MHHS Bands

Here you will be submitting your 3rd concert video! 1) Make sure you can play Jurassic Park from measure 30 up till the end 2) Make a video of yourself playing Jurassic Park from measure 30 to the end. You must watch the video of me conducting and singing Jurassic Park while you make your video. Use ear buds or headphones. There is also a screencastify below with instructions here walking you through the steps. 3) Here is the easiest way to make your recording. Just click here: https://app.screencastify.com/record/F42vQPJudYIoqCa7QDuJL  and make it! To make your video all you have to do is make a video with the device of your choice while watching the movie below. You can also submit the video here using the "turn in" function, but screencastify submit will be easiest. For us to have a successful concert video we need lots of participation! Click Here to Submit Your Video Flute Conducting Video Clarinet Conducting Video Saxophone Conducting Video Trumpet C...

Dear Band Students and Parents, I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! I am preparing our next round of conducting videos. If you didn't get your recording of Jurassic Park in it is NOT too late. I am going to be editing Jurassic Park for some time! (I have to add the second video of course!). So please submit it this week if you haven't already. Today I will be posting up our next set of conducting videos for the rest of Jurassic Park. Here is another copy of the directions for the first Jurassic Park Video if you haven't done it yet! Here you will be submitting your 2nd concert video! 1) Make sure you can play Jurassic Park up till measure 30. 2) Make a video of yourself playing Jurassic Park up till measure 30. You must watch the video of me conducting and singing Jurassic Park while you make your video. Use ear buds or headphones. There is also a screencastify below with instructions here walking you through the steps. 3) Here is the easiest way to make ...

Welcome to our Triple Meter Unit! Click the links in order! Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5

Here you will be submitting your 2nd concert video! 1) Make sure you can play Jurassic Park up till measure 30. 2) Make a video of yourself playing Jurassic Park up till measure 30. You must watch the video of me conducting and singing Jurassic Park while you make your video. Use ear buds or headphones. There is also a screencastify below with instructions here walking you through the steps. 3) Here is the easiest way to make your recording. Just click here: https://app.screencastify.com/record/6CuXoItJ97LRnJrCimUbx and make it!  To make your video all you have to do is make a video with the device of your choice while watching the movie below. You can also  submit the video here using the "turn in" function, but screencastify submit will be easiest. For us to have a successful concert video we need lots of participation! Click here to record your video Click here for the flute conducting video Click here for the clarinet conducting video Click here for the sa...

Dear Band Students and Parents, It's May and it is time to think about our end of the year concert! This year, via distance learning, we are going to be doing a concert video in stead of an actual concert. All band students are encouraged to participate! Here is the how the concert video will work. Students should record a video of themselves playing our songs. Siblings can play in the same video! Students should watch the video of me conducting and play along with the audio file of each song while watching me conduct. This is essential because the videos must line up perfectly when I edit them together. Please put on earbuds! Please make a video of you playing Frere Jacque. Play along with this video but with earbuds in: After you've made your video, submit it on classroom. That's it! I will edit the rest. I hope this makes sense. Email with questions! Mr. A

I hope your band lessons this month are continuing well!  First , thank you SO MUCH for signing up for zoom lessons! They are going incredibly well. I have open sign up on Fridays, but I am now going to be making myself available for Zoom lessons on Tuesdays as well, from 9-1. Also, I am going to do a Jazz Band Zoom this week, Friday, at 2:30pm till 3:00pm (Thank you parents for all these incredible suggestions from our survey... you will see many of those suggestions added to this post).  Second,   students should have finished up triple meter work last week. If not, no worries! Each video is just 3 minutes long and you can watch them at any time. They are on classroom as assignments. You can start them now!  Third:    We are making a concert video!!  I am really excited about this project. However, for it to work we need a lot of people to submit videos. That's the key here. The more of you who participate, the cooler our concert video will be. He...

Dear Music Parents, Thank you all for your support of music and arts in education during this time. Please see the below open letter from Dr. Amy Bovin, President of CMEA (Connecticut Music Educators Association). If after reading you are so moved, please consider sending a brief email in support of music and art in our schools to reopen@ct.gov (which is the email address for feedback to the reopen Connecticut Advisory Group advising the governor). While athletics has a representative on the council, the arts and arts education organizations have been left off, and many of us are concerned about the future of art and music education in our schools. Thank you for your time and consideration and support. I miss working with the students in person terribly. Mr. Akter To Governor Lamont, Mr. Ojakian, and members of the Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, My name is Amy J. Bovin and I am the President of Connecticut Music Educators Association (CMEA), the state affiliate of T...

Dear Parents, When I see your awesome kids for music class, these are the songs we do! We begin in a circle on the floor and play through and sing the following songs. The students take turns picking which activity they would like to do next off of a choice board. I thought it might be fun for you and them if they sang them at home. I miss them SO much. This wonderful class is the highlight of my week. Wake Up You Lazy Bones is a fun game. One the words "wake up!" the students run in place. On the words "the cows are gone" they stop running and look around for the cows. On the words "the sun is hot" they wipe their brows." On the words "I think I'll rest" they pretend to take a nap. There is a pause and then on the words "wake up!" the leap up and repeat the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLvbKt3nyJk William He had Seven Sons is a song where the children make up motions. The melody is...

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 1 in May! This month we are going to be learning more about sixteenth notes and the songs Theme from Symphony #9 and Oates Peas Beans and Barley Grow. You should be finishing up your triple meter work this week. Triple meter video 4 is due Wednesday and Triple Meter 5 is due by next Monday. Remember, each video is just 3-5 minutes long. We are also going to be getting ready to submit some videos, one for a concert/montage, and another for our reading unit so we can see our growth. Friday's Zoom lessons were a HUGE success! I was so happy to see so many of you. You can sign up for a zoom lesson this coming Friday at the link below this post in classroom. I am not posting the link to the blog for security reasons. There is also a brief video beneath this post in classroom showing you how to sign up for a zoom lesson if you want one! Our welcome video for Monday is up there as well. Hope this helps! Mr. A