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 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:
§ FLIPGRID
** 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.
**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 3rd 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!
