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 Three

Read END OF YEAR ITEMS (See ORCH. DEPT. HOMEPAGE) - Don't forget May 13th Sheet Music Returns!

Flipgrid: Talent Show!

• Due: May 15th. Directions: Your talent video must last 60 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 THREE

• Due: May 15th.

Make up work

• Check the following: You've completed Breezin' Chapter 1 & 2, Flipgrid D String Exercises 4 -6 (slurred), 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).
• Breezin' Thru, Chapter 2 (4 Mad Dash Drills).
• On Flipgrid, D String Exercises, numbers 4, 5, & 6 (slurred)
• 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).

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS

• 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: Learn “Irish Party in Third Class” (This is NOT a Flipgrid assignment.]

HOW TO LEARN NEW PIECES

1. WITHOUT LISTENING TO THE RECORDING:

• Download and print your part to each piece from the links below. Notice pieces that have more than one page.
• Look at the 'road map' for repeats.
• Look at the Key Signature to make sure you correctly play the implied sharps/flats and accidentals.
• 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:

• Count the rhythms out loud again, while either clapping them or tapping them on your instrument.
• Play the notes in pizzicato.
• Play the piece 'ghost bowing' (ie. just bowing - no sound).

3. WITHOUT LISTENING TO THE RECORDING:

• Play the piece while simultaneously 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.

DAILY PRACTICE ROUTINE, for Orchestra III

TUNING (1-2 minutes)

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 A & D combined 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.

BASSES ONLY:

• First step separate open strings, then 2nd step Harmonics
• Harmonics only
• Pinched Harmonics

[PRIVATE TEACHER warm-ups/technique (10-20 min.), assignments/etudes (20 min.), & repertoire (20-30 min.)]

ONGOING PRACTICE TECHNIQUE (8-10 minutes) (Use a metronome on all TECHNIQUE exercises).

• "Crucial Bowings", pp. 1, 2, & 3
• D String Exercises
  1. 1 – 7 (First in separate bows, then as four note slurs).
  2. Transpose D String Exercises 1-7 up one octave.
• Scales (KEY: Capital letters = Major key; small case letters = minor key)
  • Play scales in SETS*. Once a set is learned, add the next set. Next day, review learned sets & add a new set.

* SCALE SETS: G (e), C (a), F (d), Bb (g), & A (f#). Then play sets in thirds. (See Scales in Thirds * below)

• Scales in Thirds * format below:
  • UP: 1-3, 2-4, 3-5, 4-6, 5-7, 6-8, 7-2* (high octave), 8
  • DOWN: 8-6, 7-5, 6-4, 5-3, 4-2, 3-1, 2-7* (low octave), 1

VIDEO ASSIGNMENT & TEST PRACTICING (15-20 minutes)

OTHER PIECES (10 minutes)

• Learn all of the wonderful pieces listed above. Some of your assignments and tests will come from these pieces.
• Regularly incorporate playing along with mp3s. Enjoy performing them for your families!