Friday 22 January 2016

Coming Together

Reminders:
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year
   Junior Winds students are asked to meet with your instrument and music at the Conexus Arts Center at 4:15p.m. 
- The Florian Hoefner Group featuring Seamus Blake (world renowned saxophone player) is performing at Campbell at 7:00p.m.   Everyone is welcome to come and listen.   

Jazz Band and Junior Winds
- Grade 6 Jazz Band will rehearse on Monday from 4-5 p.m. in the band room at Campbell
- Grade 6 Junior Winds will rehearse on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Tues. 4-5 p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Wed. 4-5 p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Junior Winds will rehearse on Thursday from 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell

This Week in Grade 6 Band 
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 6's have been working hard learning new scales, and new notes.  This week Grade 6's tried their concert Bb scale in half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes.   We experimented with different tempos using these kind of notes.   We also experimented with 3/4 time and 2/4 time.  We also have begun demonstrating accents, staccatos,  and tenutos.   Grade 6's are beginning to identify and demonstrate these articulations in their music.   We are continuing to work on Concert Eb scale.   

Students were asked to practice the melody section of Courtly Dance and Procession.    Grant Road and Perry students were asked to practice the beginning of Chorale and Recessional to measure 19.   Students who have these mastered were asked to practice in their blue book on page 19.  



This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry) 
The Grade 7's have been working very hard at including details in our Optimist pieces.   Details include where to breathe, and our dynamic choices.  When all of us did these changes together there were some very nice sounding moments.   We are a little bit stuck in the middle section of At Twilight, and so students were asked to practice measures 34 - 48 of that piece.    We will work on that section more next week.   Students are encouraged to go to the FJH website and listen to the recording.      Nice work this week Grade 7's!  

This Week in Grade 8 Band 
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry) 

Excellent progress has been made on Spania.  We're starting to add the stylistic elements that will really bring this piece to life.  Now we are going to work on memorizing our parts so that we can concentrate on playing together and watching the conductor.  This next week we will work on the ends of both pieces and also restart Rippling Watercolors.  

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