LLMS Band Weekly Newsletter

January 27 LLMS Band Ensemble Contest

• Schedule & parent letter are attached below

January 29 Vertical Raise Fundraiser Ends

January 30 Mrs. Royall here for Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble

February 24 Non Varsity Pre-UIL

February 26 Mrs. Royall here for Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble

We would like to congratulate all of our students who auditioned for Beginner Select Band. Preparing for an audition takes commitment, perseverance, and support from home, and we truly appreciate the encouragement families provide throughout this process. We are especially proud of the students who earned a spot in the Beginner Select Band, as this reflects their hard work and growing musicianship. We are grateful for our families’ continued support and look forward to watching these students continue to develop confidence, discipline, and a love of music through band.

Please share this to help us reach our goal of $10,000! We are currently right around $2,300.

This fundraiser is to help keep the cost of our spring trips down! The more we raise now, the less the trip will cost in the future. This also helps us to be able to do things like purchase new instruments, equipment, and hire clinicians/masterclass teachers.

Practice Records are due every Thursday! This week, Practice Record 3-3 needs to be turned into the purple tray.

It is 20 points off your participation grade each day you don't have your band binder or instrument! You must bring your instrument & band binder home AND back to school every day.

Flute: Concert Eb Major Scale, Rainbow Bridge of Happiness, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal. Click here to purchase the Essential Elements book for Flute

Oboe & Bassoon: Pitch matching exercises w/ tuner, Ab Major Lines 1&3, Concert Ab Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal.

Clarinet: No More Dying Chickens, Register Slurs - NEW!, Concert Bb/C Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal. Click here to purchase the Essential Elements book for Bb Clarinet

Saxophone: Saxophone Daily Warm Up (Ascending & Descending), Concert Eb/C Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal. Click here to purchase the Essential Elements book for Alto Saxophone

Trumpet: Brass Starter Sheet #1 Lines 1-3, Daily Bugles, Concert Ab/Bb Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal.

Click here to purchase the Essential Elements Book for Trumpet

French Horn: Brass Starter Sheet #1 Lines 1-3, Breakfast A-C, Lunch A-D Concert C/G Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal.

Click here to purchase the Essential Elements Book for French Horn (This is the trumpet book on purpose!)

Low Brass (Trombone, Euphonium & Tuba): Brass Starter Sheet #1 Lines 1-3, Daily Bugles, Concert Ab Major Scale, Pass Off Sheet: Band Member Box, Eerie Canal.

Click here to purchase Essential Elements book for TROMBONE;

Click here to purchase Essential Elements book for Euphonium (Baritone);

Click here to purchase Essential Elements book for Tuba

Percussion: Eighth Note Lines on Pad, Concert Bb and Concert Eb Major Scales on Keyboards, Begin Transmission.

Please prepare for your sectional pass offs according to your UIL Assignment Sheet (given in class and attached below). We are preparing for the TMEA Honor Band process as well as UIL! Here are the links to listen to and practice with the music for those contests:

Viva!

Normandy Beach

Down by the Salley Gardens

Each section has also received an ensemble to work on for their upcoming ensemble contest. Here are the links to listen to & practice with each ensemble:

Flute Ensemble - Married Life from Up

Clarinet Ensemble - Super Mario Theme

Combined Flute & Clarinet Ensemble - Belle from Beauty and the Beast (start at Letter A)

Saxophone Ensemble - Bohemian Rhapsody

French Horn Ensemble - Jurassic Park

Trumpet Ensemble 1 - Jeopardy

Trumpet Ensemble 2 - Tetris

Trombone Ensemble - Mission: Impossible

Euphonium & Tuba Ensemble - Spring from "The Four Seasons"

Percussion Ensemble - the Winding River

We are preparing for our upcoming UIL Concert & Sightreading Contest! Here are the links to listen to and practice with the music for those contests:

A Jubilant Spirit

Synergy March

Bouree from Terpsichore

Each section has also received an ensemble to work on for their upcoming ensemble contest. Please practice these to prepare for your upcoming contest!

As per our band handbook, sectional attendance & after school rehearsals are required and are a major grade. YOU MUST BE ON TIME FOR THE START OF SECTIONALS!

If your student has a morning sectional time, students may be dropped off by a parent/guardian as early as 6:45am. They will need to enter through the exterior band hall entrance, which is directly to the right of the front office. Knock loudly so either Mrs. Cicchillo or Mr. Iannini can hear you and let you in!

If your student has an after school sectional or rehearsal, please arrange for your student to be picked up by 5:20PM at the latest. Students will be picked up in the front of the school in the car rider line.

If there is an issue with either of these times, please email the band directors so we can help facilitate your students transportation needs.

As per our band handbook, sectional attendance & after school rehearsals are required and are a major grade. YOU MUST BE ON TIME FOR THE START OF SECTIONALS!

If your student has a morning sectional time, students may be dropped off by a parent/guardian as early as 6:45am. They will need to enter through the exterior band hall entrance, which is directly to the right of the front office. Knock loudly so either Mrs. Cicchillo or Mr. Iannini can hear you and let you in!

If your student has an after school sectional or rehearsal, please arrange for your student to be picked up by 5:20PM at the latest. Students will be picked up in the front of the school in the car rider line.

If there is an issue with either of these times, please email the band directors so we can help facilitate your students transportation needs.

Please use SchoolPay as your first option! If you aren't able to pay online for any reason, then use the following avenues for payment:

All of our money is collected in a safe in our band hall and then processed by the band directors and front office staff. That being said, we try to keep things as streamlined as possible!

ALL money will be turned into the safe in a labeled envelope with the following information:

• Student's first & last name
• Date the money was turned in
• What the money is being turned in for
• How much money is in the envelope
• Amount of change needed (if any)
• We will provide envelopes in the band hall as needed!

When turning in cash:

• Please try to send exact change whenever possible.
• Please notate how much change is needed on the envelope.
• Change will be returned to students during their class period to take home in their band binder.

When turning in checks:

• Please make all checks payable to "Lynn Lucas Middle School Band"
• Please write your student's first and last name on the memo section of the check to streamline our receipt keeping records.

Students need their instrument, band binder, cleaning/maintenance supplies EVERY DAY!

These are listed for your convenience! You may also purchase any of these items at any music store (Music & Arts or H&H) or order them online through the stores as well. Please also reach out if you need help purchasing these items for your student! We always have people wanting and willing to help our students :-)

Please note: when selecting reeds, please verify the size/strength reed with your student before purchasing! Reed strengths are like shoe sizes...they generally go up as they get older & practice more!