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7th Band (Period 1st)

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2019 Poinsettia Fundraiser

I distributed this on Friday before school was out and we just emailed out as well, but thought I would post here as well.  These are BEAUTIFUL poinsettias from Bayliss Greenhouse and make wonderful gifts and decorations.  Contact your friends and family and co-workers and also try to contact places like hotels, churches, doctor/dentists offices, etc..... who may use these for decorations.  We make 50% profit on these so SELL, SELL, SELL!  Thanks!

Open House Thursday night 10/10

The 7th and 8th grade bands will be performing at open house Thursday night.  The bands will perform at 6:40 in the gym and will need to wear their band t-shirts that they received this week....... doesn't matter which bottoms and jeans and tennis shoes are fine.  Please be seated for warm up and ready to play in the band room at 6:10.  We will walk to the cafeteria around 6:32ish so that 8th grade can perform a combined piece with the strings and 7th grade will come with and listen to us.  We will then walk over to the gym and perform our band part.  We should be done by 7.  I will need everyone to pitch in and carry stuff back to the band room please.
Let me know if you have any questions.  Rehearsal went well yesterday and they are gonna be great!  Can't wait for everyone to hear them!
 
Mrs. S.
 

Tshirt design winner

Here is our t-shirt design winner. Thank you to everyone who submitted designs!   We will take sizes in class next week and get them ordered and back before fall break.  7th and 8th grade band will be wearing them at the open house performance on Oct. 10.  These are part of band fees.  Students will not receive shirts until band fees are paid....... we still have about 20 students that have not paid band fees so please get those in.

Tshirt design voting

Please look over these t-shirt designs and be ready to vote in class for your favorite tomorrow (Wednesday).   If it doesn't say "Appling Band" we will revise it.  This just gives us ideas and we will tweak them to make our own.  We may have to narrow these down and do a revote on Thursday.  Thanks!
 
Mrs. S.
 

Extra Credit/PBIS opportunities

The Bartlett High School Band is performing in a parent/community preview night tonight Sept. 14 at the Bartlett High football stadium at 8:40 pm tonight.  This is a free performance and I will be there if you want to find me and show me you were there and I will give you PBIS points and extra credit.  A great chance to see the high school band show.... they are pretty awesome!
 
Also, my daughter is a senior bassoon player in the Bartlett Band and plays in the Memphis Youth Symphony.  There is also another Appling alumni that plays percussion in the group.  Their kickoff weekend is this weekend and they have a free concert tomorrow afternoon Sept. 15 at 3:00 pm at the Harris auditorium in the music building at University of Memphis.  They are also an amazing group of talented musicians.  Find me or bring me a program and I will give extra credit/PBIS points.

Veteran's Day memo

Here is the Veteran's Day information for the two events in November - Hero for Heroes luncheon and City of Bartlett Veteran's Day program.  I need firm commitments for these events so that I can plan and pull and copy music.   I strongly encourage our kids to participate in these events and use our talents to thank our service men and women.

Appling Honor Band Music

Honor band auditions will be Oct. 21 and 22...... we will have sign ups in class before fall break.  You will be responsible for learning the first six scales on the scale sheet (Concert C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, and Db.... I will pick two) and the chromatic scale....these need to be memorized and at least one octave (more points for double octaves)  Also you need to learn the marked spots of your All-West TN band music:
 
Flute:m. 3-10, m.14-17, m.27-34
Oboe:  m.1-6, m.15-19, m.20-m.28 fourth note
Clarinet:  m.7-16, m.23-28, pickup to 33-40 fourth note
Bass Clarinet:  m.8-12, pickup to m.19-24, m.29-36
Bassoon:  m.1-6, pickup to m.16-20, m.30-38
Saxophone:  pickup to m.9-14, last two notes of 16-19, last two notes 23-30
Trumpet:  pickup to 6-11, 12-first note of 18, 37-first note of 33
Horn:  middle of m.5-first note of 12, 14- m.21, last two notes 31-38
Trombone:  pickup to 5-first note 11, m.17-22, pickup to 31-fourth note of 38
Baritone:  m.3-9, pickup 21-29, 36- 40
Tuba: 3-9 at rest, pickup17-21, pick up to 26-34 fourth note
Percussion : Timpani m.1-9, Xylophone 5-11 first note, Snare 8-16
 
There are links to listen to this music on the WTSBOA webpage which is linked to my webpage (look at far right bottom right corner). Go under All-West music and you can find the MP3 files.  Hopefully we will have Smart Music files soon.
 
Let me know if you have any questions and practice practice practice!