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Grade 8

Even though these are challenging times, there is still a lot of band learning that can happen in the coming weeks. Click the link below to access your classes learning plan.  

Week 1:
March 16-27

Concept: 

Staccato vs. tenuto

pg. 5.15, 5.16, 7.29

Week 2:
March 30- April 3

April 3

Concept: 

Syncoppation 

Pg. 9.41, 9.43, 10.49

Week 3: 

April 6-9

Concept: 

Sixteenth notes, accents,  quarter rest

​Pg. 11.55

Week 4:
Reading Week

Concept:

Review

Review what you would like. 

Music and Background Tracks For Method Book
(Play along with your songs or lines in your method book)

Week 5:

April 20-24

Concept: 

Eighth and 2 sixteenths

pg. 14.64, 14.65, 14.67

Week 6: 

April 27- May 1

Concept:

Two sixteenths followed by an eighth note.

pg. 15.70, 15.71, 15.72, 15.73

Week 7: 

May 4- 8

Concept: Dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth note

pg. 17.81, 18.91, 19.93, 20.98, 27.133

Week 8:
May 11- 15

Concept:

​chromatic scale

Pg. 22.107, 22.108

Music Track
(Play along wor listen to your pieces)

Marzo Zingaro 

by Randall D. Stanbridge

Celtic Air and Dance 

arr. Michael Sweeney

Blaze 

by Rob Romeyn

Week 9:

May 19-22

Concept: 

Triplets

Pg. 24.116, 24.117,24.120

Week 10: 

May 25-29

Concept:

​Review of all combinations of sixteenth notes

pg. 25.126

Week 11: 

​June 1-5

Concept: 

​D.S. al Fine

Pg. 20.104

Week 12:
June 8-12

Concept:

Accel.

pg. 26.129

Week 13:

 June15-19

Concept: 

​Review

Pg. 28.137

Week 14: 

June 29-30

Instrument Return

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