Symphonic Band Update
Below is important information about the week to come!
Percussion concert tomorrow!
Percussion students will meet in the percussion room at 6:30 for a final talk through of the concert.
The concert should conclude around 8:15 and all students are asked to stay and support the other percussionists as well as move the equipment back at the end of the concert.
Monday, Mar 25, 2019, 07:00 PM
Argyle High School, U.S. 377, Argyle, TX, USA
Practice reports are due tomorrow!
Music Pass-offs this week
Wind players only:
There will not be recording assignments this week. In place of it, we will be doing pass-offs of our competition music this week. This will be a major grade.
ALL MUSIC must be FULLY passed off by March 29th, THIS FRIDAY!
Please tell your students to log into google classroom, read the instructions on the pass-off assignment, and sign up for one time this week!
For Pass-offs, your students will come into my office and meet with me one on one to play a short portion of their competition music. If it's played really well, I'll mark it off on our pass-off chart. If not, I'll help them through it and we'll talk about how to practice it, so it'll be like a short private lesson.
Students are free to come in during Flex time to play for another director IF another director is free, but everyone needs to sign up for one appointment for this week and one for next week. There are plenty of Flex time spots open, and there are slots open before school on Monday/Friday and after school on Monday for this week.
Sectionals this week
No more percussion sectionals until after UIL. We will resume percussion sectionals in about 2 weeks.
Marching Band show reveal and 8th grade parent meeting this week
A message from our booster club!
Due to Spring Break starting on our regular board meeting date, we have moved the band booster meeting to Monday, March 4 at 7:30 in the High School band hall.
We have several events happening this spring. Please attend this meeting to learn about how you can help the band.
For more information, please contact,
Janet Atkins 469-438-1068 cell
Or concessions@argylebandboosters.com
Practice reports
Percussion parents, please disregard.
Practice Reports are due with a parent signature the first school day of every week. Your students will earn a grade based on the amount of minutes they practice throughout the course of the week. The rubric is below:
0 - No practice report turned in OR 0 minutes on practice report
70 - 1 to 29 minutes practiced
80 - 30 - 59minutes practiced
90 - 60 - 119 minutes practiced
100 - 120 minutes or more
PLEASE DO NOT SCHEDULE ANY MAJOR DENTAL/ORTHODONTIC PROCEDURES UNTIL AFTER MAY 20TH
If you take a look at our competition schedule, you'll notice just how busy it is, with a major event every 2-3 weeks.
Now that our competitive season has started, it’s important that all band students stay in playing shape for the entire semester. Please do not schedule your students to get braces or have any major procedures done until the end of the semester. These can take your students out of playing shape for several weeks sometimes as they learn to adjust the way they play and get used to the braces. The best time to do this is over the summer!
It’s also important to make sure you don’t have braces tightened within a few days of a performance as that will affect your students pretty dramatically as well.
THANK YOU TO OUR BAND SPONSORS!
Bojan Gutic
Argyle Middle School
Email: bgutic@argyleisd.com
Website: www.argyleband.org
Location: Argyle Middle School, Canyon Falls Drive, Roanoke, TX, USA
Phone: 940-246-2126 3104
Facebook: facebook.com/argylemsband
Twitter: @argylemsband