Beginning band (2nd period)

• Note identification - 89% with notes on the staff only

• Standard of Excellence: #15-on

Listening/Video

• Instrument demo - US Army Band demo 

• Jazz - "Barcelona to Oakland" - Jeff Derby 

Beginning band (4th period)

• Note identification - 94% with notes on the staff only

• Standard of Excellence: #12-on

Listening/Video

• Instrument demo - US Army Band demo (10:10)

• Jazz - "Starduster" - Jeff Derby 

Intermediate band

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

Quiz/Assignment

Warm-up

• Note identification - 92% with extensions and white board help - QUIZ ON THURSDAY!!!

• Scale: review of concert Bb all

• Rhythm: pg 4 line 2 

completed: F Ab Eb Bb

Standard of Excellence (red)

• #103-on

Class Song

• Mission Impossible Theme - focus on improving dynamics (17, 31, 38, 46-50) and we'll record on monday 

• Seven Nation Army - start this on monday

completed:

Listening/Video

• Classical: "Night on bald mountain" - Mussorgsky, "Claire de lune" - Debussy

• Documentary: The genius of jazz (17:15), John Williams

• Funny: Jus deal wif it

• Inspiring: Yo Yo Ma Bach cello suite, Why music matters, Landfill Harmonic 

• Instrument demo: The instrumentals (piano, bass, drums, sax), Less common instruments, US Army band demo

• Instrument manufacturing: buffet clarinet factory, bach trumpet tour, how a 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: Let freedom swing, New Orleans Clarinet

• Jazz: "Watermelon man" - Herbie Hancock, "Mumbles" - Clark Terry, Trombone Shorty at the White House, "Mambo Influenciado" - Chucho Valdez, "Hirajoshi" - Jeff Derby

• Jeopardy: Basic music 1, Name that song

• Mainstream: "Piano man" - Billy Joel, "Jurassic Park" - John Williams, "Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder

• Piano Guys: "Lord of the Rings"

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

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

Advanced band

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

Quiz/Assignment

Warm-up

• Note identification - 90% with extensions and white board help - QUIZ ON THURSDAY!!!

• Ear Training - interval practice (m2, P4, 8ve) - print whole class copies

• Rhythm: pg  10 all

• Scale: Review Concert Bb melodic minor  all @ 110

completed: melodic minor F Eb Bb, Chromatic Scale G Db C Ab F Eb Bb

Standard of Excellence (blue)

• #105-on

Class Song

• Don't you worry bout a thing - 47-51 by section

completed: High Intensity

Listening/Video

• Black History Month: The life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

• Classical: "Ride of the Valkyries" - Wagner, "Prelude in C# minor" - Rachmaninoff, "Requiem (Lacrimosa)" - Mozart, "Night on bald mountain" - Mussorgsky, "Reverie" - Debussy

• Documentary: Standing in the shadows of motown, John Williams, The genius of jazz

• Funny: Stephen Colbert learns the trumpet, Stuff middle school students say, Just deal wif it

• Inspiring: Jacob Collier the audience choir, Alzheimer patient hears music, Yo Yo Ma Bach Cello Suite, Why music matters, Landfill harmonic 

• Instrument demo: Flute Beatbox, The lick, Where to place your tongue (sax), how to tongue on trumpet, how to tongue on flute, Less common instruments, History of the drums/piano/bass/sax, How to clean the sax/clarinet mouthpiece and flute, trumpet and trombone bath, US Army band

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

• Jazz: "Mumbles" - Clark Terry, "Rhapsody in blue" - Gershwin, "Blue rondo a la turk" - Dave Brubeck, "What a wonderful world" - Louis Armstrong/Jon Batiste, "Watermelon man" - Herbie Hancock, "Barcelona to Oakland" - Jeff Derby

• Jazz academy: New orleans dreams (41:20), 16 bar congregational song, Rhythms of merengue, Brazil's choro, Let freedom swing, New Orleans clarinet

• Jeopardy: Intermediate music, Instruments, Name that song #2, Basic music 2, Name that song, American popular music, Basic music 1

• Mainstream music: "Don't you worry bout a thing" - Stevie Wonder, "Piano man" - Billy Joel, "Theme from schindler's list" - John Williams, "America the beautiful" - Ray Charles, "Just the two of us" - Bill Withers/Marcin music, "No woman no cry" - Bob Marley, "Tears in heaven," - Eric Clapton, "Isn't she lovely" - Stevie Wonder

• Piano Guys: "Jurassic Park," "Lord of the rings"

• Ted talk: Ahn trio, Percussive guitar duo, How playing an instrument benefits your brain, bluegrass kids

• World Music: "Por una cabeza" - Carlos Gardel, Putumayo - Mexico #1, Brazil #2, Paris #1, Cuba #1, "Pata pata" - Miriam Makeba

beg jazz (mon lunch)

• At what point can we start jazz band?

int jazz (wed & fri lunch)

• watermelon man - one more run through, 8 bar solos, trade with Miller

• start killer joe on wednesday

completed: 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

adv jazz (Tue & thur lunch)

Class song

• gravy waltz - demo melody

next songs (starting from the bottom): caravan, epilogue, do nothin, st louis blues, walkin thing, alfies theme, softly, nearness, the drive, dat dere, buster rides again, bye bye blackbird, one by one, sack of woe, salt peanuts, sandu, emancipation, fly me, in walked bud, smoke gets in your eyes, petite fleur, you're my everything, chameleon, autumn leaves, on the sunny side of the street, basin st blues, moanin, georgia on my mind, manteca, moon river, there will never be another you, mahjong, don't get around much anymore, my funny valentine

completed: maiden voyage, blue monk, it don't mean a thing, chitlins con carne, mo better blues, footprints, 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, red's 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

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

Ukes

completed: 24/25 - good riddance, Surfin USA, Don't worry be happy, For what it's worth, Hey Soul Sister, three little birds, you are my sunshine

Keyboards

completed: 24/25 - Bb D, G, F, C major pent

Choir

Warmup and Rhythms

• ABC, 1 1-2-1, Ma Me Mi

Class Song 

•  Imagine - listen to our recording

Listening: "Hirajoshi" - Jeff Derby, "Pata pata" - Miriam Makeba

Possible song options: glorious, speak the truth in love, yonder come day, journey on, lean on me, tongo

completed: 25-26 - i have a voice 

completed: 24-25 - 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

Listening/Video 24-25

• Classical: "Night on bald mountain" - Mussorgsky, "Reverie" - Debussy

• Documentary: John Williams

• Funny: Jus deal wif it

• Inspiring: Found Tonight, Alzheimers patient hears music, Why music matters, Virtual choir, Landfill Harmonic

• Instrument demo: basic strumming technique with jake shimabukuro

• Instrument manufacturing: how a uke is made, making of a steinway piano

• Jazz Academy: Let freedom swing

• Jazz: "Mumbles" - Clark Terry, "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free" - Nina Simone, "Barcelona to Oakland" - Jeff Derby

• Jeopardy: Name that song

• Mainstream: "Carol of the bells" - John Williams, "Blackbird" - Beatles/Bobby McFerrin, "Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder

• Piano Guys: "Lord of the Rings"

• Ted Talk: "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Jake Shimabukuro, How playing an instrument benefits your brain, Bluegrass kids

• World Music: "Pata pata" - Miriam Makeba, "Por una cabeza" - Carlos Gardel