Congratulations!
-Congratulations to all students who participated in the Junior Select Band over the weekend!
Reminders:
- Monday is Day 3!
-Grade 6 Jazz Band will rehearse on Monday
- Grade 7 /8 Jazz Band will rehearse Tuesday 4-5
-Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will rehearse Wednesday 4-5
-Grade 6 Junior Winds will rehearse Wednesday 7:30-8:30a.m.
-Grade 7/8 Junior Winds will rehearse Thursday 7:30-8:30a.m.
This Past Week..
This past week all students have been working very hard at our Optimist music. Optimist Festival is very quickly approaching. Students are reminded to keep working at our pieces.
This week..
Monday is Day 3 - (Massey, McVeety, RCS, Grant Road, and Perry Grade 6's have full band
- Grant Road Grade 7's have sectionals
Tuesday is Day 4 - Massey Grade 7 and 8's have sectionals, Grant Road Grade 6's have sectionals
Wednesday is Day 5 - Perry Grade 7's have Sectionals, Grant Road Grade 8's have sectionals, McVeety Grade 6,7, and 8's have sectionals
Thursday is Day 1 - Massey, McVeety, RCS grade 7's have full band, Perry Grade 6's have sectionals
Friday is Day 2 - Massey, McVeety, Grant Road and Perry Grade 8's have full band, Grant Road and Perry Grade 7's have full band, and Massey Grade 6's have sectionals.
Sunday 31 January 2016
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.
- 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.
Friday 15 January 2016
Making progress...
Reminders:
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year
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)
This week the Grade 6's learned about Concert Eb scale. One of their pieces is written in Eb and so we have practiced Concert Eb. We identified the piece that was in Concert Eb and the piece that was in Concert Bb. Some of the Grade 6's experimented a little with not only eighth notes, but sixteenth notes as well. Grant Road and Perry Grade 6's learned about dotted notes. We saw that dotted half notes get three beats, and dotted quarter notes get one and a half beats.
Grade 6's were asked to practice Courtly Dance and Procession. Grade 6's were told we would be figuring out which parts were harmony and which parts were melody. As well Massey, RCS, and McVeety students were asked to practice their melody sections in Ayre and Dance. Grant Road and Perry students were asked to practice 19 to the end of Chorale and Recessional.
This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 7's had great rehearsals this week. This week we worked on learning our concert F scale. This is so that when we play Pandora we will be used to that key signature. We also have been working extremely hard on our phrasing and on our dynamics in At Twilight and Incantation and Ritual. We worked on figuring out what was melody and what was harmony. Grade 7's were asked to pracitce 34-54 in INcantation and Ritual and 32-end of At Twilight.
This Week in Grade 8 Band
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
We had another productive week in Gr.8 band. We've begun working on a couple of new tunes, When Summer Takes Flight and Night Flight of the Gargoyles. They are tough but fun pieces. We are also working very hard on our Optimist pieces. We've got the notes and rhythms figured out but are still needing work on our dynamics and phrasing. Soon we will begin playing parts of these pieces for memory.
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year
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)
This week the Grade 6's learned about Concert Eb scale. One of their pieces is written in Eb and so we have practiced Concert Eb. We identified the piece that was in Concert Eb and the piece that was in Concert Bb. Some of the Grade 6's experimented a little with not only eighth notes, but sixteenth notes as well. Grant Road and Perry Grade 6's learned about dotted notes. We saw that dotted half notes get three beats, and dotted quarter notes get one and a half beats.
Grade 6's were asked to practice Courtly Dance and Procession. Grade 6's were told we would be figuring out which parts were harmony and which parts were melody. As well Massey, RCS, and McVeety students were asked to practice their melody sections in Ayre and Dance. Grant Road and Perry students were asked to practice 19 to the end of Chorale and Recessional.
This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 7's had great rehearsals this week. This week we worked on learning our concert F scale. This is so that when we play Pandora we will be used to that key signature. We also have been working extremely hard on our phrasing and on our dynamics in At Twilight and Incantation and Ritual. We worked on figuring out what was melody and what was harmony. Grade 7's were asked to pracitce 34-54 in INcantation and Ritual and 32-end of At Twilight.
This Week in Grade 8 Band
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
We had another productive week in Gr.8 band. We've begun working on a couple of new tunes, When Summer Takes Flight and Night Flight of the Gargoyles. They are tough but fun pieces. We are also working very hard on our Optimist pieces. We've got the notes and rhythms figured out but are still needing work on our dynamics and phrasing. Soon we will begin playing parts of these pieces for memory.
Friday 8 January 2016
Welcome Back!
Reminders:
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year
Jazz Band and Junior Winds
-Grade 6 Jazz Band will rehearse on Monday from 4-5 in the band room at Campbell
- Grade 6 Junior Winds will rehearse on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
-Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Tues. 4-5p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Wed. 4-5p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Junior Winds will rehearse on Thursday from 7:30-8:30a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
This Week in Grade 6 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
This week was about getting back into a routine. Grade 6's worked in their blue books on Page 13 and 14. We used these pages to practice playing musical dynamics, to work on pick up notes and to practice a low Concert G note. When we practiced dynamics we also learned that playing soft is very hard and takes a great deal of air control. We learned that often the perhaps of pickup notes is to place the emphasis on a note that is not the first note of a piece. And we learned that low notes often take a little more focused air to make speak. For many instruments the low notes are quite tricky.
We are beginning to work on our sheet music. The Grant Road and Perry Grade 6's have two pieces of sheet music they will be working on. They are Shaker Hymn and Courtly Dance and Procession. We worked on the beginning to 17 of Shaker Hymn. Students were asked to practice 27-43 of Courtly Dance and beginning to 17 of Shaker Hymn. These two pieces have two different key signatures and so we have been practicing reading Concert Bb key signature and Concert Eb key signature.
The Massey, McVeety and RCS grade 6's also have two pieces they are working on. Ayre and Dance and Courtly Dance and Procession. We practiced the new key signature in Ayre and Dance (Concert Eb) and worked on the first part (or the Ayre). Students were asked to practice beginning to 33 of Ayre and Dance, and 27-43 of Courtly Dance and Procession.
This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 7's came to band ready to work and did some really great work this week. We are beginning to work on our Optimist pieces. These pieces are Incantation and Ritual and At Twilight. This week we spent most of our time on Incantation and Ritual. Our goals were to work on phrasing and some of the dynamic changes. We are working very hard at learning to control our soft playing.
At Twilight is very exposed and is quite tricky. We will be concentrating our time on this piece next week. Students are asked to take a look at their exposed sections and encouraged to listen to a recording of it online.
Grade 7's were also given the piece called Pandora. This is a hard piece. We will be working at in small sections. We worked a little bit of the opening. It has a key signature that we are not used to playing in and so we have spent quite a bit of time working on reading it.
Grade 7's are reminded that we will be doing maintenance checks on their instruments over the next few weeks. This means that we will be checking to make sure all brass slides move and valves are being oiled regularly. Woodwind instruments will be checked to make sure corks are being greased and that extra reeds are ready to go. Flutes will be checked to make sure their cork is in the right position.
This Week in Grade 8 Band
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 8's had a good rehearsal this week and are in the process of getting their Optimist pieces ready. The two pieces they are playing are Spania and Rippling Watercolors. Students are reminded that we do not have much time before the Optimist Festival - 7 rehearsals, and so are reminded to practice.
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year
Jazz Band and Junior Winds
-Grade 6 Jazz Band will rehearse on Monday from 4-5 in the band room at Campbell
- Grade 6 Junior Winds will rehearse on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
-Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Tues. 4-5p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Wed. 4-5p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Junior Winds will rehearse on Thursday from 7:30-8:30a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
This Week in Grade 6 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
This week was about getting back into a routine. Grade 6's worked in their blue books on Page 13 and 14. We used these pages to practice playing musical dynamics, to work on pick up notes and to practice a low Concert G note. When we practiced dynamics we also learned that playing soft is very hard and takes a great deal of air control. We learned that often the perhaps of pickup notes is to place the emphasis on a note that is not the first note of a piece. And we learned that low notes often take a little more focused air to make speak. For many instruments the low notes are quite tricky.
We are beginning to work on our sheet music. The Grant Road and Perry Grade 6's have two pieces of sheet music they will be working on. They are Shaker Hymn and Courtly Dance and Procession. We worked on the beginning to 17 of Shaker Hymn. Students were asked to practice 27-43 of Courtly Dance and beginning to 17 of Shaker Hymn. These two pieces have two different key signatures and so we have been practicing reading Concert Bb key signature and Concert Eb key signature.
The Massey, McVeety and RCS grade 6's also have two pieces they are working on. Ayre and Dance and Courtly Dance and Procession. We practiced the new key signature in Ayre and Dance (Concert Eb) and worked on the first part (or the Ayre). Students were asked to practice beginning to 33 of Ayre and Dance, and 27-43 of Courtly Dance and Procession.
This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 7's came to band ready to work and did some really great work this week. We are beginning to work on our Optimist pieces. These pieces are Incantation and Ritual and At Twilight. This week we spent most of our time on Incantation and Ritual. Our goals were to work on phrasing and some of the dynamic changes. We are working very hard at learning to control our soft playing.
At Twilight is very exposed and is quite tricky. We will be concentrating our time on this piece next week. Students are asked to take a look at their exposed sections and encouraged to listen to a recording of it online.
Grade 7's were also given the piece called Pandora. This is a hard piece. We will be working at in small sections. We worked a little bit of the opening. It has a key signature that we are not used to playing in and so we have spent quite a bit of time working on reading it.
Grade 7's are reminded that we will be doing maintenance checks on their instruments over the next few weeks. This means that we will be checking to make sure all brass slides move and valves are being oiled regularly. Woodwind instruments will be checked to make sure corks are being greased and that extra reeds are ready to go. Flutes will be checked to make sure their cork is in the right position.
This Week in Grade 8 Band
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
The Grade 8's had a good rehearsal this week and are in the process of getting their Optimist pieces ready. The two pieces they are playing are Spania and Rippling Watercolors. Students are reminded that we do not have much time before the Optimist Festival - 7 rehearsals, and so are reminded to practice.
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