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