This week we took the Selmer Music Guidance Survey to get a baseline level for musical aptitude. Members took a quiz on the parts of their instruments and maintenance procedures. We will be using that information later to check on the progress of our members. We have been focusing on pages 7 and 8 in the book. We've reviewed half notes, have done some echoing (teacher plays, students mimic), and learned about quarter notes.

Next week we will be having a playing test on #12 Cuckoo on Thursday.
The marching band will have a community performance of this year's show on Saturday, September 20th at 11:00am at the OVHS Football stadium. Come a check it out before the Apple Butter parade!

Quarter One Week Two

This week we continued to work on learning the parts of our instrument. We also started to discuss maintaining our instrument using oils and greases. Everyone has a list of supplies that they should obtain for taking care of their instrument. We made sounds on mouthpieces to reinforce good tone and learned how to put together and hold our instruments. Finally we started to learn our first few notes. I've told the students that if they have their paper work in, that they will be able to take their instruments home for the first time on Friday, August 29th!

Quarter One Week One

Welcome to the Owen Valley Band. This week we passed out information about our program, discussed classroom expectations, and assigned instruments and storage lockers. Musically, we discussed the parts of our instrument and learned about rhythms.