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Symphonic Band

YOU TUBE - Listening project – Jerome HS Symphonic Band
Our goal is to improve our tone quality on our own instruments. In order to have an idea what we want to sound like, we need to have some idea what the best performers who play our instruments sound like. There’s a host of starting point videos listed for you to look up on “YouTube”, assuming you have access to streaming Internet video capability. (If not, we’ll have to find you some CD listening samples, plus the ones we’ll play in class.)
You are to look up several different samples of playing of your instrument – you can start with the samples I’ve provided, or you can simply start with the phrase “clarinet solo” in the site’s search engine and go from there. From there, listen to several samples of great playing; write down a brief journal entry for each describing what you’re hearing and what you think you might be able to take from watching the performance to improve your own sound; and then take that information into the practice room and experiment with your playing. This will take TIME and PERSISTENCE. In reality, this is the beginning of a long road, a project that should take you through your practicing over the summer until we meet again in August. In terms of a grade, we’ll need to finish the paperwork portion of this project in May.
You can use the paper version of this to write on and turn in, but if you find it easier to access the web pages, fill in your entries electronically and then email it to me, please do so by going to the ‘JHS BAND’ web link on the bottom of the Jerome School District home page, clicking on “Symphonic Band” and accessing this assignment there. (It’s easier to access the websites by clicking on the addresses as hyperlinks via the band webpage, too.) Send it using my school address of gordon.smith@jeromeschools.org or hand in the hard copy NO LATER THAN Friday, FEBRUARY 10thth! You’ll need to look at sites within the next week to have time to do the practice elements of the assignment by the 20th – plan to have done your initial You Tube viewings in the next SEVEN days (by Dec 9).
Attached are some samples for each instrument, plus some general band samples as well. You’re not restricted to these, but they’ll each work as starting points, and then see what else comes up as suggestions from “YouTube” for other possibilities.

Here are the steps, laid out sequentially:

1.       Listen to as many different sample of good playing on your instrument as you can – find at least three but FIVE is better. Again, do this as soon as practical, best in the next seven days. Write in the spaces provided for each listening entry:
a.      WHO and WHAT you listened to (You Tube title, who played…) WHEN.
b.      WHAT did you THINK of what you heard and saw?
c.       WHAT can you USE from the performance that will help you play better?
2.      If you have absolutely no access to streaming internet, you’ll need to combine what we play for you in class and individual CD or MP3 listening – Mr. Smith has some overnight loaner CD’s but you need to probably find some yourself as well.
3.      NEXT – take what you learned from your listening and apply it to your practice.
a.      For the next five practices outside of class, make a point of applying what you want to take from your viewing to your own playing. Choose specific goals for each practice, and choose sections of your music that are conducive to what you’re working on – longer notes when you want to control tone, specifically.
b.      Monitor your progress. How can you tell if you’re improving or not? (Here are some suggestions – have a friend listen to you, record your playing, compare yourself to that original recording you listened to for similarities…)
4.      Each practice needs to have a log entry as well:
a.      WHEN did you practice? (date, time, and length)
b.      WHAT did you practice? (not just the song but the section, and what were you trying to accomplish with your practice in terms of your tone improvement?)
c.       HOW SUCCESSFUL were you? (This may not be immediately obvious – it will take some time to change old habits! Always figure it takes as long to BREAK a habit as it did to MAKE it. SO, if you’ve played for three years…)
5.      FINALLY – turn in the page attached with your listening entries AND your practice entries. As described earlier, you can do this on paper in the turn in box in class OR go to the band website and send me an electronic version:
a.      District web page (www.jeromeschools.org) scroll to “JHS Band” at bottom & click.
b.      Go to the Symphonic Band page (it’s the 5th page listed on the left side) & click.
c.       Copy and paste the entire page for the entire assignment, or just the part you need to turn in if you prefer. The You Tube pages are all hyperlinked that way as well, so that’s the easiest way to access the material, also.
6.      DEADLINE
a.      All students need to have the assignment to Mr. Smith by midnight on Friday, February 10th.
7.      GRADING
a.      This is going to be about 8% of your total class grade this term, so for most of you it’s the difference between a earning a letter and falling to the one below it. (A to B, C to D, etc.) It falls entirely under performance standard III in our curriculum.
FLUTES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJ03vm8FJk >>> 2 people on one flute – Bach Badineri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLu-V3yAho4&NR=1 >>> 500 flutes playing Bach Minuet
OBOE and ENGLISH HORN:
CLARINETS:
BASS CLARINETS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcDmtm0lm4 >>> Carmen Fantasy on bass clarinet
SAXOHONES:
BASSOON:
TRUMPETS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-1jGWow6zo >>> Sandoval/Roditi, A Night In Tunisia
F HORNS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppz-j5aDROo >>> Nocturno – Steve Park
 
TROMBONES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jytSFpm_D1g >>> Flight Of The Bumblebee
BARITONE HORNS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=638RTGkAcjo >>> Rule Brittania with the Euph. Institute
TUBAS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndCcKNTOC7I >>> Oystien playing Czardas
VIOLINS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvDQw80SVU >>> Joshua Bell – Casta Diva
SNARE DRUM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1WKmoUrDiQ >>> Ivan Pacheco, Blue Devils
MULTIPLE MARCHING PERCUSSION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=186Fdc59tWY >>> “Blast!” battle scene
MALLET PERCUSSION:
FULL SYMPHONIC BANDS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw >>> Bolero, featuring wide range of inst’s.


 
NAME: ___________________________   GRADE: ____________
Listening Log:
a.      WHO and WHAT you listened to (You Tube title, who played…) WHEN.
b.      WHAT did you THINK of what you heard and saw?
c.       WHAT can you USE from the performance that will help you play better?
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Practice Log
a.      WHEN did you practice? (date, time, and length)
b.      WHAT did you practice? (not just the song but the section, and what were you trying to accomplish with your practice in terms of your tone improvement?)
c.       HOW SUCCESSFUL were you? Details as best you can describe them…
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