Your homes should be filled with big and full joyful noises. Clearer, more controlled tones are beginning to develop. We have been working on moving our air and beginning to articulate the beginning of each note. Keep encouraging your child to play 20 minutes each night the same exercises we do in class. Ask them to demonstrate what they know. Free concerts are always fun.
Upcoming Events:
- The color run is next Friday!! Please help us raise money for the program. Our goal is $15,000 in donations. If your child has filled out their form, then please come see us for another form. You can sign-up a friend who goes to Clark for the Color Run, pre-order your Mooyah meal (deadline is today), and donate for the Color Run online here.
Announcements:
- Practice cards are due in class with a parent signature on Monday, September 19th. Students should be practicing 20 minutes each night: Check your child’s band binder for assignments.
- You can sign-up a friend for the Color Run, pre-order your Mooyah meal (due tonight), and donate for the Color Run online here.
- Please sign up for Remind. You can learn how at this link.
- Band fees are due. $30 to Clark Band or pay online here.
- If you have questions, please check out clarkband.org or email me.
- Please encourage you child to take private lessons.
What we did this week:
- We have a few online resources to help you practice:
- Your student can go online for recordings of their assignment. It is a good practice tool and a way to check for correctness.
- Learned whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes and how to count, blow, and sound those rhythms.
- Centered our target note of F
- Worked our High to Lows (F down to Bb) and back up.
- Played our slide/valve series – started to read the exercise too
- Made note cards to practice note names.
What we will do next week:
- Line 1-8 in Essential Elements (EE)
- First Melody – Darth Vader Theme
- Articulate quarter notes and half notes