Orchestra meets every day during period 1.
Students are required to have their instrument, music, and pencil every day to be prepared for class.
In addition to the daily class, there is a weekly pull-out small group lesson rotating between periods 3-5 and 8-9.
Students will learn how to independently:
Perform on your instrument with fluency of motion and excellent posture
Orchestra repertoire
Solo piece
Chamber music piece
Practice using IDEA + practice strategies, including marking music
Decipher written notation and translate into sound (music literacy + sight-reading)
Perform the following skills on your instrument:
Full tone using all parts of the bow
Variety of articulation
Finger velocity exercises
Scales (1 to 3 octaves)
Shifting (to 3rd, 4th, 5th and thumb positions as applicable)
Vibrato exercises
Dynamics / phrasing
Improvisation