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WEEK OF JANUARY 14th

Sixth Grade General Music

Theory
Continue lesson on
Review lines and spaces
Introduce measures and time signatures
Introduce types of notes
Fill in measures with notes

Warmups
New songs to sing:
Lean on Me
Put A Little Love
Love In Any Language
One Song Many Voices
All - Star
Discuss new projects
Draw and color an animal and make it part a musical instrument

Sixth Grade Band

Teach 2 new scales to for warmups - A flat and B flat concerts
Teach first 2 rudiments to percussion
Teach third rudiment to
Tech # 53, 54, and 55
Solo - Sawmill Creek
New songs:
Miramar Fanfare
Coldwater Creek
Valley Circle March
Five Note Concerto

Practice time sheets of 100 minutes are due each week as part of your child’s grade

Seventh Grade Band
Scale warmups for Honor Band and Overton
Five new rudiments
Tech # 43, 44, and 45
Solo - Turkish March and Rondo
New songs:
Rocky Top
Elvis
Thunder Bay
Honor Roll March
Stargazer
Midnight Escape

` Practice time sheets of 100 minutes are due each week as part of your child’s grade.
Honor Band Tryouts for the GMS Honor Band will be
going on throughout the month of January.

Eighth Grade Band
Scale warmups for Honor Band and Overton
Five new rudiments
Tech book
Solo - Fiesta and Turkish

New Band Songs
Rocky Top
Elvis
Stargazer
Midnight Escape

Practice time sheets of 100 minutes are due each week as part of your child’s grade.
Honor Band Tryouts for the GMS Honor Band will be
going on throughout the month of January.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All before school and after school rehearsals will begin the week of January 14th.

All band members are required to practice no less than 100 minutes a week as part of their grade. This is going up by 30 minutes from the first semester.

More information will be coming soon about the Overton Honor Band.

More information will be coming soon about the All West Tennessee Honor Band.

Tryouts for the GMS Honor Band will continue throughout the month of January.