Activities
Objectives for Student Learning
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Worksheet #2
Practice songs #15-22 in our book and turn in worksheet #2 for the yellow bead.
Due Oct. 2 - Oct. 27.
Play Along
Listen to Page 08 and Play Along when you are ready. Enjoy your music.
Activities
- #16 - Sing "Hot Cross Buns" using solfege syllables Mi-Re-Do or scale numbers 3-2-1.
- #17 - Think about how you can make your performance sound more like a song. This is a folk song from France.
- Who do you think composed the music in your book? The right corner above the first line of a song is generally reserved for the composer's name. However, if the song has been around for hundreds of years and people have lost track of who actually composed it, one may see the word "Traditional."
- Clap and count the rhythm studies on page 43. Half the band clap line 6 while the other half claps line 12. You have reverse tasks! Try lines 14 and 19 too.
- Review steps and skips: What's further apart than a step?What's further apart than a skip?
- LEAP: There is a leap in measure 4 of #20 when the notes are further apart than a skip.
- Start on Eb Concert and figure out how to perform "We Will Rock You." Play along on the piano or another melody instrument for reinforcement.
- Listen to a fine performer on your instrument. Focus on their tone quality. How does the performer sound so good? Explain how your technique works together and demonstrate the ideal posture, instrument position/angle, embouchure, and air support (grip/stroke for percussion).
Objectives
- Incorporate and perform previously learned skills and concepts.
- Identify, count, and perform quarter notes and quarter rests.
- Define a musical phrase.
- Identify and use phrases in the music.
- Play Concert Eb and Concert F with the correct fingering/slide position, posture, hand position, and a characteristic tone quality.
- French Horn: Identify and define the flat symbol.
- Percussion: Identify, count, and perform whole notes, whole rests, and Single Paradiddles.
- Aux. Percussion: Play the wood block.
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Works Cited
Pearson, Bruce.
"Standard of Excellence, Book 1 - Conductor Score: Comprehensive Band Method."
Neil A. Kjos Music Co., 1993.
