6 General music
6 – Introduce music equation sheets. Have students perform lines.
Continue ‘Rhythm Jounrnals’ as a resource for sound ideas
Continue ‘Stomp’ unit and student created rhythms and instruments. Listen for 4 measure
phrases, changes to the phrase, unisons, multi-rhythms, and improvisations.
Students generated ‘Stomp,’ for the full class and in small groups.
Musictheory.net – notes names in the bass and treble clef.
7th band
Warm-up various forms of B-flat scales
Rhythm of the Day –Introduction and Process
Continue alla breve, introduce syncopation
Begin reading holiday music (yes, holiday music!)
Continue band arrangements Entrance of the Tall Ships, Gypsydance, Surfin’ U.S.A.,
Silver Eagle March, Song for Friends
7th grade guitar class
Continue accompaniment bass line for 12 bar progression
Finish quizzes on Rockin’ Robin, Yankee Doodle, and Surf Rock
Compare and Contrast two versions of Rockin’ Robin
Compositions using learned material
Continue duets and trios in small groups
8th grade guitar class
Hand in individual performance assignments.
Small group work - new music as introduced week of 9/24
Class work – Notes on the first 3 strings assignment. Compositions in G
12 bar progressions in G and D, adding bass lines to both
Power chords – F,G,Bb,C
8th band
Continue work with shaping warm-up chorales.
Revisit Grand master scale sheet and blues scale .
Continue musical periods performances in Book 3.
Continue band arrangements, Battle Hymn Epic, Sounds of America, Rock ‘n Roll, Rites of Tamburo.
6 – Introduce music equation sheets. Have students perform lines.
Continue ‘Rhythm Jounrnals’ as a resource for sound ideas
Continue ‘Stomp’ unit and student created rhythms and instruments. Listen for 4 measure
phrases, changes to the phrase, unisons, multi-rhythms, and improvisations.
Students generated ‘Stomp,’ for the full class and in small groups.
Musictheory.net – notes names in the bass and treble clef.
7th band
Warm-up various forms of B-flat scales
Rhythm of the Day –Introduction and Process
Continue alla breve, introduce syncopation
Begin reading holiday music (yes, holiday music!)
Continue band arrangements Entrance of the Tall Ships, Gypsydance, Surfin’ U.S.A.,
Silver Eagle March, Song for Friends
7th grade guitar class
Continue accompaniment bass line for 12 bar progression
Finish quizzes on Rockin’ Robin, Yankee Doodle, and Surf Rock
Compare and Contrast two versions of Rockin’ Robin
Compositions using learned material
Continue duets and trios in small groups
8th grade guitar class
Hand in individual performance assignments.
Small group work - new music as introduced week of 9/24
Class work – Notes on the first 3 strings assignment. Compositions in G
12 bar progressions in G and D, adding bass lines to both
Power chords – F,G,Bb,C
8th band
Continue work with shaping warm-up chorales.
Revisit Grand master scale sheet and blues scale .
Continue musical periods performances in Book 3.
Continue band arrangements, Battle Hymn Epic, Sounds of America, Rock ‘n Roll, Rites of Tamburo.