Febuary 25, 2011:)

Today, there was only four of us, Myself, Dre, Teagan and Caitlin . We worked on Chameleon mostly and we got some done , and it was great . At the end of class we did a little work on Open Your Eyes You Can Fly , and it went alright . Disappointing to lose all of our grade twelves this class . but we can go over everything next class for sure .

Febuary 25, 2011

Carissa .

Today we worked on two songs. Open your eyes you can fly, which is an old favorite that we are re-working to get ready for festival. We also started on a piece called Chameleon, its sounding really good and it should go over well at festival.

hey we had a great practice today. we got chameleon and went over the other piece for the concert which is open your eyes. both peices are comming along swimmingly. we also went over the solos for open your eyes they are katie and carissa cole.

Welcome to the band Carissa Cole



Teagan Cole

Feb. 9th

So today we started on the Sesame theme song, we listened to a recording of the theme just to know how to play and such. We played through it I thought it went alright when we got the hang of it a little bit but we'll need to fine tune a few things but I'm confident we all can pull it together for our next performance. We started on another song to called Morocco (link below), we listed to a recorded version of this too on youtube. We're going to need more practice with it but we'll get it done, I'm positive.


By: Dre Panachyse

Morocco recording



 

Winter Concert Review

I thought our Winter Concert was a huge success. My favorite numbers we played were Watermelon Man and Leap Frog. In Watermelon Man, I liked the slow funk feel, as well as the solos, which were great. I thought we had good dynamics in Leap Frog. Blue Bossa was kept tight and the guitar solo sounded really suitable for the type of piece this is. I thought Open Your Eyes could have gone better. We were unsure of where we were ending the piece, and I thought we were playing out of time with each other in a few areas. If any of these pieces are kept for future concerts, I think we should keep Open Your Eyes, and focus largely on better setup (endings, solos, etc.) and keeping in time with each other.

Some suggestions I have for new pieces are:
Hawaii Five-O theme
Morocco
Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter (It is a Jazz song)

Jonathan