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Online MetronomeNotes from Mr. C – LMS Bands – March 9 – March 12
Hello LMS Band parents/students:
Items to note this week, March 9 – March 12:
Practice slips are due March 9 for all band students! Here is the link to print the practice slip – http://www.band.lmsmusic.org/practice-slip
Please encourage your child to be responsible for coming to you to get the slip signed, not the other way around! 100 minutes per week is required! Your child can always retrieve a practice slip from our website as well as in the band and choir rooms.
Please take a look at these instrument cleaning guidelines and help your child stay healthy!
https://dev-lms-band.audibleim.com/bands/instrument-care/
6th Grade Band – Students will continue learning new music this week.
The focus page for this week is – page 24 (again)
The test this week is #87 on page 24.The vocabulary quiz on Friday is over Divisi – Fermata
https://dev-lms-band.audibleim.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/music-vocab-Sheet-1.pdf
Please read through this with your child as well –http://lmsmusic.org/practiceslip/How%20To%20Practice%20Properly.pdf
7th and 8th grade bands – students should be practicing skills in the circle of fourths – Bb Eb Ab Db/C# Gb/C# Cb/B E A D G C F, chorals and Junior All-State page
7th – New music this week, Modal Air and March, Prelude and Energico, Calypso Kid, Affirmation, Drums of Daruma, Harry Potter
8th – New music this week. Also, The Witch and the Saint, Covington Square, Crystal Medallion Overture, Drums of Daruma, Eternal Persuit
The test for this week is the rhythm page last two B lines.
The vocabulary quiz on Friday is over Divisi – Fermata
https://dev-lms-band.audibleim.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/music-vocab-Sheet-1.pdf
Lincoln Middle School
6th Grade Jazz Band to Start!
The Lincoln Middle School 6th grade Jazz Band will start
rehearsals on Monday, March 9th, in the LMS band room.
This band will meet every Monday and Wednesday from
7:30am – 8:15am.
On Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:30am, the 6th grade band
students will need to be set up in the band room ready to start
rehearsal. Every instrumentalist that is in the 6th grade
Concert Band is welcome in the 6th grade Jazz Band.
Percussionists will each be required to have a set of brushes,
preferably the Jeff Hamilton model, in order to participate.
These can be purchased at Atom Heart Music or Keeney Brothers
Music or www.amazon.com. Please make sure they are the
Jeff Hamilton model. If the music stores don’t carry them,
purchase online. The class is set up to demonstrate to
students how to play in the Jazz style and expose them to the
history of Jazz as well.
Students may add one rehearsal time per week to their practice sheet.
7th and 8th grade Jazz band:
The students should be practicing Phat Kat, Second Line, Alright, Okay, You Win, Latin Lesson, Moon Dance, Do Nothin’ ’till You Hear From Me
New music Tuesday!
Here is the link to our calendar of events 2019-2020 – I apologize for all of the incorrect dates on the first calendar. – https://band.lmsmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/lms-bands-dates-for-19-20-1.pdf
Upcoming events:
March 17 –7th/8th Concert Bands will perform for the SEWMEA Large Group Festival (TBA, Palouse, WA) – Black and White Concert Attire – Community Welcome
March 31 –6th Concert Band, 7th/8th Jazz Band will perform for the annual March Concert (7:30pm – LMS Commons) – Black and White Concert Attire – Community Welcome
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Follow us! Keep up to date on what’s happening with the LMS Bands – Facebook and Twitter are mainly tools for parents to use to keep up with us while on the go! We’ve done it – we have over 100 likes on Facebook. Please let people know about our page for information pertaining to the program and let’s try to get to 200 likes.
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Thank you for all of your support of the LMS Bands this year!
Mr. Covill
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Why Should I Practice?
Because when you have the courage to get your instrument, assemble it, and go, you are cultivating the emotional skills of the “can do” person.
- Because when you learn to encounter each challenge you face in your music with a nonjudgmental, gentle willingness to try again, you learn how to strive in a positive way.
- Because the awareness that you cultivate when playing your instrument keeps you connected to your body, emotions, and thought processes, which is an awareness that — if cultivated — can lead to great understanding of one’s self. This process can be painful. However, that pain does not compare to the pain of reaching the end of your life, only to realize that you never really understood yourself, that you never really lived authentically.
- Because in music there is a great capacity to cultivate self-love and discipline, a powerful combination. Through our instrument we are teaching ourselves to love ourselves, and this is hard work, but worth it.
- Because all that you learn when learning an instrument, if you are really paying attention, also teaches you how to be a better human being, how to appreciate and live life fully. So, even if you quit playing some day, you are still all the richer for your experience.
- Because when you make yourself vulnerable enough to perform for other people, you expand your ability to feel the full range of human emotion, you learn what it really means to be alive as a human being.
- Because when you share music with others, you remind them that there is something untouchable, ungraspable about being alive, that there are forces beyond our capacity to comprehend, and getting a glimpse of that mystery is a beautiful thing.