MHHS Bands

Here is our plan today! Today we are going to be seeing our conducting video and practicing together playing Ain't Misbehavin so we can successfully submit online today. 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Conducting videos! I will show you how they work and present them so you can use them.  5) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  6) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 7) Today we will review the entire m...

Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 6) Today we will review the entire major scale. 7) Review Tonic Patterns and Dominant patterns on the instrument. 8)  We are going to try creating our own tonic and dominant patters today using our instrument. Each person needs to create patterns. We will go around the Zoom m...

Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 6) Today we will review the entire major scale. 7) Review Tonic Patterns and Dominant patterns on the instrument. 8)  We are going to try creating our own tonic and dominant patters today using our instrument. E...

Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play Ain't Misbehavin. It doesn't matter how "good" it is! Today is the day for leaning the "bridge" to Ain't Misbehanin and hopefully having the full song down.  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" over zoom where we echo sing tonic, dominant, and subdominant patterns (5 minutes) 6) Let's review the major scale too! We can approach improvising vertically (with chords) or horizon...

Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play Ain't Misbehavin. It doesn't matter how "good" it is! We're still just learning. But we'll go around the room and everyone will get a chance to play and get some feedback.  (around 20 minutes or so) 5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" over zoom where we echo sing tonic, dominant, and subdominant patterns (5 minutes) 6) Review Tonic Patterns. 7)  We are going to try creating our own d...

Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 8th! One of the amazing things about the internet is that it has so many wonderful things to offer. It has bad things too, so we need to be careful about what we are reading online. But there is so much great stuff! On Monday I introduced you to "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong, two of the greatest musicians in our country's history. We began learning the song Ain't Misbehavin. Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms and brief review of Monday. 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play what they have so fa...

Welcome to our first Summer Band Session! Our focus this summer is African American Music and Improvisation in a Concert Band! We are starting with a song that is new to us, written by a great American composer who lived not far from us, in New York City. His name was "Fats" Waller, and the song we are going to be starting with is Ain't Misbehavin! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? What's one fun thing you have done or are planning to do this summer? (10-15 minutes) 2) Norms for summer band (real names on the screen only, be kind, take turns, try to come to band prepared). Each of us will get a chance to propose one norm and discuss it. 3) Mr. A will talk briefly about Black American Music and why it is so important and central to American culture. We'll learn a little about New Orleans and New York City and the role of these cities in the development o...

Dear Band Parents and Students, Thank you SO much for signing up for summer band enrichment. We had enough interest to offer our band program this summer and I am excited and busy planning what I hope will be a fun experience playing some GREAT music. Our Google Classroom page has been set up and you have been invited! You can just log into classroom to see the link. Our first meeting will be tomorrow at 10AM. Inside that classroom will be reminders and links to the zooms. These also be emailed to you ahead of each meeting. Parents, you can sign up for the summer band remind list if you want to get text reminders about summer band here:  https://www.remind.com/ join/39d6hg Also I wanted to remind you that summer band runs from July 6-Aug7. Thank you, again, for signing up and I am looking forward to July! Mr. A