Dark Beginnings Activity

Look at your "Dark Beginnings" EXERCISES sheet. Look at exercise 1a. What is the first note? Hint: Remember to look at the key signature and check for any accidentals that would change your mind?

If you do not have a "Dark Beginnings" Exercises sheet, go to the cabinet that is by our "Conduct Yourself Well" bulletin board. On the left hand door is a list that says which instruments are on which shelves. Use that list to NEATLY find the shelf for your instrument and find the music you need. 

Look at exercise 1a. Look at measure 3. You have 1 quarter note that has a > on it. Using your band book, find where it teaches that symbol. What is it's name?

In the previous question, you learned about a new articulation for the note in measure 3 of exercise 1a. Which one of these is correct?

Look at exercise 2b. There are dots on the 8th notes in measure 3. What do they mean?

Still looking at measure 3 of exercise 2b - What are those dots on the 8th notes called?

Look at exercise 3a. True or false? The curved line in the first two measures is a slur.

Pair each item

Look at exercise 3b. In measures 1-2, how would you count that rhythm?

Look at the last measure of exercise 3a. The first note at a flat on it. We know the note that lives on that line but we've never seen it with a flat - Use your band book to find the name of this note. 

Keep looking at the last measure of Exercise 3a. Flutes and percussion should've learned that the first note is Db. Clarinets learned it is Eb. Saxes learned that it is Bb. 

This is kind of like when flutes/perc learned A vs. Ab, clarinets learned B vs Bb, and saxes learned F# vs F - We now know two types of D or E or B!

What is the fingering for your new note?

Keep looking at the last measure of Exercise 3a. The first note of it was flat. Is the last note flat?

In exercise 3a, you learned a new flat note (Db for flutes/perc, Eb for clarinet, Bb for saxophone). Scan through the rest of the page. Which other exercise uses that note?

Using Google OR your Band Book, look up what mp, mf, and f mean. Then, put them in order from loudest (1) to softest (3)

Look at Exercise 4a. Look at the 2nd to last measure. The last note as an accidental on it. For flutes it is a B natural. For clarinets it is a C#. For saxes it is a G#. What is the fingering?