Friday 21 October 2016

Reminders:
- Junior Winds - Clinic at the University - Riddell Center - meet at 10:00 on Sat. Oct. 22
- Nov. 1 - concert for Grade 7 and 8 band students


Congratulations!
- Congratulations to all Grade 7 and 8 woodwind students on a nice morning at the University on Wednesday.
- Congratulations to Junior Winds Students on a good clinic on Friday morning.


This Week in Grade 6 Band
This week in Grade 6 band we continued to work at long tones, tonguing and our first five notes.   We continued to work on whole, half, quarter, and eighth note rhythms.   We worked very hard at playing together by subdividing beats.   
Grade 6's were asked to practice:
1.   1.25, 1.26, 1.27 and 1.31.
2.   Experiment with notes on fingering charts
3.   Compose with our first five notes


This Week in Grade 7 Band
We are in the process of preparing for our Nov. 1 concert as well as our December concert.   For our November concert students will be performing Daybreak.   They are asked to make sure they have all notes and rhythms worked out.   As well we began working on sections of Argosy.   Students were asked to practice measures 15-35.  

This Week in Grade 8 Band

Most students have done their playing test on the first 25 measures of Canticum.  Some will finish next week.  We started paying through our other pieces: Amen, Resplendent Light, and Marche Diabolique.  We will continue to add these pieces to our repertoire.

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