Beginning Chorus Thursday 11/15/18

Thursday 11/15/18

We started off class with some exercises to help us keep our necks aligned and our breaths tall. We then moved into Hallelujah Chorus. We worked on the last 3 pages of the song going over it and reminding ourselves of our parts. On Flow water we worked on phrasing. We were told to start louder and decrescendo until "river" where we crescendo through the "ver" in river and then slowly decrescendo till the end of the phrase. We repeat this similarly down the 1st page. We finally split to work on our separate men's and women's pieces. we worked on pages 11 and 12 in Sleigh bells and Mrs. Patchett will post separate part tracks on her website to so we can learn our parts for this women's only piece.

Announcements

Come and see our school play, Treasure Island, Tomorrow or one of our two shows on Saturday. $15 for adults, $10 for children and students

Our Concert is Nov. 30.  We give a 4:30 & 7:30 Concert. BOTH Concerts are required and count as a test grade. You will stay after school on Nov. 30. The booster club will provide dinner for you.  

Our Dress rehearsal is Nov. 29, the day before the concert.  It will be from 2:30-5:30. Students are required to be there the entire time. Students do NOT wear their concert attire to the dress rehearsal.

If you have any kind of conflict for the concerts or dress rehearsal, you must email Mrs. Patchett before Nov. 16 in order to have the opportunity to receive full credit for the grade.

Tickets are now on sale now on the chorus website.  The link to the tickets will also be sent out on remind and on the charms email today.  Tickets are $5. The 7:30 concert will more than likely sell out before the day of the concert, but some limited tickets may be available at the door.  The 4:30 concert does not usually sell out but you should still get your tickets ahead of time so your families do not have to wait in line at the door.  If you are a patron, the patron chair has already contacted you about your tickets.

Please be aware of what you do and do not put in the blue recycle bin.  You do not put tissues or cups of any kind of chip bags. You can put paper, plastic bottles, or cans.  No tape. Please look at the signs before you put anything in the blue recycle bins.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Monday, Nov. 19. This is in 1 week from tomorrow. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. Dressed in normal school clothes.

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms: (don’t read names again)

Haley A

Hannah H

Keely M

Begging Chorus Tuesday 11/13/18

Tuesday 11/13/18

Today we had a sub so we just did a worksheet on key signatures. Look in Friday's blog post for the notes we took on Key signatures if you need a refresher.

Announcements

Make sure any late t-shirt orders are complete by Wednesday morning. If you have cash to turn in, you need a receipt from Mrs. Patchett so wait to turn it in until tomorrow morning.

Our Concert is Nov. 30.  We give a 4:30 & 7:30 Concert. BOTH Concerts are required and count as a test grade. You will stay after school on Nov. 30. The booster club will provide dinner for you.  

Our Dress rehearsal is Nov. 29, the day before the concert.  It will be from 2:30-5:30. Students are required to be there the entire time. Students do NOT wear their concert attire to the dress rehearsal.

If you have any kind of conflict for the concerts or dress rehearsal, you must email Mrs. Patchett before Nov. 16 in order to have the opportunity to receive full credit for the grade.

Beg & CV - Those students who auditioned for Honors Chorus - please return the Awake the Harp to Mrs. Patchett at this time if you have not already.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Monday, Nov. 19. This is in 1 week from tomorrow. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. Dressed in normal school clothes.

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms:

Haley A

Hannah H

Keely M

Begging Chorus Friday 11/9/18

Friday 11/9/18

We spent most of the class learning about Key signatures. Key signatures are groups of sharps (#) and Flats (♭) at the begging of a song that tell you what notes will be sharped and flat throughout the entire price. All major key signatures keep the pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H going up its scale. If a note is sharped of flat in the key signature that same letter name, no matter what clef and its position on the staff, is that accidental, unless marked otherwise with a different accidental. 

There is a rule for finding what the key signatures' name is  but it changes when you are working with flats or sharps.

The sharp rule is:

• Find the letter name of the farthest right sharp and go to the next letter up (ex. F# is farthest sharp the key's name is G)
• the sharp key signatures will always be put in this order F C G D A E B 
• If you have a C# you will always have a F#. Like wise if you have a G# you will always have a C# and F# and so on.
• 2 oddities are the Keys F# Major and C# Major since wen you go up a letter note from the most right sharp the F or C already has a sharp making it a F# or C#.

The Flat rule:

• The name of the key is the letter name of the 2nd to last sharp (this makes almost all flat key signatures have a ♭ in its names)
• The Flats will always be in the Order of B E A D G C F 
• You can see this is the Sharp order reversed so you only need to memorize 1 and then just flip it for the other (in my opinion the flat one is easier since BEAD and GCF are more likely to be remembered)
• Only exception is F major which only has B♭ in its Key

If you are giving the starting note of the scale that note no matter whether the key is with sharps or flats is the Key name

Announcements

Please make sure you order your t-shirt BY TOMORROW online on Charms. You can pay by credit card on charms or you can turn in your printed bill with cash or check to the chorus box. Remember if you turn in cash to get Mrs. Patchett to write you a receipt before you put your money in the box.

Lowes Foods Gift Cards are due Tomorrow. If you would like to order Lowes Foods Gift Cards, please take an order form home from the table and turn in your order form and $ by Tomorrow.

Our Concert is Nov. 30.  We give a 4:30 & 7:30 Concert. BOTH Concerts are required and count as a test grade. You will stay after school on Nov. 30. The booster club will provide dinner for you.  

Our Dress rehearsal is Nov. 29, the day before the concert.  It will be from 2:30-5:30. Students are required to be there the entire time. Students do NOT wear their concert attire to the dress rehearsal.

If you have any kind of conflict for the concerts or dress rehearsal, you must email Mrs. Patchett before Nov. 16 in order to have the opportunity to receive full credit for the grade.

Beg & CV - Those students who auditioned for Honors Chorus - please return the Awake the Harp to Mrs. Patchett at this time if you have not already.

Beg - Lillie - See Mrs. Patchett today about your dress. Are there any other students who had an issue with their concert attire?

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Monday, Nov. 19. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. We will perform around 7:15 and then we will be done no later than 7:45 pm. Your parents report to the auditorium at 7 pm for a  brief meeting. You wear your normal school clothes.

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms: (don’t read names again)

Haley A

Paul D

Hannah H

Keely M

Beginning chorus Wednesday 11/7/18

Wednesday 11/7/18

Since we had testing today we spent 3 hours in choir. To maximize productivity we split into our voice part, soprano, alto, bass, and tenor. We all learned our voice parts, to the end, separately for the songs Ose shalom, Flow Water, and Hallelujah. If you were absent today at least get a general idea of your part in these songs all the way to the end, we still need to do work on them so don't think that we will not sing these songs until the concert, we will sing and work on them during class. 

Announcements

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms:

Haley A

Paul D

Hannah H

Keely M

We have launched our  2018-2019 chorus t-shirt sales this week.  Instead of paper order forms this year, we are ordering our shirts through the online store on Charms. You need to go online and order your shirt by Friday this week. We have short sleeve and long sleeve shirts and hoodies. You can pay by credit card on Charms, or you can print your order and turn in a check or cash by Friday.

Lowes Foods Gift Cards are due Friday, Nov. 9. If you would like to order Lowes Foods Gift Cards, please take an order form home from the table and turn in your order form and $ by Nov. 9.

Our Concert is Nov. 30.  We give a 4:30 & 7:30 Concert. BOTH Concerts are required and count as a test grade. You will stay after school on Nov. 30. The booster club will provide dinner for you.  

Our Dress rehearsal is Nov. 29, the day before the concert.  It will be from 2:30-5:30. Students are required to be there the entire time. Students do NOT wear their concert attire to the dress rehearsal.

If you have any kind of conflict for the concerts or dress rehearsal, you must email Mrs. Patchett before Nov. 16 in order to have the opportunity to receive full credit for the grade.

Beg & CV - Those students who auditioned for Honors Chorus - please return the Awake the Harp to Mrs. Patchett at this time if you have not already.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Nov. 19. This has been on the calendar since the beginning of the school year. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. We will perform around 7:15 and then we will be done no later than 7:45 pm. Your parents report to the auditorium at 7 pm for a brief meeting while you report to the choir room at 7 pm.  You wear your normal school clothes. If you have a conflict, you must email Mrs. Patchett by today in order to have the opportunity to make-up the grade for full credit.

Beginning Chorus Tuesday 11/6/18

Tuesday 11/6/18

Since today was a 2 hour delay we only worked on 2 songs. We first learned measures 23-30 in Ose Shalom. We then worked a little bit more on page 7 and the top of 8 in Hallelujah. We all learned our parts today and for the soprano high note, just try your best, we'll work on it a bit more and the other 2 choirs will be with us, don't stress to much about it. 

Announcement 

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms:

Haley A

Paul D

Hannah H

Keely M

Thank you to those who came out for the Spirit Night tonight.

Your Peanut order forms and Money are past due. If you forgot your order forms yesterday, please take it out now so Mrs. Patchett can collect them at the end of announcements.

We have launched our  2018-2019 chorus t-shirt sales this week.  Instead of paper order forms this year, we are ordering our shirts through the online store on Charms. You need to go online and order your shirt by Friday this week. We have short sleeve and long sleeve shirts and hoodies. You can pay by credit card on Charms, or you can print your order and turn in a check or cash by Friday.

Lowes Foods Gift Cards are due Friday, Nov. 9. If you would like to order Lowes Foods Gift Cards, please take an order form home from the table and turn in your order form and $ by Nov. 9.

Our Concert is Nov. 30.  We give a 4:30 & 7:30 Concert. BOTH Concerts are required and count as a test grade. You will stay after school on Nov. 30. The booster club will provide dinner for you.  

Our Dress rehearsal is Nov. 29, the day before the concert.  It will be from 2:30-5:30. Students are required to be there the entire time. Students do NOT wear their concert attire to the dress rehearsal.

If you have any kind of conflict for the concerts or dress rehearsal, you must email Mrs. Patchett before Nov. 16 in order to have the opportunity to receive full credit for the grade.

Beg & CV - Those students who auditioned for Honors Chorus - please return the Awake the Harp to Mrs. Patchett at this time if you have not already.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Nov. 19. This has been on the calendar since the beginning of the school year. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. We will perform around 7:15 and then we will be done no later than 7:45 pm. Your parents report to the auditorium at 7 pm for a brief meeting while you report to the choir room at 7 pm.  You wear your normal school clothes. If you have a conflict, you must email Mrs. Patchett by today in order to have the opportunity to make-up the grade for full credit.

Beginning Chorus Friday 11/2/18

Friday 11/2/18

We went through sisi ni moja and worked with the guys on the last 3 pages. We learned measures 43-48 in Winter Wonderland, also we learned measures 13 and 14 in Ose Shalom. 

Announcements 

Happy November Everyone!

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms:

Haley A

Paul D

Hannah H

Keely M

We have a spirit night at Bass Lake Draft House Monday Nov. 5. Support the chorus by going out to eat Monday night at Bass Lake Draft House.

Your Peanut order forms and Money are DUE MONDAY - Use this opportunity to fundraise for your chorus student account.

Lowes Foods Gift Cards are due Nov. 9 this month. If you would like to order Lowes Foods Gift Cards, please take an order form home from the table and turn in your order form and $ by Nov. 9.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Nov. 19. This has been on the calendar since the beginning of the school year. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. We will perform around 7:15 and then we will be done no later then 7:45 pm. Your parents report to the auditorium at 7 pm for a brief meeting while you report to the choir room at 7 pm.  You wear your normal school clothes.

Beginning Chorus Thursday 11/1/18

Thursday 11/1/18

We were taught measures 31-45 in Flow water, the notes are kinda clashy and the rhythm is weird so be careful. We also learned measures 18-29 in Si Si ni moja, we ended up running the entire song even though there are parts we don't know. Si si ni moja is really repetitive so we kinda got through it. Also the men learned 41-51. Even though there are alto and soprano lines we did not learn them today. We then worked a little bit on our separate men or women pieces.

Announcements 

Happy November Everyone!

Beginning Choir Students who need to turn in field trip forms:

Haley A

Paul D

Hannah H

Keely M

We have a spirit night at Bass Lake Draft House Monday Nov. 5. Support the chorus by going out to eat Monday night at Bass Lake Draft House.

Your Peanut order forms and Money are DUE MONDAY - Use this opportunity to fundraise for your chorus student account.

Lowes Foods Gift Cards are due Nov. 9 this month. If you would like to order Lowes Foods Gift Cards, please take an order form home from the table and turn in your order form and $ by Nov. 9.

Beginning - You have a required Informance on Nov. 19. This has been on the calendar since the beginning of the school year. It counts as a test grade for you to be there.  You need to be in the choir room at 7 pm. We will perform around 7:15 and then we will be done no later then 7:45 pm. Your parents report to the auditorium at 7 pm for a brief meeting while you report to the choir room at 7 pm.  You wear your normal school clothes.