The document provides an objective and steps for a 5th grade band class to review and learn articulations. It includes warming up with exercise #86, teaching staccato quarter notes by writing an example on the board and having the students play it with sizzles/fingering, then applying staccatos to a section of "Dragon Lord" for flutes, clarinets, and alto saxophones. It concludes with practicing chromatic passages in the song.
The document provides an objective and steps for a 5th grade band class to review and learn articulations. It includes warming up with exercise #86, teaching staccato quarter notes by writing an example on the board and having the students play it with sizzles/fingering, then applying staccatos to a section of "Dragon Lord" for flutes, clarinets, and alto saxophones. It concludes with practicing chromatic passages in the song.
The document provides an objective and steps for a 5th grade band class to review and learn articulations. It includes warming up with exercise #86, teaching staccato quarter notes by writing an example on the board and having the students play it with sizzles/fingering, then applying staccatos to a section of "Dragon Lord" for flutes, clarinets, and alto saxophones. It concludes with practicing chromatic passages in the song.
1. WU: #86. Play with a good full sound! Have students play it once, then sizzle/finger it. Play it once more, but remind them to use the same steady air as when we sizzled/fingered. 2. Write a measure on the board with 4 staccato quarter notes. See if anyone remembers what it means and how we do it. Sizzle/finger #86 with staccato quarter notes. Model it and play it. (draw on the board – use rectangles) 3. Repeat #2 with accents. (not today) 4. Dragon Lord, m. 45, just flutes. Applying the staccatos to a new note in the song. Practice these in Alto and Clarinet at m. 13 and 24. Also found after m. 45. Don’t be afraid to have them sizzle here too! 5. Start in m. 45. Remind them about the difference between the smooth legato slurred parts and the staccato and accented notes. Play to end. Get some reps! 6. Run it back and practice the chromatic licks at m. 29.