Reminders:
-Grade 8 Band Students all permission forms need to be in for your trip
-Jazz Band and Junior Winds - Concert April 16

In Grade 6 Band
This week in Grade 6 Band we got another piece of sheet music.  It is called Penguin Promenade.    It was fun to read through and we look forward to working more on it next week.    As well in Grade 6 Band we reviewed the Concert Bb scale, reviewed the Concert Eb scale and began work on the Concert Ab and Concert F scales.   Students found it interesting how everyone has different favourite scales.   This is largely due to the ranges each of these scales are in.   Concert Bb scale is a very common band scale.  It is not a great scale for clarinets or for french horns.   Many of the students are enjoying discovering ranges of their instruments as we do this.   Students also this week learned the third part of Mr. P.C.  Most students are around 3.14 in their books (P.19-20).   We circled the lines to practice.  Many students are now finding the things in their  books are now review.

In Grade 7 Band

This week in Grade 7 band we continued to read some new music.   We also did some experimentations with intonation or tuning.   Students were asked to make their instruments as "out of tune" as possible so that we could experiment with trying to get their instruments back in tune.  In order to work on our tuning we have been using a solfege exercise.   We will continue to work at this.   We have also been working on sustaining chords, watching, listening and balancing.   We have used our piece Sanctus to work on this.   We made it beginning to end of Pandora this week.   We will work at the accidentals and at increasing the tempo.   Students are asked to take a look at Pandora from 34 - 48. 

In Grade 8 Band

This week in Grade 8 Band we returned to our pieces from the beginning of the year, Chesapeake Serenade, Chant and Tribal Dance, and Spania.  We also started reading a new piece, Beatles 1964.  Finalized itineraries went home today for the band trip on April 13-14th.  The most important change is that we will return to Campbell at 4 p.m. on Monday.  We'll need to practice our old pieces for our concert in Saskatoon at Silverwood Heights Elementary School.  Some of our students had the opportunity to work with Nick Fanner, our clinician, when he was in town directing the South Saskatchewan Junior Honour Band.  We're looking forward to a fun and musically rewarding trip.