ORCH I

ASSIGNMENTS

5/15-5/22 Catch Up Week.

Look on Skyward to see what you're missing, and your low scores, and use THIS WEEK to fix them! Turn is all of your 4th quarter orchestra journals (with Enrichments), do your Breezn' Thru chapters and Flipgrid assignments.

5/11-5/15 Read END OF YEAR ITEMS, Talent Show, & Breezin' Thru Chapter Two

Read END OF YEAR ITEMS (on the ORCH. DEPT. HOMEPAGE)

Flipgrid: Talent Show!

  • Due: May 15th. Directions: Your talent video must last 45 seconds, and be socially acceptable,
  • Tips: Be creative! If not musical, feel free to spotlight another talent. You can even recruit others in your household to be in your talent video.

IF YOU DON'T WANT OTHERS TO SEE YOUR TALENT VIDEO, just change it from ACTIVE (green) to HIDDEN (red).

Breezin' Thru: Chapter TWO

  • Due: May 15th.

Make up work

  • Check the following: You've completed Breezin' Chapter One, Flipgrid D String Exercises 1 - 3, and you've submitted ALL of your late Orchestra Journals.

5/4 - 5/8 The Last Orchestra Journal (J 5/5) & Catch Up Week!

Everything listed below is due by Friday of this week (5/8).

By Friday, 5/8, you should have completed the following:

  • Breezin' Thru, Chapter 1 (5 Mad Dash Drills).
  • On Flipgrid, D String Exercises, numbers 1, 2 and 3.
  • Weekly Orchestra Journals: 5/5, 4/28, 4/21, 4/14, & 3/31. It's not too late. Get them turned in!
  • Enrichments 1 and 2.

Looking ahead for next week:

Read you END OF YEAR ITEMS on the ORCH DEPT. HOMEPAGE, it includes RETURNS of school owned instruments & sheet music, and next school year).

1. Go to the HOW TO JOIN BREEZIN’ in the Navigation Bar, and watch the NEW “How to Join and Navigate Breezin’ Thru”.

  • Do make up work if necessary: Breezin’ Thru – Chapter ONE: ONLY do the 5 “Mad Dash Drills”.

2. Flipgrid: D String Exercises, 1-3 (tempo is your choice), Need a copy of the D String Exercises? Go to the bottom of the ORCH DEPT HOMEPAGE and you can open and print it!

3. Journal 4/28

  • You should practice every day, even if it's only for a short time. I've changed the practice grading rubric to be easier. Now, to earn a "4" grade in practice time only requires 1.5 hours!
  • Every time you practice, use your customized DAILY PRACTICE ROUTINE (Located at the bottom of this page.).

OPTIONAL (for fun only): You can choose to learn:

“Beethoven’s Lullaby”. This is NOT a Flipgrid assignment.

JOIN "BREEZIN' THRU and COMPLETE CHAPTER ONE - Just the 5 "Mad Dash Drills". For the Clef exercises, use your instrument's Clef.


HOW TO LEARN NEW PIECES

1. WITHOUT LISTENING TO THE RECORDING:

  • Download and print your part to each piece from the links below. Notice that "Courtly Dance and Procession" parts are two pages per part.
  • Look at the 'road map' for repeats.
  • If you struggle with knowing names of the notes, take some time to say the names of the notes out loud.Look at the Key Signature to make sure you correctly play the sharp and flat notes.
  • Count the rhythms out loud while either clapping them, or tapping them your instrument. USE A METRONOME!

2. WHILE LISTENING TO THE RECORDING OF THE PIECE:

Say the names of the notes again.

Count the rhythms out loud again, while either clapping them, or tapping them your instrument.

Play the notes in pizzicato.

Play the piece only bowing (ie. "ghost bowing")

3. WITHOUT LISTENING TO THE RECORDING:

  • Play the piece with bowing and fingering the notes. USE A METRONOME!
  • Mark the difficult parts using a light pencil markings. This will help you to remember the hard parts.
  • Work out the hard parts.

NEW MUSIC: sheet music & mp3 recordings

DIRECTIONS: Open and print your part. If you have difficulty opening parts, be sure to open them as PDF files. Be sure to print both pages of "Courtly Dance and Procession". Violinists learn both parts (ie. 1st and 2nd Violin). You're going to love learning them and playing along with their mp3s! Perform them for your family!

To hear the mp3 of a tune, click on its title in the list below.

La Rejouissance

A Beethoven Lullaby

Courtly Dance and Procession

Burst

DAILY PRACTICE ROUTINE, for Orchestra I

  • TUNING
    1. Tune all strings separately with a tuner.
    2. Check you A once more. If it is still in tune, then turn off your tuner. Now tune double stops by first playing A and gradually add D. If unsure with your A and D tuning, tune your D way too low. Now, playing A again, slowly bring up the D up until the combined A & D sound is steady. Once A & D is perfectly in tune, move on. Tune D with G, (Then violas and cellos will tune G with C), and then A with E.
  • ONGOING PRACTICE TECHNIQUE
    1. D String Exercises 1 – 5 (First in separate bows, then as four note slurs).
    2. Play D String Exercise no. 6.
    3. D Mountain
    4. NEW D Mountain (starts at the top)
    5. Play Mountains old and new in the keys of G and C
    6. Review "Crucial Bowings", p. 1.
    7. Play all "Crucial Bowings", p. 2.
  • RED BOOK ASSIGNMENT / TEST VIDEO MATERIAL
  • PRACTICE OTHER PIECES (Learn all of the new pieces. Enjoy playing along with the mp3 recordings!)