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Web News 9-23-04
- The directors and section helpers generally arrive early and are available on a limited
basis to help Cadets who need extra assistant.
- Arrive no later than 10 minutes before band begins. If you arrive on the hour, you are
already late. Allow for setup, warm-up and checking in at the front tables.
- All who have tuners, please label them and share them with those around you. Please tune
before band. The Borow's tuner will be available before practices.
- General House keeping: Cadets, please consider arriving early to help take down the
tables for hall set-up, which is a large task. Please hang all jackets in the entry hall,
where the rack is provided. Cadets cases should be on the stage. All others who are
staying later in the evening, please store fastened cases on the bar or the tables
provided on the opposite side of hall. Line them up neatly to maintain order and conserve
space. Parents, if extra chairs are needed to accommodate those staying during rehearsal,
use those in the rack near entry hall and return these chairs to the rack upon leaving.
Symphonic members, after rehearsal, please make your first order of business to assist in
the resetting up of the hall. Hall will remain open until 9:50 for visiting or additional
playing. All cars must be off the property by 10 pm.
- From this point on at band, all members will need to turn in a weekly practice log,
beginning with Fri. 9/24. The new practice log forms can be printed from the web
site and need to be turned in at the beginning of each practice in the designated box at
the front table.
- All students must bring back and wear the nametags provided until told otherwise.
- Please sit according to the sections assigned on the posted charts in the hall. Within
the blocks designated for each instrument section, Concert and Symphonic members should
sit according to roster order, filling in the rows accordingly. A diagram will eventually
be posted in future web notes.
- Practice daily. Cadets must use the CD’s/ DVD’s (Cadet) from the Essential
Elements 2000 books. Concert and Symphonic members should practice with the recordings of
our pieces linked on the "Music Page" of our website.
- Please observe the no talking rule at all times during practice. It is alright to visit
before and after band, but there should be no talking while we work on a song so that all
can hear and pay attention to the director. Helpers, please be sensitive to this as well.
- All families must check this website twice a week. Web notes like these and song
line-ups will be posted on Friday, with possible updates on Wednesday. Both will be
available sometime after noon.
- All music should be in page protectors, sorted alphabetically by title, in the
student’s white notebooks. Remember to add in a pouch that can hold your pencil and
Expo erasable marker.
- An updated supply list has been posted and should be checked.
Band
Booster Requests
Please e-mail Helen at volunteer@wshsb.com if you can assist with any of
the following tasks. Thanks to all who have assisted in getting this season off to such a
good start!
 | We need one additional family to help with room set up at 5
P.M. on Sept. 30. |
| We need 2 adults to monitor the building and parking areas
at all of the practices Sept. 30. |
| We need two adults on Tuesday, Nov. 9 from 7 8:30 P.M. to
assist with black pant and Symphonic jacket distribution at the Borow home. |
MUSIC NOTES:
Cadet Band
Practice all the exercises on pages 4 and 5 of the
Essential Elements 2000 Vol. 1 book with the CD or DVD this week. Bring Winning Rhythms
book along next week. We will work on it if there is time. If you are using the DVD
version, slow down the speed of the Smart Studio and practice slowly, working to increase
speed over the week’s time. If you have a DVD player on your computer, it is strongly
urged to obtain this new aide and use it, as it is yet more versatile still than the CD
alone. However, no matter which tool is used, it is imperative that these be used daily
in practice.
Tubas:
Sit with your corresponding key – Eb tuba players, sit together and Bb tubists
should sit together, since each group has differing fingering. Eb tubist must use the
second (2) fingerings (designated in squares NOT circles) listed for each note on the
chart that was distributed at practice. Bb tubist will follow the fingerings listed in the
book.
Flutes:
Review the video (Ultimate Beginner Series)
regarding embouchure (how you form your mouth to produce sound. ) This is especially
true for those who are still striving to produce a strong sound. Keep practicing at it,
rolling the mouthpiece on the lip, a little out and then in. At some point, it will be
evident which position produced the strongest sound. That spot is where the flute needs to
be placed at all times.
All brass:
Play with the CD. Those having a hard time reaching the notes should keep repeating the
exercises that introduce the first five notes, that is, ex. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. They
should not move on until they can match the note. Tone quality will come later. When they
can regularly reach the note, then the student can go on to exercises that work on
tonguing the quarter notes.
Experienced helpers: Those who are having problems either producing sound or matching
sound are welcome to come to band early, so that we can help them. Please spend your time
before band starts by going, one by one through the students in their section, reviewing
the exercises, making special efforts to notice who needs help and offering help as much
as possible. As always, we appreciate your time, talent and assist. Your special
contribution makes this teaching system possible.
Percussionists:
Work on all the assignments that Mrs. Pfauth outlined in her session.
Concert Band
Practice all the exercises on pages 2 and 3 of the
Essential Elements 2000 Vol. 2 book with the CD this week. Work on page one of Winning
Rhythms book and bring it along next week as well.
Principle (First Chair) Musicians: Go through all your music and locate all solos in
your section. Remember that it is you who has been designated to play the section solos.
Only one player should be playing on these passages. The term a2 designates when the other
players join back in. If, for some reason, you are not prepared to play the passage,
please tell the director and she will reassign the part. If the Principle is absent, it is
the responsibility of the second player on the roster to play those solos.
Line-up:
New World Symphony
We Need a Little Christmas
Nessun Dorma
Jolly Coppersmith March
Spirit of America
If time—Kids’ Stuff
Sunnyland
Symphonic Band
Continue working with the Unisonal book and
be prepared to continue proceeding on the exercises in it.
Line-up:
State Street Strut
Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Liberty Bell
Chorale and Shaker Dance
Light Cavalry
Hallelujah Chorus
Galliard Battaglia (small brass ensemble) – to be played at about 9 pm
- Email
General Information:
info@wshsb.com
Musical Director:
director@wshsb.com
Band Booster:
volunteer@wshsb.com
Webmaster:
webmaster@wshsb.com
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