Greetings Parents,
Here is your weekly update AND announcements for this week. The pace of our assigments is quickening. Please encourage you child to practice everyday. Here are a few things to check at home:
General Announcements
- Fundraiser Update: Final Grab Bag and Turn-in, Monday October 28th.
- Beginner Concert has been changed to Thursday, November 21st.
- Everyone should be practicing 30 minutes each day.
- Practice Cards are due every Monday. Parents please sign them on Sunday. When there are some missing grades for practice cards, have your child turn-in their practice card and they will still receive credit; even for late cards.
- Students can practice with the CD/DVD that came with their books.
- We have learned a procedure/process for learning new lines/music:
- Count and finger/slide
- Sing and finger/slide
- BERP it.
- Play it.
- Repeat
Trombones, Euphoniums, & Tubas
- F & Bb Remington 1 note & 2 note exercises
- Slurs down and up
- Note recognition (work for speed). Use this nifty tool to practice.
- Lines 25-31
- It’s time to bath your instruments
- We will be discussing our tuning slides and grease next week
- Trombones: check this out— http://youtu.be/GHkjYU976Ew