Homework/Practice Assignments
Good playing consists of AT LEAST 50% listening.
The students should listen to the reference recordings below MANY times, with and without their music in front of them
Scroll down to find your group and clink on the links to listen
6th grade Strings:
Be working on "Gaelic Castle," and "Sneaking Suspicion"
Focus on feeling the pulse, correct rhythms, and correct bowing / pizzaccato
LISTEN (click on link)
7th & 8th Orchestra: All 7th and 8th grade string players
Be working on all of the above 6th grade pieces and "King William's March," "Spartacus" and "Shenandoah"
Focus on feeling the pulse, correct rhythms, and correct bowing
LISTEN (click on link)
Jazz Band: students from all three grades
Be working on: "Doxy," "What a Wonderful World," "School Bus Blues"
LISTEN (click on link)
Concert Band: All 6th grade woodwind, percussion and brass students;
some 7th grade woodwind, percussion and brass students
Be working on: "The Gates of Orion," "In the Hall of the Mountain King," "School Bus Blues"
LISTEN (click on link)
Symphonic Band: All 8th grade woodwind, percussion and brass students;
some 7th grade woodwind, percussion and brass students
Be working on: "Moscow 1941," "As Twilight Falls," "His Honor"
LISTEN (click on link)
Support Documents:
2019 - 2020 contract
Solo & Ensemble
Supply List