5th Grade Band
- Listen and view all the different instruments!
- Essential Elements Interactive - Play along with background tracks and make recordings to send to Mr. Boenzi! (How to Register)
- 1st Five Notes Flashcards - Print out flash cards for your student to help learn the first 5 notes in band!
- Note Reading Games
- Mad Minute - 1st 5 Notes
- 5 Note Challenge Sheet Music
- Recordings
- Recordings of each exercise from EE2k Book can be found through the Essential Elements Interactive website listed above
- Care & Maintenance guides for all instruments!
Students should bring their instruments only on days they have band.
Mondays/Wednesdays:
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, & Bassoon
Tuesdays/Fridays:
Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, & Percussion
Materials:
Pencil (to be left in case/folder)
Instrument & Accessories (reeds, valve oil, etc.)
Music Folder
- 5 Note Challenge
- Essential Elements 2000 band book
Practice Expectations (Homework)
Students need to practice 20 minutes, 5 days a week. That is their homework. They should practice the numbers in the book we are working on in class.
Steps to practice 5th Grade
Please ensure that your student has a regular place to practice every day. Same time, same place, no distractions. Consistency is the key to success--not only with music, but with all subjects. Some students have expressed that they aren't allowed to practice at home becuase someone is sleeping, there is a younger sibling who is napping, etc. Please help your student brainstorm times when they can practice. Maybe they can practice outside (I sure had to when I was little.)
Concert Dress
At all end of quarter concerts, students need to wear semi-formal clothes that consist of:
Mondays/Wednesdays:
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, & Bassoon
Tuesdays/Fridays:
Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, & Percussion
Materials:
Pencil (to be left in case/folder)
Instrument & Accessories (reeds, valve oil, etc.)
Music Folder
- 5 Note Challenge
- Essential Elements 2000 band book
Practice Expectations (Homework)
Students need to practice 20 minutes, 5 days a week. That is their homework. They should practice the numbers in the book we are working on in class.
Steps to practice 5th Grade
Please ensure that your student has a regular place to practice every day. Same time, same place, no distractions. Consistency is the key to success--not only with music, but with all subjects. Some students have expressed that they aren't allowed to practice at home becuase someone is sleeping, there is a younger sibling who is napping, etc. Please help your student brainstorm times when they can practice. Maybe they can practice outside (I sure had to when I was little.)
- Warm-Up (5 minutes)
- Brass should Buzz on their mouthpiece
- Everyone should play through the 5 Note Challenge striving to play without any mistakes and so that notes receive full value (no gaps in the sound.) 2 times is ideal.
- Play (5 minutes) 1 or 2 tunes that we are working on that they are good at.
- Practice (10-15 min) the tunes that you need to get better at.
- Say the note
- Finger the note
- Play the note 2-3 times
- Repeat steps 1-3 for next note and the remaining notes in the bar
- Put the entire measure together and play 3-5 times
- Repeat steps 1-5 for the next measure
- Put measures together and play 3-5 times
- Repeat 1-7 to end of the song
- Play (5 minutes) 1-2 tunes that are your favorite.
Concert Dress
At all end of quarter concerts, students need to wear semi-formal clothes that consist of:
- Black Shoes
- Black slacks
- White button-down collared shirt (A tie is acceptable: Black, Gold, Red, Music-themed, and bow)
- All-Black Dresses are acceptable ONLY if the hem falls below (like 3-5 inches) the knee when seated
- Suit/Tux jackets are acceptable too. Must be black.
How To Videos
Flute
- Opening the Case & Naming the Parts
- Assembly: How to Put the Flute Together
- BandFlix - How to Make Sound / Dr. Selfridge - How to Make a Sound! (embouchure, band face, head joint)
- BandFlix - How to hold the Flute / Dr. Selfridge - How to Hold the Flute
- How to play F on the flute
- Flute Maintenance - How to clean and
- Reeds
- Opening the Case, Naming the Parts
- How to Assemble Mouthpiece, Reed, and Barrel
- How to Put the Clarinet Together
- How to Hold the Clarinet (Playing Position)
- How to play C D & E on the Clarinet
- How to play C D E F & G on the Clarinet
- Reeds
- Opening the Case, Naming the Parts
- How to Assemble Mouthpiece, Reed, and Neck
- How to Put the Sax Together
- How to Hold the Saxophone (Playing Position)
- Notes
- Opening the Case
- The Parts of the Trumpet
- First sounds
- C & G
- Learning the Valves
- Tonguing
- The first 5 notes
- Help! My Trumpet Isn't Working! (Or sounds weird...)
- How to Oil Your Valves
- Assembly, Disassembly, & How to Hold
- First Sounds
- Learning the Slide
- Bb & F
- Tonguing
- Tonguing & Sliding
- First Five Notes (F, E-flat, D, C, B-flat)
- What a B-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a C sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a D sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a E-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a F sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- How to Play B-flat
- How to Play C
- How to Play D
- How to Play E-flat
- How to Play F
- Play along
- What a B-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a C sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a D sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a E-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a F sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a B-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a C sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a D sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a E-Flat sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!
- What a F sounds like. Try to match your note to this sound!