Long Blues For You!

Hello 5th graders!  

Here's what we're working on this week:

In lessons:

• Echoing patterns using B flats, then warming up with a D minor scale and its relative minor, F Major

• Listening to "In the Bleak Midwinter" (page 36), then sightreading the A part slowly with accompaniment

• Describing how the first 8 measures are a "question" and "answer", then looking at the same idea quickly with "Ode to Joy" on page 46.

• Reading through the "questions" on page 207 and creating individual "answers" using the D scale.

• Reviewing the new section of Blues for You (which is another "question and answer"!), and playing through the long version with solos!

If you need a new copy of the long version, see below.

In orchestra:

Working hard on Toucan Tango and Stone Mountain Stomp, especially the bowing.

Make it a great week of practicing!  We are about to start preparing for 2nd grade demonstrations... 😃