not percussion) to have the ability to tune themselves at home as well, as we learn to control our tone and balance better this semester.

We completed page 14 lines this week and will be moving onto the lines on page 15 and 16 next week.
Brass practice page 40 Chop Builder 2A
Percussion practice line #48 (Flam Tap and Flam Paradiddle), #60 (multiple bounce stroke exercise), and we will be starting #73 (Flam Accent and ghost sticking) next week.
If you do not have a tuner at home, I use the app on my iPhone “Tuner Lite” to tune students during rehearsals. It is free. It would be great for all students (not percussion) to have the ability to tune themselves at home as well, as we learn to control our tone and balance better this semester.

In our ONE rehearsal this week, we covered all lines on page 14. Hope you all stayed warm and safe on Friday!
Practice #44, #46 and #47 on page 14 and play through page 15 to prepare to cover those lines in rehearsal next week.