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Name ___________________________________________________7th Grade Band Practice Guide 1/3-1/27

-This is an Outline of what we will be covering in for the next 4 weeks. In your practice, please review & look ahead so that you can be prepared for rehearsal. Students are required to practice at home at least 10 times during this period.

* Due, completed, for a grade, Friday, 1/27. Must have 10 places signed off by Parent or Guardian.

Everyday’s Warm-up will consist of Breathing and Normal Warm-up.

Our Goal is to learn the MPA music and to increase our listening skills and sight-reading abilities in order to have a successful performance. MPA rehearsals will be in two parts- learning the music, and perfecting the music. Please practice at home and do your best so that we can achieve a successful performance together.

TS= Trafalgar Square, LD= The Light of Dawn, IS= In the Shining of the Stars

Date Extended Tuning/ Warm-up Music Rehearsal Suggested Practice Focus Parent Initial

1/3 Scale Patterns Intro 1 & 2 TS Beg-5, LD Beg-9 IS ______

1/4 IS- Beg- 18, LD 9-13 LD ______

1/5 TS 5-25, LD 13-21 TS ______

1/6 Machine Tuning IS 18-26, LD 21-31 IS ______

1/9 Scale Patterns 3 & 4 TS 25-49, LD 31-41 LD ______

1/10 Eb- Chorale #19, Exercise #8 & 9 IS 26-34, LD 41-56 TS ______

1/11 Bb- Chorale #32, Exercise #21 & 22 TS 49-55, LD 56-64 IS ______

1/12 Ab- Chorale #45, Exercise #34 & 35 IS 34-42, LD 64-68 LD ______

1/13 Machine Tuning TS 55-71, LD 68-79 TS ______

1/17 F- Chorale # 59, Exercise #47-49 IS 42-54, LD 79-91 IS ______

1/18 Sectionals LD ______

1/19 Review TS TS ______

1/20 Review Stars IS ______

1/23 Sight-reading STARS, Scale patterns 5 &6 TS 71-79, LD 91-101 LD ______

1/24 Eb- Chorale #20, Exercise #10 & 11 IS 54-62, LD 101-111 TS ______

1/25 Bb- Chorale #33, Exercise #23 & 23 TS 79-90, LD 111-120 IS ______

1/26 Ab- Chorale #46, Exercise #36 & 37 IS 62- end, LD 120-128 LD- Woodwind Sectional 3-4:30 ______

1/27 Machine Tuning TS 90-end, LD 128-end TS PRACTICE SHEET DUE***

All Band members, 7-12 will need to be at 2 sectional practices and 2 full band practices to prepare as an ensemble. All practices will be at the WPHS Bandroom.

Practices are as follows:

Woodwind sectionals: Thursday, Jan. 26 3-4:30pm Thursday, Feb. 9 3-4:30pm

Brass sectionals: Tuesday, Jan. 31 3-4:30pm Thursday, Feb. 16 3-4:30pm

Percussion sectionals: Thursday, Feb. 2 3-4:30pm Thursday, Feb. 23 3-4:30pm

Full Band rehearsals: Tuesday, Feb. 7 3-5pm **Dress Rehearsal* -Students should wear what they plan to wear for the concert for

the rehearsal in order to check their outfit for appropriateness.

Tuesday, Feb. 28 3-5 pm

Performance:

- Festival of Roses Concert Band Assessment- JSU- Saturday, Feb. 11. Time will be announced. Hopefully it will be a morning time performance. T-shirts will be available for sale and the cafeteria will be open for lunch for $8 that day if you wish to eat lunch there. We will meet at JSU that morning.

- MPA will be held at Gadsden City High School on ONE of the following dates during school hours: Feb. 29, March 1, March 2. More information concerning the definite date and time for the performance will be announced during February. Parents are welcome to attend and we will need chaperones for the bus as well.

- We will also perform the MPA selections at the Parent Appreciation Concert on Thursday, March 8- 6:30pm at the WPHS Blue Gym.

Attire:

For MPA performance, your child will need Concert Black Attire- Black pants, Black Tops. Girls may wear skirts or dresses that come below their knees. Black socks & Shoes (Dressy). There should be NO color accents and As plain black as possible. All attire should be within school dress code rules. This is not a fashion statement. This is an attempt to get the entire band as uniform as possible, while maintaining the integrity of stage performance formality.

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