Activities
Objectives for Student Learning
Pages 13-14
Worksheet #6
Practice songs #44-55 in our book and turn in worksheet #6 for the blue bead.
Due Jan. 22 - Feb. 9.
Play Along
Listen to Page 13 and Play Along when you are ready. Enjoy your music.
Activities
- #45 - Clapping appears in all student parts except the drums. Instruct students to mentally subdivide the count as they play.
- #45 - Drums - It is important that drummers use logical sticking espeically when playing smaller note values such as eighth notes and sixteenth notes. For more information on sticking systems, refer to score pages 608-609.
- #46 - The rhythm in #45 is reinforced in #46.
- #47 - Clapping appears in all student parts except the drums. Instruct students to mentally subdivide the count as they play.
- #48 - The rhythm in #47 is reinforced in #48.
- #48 - The key signature of this exercise does not reflect the actual key of the music.
- #48 - Have you heard this theme played somewhere else? Discuss. Research Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868).
- Perform rhythm studies with eighth notes on counts 3 and 4. Have students turn to the Rhythm Studies on page 44 in their books (score page 468). Count and clap line 24. Tell the students what pitches to play, then perform line 24. Divide the band in half to better hear individual students. Refer to score page 102 for create ways to assign students to groups. Repeat the process on rhythm line 23.
- #50 - Clapping appears in all student parts except the drums. Instruct students to mentally subdivide the count as they play.
- #51 - The rhythm in #50 is reinforced in #51.
- #52 - Clapping appears in all student parts except the drums. Instruct students to mentally subdivide the count as they play.
- #53 - The rhythm in #52 is reinforced in #53.
- #53 - The key signature of this exercise does not reflect the actual key of the music.
- #54 - Better rhythmical accuracy will be achieved if students feel the eighth note pulse in all notes. Instruct the students to mentally subdivide the count.
- #54 - How many eighth note pulses are in a quarter note?
- #54 - How many eighth note pulses are in a half note?
Objectives
- Incorporate and perform previously learned skills and concepts.
- #44 - Watch the conductor for fermata cut-offs
- #44 - Explain the purpose of a warm-up period (score page 118)
- #44 - Woodwinds, Brass - breathe only at the breath marks
- #44 - Drums - Practice flam taps
- #45 - Identify, count, and play eighth notes that appear on beat three
- #46 - Count and perform eighth notes that appear on beat three.
- #46 - Aux. Perc. - perform on the wood block
- #47 - Identify, count, and play eighth notes that appear on beat four
- #48 - Count and perform eighth notes that appear on beat four.
- #50 - Identify, count, and play eighth notes that appear on beat two
- #51 - Count and perform eighth notes that appear on beat two.
- #52 - Identify, count, and play eighth notes that appear on beat one
- #53 - Count and perform eighth notes that appear on beat one.
- #54 - Draw in the bar lines
- #54 - Count and perform eighth notes that appear on beat one, two, and four of a measure.
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Works Cited
Pearson, Bruce.
"Standard of Excellence, Book 1 - Conductor Score: Comprehensive Band Method."
Neil A. Kjos Music Co., 1993.
