Online Learning - CoVid 19

MIGHTY EAGLE BAND ONLINE: How Does it work?

In this page you'll find Links to music sources, videos, and samples of practice sessions. Instructions and specific details will be available in your specific Google Classrooms. Be sure to check due dates and be on the lookout for feedback. For now, we would like EVERYONE to register with Smart Music using the codes listed below, only register for your class.  

SMART MUSIC CODES:
BEGINNER FLUTES: WPPL3-HWADY

BEGINNER OBOE:  47LTN-4HR6E

BEGINNER BASSOON: WPQUC-4NMK4

BEGINNER CLARINET:  2MLCR-P7FLK

BEGINNER SAXOPHONE:  3J4GU-VHVEE

BEGINNER TRUMPET:  KNRL4-CZHUP

BEGINNER HORN:  VXHJK-HHJTU

BEGINNER TROMBONE:  W666R-HKTRX

BEGINNER EUPHONIUM:  34M2D-KY3NU

BEGINNER TUBA:  FMTXW-GNACR

BEGINNER PERCUSSION:  MKEYP-37G4U

HONOR BAND:  PXWNQ-RPZ2G

SYMPHONIC BAND:  NPUQK-62K3U

CONCERT BAND:  FZT4F-UQKEE

LINKS:

§  Mighty Eagle Band Website

§  JAZZ RESOURCE on IMPROV (David Lown)

§  Percussion Rudiments

§  NOTEFLIGHT

§  SMARTMUSIC

§  MUSESCORE

§  MUSIC THEORY A

§  MUSIC THEORY B

§  MUSIC HISTORY

§  FLIPGRID

§  Sightreading Factory

** Noteflight is making their Noteflight Learn platform free through June 30. Useful tech and lots of pre-built lesson plans and other resources online. Click here for more information. See this video, starting at 13:05 or so to see how their activity templates work to create assignments. This platform not only works for music notation (also providing MIDI-style playback), but allows teachers to make assignments, which can be easily deployed to students. Among other things, students are able to record themselves playing/singing into the score and the teacher can then access those recordings to hear how they’re doing. Immediately useful for aural training, performance coaching, and other sorts of teaching.

**Smart music: we are committed to helping you maintain your students’ education in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. For schools impacted by COVID-19 closures who do not already have a SmartMusic subscription, we are offering free access through June 30, 2020.

**Charter will offer free Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi access for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have a Spectrum broadband subscription at any service level up to 100 Mbps. To enroll call 1-844-488-8395. Installation fees will be waived for new student households.

**Sight Reading Factory has given us free access during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Using the code s3anb8.  Feel free to login and sight read something new.

Honor Band

March of the Trolls

Appalachian Morning

Moscow, 1941

Individual:

§  Solo

§  Ensemble

§  Region Music

§  New Music

§  Sight Reading

§  Fundamentals

Symphonic Band

Spitfire

Dancing Kites

Night Fury

Individual:

§  Solo

§  Ensemble Music

§  New Music

§  Sight Reading

§  Fundamentals

Concert Band

Synergy

Elizabethan Dance

Ghost Ship

Individual:

§  Solo

§  Ensemble

§  New Music

§  Sight Reading

§  Fundamentals

Jazz Band

Drama for Your Mama

I Feel Good

Bb Blues

Percussion

Solos

Ensemble Music

Lessons

Fundamentals

BAND

A SAMPLE PRACTICE SESSION: Wind Players

Warm up

- Concert F-4 times, Concert F descending, Ascending, Concert Bb Descending

- Scales Circles: 1,2 or 3^rd octaves – Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, G, C, F, Chromatic

-  Adding in Lip Slurs Option 2 & 3: set 1, 3, 4

- Technique: develop different articulations on Scale Circles. 

-Count, Tap, Clap Sheets

-Speed Staff Sheets

TUNE

- Develop a habit of tonal center

CONCERT MUSIC

- Select a piece of music: set a metronome and read through it. Identify places of error and build repetition through a slower tempo and work up to the faster tempo. Consider articulation, tongue-slur pattern and dynamics. Mastery of challenging rhythms and range takes critical focus. Don’t give up.

·       Chunk and loop challenging sections

·       Slow it down, repeat 3 times, increase speed by 5 clicks.  If you make errors, slow it down 10 clicks. 

·      Play two notes, then add a note, loop, add another note, loop

·       Change the rhythms.  (Long short; then Short Long)

·      Change the articulations.  All slurred, all tongued, then as written

- Repeat this concept for the other two pieces of music and any new music. 

FUN CHOICE MUSIC

- Select a music solo for enjoyment and work on it – maybe play it for your family

- Select a Region etude and dust it off for fun

- Search online for any music you like and learn it (movie sound track, latin, jazz or pop)

- If you have acapella app – maybe you can learn a quartet and layer the tracks

- Consider using Noteflight and compose some music! – they have a lot of free options

- Find some of your old concert music you like and read it like a pro!

- Pull out last year’s music and read it like a pro! 

PERCUSSION

A SAMPLE PRACTICE SESSION: Percussion

Warm up

- Set a goal and focus on a skill

o Rudiments

o Hand speed

o Use a metronome

MUSIC / SKILL

- Drum set

- Solos

- Grooves

- Ostinatos

- Learning Songs

- Band Music

- Percussion Ensemble Music

FUN CHOICE MUSIC

- Select a music solo for enjoyment and work on it – maybe play it for your family

- Select a Region etude and dust it off for fun

- Search online for any music you like and learn it (movie sound track, latin, jazz or pop)

- If you have acapella app – maybe you can learn a quartet and layer the tracks

- Consider using Noteflight and compose some music! – they have a lot of free options

- Find some of your old concert music you like and read it like a pro!

- Pull out last year’s music and read it like a pro! 

   Welcome New Band Members!!!!

                             Please click the link below and fill out the information. 

New Band Members Click Here

Congratulations to the following students for making the TMEA Region 31 All Region Band 2017-2018

Michael Dinh 2nd Chair Wind Symphony

Thomas Nguyen 5th Chair Wind Symphony

Sophie Hawkins 5th Chair Wind Symphony

Ben Elliott 4th Chair Symphonic Band

Jessica Ramos 8th Chair Symphonic Band

Daniela Galindez 1st Chair Concert Band

Dhruv Kallianpur 3rd Chair Concert Band

Hugo Soto 8th Chair Concert Band


The following students were selected as Alternates for the Concert Band:

Alana Harvey
Adrian Lopez
Aditya Gupta
Alondra Hernandez


Mrs. Lawson, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Kimmons are EXTREMELY proud of the hard work you put in, to achieve such an esteemed position in the Region Bands. 

This is Mrs. Lawson's favorite youtube of Sleigh Ride!  Enjoy.

Practice-a-Thon 2014

  

Hope you are having a great summer!  We are pleased to welcome Mr. Richard Sullivan back to Dewitt Perry Middle School!  Mr. Sullivan brings an exemplary teaching background to the Mighty Eagle Band.   

Mr. Richard Sullivan’s career began in Georgetown Texas in 1979.  As a member of the Georgetown team, the bands won the TMEA 4A Honor Band 3 times, and the UIL State Marching Contest for 4A Bands 5 Times.

The Georgetown Junior High Bands were three times TMEA 3C State Honor Band Finalists and consistent UIL Sweepstakes Award Winners. 

In 1991, Mr. Sullivan moved to Midway Middle School in the Midway Independent School District in Hewitt Texas.  While there the middle school band earned the first consecutive UIL Sweepstakes Awards in more than 20 years.

In 1995, Mr. Sullivan moved to Coppell Texas and worked at Coppell Middle School West.   The middle school program fed into the award winning Coppell High School Band under the direction of Scott Mason. 

After a year in Frisco, Mr. Sullivan joined Mr. Paul Schmidt at DeWitt Perry Middle School in Carrollton and spent 5 wonderful years working with Mr. Schmidt and the students of DWP.  During this time, the Perry Middle School Band was TMEA 3C Honor Band finalists two times (in 2008 and 2009).

After 2 years at Blalack Middle School, Mr. Sullivan returns to DeWitt Perry Middle School.  

Honor Band UIL!

We are really excited for the Honor Band's performance at UIL on March 27th at Wakeland High School in Frisco. Many hours of preparation  have gone into this performance and we are sure it will pay off! Parents are more than welcome to come and listen to the Honor Band.

 

 

Here is the day's schedule:

 

Thursday, March 27^th        

7:30a.m. Arrive at school in FULL CONCERT UNIFORM

7:45a.m. FULL BAND REHEARSAL,

9:00 a.m.                Load buses

10:00 a.m.               Arrive at Wakeland H.S., Frisco

10:10 a.m.               Enter Warm-up Room

10:40 a.m.               U.I.L. Concert performance in auditorium (parents are strongly encouraged to attend- a map to Wakeland H.S. is                       provided in this packet)

11:10 a.m.               U.I.L. Sight-reading performance in the band hall (parents are allowed and encouraged to follow the band and                                          watch the sight-reading procedure!)

11:40 a.m.               Depart for Stonebriar Mall for lunch in the food court

1:15 p.m.                 Line up to load bus and leave 

2:00 p.m.                Arrive at Perry, hang out in band hall until 6^th period.