HOMESCHOOL BAND
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." Johann Sebastian Bach
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Each week you challenge us with excellent questions. This week one of the Beginner band students asked, "will I eventually learn to remember the fingerings just by practicing?" The short answer is yes. Think back to when you were learning to read or add for the first time. You read many words with the vowel a until it became automatic to pronounce it correctly, the same applied to math, you did similar problems over and over until it became second nature. Your music books do the same, you repeat each note over in different combinations several times before learning a new one. This is, in fact, the definition of practice. Repetition will make it stick in your brain creating what we call muscle memory.
I suggest you practice each new piece, or line, a minimum of 5 times before moving to the next. Pause to fix errors and you will advance. Another thing Mr. Squire and I discussed is just how much practice time is needed each day. Ideally you should be practicing 30 minutes but sometimes that just isn't possible. It is, however, vital that you practice EVERY day. If that means 10 minutes; you will improve more than by not practicing at all. Remember that your instrument uses muscle and brain power that you can't exercise any other way. Challenge yourself to run through a scale or two and a piece every day. Senior Band 3 concert pieces concentrate on the Polish Carol Green book up to page 6 Intermediate Band Hunting Song Trumpets line A Flute Oboe and Violin line B Tuba, Bass Clarinet and Tenor Sax line C Use a highlighter to mark your line Blue book up to page 10 and be sure and practice #41 Chromatic capers. start slowly and see how fast you can get without any mistakes Beginner Band Up to Lightly Row Practice Long tones (holding a note as long as possible while keeping the sound nice) Practice all your pages until you can always remember the fingerings for the notes
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Angela Squire
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