RedDevilBandandChoir

WEEK OF JANUARY 7th

Sixth Grade General Music

Theory
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.

Yearbook pictures will be taken on Tuesday,
January 8th. All band members need to bring
their full uniforms to school with them on
Tuesday, January 8th for the pictures.

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.
Yearbook pictures will be taken on Tuesday,
January 8th. All band members need to bring
their full uniforms to school with them on
Tuesday, January 8th for the pictures.
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.
Yearbook pictures will be taken on Tuesday,
January 8th. All band members need to bring
their full uniforms to school with them on
Tuesday, January 8th for the pictures.
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.

All band and choir and colorguard members need to bring their full uniform with them to school on Tuesday, January 8th for yearbook pictures. Yearbook pictures are in color this year for the first time ever.

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 go on throughout the month of January.