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It is the expectation that all students practice at least 15-20 minutes a day in order to show growth and improvement.
Helpful Hints for Successful Practice
(Please refer to the “How to Practice” student handout in the musician’s binders.)
1. Determine your goals by asking questions of yourself, such as: Are there any notes that are in a difficult range? Are there rhythms with which I am having trouble?
2. Plan the order of your practice session. (Breathing/Long Tones/Scales/Rhythms/Book Work/Concert Music)
3. Practice a small section of the music at a time.
4. Practice difficult sections slowly.
5. Use a metronome.
6. Record some of your sessions and listen to the recording. Listen to what you did well and what needs improvement.
7. Save your favorite music selection for the end of the session.
8. Determine what improved, what didn’t and why.
9. Spread your sessions throughout the week; don’t cram a week’s worth of practice into one or two sessions.
CURRENT MATERIAL NEEDING TO BE PRACTICED
Concert Band Green:
Method Book:
Page 10-11
Warm-Ups:
5 Note Exercise
Concert Music:
Coming soon.
Intermediate Percussion Ensemble:
Scales:
Concert C Major Scale
Rudiments:
Flam, Drag, Flam Tap, Drag Tap
Concert Music:
Don't Bb, Be Cool.
Under the "C"
Armory
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Advanced Percussion Ensemble:
Scale Exercises:
Major Scales - C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D, A, E
Chromatic Scale
Rudiments:
5-stroke, 7-stroke, 9-stroke, 10-stroke, 13-stroke, 17-stroke rolls.
Single Paradiddle, Double Paradiddle, Triple Paradiddle, Single Paradiddle-diddle, Flam, Flam Tap, Pataflafla, Flamacue.
Concert Music:
Winterland
Tropic Twilight
Mustang Jazz:
Instant Warm-Ups #1, 3, 4, 6, 8
Spring's Awakening Rhythms and Exercises
Swing Fever Rhythms and Exercises
Uncle Milo's Side Show Rhythms and Exercises
Concert Music:
Moondance
Jingle Bell Rock
Ballad for Jeri
Concert Band Blue:
Method Book:
Page 40 #1
Page 13 #57
Rhythm Studies
Concert Music:
Armory
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Symphonic Band:
Mustang Band Warm-Up Book:
Concert Ab Major Wam-Up
F Stretch Exercise
Concert Ab Major Dut-Dut-Dut
Concert Ab Major Technique Warm-Up #1
Triads Exercise
Octaves Exercise
Major Scales - Concert Bb Major, Concert F Major, Chromatic Scale
Rhythm Studies #2-10
Method Book:
Page 6 and Page 7
Concert Music:
Polar Express
The Hope of Tomorrow
Rizz
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