Friday 8 April 2016

Welcome Back!

Reminders:
- Grade 8 trip is quickly approaching, please make sure the trip permission form has been handed in.

This Week in Grade 6 Band 
This week the Grade 6's have received three new pieces of music.   These include Star Wars, Concerto for Pots and Pan, and Flying High.   In the upcoming weeks we will be preparing these for our spring concert and for our school tours.   Grade 6's also experimented with practicing in a circle instead of our regular band formation.   Students found different instruments to listen to and to match.   While in our circles we also learned a chant which will be later learning a sticking pattern to.

This Week in Grade 7 Band 
This week the Grade 7's received new music.    We will begin working on the The Muppet Theme Show as well as Londonderry Air.   We had begun working on Pandora and now will be putting more time into this piece as well as Tu Ungane.    The Grade 7's did a really great job sight reading our new music this week.    As we sight read it, we discussed how the musical form of a piece influences how we practice.   Grade 7's were asked to practice beginning to 21 of the Muppets and 34-48 of Pandora.

This Week in Grade 8 Band

We are currently getting ready for our trip to Saskatoon.  Thanks to everyone for getting the permission forms in.  We have two songs that we need to work hard at.  The first is Night Flight of the Gargoyles.  The second is When Summer Takes Flight.  We will work on these in Saskatoon with our clinic with Nick Fanner.  Students will need to practice When Summer Takes Flight especially.

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