Advanced Band

AGENDA

19 Sept 2018

  1. Attendance

  1. Housekeeping
  1. Binder Check next week
  2. Excel Tutoring

  1. Review Continued
  1. Reading Notes in Treble Clef
  1. Tenuto App (if internet is working)
  1. Scale listening drills
  1. Major Scale Formula: W W H W W W H
  2. Arpeggio Pattern: 1 3 5 8 7 5 4 2 1
  3. Natural Minor Scale
  1. Instrument Transpositions
  2. Topics 3-5 Extra notes given - due Mon 24 Sept 2018

  1. Instruments
  1. Grand Master Scales: First Five, with arpeggios
  2. SOE Red Book - start from ___

OBJECTIVES - same as last Agenda

  1. Students will play major scales and their arpeggio patterns.
  2. Students will review music theory concepts.

  1. What is sound?
  2. How are instruments grouped into families?
  3. What are the instrument families and how do they produce sound?
  4. Name at least 8 instruments per family.
  5. What is an ensemble?
  6. Identify the instruments in a concert band.
  7. What is the biggest and most important difference between concert bands and orchestras?
  8. List vocal ensembles.
  9. List instrumental ensembles.
  10. What is a staff?
  11. Draw a proper treble clef on a staff.
  12. What is function of the treble clef?
  13. How many letters are there in the musical alphabet?
  14. What is the rule regarding the pitches on a staff, no matter the clef? If you go up the staff, you move ______ in the alphabet. If you go down the staff, you move ______ in the alphabet.
  15. What is the formula for a major scale?
  16. What is your instrument’s transposition from concert pitch?