7th grade band (Period 3rd)
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Welcome to 7th grade band! We are going to have a great time in the Appling Band as we continue to develop our skills of playing instruments and reading music!
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Announcements for 10/30 Week
Thank you to all that helped with our Halloween Dance last Friday! We had a great turn out of kids and so many parent volunteers. The costumes were great and the kids had a great time. Thanks for donating food and drink items. We will use our leftovers in the concession stand.
If you have any leftover treat size candy, please donate them to the band as I will be giving prizes in the next few months for good behavior, scale pass offs, etc.......
We will be starting our holiday concert heavily in upcoming weeks for our holiday concert on Dec. 7. When music is given to you, please make sure to work hard on it because we don't have much class time.
7th and 8th graders are learning a scale a week until we we have learned all twelve of our scales. We are on scale #8 G concert this week so please work on learning and memorizing that scale and reviewing scales #1-7.
Snart Music assignments will be due this Sunday 11/5 for 6th graders (#38, 42,43,44,45) and Wednesday 11/8 for 7th and 8th graders (7th grade #29,24,25 and 8th grade #34, 42, and Smart Music rhythm 3-16). There are also assignments posted due 12/10 for 6th grade and 11/22 for 7th and 8th grade with more assignments coming on the All-West music for our 7th and 8th graders. Please keep up with these and work on them!
Our schedule for this week:
Monday - Honor Band
Tuesday - Jazz Band first rehearsal
Wednesday - Honor Band
Friday - Veteran's Day group rehearsal
We will be collecting sizes and taking orders this week for Veteran's day shirts to wear at our performances this week. Look for a note and/or email about that.
Looking forward to a great week!
Mrs. Sanders
Open house performance - 7th and 8th grade
7th and 8th grade band students will be performing at open house tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. This is treated as a "concert" even though it is informal and in the gym and is part of your grade and responsibility and been on the calendar for months. We have been assigned the 6:30 time slot in the gym and students need to report to the band room at 6 pm for warm up and tuning. If you have your own wire music stand, please bring it because we will not have enough stands for everyone (especially for warm up because the orchestra will be using some of our stands for their performance before us). We should be finished by 6:45 so that you can still go to classrooms or book fair for a few minutes (or your parents can go during your warm up). You are to wear your new band t-shirt that was distributed today and jeans. We will perform the Star Spangled Banner together and each group will perform two songs. I will need everyone to help move equipment back to the band room when we are done. I'm looking forward to a good concert tomorrow evening!
Angela Sanders
Bandmasters Championship tickets
If anyone is interested in free comp student tickets for the Bandmasters Championship marching competition this Saturday 10/21, please see me and tell me how many by Friday. There is more information and a schedule at www.tigerbandalumni.com.
Announcements for 10/2 Week
Can't believe this is the last week of the first quarter! Time has flown by. We are getting ready for our 6th grade band Meet the Band Night concert Tuesday night and I can't wait for everyone to hear them! 6th grade will have their second required rehearsal Monday 10/2 until 4:00 (bring snack or concession $ and wire stand). On Tuesday 10/3, meet at Appling at 5:45 for help with equipment or 6:30 at New Hope Christian Church for warm up and the concert starts at 7. Remember to wear our concert uniform - black bottoms, white shirt (guys wear a tie), and black socks/shoes. Admission is $2.
The Veteran's Day group has their first practice this Wednesday 10/4 until 4:00. Please make sure you have looked over your music ahead of time.
All Smart Music assignments are due this Tuesday 10/3 so that I can listen to them and get them in PowerSchool before the end of the nine weeks on Friday. All groups had assignments due 9/20 and another set of assignments due 10/3. This is a big part of your grade and responsibility. Take time on these and submit your best. All-West TN band audition music has now been posted as a tool to help you practice for both All-West and Appling audition music.
We will have signups in class this week for Appling Honor Band auditions on either 10/16 or 17 and Appling jazz band on 10/18. Remember that for honor band auditions you must know the first six scales on your scale sheet (C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, and Db) plus the chromatic scale and the marked spots of your All-West music. For jazz band auditions, you are to know the two jazz pieces Cherry Point and It Is What It Is.
Anyone that is interested in ordering band apparel should turn in orders by this Friday 10/6 before fall break. Every band student will receive their band shirts after fall break and it is included in your band fee. This will be worn at our 10/23 black/gold pep rally and 10/24 Open House performance for our 7th and 8th graders.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Mrs. Sanders