Help Videos for Beginners: Set up and First notes; Audition Help; Note Naming Challenges

Beginner Instrument Set up and First Notes

These videos will help you with set up of your instrument, how to make your first sounds and finger placement.

Practice every day! Mr. Fitz

• Flute
• Clarinet
• Saxophone
• Trumpet
• French Horn
• Trombone
• Baritone Horn
• Violin, Viola, Cello
• Drums

Beginner Band and Strings Audition Help Videos- White/Yellow/Orange Belts

These videos explain and show how the audition selections should sound for White, Yellow and Orange Belts

• Woodwind and Brass Audition Video lines 17, 23&26, 32a32b&34
• Percussion Audition Video lines 17, 23&26, 32a32b&34
• String Audition Video lines 17, 36, 43-44-45

Beginner Band and Strings Help Videos for Higher Belts

• Strategy for learning your music- Please take a minute to watch this for strategy on learning your music.
• Woodwind and Brass Help Videos
  • Green Belt - Line 39
  • Blue Belt - Line 49
  • Purple Belt Line 61 (This video cuts out before I play line 61. Continue to next video.)
  • Rest of Purple Belt -Line 61
  • Red Belt - line 72
• Strings Help Videos
  • Green Belt Video Line 66 for Strings
• Percussion Help Videos

New Milford High School Marching Band and Color Guard at New England Championships

This is a video of the New Milford High School Band and Guard on 10/28/17. I thought that you might find this inspiring to see the level of musicianship that you can attain if you stick with it. The freshmen students were at Sarah Noble just 4 short years ago and were doing their beginner band auditions back then!

• New Milford High School Marching Band and Color Guard

Note Naming Challenge Games

Here are links to Note Naming Challenges and Games to help students with learning to read music. Fun and Educational! Practice these a little each day to try for 100% accuracy. You can count time spent on these challenges on your practice record.

• Violin Note Naming Challenge D,E,F#,G,A (Violinists, please note- the sharp sign for F# (F sharp) is found on the left edge after the treble clef on the top line. This makes all Fs into F sharp.)
• Expanded Violin Note Naming Challenge! D,E,F#,G,A,B,C#,(High)D (Violinists, please note- the sharp sign for F# (F sharp) and C# (C sharp) are found on the left edge after the treble clef on the top line for F# and 3rd space for C#. This makes all Fs into F sharp and all Cs into C#. Also, the low open D and the High D do not have separate answer buttons, so you'd click the same button to answer for both low D and high D)
• Viola Note Naming Challenge D,E,F#,G,A (Violists, please note- the sharp sign for F# (F sharp) is found on the left edge after the alto clef on the top space. This makes all Fs into F sharp.)
• Expanded Viola Note Naming Challenge! D,E,F#,G,A,B,C#,(High)D (Violists, please note- the sharp sign for F# (F sharp) and C# (C sharp) are found on the left edge after the alto clef on the top space for F# and 3rd line for C#. This makes all Fs into F sharp and all Cs into C#. Also, the low open D and the High D do not have separate answer buttons, so you'd click the same button to answer for both low D and high D)