Warm up

On Monday March 19th I did my teaching episode on “Warming up the Band”. First the activity that the band did was talk about spring break. Then Kelly Berdahl introduced myself as well as Karen. I went up to the podium and had the students start with a Bb Concert scale. Next, I had the student break into a round low voices were group one, group two was the alto voices of the band, and finally the soprano instruments. I told the band “lets do a Bb concert scale in quarter notes”... I confused them. I wanted them to do four quarter notes on one-note, they however, took it as each note geta a one quarter. I replied back at them, “Ha, I tricked you, I wanted to see if you were paying attention.” they laughed and then we played the scale the way that I originally wanted too. I attempted “POP” a warm up that make the band keep a steady pulse to all come in. Once I was finished Mr. Berdahl took the band back and they worked on Harry Potter.