Otto Bobcat Band

Beginner Parents-

Please ensure that your child wears their band shirt and jeans to school for our contest on Monday. They will also need $8 cash for Cici's Lunch that day. We hope to see you cheering them on at the Robinson Fine Arts Center on Monday! They have been working hard! Thank you!

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Be sure to sign up for private lessons! We have the best lesson staff around! 💫

LET'S GO, DREAM TEAM! 🌠

1. Solo for Contest on Saturday, May 2nd at Bowman MS

2. Spring Concert Music

3. New PDF music

4. Otto Alma Mater

1. New technical exercises in blue book

2. Solo for contest on Saturday, May 2nd at Bowman MS

3. Spring Concert Music

1. Red Book New Lines

2. Long Tones 1A, 1B, and 2 octave scales

3. Spring Concert Music

4. HS/MS Audition Music

5. Solo for contest on Saturday, May 2nd at Bowman MS

Please attend every morning and afternoon until our concert on Wednesday. AM- 7:30-8:15, PM: 3:50-4:30. It's go time!!

Please practice Smooth, Mr. Blue Sky, Backdoor Slider, Four, and Bye Bye Blackbird with the recordings in Google Classroom. 🤩

All assignments will always be posted in their band Google Classroom in the Classwork tab and official grades will always be in Skyward. Each week, all students will receive a new objective sheet. Objective sheets are due each Monday and must be signed by a parent. 🤩Please sign up for Private Lessons if at all possible.😍Our private lesson staff is second to none! This is the BEST way to start in band! It's more than worth it!

Beginners should be working on musictheory.net - note identification exercises, their Rhythm Packet, pgs. 16, 17, 18, and 19 in their red book. Tuners with pick-ups are required! Each Friday beginners will have a playing quiz. This week will be their next one octave scale. This week: Long tones 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, One Octave Scales, All-Star Pass Offs, New Contest Music, and getting their field trip form signed for our trip to the Robinson Fine Arts Center! 🤩

Practice your Pass-Offs packets! Once you reach All-Star status, you will be awarded a special Otto Bobcat pin to commemorate your achievement. Are you an All-Star yet?

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If you have already signed up as a chaperone, please send $40 cash with your kiddo to band if you have not already paid for yourself. Thank you! 🙌

All volunteers will need to create an account and complete an application, online orientation and background check through the Plano ISD volunteer management system, VOLY, to be eligible for district/school volunteer opportunities. Please visit plano.voly.org to create a volunteer account and begin this process. These items will need to be completed by volunteers each school year.

An email will be sent to the volunteer applicant communicating the status of their application and criminal history search within 3-5 business days of completing these steps. Volunteer approval status can also be viewed by the volunteer by logging into their account. Volunteers will need to complete the online orientation as well to be eligible to volunteer. Once you have been officially approved, please email Mr. Killgo (philip.killgo@pisd.edu) to let him know you are an Otto Band Approved Volunteer!

We have several options to choose from, but we recommend Tarpley or Music and Arts as these stores offer fantastic service and visit Otto regularly for instrument repair.

Tarpley or Music & Arts can deliver your instrument and supplies from our list to Otto.

We recommend Dallas Percussion for all percussion students' supplies (https://www.denverpercussion.com/dallas.htm) and texasmarimas.com for their rental.

Private Lessons are the way to go! Please consider signing up your child for lessons!

Getting that one-on-one attention is PRICELESS.

Check this out: https://banddirectorstalkshop.com/7/

jennifer.harper@pisd.edu