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hello Band!

Here are recordings of the band arrangements we are playing.  Please listen so you know how your part fits with the rest of the band.  🙂

Ayre and Dance – Bruce Pearson

Eclypsis – Sean O’Loughlin

Festival March – Scott Rogal

Li’l Liza Jane – traditional – arranged by Michael Story

A Quiet Song – James Swearingen

Theme from Spiderman – Robert J. Harris & Paul Francis Webster – arranged by Paul Lavender

Star Wars – John Williams – arranged by Steve Denroche

Two Famous Processionals – Edward Elgar / Jeramiah Clarke – arranged by John O’Reilly

Valor (March) – Larry Clark

Hello Band students!

Music is a language — and learing to read and play in a new language takes time and practice.  When you use the new language regularly, it WILL get easier to remember, to read, and to play.

Here are links to a note naming activity featuring the first 5 notes for your instrument.  Have fun!

FLUTE = Bb, C, D, Eb, F

CLARINET & BASS CLARINET & TRUMPET = C, D, E, F, G

ALTO SAX = G, A, B, C, D

TENOR SAX = C, D, E, F, G

BARITONE & TROMBONE = Bb, C, D, Eb, F

Essential Elements Interactive = VIDEO RESOURCE for starting to play your new instrument.

We will get all students signed into EEi – but it will take a few steps and a bit of time.

For right now — these videos are from the EEi web page.

• PLEASE watch the video(s) for YOUR INSTRUMENT to be sure you are doing things correctly.  

You can revisit the links until they expire on October 31, 2021.

• Once you’re signed in to EEi, you can watch them all year.
• To access the video folders right now, you need a password to access the files.
• The password will be shared in class.

Please watch the videos by October 10

• There will be a short follow-up assignment in class during the next week.

FLUTE

CLARINET

BASS CLARINET

*please note – pdf excercises show regular clarinet mouthpiece placement — but other instructions are the same

SAXOPHONE – Alto & Tenor

*please note – notes for tenor are different from alto — but the other instructions are the same

TRUMPET

BARITONE

TROMBONE

You may need to watch parts of the video a few times to make sure you are doing things correctly!

Please remember to ask for help where needed.

Thanks,

Ms. Lee  🙂