Making progress...

Reminders:
- Students involved in Junior Select Band - Dates are Jan. 28-30
- Junior Winds students Jan. 22 is our performance for Chinese New Year

Jazz Band and Junior Winds
- Grade 6 Jazz Band will rehearse on Monday from 4-5 p.m. in the band room at Campbell
- Grade 6 Junior Winds will rehearse on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Tues. 4-5 p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Jazz Band will be Wed. 4-5 p.m. in the Jazz Room at Campbell
- Grade 7/8 Junior Winds will rehearse on Thursday from 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the Band Room at Campbell

This Week in Grade 6 Band 
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry)
This week the Grade 6's learned about Concert Eb scale.   One of their pieces is written in Eb and so we have practiced Concert Eb.   We identified the piece that was in Concert Eb and the piece that was in Concert Bb.   Some of the Grade 6's experimented a little with not only eighth notes, but sixteenth notes as well.   Grant Road and Perry Grade 6's learned about dotted notes.   We saw that dotted half notes get three beats, and dotted quarter notes get one and a half beats.  

Grade 6's were asked to practice Courtly Dance and Procession.  Grade 6's were told we would be figuring out which parts were harmony and which parts were melody.   As well Massey, RCS, and McVeety students were asked to practice their melody sections in Ayre and Dance.    Grant Road and Perry students were asked to practice 19 to the end of Chorale and Recessional.   

This Week in Grade 7 Band
(Massey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry) 
The Grade 7's had great rehearsals this week.  This week we worked on learning our concert F scale.   This is so that when we play Pandora we will be used to that key signature.   We also have been working extremely hard on our phrasing and on our dynamics in At Twilight and Incantation and Ritual.   We worked on figuring out what was melody and what was harmony.   Grade 7's were asked to pracitce 34-54 in INcantation and Ritual and 32-end of At Twilight.   

This Week in Grade 8 Band 
(Masey, Grant Road, McVeety, RCS, and Perry) 

We had another productive week in Gr.8 band.  We've begun working on a couple of new tunes, When Summer Takes Flight and Night Flight of the Gargoyles.  They are tough but fun pieces.  We are also working very hard on our Optimist pieces.  We've got the notes and rhythms figured out but are still needing work on our dynamics and phrasing.  Soon we will begin playing parts of these pieces for memory.