Homework Assignments for Bands
Band 6 Assignment:
For the week of June 6:
1. Memorization of all notes learned this year
2. Standard of Excellence: 88, 126, and the Ab Concert scale on Page 42 of the book
Upcoming Performance Assessment: Beginning Monday, June 6, we will be doing performance testing on Concert Eb major scale (#126) and Concert Ab on page 42. I will only be requiring the scale portion of these, not the arpeggios.
Band 7-8 Assignment:
For the week of June 6:
Performance Assessments beginning Monday, June 3, we will be doing our final performance test. The students will be tested upon:
Ab Concert Scale (no arpeggio)
The Rowan Tree:
- Clarinet and French horn: measures 1 through 17 with pickup
- Flutes and Oboe: measures 48-57
- Trumpets: pickup to 18 – 29
- Alto Sax: pickup to 33 – 44
- Tenor Sax: m. 29 – 44
- Trombones and Baritones: pickup to 29 – 37/38
- Tubas: 29 - 38
Practicing outside of school:
All band students at WMS are expected to practice outside of school and be prepared for each week's work. Practicing 4 - 5 times per week for a total of around 80 minutes during the week will do for each student in middle school, however more practice is always good too.
This year, practicing will be done differently than in the past. Students are expected to practice 80 minutes per week, but I am not collecting minutes practiced. Rather, each month we will be completing an in-class reflection on how often they practiced, what they practiced, and how. We will then look at what they are struggling with and come up strategies to improve weaker areas of performance. The goal is to get away from practicing for time (quantity) to practicing for results (quality). i believe that the more students understand how to practice, doing so will become a form of making music rather than homework and therefore be more enjoyable. This will be a trial run for this year to see what the results are in terms of quality and enjoyment of music.
Instructions to Standard of Excellence Sound Recordings
You can play along with the sound recordings of the exercises for Standard of Excellence Book 1 and 2. Just follow these steps:
- Go to the Tabs above and click on More
- Right Click on Sound Recordings
- You will be taken diretly to the site. Choose Book 1 or Book 2 and click on the number you want to play along with.