19-26 Mel Morses

(C19) When should you start sight reading tunes for the Spring semester?

When Marching band ends

(C19) What is a way to rehearse difficult sections that benefits all student?

Write it out for everyone

(C19) Why is recording so important?

To hear mistake over and over again

(C19) What ways are you expected to edit a march?

1. Do something on everything

2. Do something on every repeat

3. Remove section or add rhythmic/ melody

(C19) What things should be done or pass off in sectionals?

1. Scales

2. Exercises

3. Tuning

4. Sight Reading

(C19) How should you chop up the thunes over a 8 week sectional Program?

Sectional 1 Scale first half of march

Sectional 2 Scale second half of march

Sectional 3 First half of ballad

Sectional 4 Second half of ballad

Sectional 5 1/3 of Overture

Sectional 6 2/3 of Overture

Sectional 7 3/3 of Overture

Sectional 8 Fine tuning

(C19) What are 3 benefits of letting students clep out of sectionals?

Rewards the students

Lower the number of students to listen to

Allows to help the ones in need

(C20) What are 3 things you can do to improve your sight reading plan before going into the sight reatding room?

1. Ear Training

2. Work on Minor Scales

3. Have a sight reading process

(C20) What are 5 things that can derail a band in the sight reading room?

1. Key sig

2. Time sig

3. Rhythm

4. Notes

5. Map

(C20) Why is ear training an important part of the sight reading process?

It will show them why there might be accidental and explain why it sounds different

(C20) How does playing minor scales help with ear training?

It opens up to all the sound in the key

(C20) What are 3 parts of the piece you should hit before trying to read it straight through?

1. First 8 measures

2. Transitions

3. Last 8 measures

(C20) How can you help your students with balance and blend in the sight reading room?

Moving your best players around

(C20) Why is "response to director" so important?

That's the whole game

It is the process and execution

(C21) What are 5 things to look for in the score?

1. Key changes or unfamiliar key

2. Difficult rhythm patterns

3. Difficult fingerings/ Alternate keys

4. Difficult conducting pattern

5. Spot the band will shut down

(C21) What is a good practice if you know you are going to have some difficult rhythm in the song you are going to read?

Put difficult rhythms as rhythm of the day

(C21) What 3 groups should you break the score down into?

1. Melodic

2. Rhythm

3. Same parts

(C21) In the moldic group, what 3 things can be problematic?

1. Facility

2. Pitch tendency

3. Range

(C21) What 3 things should I ask other sections to do when I work with another section?

1. Sing and finger

2. mark their music

3. Number their measure

(C21) How can I implement this in practice?

Everybody play; section play; everyone play; group play; everyone play; Indivdual play

(C21) What is an order I can use to rehearse the band?

1. Characteristic Sounds

2. Rough Note Right time

3. Blend/ Balance

4. Articulation

5. Dynamic

(C22) What are your 3 jobs in marching band?

Visual, Music, motivation

(C22) What are 5 things that can impact your band’s marching sound?

1. Fundamentals

2. Drill move and staging

3. Horn angles

4. Positive

5. Sliding

(C22) What is an exercise you can do when you hear feet in the sound of your marching band?

Tracking (Music and Drill are too hard)

(C22) What are 4 ways “tracking” can help your band?

1. Lower demand

2. Smoothing feet and sound

3. Add confident

4. Allow to see the main problem

(C22) When should music to drill be difficult?

On purpose

(C22) What should you do when breaking down video tape of your band and what are you looking for when you do it?

Watch without sound to see visual problem

(C22) What can you do to fix visual effect?

Can you lessen the demand

(C22) What can you do to fix musical issue?

Can I water down the parts?

Can 1 or 2 play it?

Could I turn into a solo?

(C23) Rhythm

if it is the right note played at the wrong time it is still a wrong note

(C23) Right note at the right time

The base of music

(C23) Balance and blend

Which instrument voice do you want to hear most or least

(C23) Articulation

Are they articulating the note the same

(C23) Intonation

Understanding pit tendencies

(C23) Dynamics

Is the balance being affected by one person or section doing too much or too little

(C23) Musciality

Are we coming in together, releasing together

(C23) When breaking down your recording, what should your notes include?

1. Measure #

2. who

3. issue

4. fix

5. priority

6. Section/ensemble

(C24) What does IEP stand for?

Independent Learning Plan

(C24) What is an IEP?

Individual set of rules

(C24) What are 3 questions you can ask an inclusion teacher when talking about adding a special needs student to the class?

1. Have they been in band before?

2. How fuctional is the student and can they handle a full class?

3. Do they have an instrument and does it work?

4. Do they play and can make standard sound or is it just noise?

(C24)What are 4 major Uniform companies?

1. Stanberry

2. Demolan

3. The bandhall (Nashville)

4. Bandshoppe

(C24) What is something that can make a uniform design a sole source item?

Zipper length

(C24) What is the difference between being a good band director and a good employee?

Band things vs Administrative things

(C24) What are 3-5 examples of administrative things you will need to take care of?

(C25) What do I want you to think about before you start to budget?

NEEDS
WANTS
WISH

(C25) What are 3 examples of budgets you will have to keep up with?

1. Student money goes into student things

2. Funded by school district

3. Funded by booster

(C25) What are 5 sub accounts in the district budget?

1. Travel

2. Supplies

3. Non-taggable

4. taggable

5. Professional Instruction

(C25) Give 10 examples of things that are going to come out of your budget?

1. Buses

2. school owned equipment

3. repairs

4. contest fees

5. Regional clinic fees

6. State clinic fees

7. student dues

8. Professional dues

9. Equipment truck

10. Music marching and contest

(C25) 3 things an itinerary should include

1. time

2. place with address

3. things parents need to know

(C26) What final degree will you need to teach an academic discipline?

PhD

(C26) What degrees will you need to be a college band director?

PhD or DMA

(C26) What is the difference between a PhD and DMA?

PhD - researched based

DMA - Performance based

(C26) What is the biggest difference between being a college band director and a high school director?

Dealing with parents

(C26) What is a major issue at the university level?

Politics - Keeping many people happy

(C26) What are the 7 groups involved in college politics?

1. Students

2. Chair of department

3. College dean

4. Provost

5. Chancellor

6. Athletics

7. Alumni

(C26) What is a large peak of being a college director?

Flexible Schedule

(C26) What classes would fit under the Academics disciplines?

Musicology

Theory

Music Education