MHHS Bands

Dear Band! The daily check in video is up! You can find it in today’s post on classroom. I am going to be posting the clarinet and trumpet video today. I hope you are all doing well.

Dear Band, I hope you are doing well! This week I am changing things up a little bit on Classroom and on the blog. First, I am sharing daily video check ins! Our first one is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V4-Nd8piWg0OZ4b1ihcvJBiCEYphxmbh/view?usp=sharing Second, we will still be posting an "all instruments" video, but I am adding more tools to the mix. A program called "Smart Music" is offering free subscriptions to schools. It is an excellent resource and approved for the district. As soon as they get me the login information (they are swamped right now with requests) I will be sharing it with you! Also, in addition to the all instruments lessons, I am going to be posting short videos on music reading. Finally, a HUGE request for help! It is possible we will have to do our 5th grade band recruitment virtually this year! I am looking for a volunteer on each instrument to make a video about why they like their instrument and why they like band. The vide...

Above is one link to our recorder unit!

Dear Band Students and Parents! I excited to share this video. I have some new learning in this video which I hope makes it very effective. This will work for ALL instruments on the current pages in the book, and also includes our entire rhythm reading unit! Tomorrow I am going to be posting general music lessons and Presto and also adding a new lesson on "Minor Tonality." Hope this helps! Please email me if you need to or comment in classroom!

This month we are working on quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and eighth note / sixteenth note combinations. I made a video to help! This video will also be embedded into this weeks lessons. Check out our video!

Dear Band Students and Parents, If you are like me you are experiencing something very new today. Since Monday my children have been doing distance learning non-stop and it can be overwhelming at first! My goal is to be brief, helpful, and create awesome content to keep everyone having fun and practicing!  Please just follow these steps: 1) Join our Google Classroom. This is super easy. Students have already been added by me! The next time you are on classroom you just need to click on the class and accept the invite! Most students have already accepted.  2) Check out the videos and content! I am going to be providing a curriculum exactly as if I was in school with you. The schedule this week is: Wednesday: Flutes and Clarinets Thursday: Saxophones and Trumpets Friday: Trombones and Drums and Presto Over the weekend I will create a jazz band video and post it up, you can access this next week  3) I am HERE! I am here for office hours from 9...

Dear Band Students Today I am making Presto and Jazz Band videos!! The first three of these are available now on classroom now. Two more are coming.  I am uploading these to YouTube and sharing here because I am finding the processing on YouTube to much faster. I am also trying to make videos more fun! Today I learned how to make intros! The first video is for presto line A. The second will be for line B, the third will be for line C, and the forth will be for snare drum. The fifth video today will be for jazz band. I miss all of you very much and I am enjoying making this content for you! I hope you are all doing well! https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI2MjM2NTE4ODNa/p/NjUxMjM5NjQ5ODRa/details Mr. A

Dear Band Parents and Students: I just posted the following in classroom. There is a link to that classroom post below: The first video I posted was our lesson out of the red book for this week. It will work for all instruments. The videos I posted yesterday were for Jurassic Park. I posted Sax and Trumpet. You can find those posts earlier in this feed. Today I am posting trombone and drums! The first video will be trombone the second will be mallets, the third will be snare and bass. I hope this helps! Google videos take a little while to process, So if you can’t open it right away remember to check back in a little while! (Video 1 is Trombone, video 2 and 3 are drums) https://classroom.google.com/ c/NjI2MjM2NTE4ODNa/p/ NjUwMTgwNTYxNjJa/details I hope I am helping! Emre Akter Band Director MHHS

Dear Band Students: The first video I posted was our lesson out of the red book for this week. It will work for all instruments. The videos I posted yesterday were for Jurassic Park. I posted Flute and Clarinet. You can find those posts earlier in this feed. Today I am posting saxophone and trumpet! The first video will be saxophone the second will be trumpet. Google videos take a little while to process, So if you can’t open it right away remember to check back in a little while! (Video 1 is Sax, Video 2 is Trumpet) You can find a link to the post here:  https://classroom. google.com/c/NjI2MjM2NTE4ODNa/ p/NjQ5MzE5MDAzNjZa/details I hope I am helping. 

Dear Band Parents and Students, Our next two videos are up! Our first video from yesterday really will work for all instruments. Practice those songs and tonal patterns this week. Our second videos (one for each instrument) will be all about Jurassic Park! In case you left your music at school or lost it I scanned all the parts for you! They are attached on classroom. The first video below is for flute. The second is clarinet. I will post Saxophone and Trumpet tomorrow! All this can be found on the band post in classroom.  (Please note: videos on Google take a little while to process, so if it doesn’t open right away come back in a little while!) I hope I am helping. Let me know if I can be of any service. Emre Akter Band Director - MHHS

Dear Band Parents, I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected! I am emailing about something entirely optional I am doing to hopefully help out.  I am going to be making daily band videos here at home and emailing them out to you daily starting tomorrow. You can pass them onto your children so they can watch on their devices if they like. These are based on our curriculum and mirror as closely as possible what I would be doing in lessons and at rehearsals were we to have school. I want to make clear that these aren't graded assignments. As a parent, I am sitting here with 5 kids trying to keep them happy and learning and not at each other's throats and I am thinking a daily video from the band director to keep kids practicing and learning might help. If these aren't helpful to you feel free to ignore them, but ideally I want to see our students practicing and growing as musicians even if we aren't in school.  Please see the letter from our princi...

Week of March 2nd Jazz Make Up Jazz Make Up AKTER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8:35-9:20 9:05-9:50 Trumpet C Adaptive Flute C Clarinet B Saxopnone C Music 9:50-10:35 Trumpet D Drums CD Prep Clarinet C Saxophone D 10:35-11:05 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH 11:05-11:50 Make Up Lesson Trombone AB Flute D Prep Make Up Lesson 11:50-12:35 Presto Presto Vrba O'Connor Hannon 12:35-1:20 Prep Trombone CD FH and Baritone Clarinet D Prep 1:30-2:15 Trumpet AB Drums AB Flute AB Clarinet A Saxophone AB 2:30-3:30 3rd CST CST 4th 5th Jazz 5th Grade Band