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Recordings of pieces that we are working on in band
Email the Dutchtown Middle Band
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This site contains information about the Dutchtown Middle
School Band Program located in Have a
great summer. I hope to see all of you in the fall. Good luck to those going
on to High School. If you are in 5th grade at
Dutchtown Primary or Spanish Lake and have signed up for band next year, we will have a meeting for you
and your parents on Tuesday, August 3rd at 6:30 PM in the DMS band
room. Till then, you can look over our
Class Syllabus
and check out the Beginning Band information page. Our Spring Concert was a success.
Please click here to hear it if you were
unable to attend or want to listen again. Sounds from our State Festival performance are on the Sounds page. We earned a superior rating at State Festival for our concert performance and an excellent rating in sightreading. Congratulations to all that participated in this event. I have done up a little tutorial on how to get and use Audacity for recording tests on your computer. I hope you find it useful. Click here to read. You can use this program to record sound and save as .mp3 files to send via email. Email list: Please complete and turn in the back page of the band handbook. I need your email to compile an email list. I will email important band notifications to those that are on the list. You may email me at Richard.bresowar@apsb.org to get on the list. If you are a 7th grader in Symphonic band, or an 8th grader playing in Symphonic Band for the first time, you will need the formal concert band uniform which is white pants, white shoes, white socks, and our purple band shirt. If you have a waist size above 26” we have white pants in stock in the band room and these are for sale for $25.00. White shoes can be tennis shoes and are available at any shoe or department store. Band shirts are $10.00 if you don’t still have the one from 6th grade band. If you are smaller than 26” waist, please try to find some white pants. White work pants or Dickies are acceptable. Pants must be full length and not cargo style. Sometimes you can find these at uniform shops. Quote of the Week “The musician is constantly adjusting
decisions on tempo, tone, style, rhythm, phrasing, and feeling--training the
brain to become incredibly good at organizing and conducting numerous
activities at once. Dedicated practice of this orchestration can have a great
payoff for lifelong attentional skills, intelligence, and an ability for
self-knowledge and expression.” — Ratey
John J., MD. A User’s Guide to the Brain. Practice charts are due on Mondays for all band members. This is part of the band grade. If you have lost your practice chart, you may go to the Band Forms page and print as many as you like. This page also has many other useful forms that you may need for band. Please
click here if you are interested in information on the Dutchtown High School Band Why Learn Music? Interested in some good reasons why we do what we do? Click here.
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