We are one week away from our holiday concert!  The concert is next Monday night 12/10 at 6:30 pm at New Hope Christian Church (corner of Whitten and Yale) and students are to be there by 6 pm dressed in their concert attire - black bottoms, white shirt (guys wear a tie.... any color or kind), and black shoes/socks (or the darkest you have).  Santa hats are optional.  We will need parent help in these areas:  Equipment transportation meet at Appling at 5:20 if you have a truck, van, SUV, trailer, etc....., setup/tear down crew, and student monitoring.  Please email Mrs. Sanders at [email protected] if you can help.  

After school rehearsal schedule this week"

Monday - Jazz Band

Tuesday - 7th grade required rehearsal

Wednesday - 6th grade required rehearsal

Friday - Honor Band

All groups are working on fine tuning music for the concert and working on problem areas and doing run throughs.  Sixth grade has two of their songs on Smart Music that are due 12/10 and there are six excerpts due..... submit your best.  6th grade will also be working on the #54-58 section in their book which is full band arrangements.  Seventh grade will be working on #50 section in their book learning about 16th notes and will learn the B scale this week and reviewing other scales.  We will continue to work to learn 2 octave scales.  Eighth grade will be working on the #66 section in their book and also learning the B scale and reviewing other scales.  Both 7th and 8th grade will work with Sight-reading Factory in class to review sightrewading for Allwest TN Band Auditions.

All-West TN Band audition registration deadline is this Wednesday and I will be registering all 7th and 8th grade non-beginners.  Please let me know if you are a beginner and would like to audition.

Poiinsettia delivery is this Tuesday 12/4 from 2:30-4:30.  

Smart Music deadlines are next Monday 12/10 (6th grade concert songs) and next Saturday 12/15 for 6th grade book songs and for all 7th and 8th grade.  Please spend time on these and submit your best.  

Have a great week!  Work hard!

 

Mrs. Sanders

Two of our students have made the BCS 7-9 grade indoor drumline.  Congrats to Evan Schlinsog on snare and Mason Threlkeld on tenors!

I have volunteered to help at the hydration station for the past 3 or 4 years and it feels so good to help with this worthy cause.   I would love to have as many band families as possible help out.  The deadline to sign up is tomorrow night at midnight so please contact Mrs. Flores right away and she will send you the link to sign up online.  Here is the information that was in the Appling weekly update.

Appling will again volunteer for the St. Jude Marathon on Saturday December 1.  We will have a Hydration Station #6 at Mile 7.  Our station is at Tom Lee Park off of Riverside Drive.  This year the course has changed and volunteers will need to be in place at 6:15 a.m.  If any of our Appling family members are interested in joining us, please e-mail Mrs. Flores at [email protected] .  We hope you will come out and support this worthwhile cause.

 

Mrs. Sanders

If you would like to order Premier Jewelry on behalf of the band fundraiser, we are closing out the show on Monday 10/22.  Go to www.premierdesigns.com/janice and go under Appling Band.  Thanks!

 

Busy week!
Monday- 7th and 8th grade wear band tshirts for pep rally. 6th grade can wear too if you want since it is black/gold day. 7th and 8th grade bands stay after school for required rehearsal.....over at 4.
Tuesday- Nothing after school. 7th and 8th grade are playing at open house. Wear band shirt. Meet in the band room no later than 6:10 for warmup/tuning. Walk together to gym to listen to strings at 6:30 and we perform at 6:40. Should be done by 6:55. Need help setting up at 5:30 and help taking back to band room after concert.
Wednesday - First Honor Band rehearsal....over at 4....bring snack or $. Also...Academy field trip permission slips due
Thursday....tickets presold for Halloween dance
Friday- Tickets presold for Halloween dance. Academy field trip for 8th grade and select 7th graders....leave 10 am and return 12:30. Halloween dance- decorate/setup at 5:30....doors open 6:30.
Let’s have an awesome week!

We need help making some posters for the Halloween Dance next week.  Here is some information that can go on them:

 

Tickets $7 in advance sold Thursday and Friday morning or $8 at the door

Dance is 6:30-8:30 on Friday October 26

Costumes are not required but encouraged and there will be a costume contest and prizes for Scariest, Funniest, and Most Creative

Chik-Fil-A and concessions will be sold

 

I have posted Allwest TN Band audition music as an "assignment" for everyone except for percussionists (I don't have files for them and don't know that I will..... but there are youtube videos to watch to help you that are posted on www.wtsboa.org and go under Allwest material to find these).  These "assignments" have a due date of January 12 which is Allwest audition day.  You do NOT have to turn these in.  They are just so that you have access to them on your home page so that you can slow down tempos, isolate parts, listen to the "my part", click on fingerings, work with the clicks (metronome), etc....... Please use this as a tool to help you with the Allwest TN band auditions in January and with the Appling Honor Band auditions.