ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS PROBLEM Flutes will not be able to find fingering quick enough to play 8th notes in measures 51-55.
SOLUTION Isolate their part and play passage slowly several times.
Clarinet 1 will have trouble finding fingering across break in measures 48, 49.
Play A, Bb, C, Bb, A slowly several times. All clarinets play slowly mm. 48-51.
Trumpets will miss pitches at measure 49.
Finger 48-50. Play 48-50 slowly.
F Horn will play wrong pitch at downbeat of 50.
Sing mm. 48-51. Play passage slowly.
TEACHING PROCESS 1. 2. 3.
Play through measures 45-59 twice, slowly. Listen for problems. Isolate instruments as needed to fix problems in the following order: horn, trumpets, saxophone, clarinets, flutes. Ask other instruments to figure out fingerings while you work with individual parts. Play passage.
ASSESSMENT PROCESS WHEN/WHERE WILL ASSESSMENT TAKE PLACE? Assessment will happen as the players play through the passage together and individually. It will happen in the band room #141.
HOW WILL ASSESSMENT BE DONE? Teacher observation
GRADING CRITERIA Objective TSWBAT play mm. 45-59 with correct pitch, rhythm, and finger (where applicable) at a slow tempo.
Meets Goals Student is able to play the passage with no pitch or rhythm mistakes using correct fingering.
Needs Improvement The student makes 1-5 pitch, rhythm, or fingering mistakes.
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS GRADE LEVEL/TYPE STANDARDS OBJECTIVES MATERIALS SOLUTIONS TEACHING PROCESS ASSESSMENT PROCESS GRADING CRITERIA
SAME SAME TSWBAT play a simplified arrangement of their part. SAME plus the rewritten score SAME SAME SAME SAME
Does Not Meet Goals The student makes more than 5 pitch, rhythm and fingering mistakes.
1st band lesson plan
varied repertoire of music ... Trumpets will miss pitches at measure 49. ... as needed to fix problems in the following order: horn, trumpets, saxophone, clarinets,.
