Band 3: MU.912.S.3.4
Big Idea: Skills, Techniques, and Processes
☆ Categorized as Essential (E)
☆ To be evaluated by Responding Items (R)
- Understanding: Through purposeful practice, artists learn to manage, master, and refine simple, then complex, skills and techniques.
- Benchmark: Analyze and describe the effect of rehearsal sessions and/or strategies on refinement of skills and techniques.
Students will be able to:
- recognize and display personal preparation for rehearsals including necessary equipment and music preparation
- practice strategies (e.g., technical exercises, flexibility exercises, long tones)
- assignments
- recognize the roles of section leaders, section players, and the director within the ensemble
- roles of the director and sections of the band
- critique the effectiveness of a given rehearsal and identify specific improvements
- strategies for assessing tone, correct pitch and rhythms, balance, blend, articulation, and expression
- target areas that need improvement; develop and implement a rehearsal plan for advancement
- components of an effective practice plan (e.g. goal oriented objectives, specified practice time, tone and skill builders)
- apply large group rehearsal strategies to small group/sectional settings
- components of an ensemble rehearsal (e.g. differentiated instruction, time management, rehearsal etiquette, warm up routine)
- differentiate between effective and ineffective rehearsal techniques
Students will know:
- practice strategies (e.g., technical exercises, flexibility exercises, long tones)
- assignments
- roles of the director and sections of the band
- strategies for assessing tone, correct pitch and rhythms, balance, blend, articulation, and expression
- components of an effective practice plan (e.g. goal oriented objectives, specified practice time, tone and skill builders)
- components of an ensemble rehearsal (e.g. differentiated instruction, time management, rehearsal etiquette, warm up routine)