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STUDY GUIDES for MID TERM EXAMS IN BAND

January 2013 – Fort Bragg Unified School District Band Program

Mrs. Buringrud, Band Director

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Middle School Advanced Band

1. Chromatic Scale: Start with the first note in your fingering chart located in the

“Essential Elements” book and work your way through every note to the last note of the

chart. (Play the enharmonic tones only once). Play each note as an eighth note with a

beat of metronome marking no slower than quarter note = 80.

Percussion students are to do this on the bells or xylophone alternating hands. All

students are to play this “up the scale” then “down” (backwards).

2. Major Scales: Prepare one octave up and down of the following Major scales:

Concert F

Concert Ab

Concert Bb

Concert Db

Concert Eb

Concert Gb

Percussion students are to do these scales on the bells or xylophone alternating hands.

3. Practice writing in counts on music you are learning. During the exam you will

be given a selection of music for you to write the correct down beats above the

measures.

Additional MS Information: Sectional rehearsals will begin for all advanced middle school band

students during the months of January and February. Students will be highly encouraged to

attend these sectionals – especially if they are planning to participate in the CMEA Band

Festival with the HS in March. These sectionals will occur Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays

after school from 3:30 – 4:30 at the HS Band room. The first two sectionals begin this week on

Wednesday with the flutes and clarinets. A schedule of sectional rehearsals will be given out by

Friday January 11

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