Hi everyone!

I have input a new piece in SmartMusic. The piece is called Blue Tango and it is a challenging but fun one! This is meant to be a fun, challenging piece to keep your chops working! Therefore, there is no due date (the due date is on last week for June just because the program needed me to input a date). I hope you have a blast with it!

Hi Band peeps!

I hope you all had a great Easter long weekend! Thank you for those of you who has submitted their assignments on SmartMusic. If you have not done so, please try to submit an assignment by the end of this week. Starting next week, I will be giving out assignments with due dates. This will be the last week to try out submitting recordings online. If you are having trouble with SmartMusic, please feel free to video recording or sound record using another device and emailing it to me at lucychang@burnabyschools.ca. If you are still having trouble accessing SmartMusic, please email me. You can also do the assignments separately off of SmartMusic and just looking at your own Essential Elements book and recording it on another device. I look forward to hearing you play!

EDIT: For those of you are not using SmartMusic, I will post the assignments here as well. So for this week’s assignment, please submit a recording of either:

Ayre and Dance

#131

Concert B flat, E flat, F, or A flat scale on pg. 40/41

Hi everyone! The SmartMusic classes are up and running! I have put a few assignments in for this week, just to check in with everyone and to make sure you are all signed up. For those of you who has access to an iPad, I would recommend downloading the app as it seems to be easier to navigate. Please try to record 1 assignment this week just so I can check and see how it works. By the end of the week, I’d like everyone to be signed up, and submit 1 recording of your choice. Thank you everyone and happy practicing!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the newly created blog for all my students! As we are navigating through so many new experiences, I’d like firstly say that if you have questions, comments, or even just wish to chat, please don’t hesitate to contact me at my email lucy.chang@burnabyschools.ca. I do check my emails quite regularly everyday so if you’d like to get in contact with me, that would probably be the easiest way. I will also be collaborating with your home room teachers and setting up a band group in Microsoft 356 Teams.

Now, I’d like to explain how and what our lessons will look like for the foreseeable future. Again, this is probably going to be a rough draft of what’s going to happen. I am also navigating through new waters so please bare with me.

1. I have set up a class account on a website called SmartMusic. You will be given assignments and music from the website.
2. Every week, I will assign pages and workouts to practice at home. Some of the music online will have accompaniments you can play along with.
3. Please submit a recording of the assignments at the end of each week. You only need to submit 1 recording of each exercise. This will then count towards your completion marks. You can submit your recordings through 2 different ways. On SmartMusic, you can record straight from the website or you can use your phone or any other recording devices to record and email me your recordings.
4. I will use this site as my announcement site but our regular day-to-day communications will be from both Microsoft365 team as well as SmartMusic.
5. I am also still navigating through SmartMusic and will not be giving out assignments until starting next week, April 6th.

Now I will walk you through how to log in and set up your account on SmartMusic.

1. Please set up your account and login through this website.
2. Please click on “I am a student. I need to join a class.”
3. Please input your school email or whichever email you use for Microsoft 356 Team as well as the same password. That way, you will be less likely to forget the password.
4. The class code is JFXPM-UDWWE.
5. Please input the information asked and you should be able to join the class.
6. Please don’t hesitate to email me if you need more help on how to log in.