Class, August 18, 2010

Today in class we played our instruments. Mr. Tomassi gave us new music for us ti play in the Welcome Back BBQ, such as the Saxophone Rag and Animaniacs. He also gave us a chromatic scale warm up, a chorale warm up, and rythm studies for band, which is a series of songs, of different styles of music, where the time signature changes a lot. In this class we also worked on the first pages of the book, because we just got the new book, and we went through pages 1,2,3 and our homework was to review all of the exercises and some of the following pages. This class, was not very different from the ones last year, where we unpacked, set up, played the warm ups, some exercises in the book, and then review the songs for the concert. I hope that we can play Saxophone Rag next class, because we really have to practice it, because most people say that it is a very hard piece of music, when it really inst.