Music Resources

Auditions

All County Auditions- Info coming soon!

• All County Audition Music - Coming Soon!

All District Auditions Jan. 18th 2025

• All District Letter & Contract 2024

• All District & All State Audition Materials (solo & scales are the same for both)

  • • • How to count and play the scales 

• All District Recordings 2024-25

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Warm Ups, & Scales

• 6th Grade Warm Ups (first five notes)

• 6th Grade Warm Ups (Foundations #1)

• 7th Grade Warm Ups

• 8th Grade Warm Ups

• Fingering Charts

• Trill Charts for woodwinds

• Percussion Rudiments - Practice these everyday!!

• Scales - with fingering diagram by Tim Ostrow

Instruments

• Picking an instrument

• Recommended Instrument Brands

• Instrument Assembly, Care & Maintenance Videos

• Flute assembly How to hold a flute

• Clarinet assembly How to hold a clarinet

• Saxophone assembly How to hold a saxophone

• Trumpet hold How to oil a trumpet

 Trumpet valves

• Trombone assembly How to oil a trombone

• Mallet assembly How to clean percussion

• Snare pad assembly

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• Naming the parts of the instrument

Flute

Clarinet 

Saxophone 

Trumpet 

Trombone

Snare drum

Music Reading

• Music Racer

• Musictheory.net

• Key Signatures

Pep Band

• • Pep tune to Memorize Music

  • Pep Tunes to Memorize Recordings

  • Short Cuts Recordings (music was handed out in class)

  • Shorties

  • Star Spangled Banner

Jazz Band

• • • Bass Guitar Fingering

    • Blues Scale & Improvisation

    • Cheese Pizza Blues

    • Guitar - Fingerings and chords

    • How to improvise

    • Let's Learn Jazz

Files 

• Band Syllabus

Lesson Plans and Curriculum 

• Lesson Plans & Pacing Guides 

• NC Essential Standards for instrumental music

Apps 

• Sightreading Factory - provided for students

• Soundscorset  - free metronome

• Tonal Energy- free for student ipads.

• www.bandmatechromatic.com - tuner

Websites (used in class)

• Makemusic.com - subscription provided for students

Songs

• https://www.youtube.com/@DrSelfridgeMusic

• https://www.youtube.com/@ClarifiedTutorials