Band "Karate" - Levels

Band "karate" is a fun way for students to become more motivated to practice and improve.  "Levels" or "Belts" are determined based on assignments from our band method books, Standard of Excellence books 1, 2 and 3.  Students will be able to pass each level by passing the five assigned lesson book lines according to the chart.  

I prefer these assignments to be submitted through Google Classroom, however I do take a couple of class periods every 9 weeks to listen to students play them in person.

Red Lesson Book Levels

The exercise in bold are the ones I assign for in-class tests)

White Belt (level 1) 7, 12, 14, 17, 22 (I make #23 the test for level 1)

Yellow Belt (level 2) 23, 29, 31, 35, 39 

Orange Belt (level 3) 41, 43, 46, 49, 53

Pink Belt (level 4) 55, 57, 61, 63, 67

Green Belt (level 5) 70, 73, 78, 79, 82

Blue Belt (level 6) 84, 87, 91, 95, 98 PLUS Concert Bb Major Scale (#1 on pg. 42) 

Purple Belt (level 7) 104, 106, 111, 115, 117 PLUS Concert Eb Major Scale (#2 on pg. 42)

Red Belt (level 8) 122, 126, 128, 131, 134 PLUS Concert F Major Scale (#3 on pg. 42)

Dark Pink (level 9) 136, 139, 141, 142, 143 PLUS Concert Ab Major Scale (#4 on pg. 42)

Black Belt (level 10) 146, 148, 151, 153, 155 PLUS Chromatic Scale (#5 pg. 42)

BLUE BOOK LEVELS 

(include any Excellerators on pages 40-41 that fall between the numbers for each level, these vary according to each instrument)

Level 11  2, 5, 6, 7

Level 12  12, 16, 21, 24

Level 13  28, 29, 33, 35 PLUS Concert Bb Major Scale (pg. 42)

Level 14  36, 39, 42, 45 PLUS Concert G Harmonic Minor Scale (pg. 42)

Level 15 47, 51, 53, 57 PLUS Concert Eb Major Scale (pg. 42)

Level 16 62, 65, 67, 69 PLUS Concert C Harmonic Minor Scale (pg. 42)

Level 17 72, 76, 77, 81 PLUS Concert F Major Scale (pg. 43)

Level 18 87, 88, 91, 92 PLUS Concert Ab Major Scale (pg. 43)

Level 19 96, 100, 101, 106 PLUS Concert C Major Scale (pg. 43)

Level 20 111, 115, 116, 118 PLUS Chromatic Scale (pg. 43)

GREEN BOOK LEVELS

Level 21 9, 14, 19 PLUS Bb Major and G harmonic Minor Scales #1&2 pg. 38

Level 22 23, 28, 32 PLUS C Harmonic Minor and Eb Major Scales #3&4 pg. 38

Level 23 37, 40, 41 PLUS F Major and D Harmonic Minor Scale #5&6 pg. 39

Level 24 45, 53, 58 PLUS Ab Major Scale #7 pg. 39

Level 25 60, 64, 68 PLUS F Harmonic Minor Scale #8 pg. 39

Level 26 73, 77, 82 PLUS C Major Scale #9 pg. 40

Level 27 86, 89, 94 PLUS A Harmonic Minor Scale #10 pg. 40

Level 28 98, 102, 106 PLUS Db Major Scale #11 Scale pg. 40

Level 29 108, 109, 117 PLUS G Major Scale #12 pg. 40

Level 30 121, 123, 132 PLUS Chromatic Scale 13 pg. 40