Week 2 is drawing to a close and with it we get to dance! The kids have been great and wonderful to work with. Here are this weeks highlights: and announcements.
General Announcements
- We highly encourage you to enroll your student in lessons before space runs out. Many students develop much faster under the guidance of a specialist who is a professional on that instrument.
- Instruments go home every day for practice. Practice time is still limited to 15 -20 minutes.
- Each student received a practice card. Practice cards are due on Monday, September 8th. Please sign the practice card Sunday evening.
- Sign up for Remind: text @clarkbb to 469-645-0801
- Student Handbook Forms are due on Tuesday.
- Band Handbook Forms were due this Friday.
What we did this week….
- Worked on our air-to-buzz
- Started our first sounds
- Practiced putting our instruments together and taking them apart
- Learned basic maintenance of our instruments
- Identified parts of our instruments
- Practiced our music alphabet forward and backward starting on any letter
- Identified music symbols
- Learned and demonstrated our Valve/Slide series (down and up)
- Turned in our theory books for a daily grade on work completed
What we will do next week…
- We will take a quiz on note names and parts of our instruments
- We will play our first 5 notes
- We will continue practicing our valve/slide series, working for speed
- We will work on making a good sound
- Students should be practicing for 15-20 still. You should listen for steady, long held tones at home.
Have a wonderful weekend,