Beginning band (2nd period)

Beginning band (4th period)

Intermediate band

Helpful links: Note identification, Rhythm practice, Metronome, Tuner and Tuner #2, Drone and Drone #2 - new rhythms

Quiz/Assignment

Non-playing Warm up

Playing Warm up

• Review of all four major scales

• new rhythm packet handed out in fall

completed: F Ab Eb Bb

Standard of Excellence

• Standard of Excellence: #130

Class song

• Songs of Africa - beg-13 song #2 - should we play this next fall???

completed: tulum, macarena, forbidden city, festive fanfare, attack of the cyborgs, raiders march, fires fury, blackbeard, voyage of the dragon armada, montego, midnight, sawmill, creatures in the attic

Listening/Video

• Classical - "Claire de lune" - Debussy

• Documentary - John Williams

• Funny - Stuff middle school students say, Jus deal wif it

• Inspiring - Why music matters, Landfill Harmonic 

• Instrument demo - Clarinet tonguing, History of the drums, bass, piano and sax, Less common instruments, US Army Band demo

• Instrument manufacturing - bach trumpet tour, how a trombone is made, making of a steinway piano, bamboo flute, selmer saxophone factory

• Jazz - "Rhapsody in Blue" - Gershwin, "What a wonderful world" - Louis Armstrong/Jon Batiste, "Starduster" - Jeff Derby 

• Jazz academy - Let Freedom Swing, New orleans clarinet

• Jeopardy - name that song #2, american popular music, basic Music 1, Name that song 

• Mainstream - "Theme from schindler's list" - John Williams, "Wonderful World" - Sam Cooke

• Piano guys - Lord of the rings

• "Sampled" vs Original - Ice Cube (it was a good day), Jay Z (empire state of mind), Katy Perry (roar), Red Hot Chili Peppers (can't stop), Janet Jackson (someone to call my love), Common (the light), Pitbull (feel this moment), Doja the cat (paint the town red), 2pac (do for love), Warren G (Regulate), Dr Dre (whats the difference), Dua Lipa (levitating), Coolio (gangsters paradise), Deep purple (smoke on the water), Coldplay (talk), Shakira (waka wak), Beyonce (crazy in love), Nirvana (come as you are), Vanilla ice (ice ice baby)

• Ted Talk - How playing an instrument benefits your brain, Bluegrass kids

• World Music - "Por una cabeza" - Carlos Gardel

advanced band

Helpful links: Note identification, Rhythm practice, Metronome, Tuner and Tuner #2, Drone and Drone #2 - new rhythms

Quiz/Assignment

Playing Warm-up

• Concert Bb melodic minor

• Rhythm: pg 9 lines 3 and 4 

completed: ionian - two octave chromatic, G Db C F Ab Eb Bb

Standard of Excellence (blue)

• Start #1 in fall

Class Song

• Grad music - one more run through next wednesday 

completed: ancient flower, rogue one, Isn't she lovely, linus and lucy, sway, dansbury run, El manto dorado, funky penguins, Jurassic Park, Dreams of scotland, orinoco cocoa (incomplete), seven nation army, mission impossible

Listening/Video

• Black History Month: MLK I have a dream speech

• Classical: "Prelude in C# minor" - Rachmaninoff, "Requiem (Lacrimosa)" - Mozart, "Night on bald mountain" - Mussorgsky, "Claire de lune" - Debussy

• Documentary: Standing in the shadows of motown (58:55), The genius of jazz, John Williams

• Funny: Stuff middle school students say, more cowbell, Jus deal wif it

• Inspiring: 4 note composition (child prodigy), Alzheimer patient hears music, Yo Yo Ma Bach cello suite, Why music matters, Landfill Harmonic 

• Instrument demo: the lick, give your trombone a bath, give your trumpet a bath, The instrumentals (piano, bass, drums, sax), Less common instruments, US Army band demo

• Instrument manufacturing: america's oldest drum factory, buffet clarinet factory, bach trumpet tour, how an ukelele is made, how a trombone is made, making of a steinway piano, building an upright bass by hand, selmer saxophone factory, bamboo flute

• Jazz Academy: New Orleans Dreams, Rhythms of Merengue, Brazils Choro, Let freedom swing, New Orleans Clarinet

• Jazz: "Rhapsody in Blue" - Gershwin, "Blue rondo a la turk" - Brubeck, "Watermelon man" - Herbie Hancock, "Mumbles" - Clark Terry, Trombone Shorty at the White House, "Mambo Influenciado" - Chucho Valdez, "Hirajoshi" - Jeff Derby

• Jeopardy: name that song #3, basic music #2, american popular music, name that song #2, Basic music 1, Name that song

• Mainstream: "Theme from schindler's list" - John Williams, "America the Beautiful," - Ray Charles, "Piano man" - Billy Joel, "Jurassic Park" - John Williams, "Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder

• Piano Guys: "Beethovens 5 secrets, " "Jurassic Park," "Lord of the Rings"

• "Sampled" vs Original - Ice Cube (it was a good day), Jay Z (empire state of mind), Katy Perry (roar), Red Hot Chili Peppers (can't stop), Janet Jackson (someone to call my love), Common (the light), Pitbull (feel this moment), Doja the cat (paint the town red), 2pac (do for love), Warren G (Regulate), Dr Dre (whats the difference), Dua Lipa (levitating), Coolio (gangsters paradise), Deep purple (smoke on the water), Coldplay (talk), Shakira (waka wak), Beyonce (crazy in love), Nirvana (come as you are), Vanilla ice (ice ice baby)

• Ted Talk: Ahn Trio, Percussive guitar duo, How playing an instrument benefits your brain, Bluegrass kids

• World Music: Putumayo: Congo to Cuba - #1, Mexico #1, "Pata pata" - Miriam Makeba, "Por una cabeza" - Carlos Gardel

BEG jazz (mon Lunch)

int jazz (WEd & Fri Lunch)

• Work Song - start in the fall

completed: tenor madness, st thomas, song for my father, reds good groove, blues in the closet, killer joe, watermelon man, revelation, when the saints go marching in, mercy mercy mercy, so what, equinox, blues by 5, one for daddy o, sonnymoon for two, mr pc, st james

ADv jazz (tue & thur lunch)

• Footprints - start in the fall

completed: impressions, take the a train, black orpheus, afro blue, beautiful love, holy land, road song, groove merchant, blue bossa, cold duck time, work song, tenor madness, st thomas, song for my father, blue seven, reds good groove, blues in the closet, killer joe, watermelon man, revelation, when the saints go marching in, mercy mercy mercy, so what, equinox, blues by 5, one for daddy o, sonnymoon for two, mr pc, st james infirmary

music exploratory

Uke - completed: 24' through 26' - hotel california, white sandy beach, we shall overcome, sweet home alabama, old time rock n roll, this land is your land, three little birds, you are my sunshine, good riddance, Surfin USA, Don't worry be happy, For what it's worth, Hey Soul Sister,

Choir - completed: 24' through 26' - dance, waving through a window, moana (incomplete), ain't no mountain high enough, remember me, the greatest showman, obwisana, ma bella bimba, when the party's over, imagine, i have a voice, for good, mas que nada, defying gravity, there has to be a song, We are the children, Found/Tonight, Oye, Blackbird, Hamilton, Over my head/I wish I knew, A light of hope a song of peace