Subbing Plans for Tuesday November 2, 2010



Student Engagement Plans for Week of May 7-13, 2020Dear Students and Parents,I hope this week finds you well and settling into this new normal regarding schoolwork. This week’s lesson follows the format of previous weeks where you can pick categories to engage with for 30 minutes a day. Each category is larger than 30 minutes of work so do not feel obligated to do it all. I would like to give you some advice/goals for each section this week.Practicing- it can be demoralizing to practice music that is not going to be performed as events have been cancelled. Use this time to focus on skill building instead. Now is the time to learn that new articulation style, develop your range, or rebuild your embouchure. We have the opportunity to sound bad and rebuild things the right way without worrying about the pressure of a performance right now. Lock down those scales and new key signatures. Focus on ear training. We can build the foundation you new to absolutely soar when we are able to be together again. Let us not miss this!Listening/Videos- The next few weeks are going to be powerful. I have found remarkable artists demonstrating their craft and discussing or teaching their craft. These videos should be our goal and our inspiration. We need to dream of what we are capable of by watching these folks and then figure out how to walk in their shoes and get to that level ourselves. These are not to be missed.- This section may not be the most interesting and may be difficult if you don’t have a lot of experience in music theory. It is however worth it. The more you know, understand, and recognize the more you will be able to draw out of your playing. You will begin to play with purpose.Exploring- Sometimes all we need to stay engaged and inspired is the freedom to pursue what we want to pursue. This is your chance. Find music that interests you or that you love. Figure out why you love it and what makes it unique. Figure out if you can play it too. This will go a long way into turning you into a musician that is uniquely you.We are working on a plan to return instruments and music (likely June 1-5). Please keep your music in nice condition and ready to return. Regarding instruments, the district has applied and received FEMA money to get the instruments chemically cleaned this summer in hopes of preventing any transmission of the virus via instruments. That means all school owned instruments will have to be turned in for this summer. If you need an instrument to practice with during the summer, you may want to start researching rental options. Please watch for details regarding the returning of school owned instruments and music.Sincerely,Mr. NordJazz BandsPractice: There’s simply no substitute for knowing what you’re doing and the only way to know what you’re doing is to practice, practice, practice and shed this stuff. 12 Bar- Blues Backing Track- Bb Major This is a more advanced version than we use in school. You’ll notice that it has an E diminished chord in measure 6 and then it has both a D half-diminished chord and a G dominant 7 chord in the 8th measure. No big deal. You got this and are ready for a challenge. E diminished is simply E minor with a flat 5 so your notes (in concert pitch) are E-G-Bb (notice- no 7). The D half-diminished would be D-F-Ab-C and G7 is G-B-D-F.Practice your roots, 1-2’s, 1-2-3-1’s, 1-2-3-5’s, 1-3-5-1’s, 1-3-5-7’s until you don’t have to think about them and then get creative. Change the order (i.e. 1-3-5-7 could be 3-1-7-5 or something) and/or add half step approaches to 1’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 7’s and/or practice your guide tones. You don’t need to do all of this every day- mix it up to keep yourself fresh.Try some of your rhythm patterns in combination with your note patterns over the form.Improv over the form- just blow and tell a story. There is no right or wrong…just play.Getting bored? Can you change the key? Can you purposely add quotes of other tunes?Listening/Videos:The BEST way to learn jazz. DO NOT MISS THESE VIDEOS THIS WEEK! Recommended listening this week:Wynton Marsalis- Happy BirthdayCan you apply the skill he is? Can you play with him?Gunhild Carling- A history of jazz trombone demonstration and a little tap dancing!Charles Mingus’ Better Git It In Your Soul from his famous Ah Um album.Music Theory: Just experiment a bit and work your way through the theory lessons. You can watch a lesson and then click on exercises to learn/drill the information you just learned. You can also click the “gear” in the upper right-hand corner to customize the exercises and challenge yourself. When you are confident you’ve got the skill down, move to the next lesson.Exploring:Find a new jazz tune or an old jazz standard that you enjoy and learn it!Search out professional jazz ensembles, combos, and artists to add to your collection.Research a famous jazz artist and what made their music so important. Better yet, listen to their music and make it part of your own style.All Concert BandsPractice: There’s simply no substitute for knowing what you’re doing and the only way to know what you’re doing is to practice, practice, practice and shed this stuff. You NEED a good warm up every day. Please do pages 2-3 of your “I, Recommend” book and page 4 (if you are a brass player) daily.Memorize G-Flat Major scale, arpeggios, chromatic scale, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths. “I, Recommend” page 10 #25, page 15 #7, page 16 #7-8, page 19 #25-28. Always practice these with a drone. Challenge: Can you memorize its relative minors also Eb minor page 14 #13-14. Prepare for your final. Pick one excerpt from the packet, for your instrument, and begin working. Learn it very slowly and accurately. Have perfect rhythm first and then add on other components such as articulation, tone, intonation, dynamic shaping, etc.The March should be completely learned and memorized now. Perfect areas you’re not happy with yet. Start attempting to connect the various sections to each other. I still think there’s an outside chance the parade gets bumped to next fall and we still use this work!Pick a spot you “LOVE” in your current band music and perfect it. How’s the tone? Are you in tune on every note? How clean and precise is the articulation? Do you have dynamic shaping? Can you plan appropriate breath marks? Perform it for someone? Send me an audio recording of it for feedback?Use a day our two to explore other music to play. Perhaps pick out a solo/ensemble piece or find a book of your favorite Disney tunes. Anything to keep you going.Listening/Videos:Not to be missing this week!Eugene Izotov, principal oboist of the Chicago and San Francisco Symphony (appointed to San Francisco by Michael Tilson Thomas) discusses auditioning tips and tricks and so much more. I wish I would have had this insight and wisdom at an earlier age! By the way, you all need to listen to him play….this is the most beautiful oboe sound I have ever heard. He has a YouTube channel with many more examples also.Interesting and educational, I hope!Band piece….Methusalah II Incredibly strange instruments that I bet you are not familiar with.Flutist Sir James Galway!Clarinetist Benny Goodman. Oboist Eugen Izotov! Just hang out in his channel from above!Bassoonist Albrecht Holder and his YouTube Channel.Saxophonist Eugene Rosseau plays the Glazunov and a Fantasia. And something very different.Trumpets…this is Wayne Bergeron being featured on When You Wish Upon A Star and Incredibles and lastly You Never Had a Friend Like Me.Horns- This! So much this!Trombonist Gunhild Carling and her YouTube Channel.Euphoniums and Tubas…. let’s meet Patrick Sheridan and Flight of the Bumble Bee. He also has a YouTube Channel.Music Theory:Just experiment a bit and work your way through the theory lessons. You can watch a lesson and then click on exercises to learn/drill the information you just learned. You can also click the “gear” in the upper right-hand corner to customize the exercises and challenge yourself. When you are confident you’ve got the skill down, move to the next lesson.Exploring:Start researching possible music for Solo/Ensemble next year. Possibly acquire it and get to work learning it. A great website to order music from is hickeys or Sheet Music Plus.Search out famous artists on your instrument and listen to them (add them to your playlist)Search out a completely new genre and try to figure out why people love it. Can you add it to your style?All PercussionistsPractice: There’s simply no substitute for knowing what you’re doing and the only way to know what you’re doing is to practice, practice, practice and shed this stuff. You NEED a good warm up every day! Please play your hands warmups, 8’s, Sixteenth Flow, Bucks, Accent Grid, Flam Taps, Double Beat, Chicken and a Roll, Cheez-Its. Use a METRONOME! This link works or your metronome apps. Begin the exercises at 120 bpm and increase by increments of 10 until you cannot go faster without clarity or tension. You may need to start accent grid and Cheez-Its slower (I usually start accent grid at 90 bpm and Cheez-Its at 65 bpm). I also limit double-beat and chicken and a roll to increases of 5 bpm and stop around 150 bpm.Learn your rudiments here. There are forty to work through with play-along tracks and differing achievement levels. Simply click on each rudiment and it will show on your screen with the play-along tracks. Ideally, we eventually work our ways to platinum in all of them but that may take years.If you have access to a keyboard memorize the scales and arpeggios like the band above. If not, note naming in the music theory link below is the name of the game for you.The March should be completely learned and memorized now. Perfect areas you’re not happy with yet. Start attempting to connect the various sections to each other. I still think there’s an outside chance the parade gets bumped to next fall and we still use this work!Drill San Juan and Bugay. Try to play them back to back with each other.Listening/Videos:Not to be missing this week!Eugene Izotov, principal oboist of the Chicago and San Francisco Symphony (appointed to San Francisco by Michael Tilson Thomas) discusses auditioning tips and tricks and so much more. I wish I would have had this insight and wisdom at an earlier age! By the way, you all need to listen to him play….this is the most beautiful oboe sound I have ever heard. He has a YouTube channel with many more examples also.So many AMAZING resources here. Pick something and go to town!Band piece….Methusalah II. Heavy duty difficult percussion. How many percussion instruments can you hear?This week- Dave Weckl! Track 1 and Track 2. First 8 bars of Bugay.First 16 bars of San Juan (at the end of the recording) Music Theory:Just experiment a bit and work your way through the theory lessons. You can watch a lesson and then click on exercises to learn/drill the information you just learned. You can also click the “gear” in the upper right-hand corner to customize the exercises and challenge yourself. When you are confident you’ve got the skill down, move to the next lesson.Exploring:Start researching possible music for Solo/Ensemble next year. Possibly acquire it and get to work learning it. A great website to order music from is hickeys or Sheet Music Plus.Search out famous artists on your instrument and listen to them (add them to your playlist)Search out a completely new genre and try to figure out why people love it. Can you add it to your style? ................
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