Students – READ!!! Most of the mistakes in Preparation Assessment recordings are the result of not following the instructions. 🙂 newly revised Preparation Assessment Checklist and Instructions
Playing Appointments for this week
Preparation Assessments
Check grades on veracross.
Check Preparation Assessment Checklist and Instructions that addresses many of the most common mistakes.
Students with very low grades should check both veracross and musicfirst.com for feedback and then contact Mr. Grush with questions. If parents want to see feedback on MusicFirst.com, have your student login (or username is firstinital+lastname and password is student id #)
Oct. 20 is the deadline to submit 2nd try recordings or to play in person for Mr. Grush.
Portfolios – Due Thurs. Oct. 20
Use this portfolio index and upload to your musicfirst.com account under “T1 portfolio index”.
NCAIS Honor Band
Mr. Grush and the following students will be at UNC Charlotte Oct. 10-11.
Will Snider
Amy Chang
Rishi Goswami
David White
Jay Sagrolikar
Ritvik Nalamothu
Ellie McMahon
JR Cobb
Miles Ramee
Concert Countdown
MS Band – Monday, Nov. 7 (19 rehearsals)
US Band – Wednesday, Oct. 26 5 rehearsals)
US Jazz – Wednesday, Oct. 26 (7 rehearsals)
Remind
Students can sign up to get reminders texted to them from Mr. Grush.
Simply text the following class code to 81010. You will not reveal your cell # to Mr. Grush.
(text 81010 and type as the message the code below)
MS6 Band – @ms6ba
MS7 Band – @ms7ba
US Band – @usband1
US Jazz – @usjazz
Performance Attire
Our concerts are coming up Oct. 26 (US) and Nov. 7 (MS). Please make sure you have the expected performance attire. White on top, black on bottom, black dress shoes, men- BLACK dress socks.
Practice Planning
Here are links to what each section in each class identified as needing to practice this week.
Band History
Posted this week: none
Previous posts: 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2010-11, 2005-06, 2003-04, 1997-98
Class Haiku pages
MS6 Band
MS7 Band
US Band
US Jazz