It's the most wonderful time of the year!

By now your bandling is in full-fledged concert season mode! You should be hearing “Jingle Bells” and “Dreydl, Dreydl” among other songs when your child is practicing…is your child practicing? This week’s lessons and full band rehearsals have left me feeling very good about where we are in our preparation for the concerts (12-13-12 for SGE and 12-17-12 for RGS!), well, if we didn’t have Thanksgiving next week, I’d feel really good! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Thanksgiving, it’s actually my favorite holiday because cooking is a passion of mine, second to music, of course! But RGS will lose lessons and full band because of the Wednesday off next week. Hopefully most of the RGS bandlings can come to the before school rehearsal on Tuesday at 8:00am!! Thankfully, SGE will have lessons and full band as per usual on Tuesday, so nothing is missed there!

Did everyone get the note about the Band Buddies event we will be having on Thursday, November 29?  We are teaming up with the RBCHS band members for an optional after-school lesson and rehearsal. I really hope your child can make it! For this event, you are responsible for transportation to and from the high school. Permission slips are due on Tuesday, 11-20. HERE is another copy of the slip if you need it.

Last order of business for this week: Here are some recordings of all of the songs we will be performing on the Winter concert (both schools are playing the same songs) Please have your child practice along with the recordings. It will really help!

Aura Lee

Ode to Joy

Ode to Joy (this version has the Trombone/Baritone part emphasized since it is much different from the rest of the band!)

Holiday for Basses

Hard Rock Blues

When you click on the links for the mp3 files, click "Download" and then "Open" to hear the songs.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and let me know if you ever have any questions or concerns!

 
Amanda Storer
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astorer@nsd2.com
www.mrsstorersband.weebly.com