In a typical 1st Year Band rehearsal, students experience the following routine:
In a typical 2nd Year Band rehearsal, students experience the following routine:
Additional Ideas:
There are some very useful links and videos in the "Band" tab of this website to help practice at home including:
- First 6 Notes Warm Up- in whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes
- Rhythm Reading- Teacher or students create and read a rhythm that may use whole, dotted half, half, and quarter notes and rests. You can find sample rhythms on pages 44 and 45 in the red method book
- Dissection of Sections of Repertoire- For this activity at home, students would work on the "trouble spots" in their music
- Run Through of Full Pieces- Play learned repertoire from beginning to end.
- Additional ideas below...
In a typical 2nd Year Band rehearsal, students experience the following routine:
- Scales (Concert Bb, F, and Eb)- in whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes.
- Rhythm Reading- Teacher or students create and read a rhythm that may use whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth notes and rests. Students can also alter the time signature to be 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, etc. You can find sample rhythms on pages 44-46 in the red method book
- Dissection of Sections of Repertoire- For this activity at home, students would work on the "trouble spots" in their music
- Run Through of Full Pieces- Play learned repertoire from beginning to end.
- Additional ideas below...
Additional Ideas:
- Compose a playable 4 or 8 measure long piece that uses your first 8 notes.
- Have a family improvisation battle. To begin with, pick 2 or 3 pitches so it isn't overwhelming. You can use a fun backing track on youtube as accompaniment- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBfS9jFRJzA
- Find new music- https://www.musicnotes.com/ has free amateur compositions/arrangements of pop songs. This could be fun to learn a piece.
There are some very useful links and videos in the "Band" tab of this website to help practice at home including:
