2024/2025 Beginning Band

Get Started. It's Free
or sign up with your email address
2024/2025 Beginning Band by Mind Map: 2024/2025 Beginning Band

1. Quarter 3

1.1. Unit 7: Time to Go Low

1.1.1. Next notes (low G, low A)

1.1.2. Time Signatures (2/4, 3/4, 2/2)

1.1.3. Concert G Minor Scale, Concert G Minor Pentatonic Scale

1.1.4. Second compositions

1.2. Unit 8: Hold on

1.2.1. Developing Long Tones

1.2.2. Small Group Playing

1.3. Unit 9: Third Concert in Harmony

1.3.1. Basic Harmonic Analysis

1.3.2. Third Concert

2. Quarter 4

2.1. Unit 10: Last Notes

2.1.1. New Notes (C', A Flat, E Natural)

2.1.2. Key Signatures Revisited

2.1.3. Solo Playing

2.2. Unit 11: Advanced Rhythms

2.2.1. Sixteenth Notes, Syncopation

2.2.2. Triple Meter (6/8, 9/8, 12/8)

2.3. Unit 12: Transition to Mentor

2.3.1. Basic Conducting Skills

2.3.2. Finding a Friend

2.3.3. Fourth Concert

3. Quarter 1

3.1. Unit 1: Intro and Basics

3.1.1. Instrument assembly, care

3.1.2. Embouchure and basic tones

3.1.3. First 3 notes (Bb, C, D)

3.1.4. Ensemble skills and norms

3.1.5. Rote rhythmic echoes

3.2. Unit 2: Rhythmic Foundations

3.2.1. Basic Rhythm Reading/Composition

3.2.2. Unison ensemble playing

3.2.3. Next 2 Notes (Eb, F)

3.3. Unit 3: First Performance

3.3.1. Basic Staff Reading

3.3.2. Tutti Section Playing

3.3.3. Performance ettiquette for first concert

3.3.4. 6th Note (G)

4. Quarter 2

4.1. Unit 4: Moving in Harmony

4.1.1. First Compositions

4.1.2. Playing in harmony

4.1.3. Half Notes, Whole Notes, Eighth Notes

4.2. Unit 5: Study in Contrasts

4.2.1. Dynamics (piano to forte)

4.2.2. Basic Articulations (stacatto and legato)

4.2.3. Last two notes (A, Bb')

4.3. Unit 6: Scales and 2nd Performance

4.3.1. Concert Bb Major scale

4.3.2. Concert Bb Pentatonic scale

4.3.3. Second Concert