Haines Music Department

Welcome to Haines and the band program. Here are a few notes of interest:

Please remember that if you are in town next week we are having a free orientation session Wednesday (August 19)- Friday (August 21). The Wednesday rehearsal begins at 9:30 in the band room and we will play and discuss all kinds of topics about band and middle school until about 10:45. That will be the time we will walk over and join the rest of the 6th graders for a picnic beginning at 11 am. The band room will be open for the students to leave their instruments and music in during the picnic.

Also please remember to purchase the books - Accent on Achievement Book II as well as the note speller.

The first day of school we will play, please have your instrument and/or needed supplies. Low brass and horns only need their mouthpieces, percussionists only their snare drum sticks, clarinet and saxophone players need good reeds along with their instruments. Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone and trumpet players will have a band locker assigned to them by the first day of school. Clarinet and oboe players share lockers and those who are at the orientation session can choose their locker partners. Only those who have lockers are encouraged to purchase a third lock for their band lockers. Everyone else has so little to bring back and forth to school for band that those mouthpieces, flutes or stick bags can be left in the student’s hallway lockers.

Percussionists:One new piece of information- Percussionists should NOT purchase the Rhythm Speller ( the equivalent of the note speller) as I have put together a workbook for you to use that I will give you at the orientation session or the first day of school. If you have one already, please return it. Also percussion students should have the Accent on Achievement combined percussion book. The book should have both the snare and mallet parts combined in it.

Welcome back to what will be another great year!!! Please take some time to review your scales and read through the 8th-grade-band-scale-review-assignment.doc. The highlighted area is a word document about our first assignment that is due just as school begins. Please remember we will play the first day. Lockers will be ready be the first day of school for clarinet sax and trumpet players. We will play the first day of school, please be prepared. Also remember to purchase the Accent on Achievement Book III before school begins.