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 * 2017 **

[|TedED video about written music]
 * A great video to watch about understanding written music notation! **

[|Online Music Games (click here)] [|Download free Staff wars 'game' for your computer on this page]
 * Click the link below for some great music games **
 * to check your note reading and rhythms! **


 * Performances: **
 * Music concert (early evening mid-Term 4)
 * Assembly item week 8 Term 4 (1st December 2017) - band + individual instrument groups


 * REHEARSALS - Monday Lunchtime Band (+ theory) **
 * Time - 12:20pm in the music room (come straight away and bring your lunch as well as your instrument and band music).**


 * It is expected that you will be at every lesson unless you are absent.**
 * Please don't be the person that we are chasing around trying to find!**

=Term 1: Monday week 2, 4, 6, 10= In term 1: SIM theory - please bring your __lunch__ and a __pencil__

Week 2 : SIM theory - please bring your lunch and a pencil
 * Term 2: Monday week 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 **

School band - please bring your instrument, your music and your lunch.
 * Term 3: Monday week - 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 **

//** plus week 9 short meeting (certificates given out) **// __For School band - please bring your instrument, your music and your lunch.__
 * Term 4: Monday week - **
 * 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 **

// Any student in the school that plays an instrument with a certain degree of skill is welcome to join us for theory or band! //// Please see Ms Hartley for further information. //

BAND AUDIO TRACKS FOR PRACTISE AT HOME
 * Please follow the website link here to download all the music tracks for the band songs we are doing **** to practise with at home! **


 * This is really helpful as we will rehearse at school with these backing tracks and also perform with them. **

They are available in slow, medium and fast speeds. //There's a link to click on each of the words 'slow', 'medium' and 'fast' on their website and then a download window will come up.// //We use 'medium' to play along with at school, but you could also download 'slow' to first learn with.// Click here - Band class backing tracks download from this website - click here

If the link above doesn't work copy and paste this address: http://www.reedmusic.com/education/band-class-1/





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 * OTHER LINKS **

Your music will have tempo markings on it (sometimes words like allegro and sometimes numbers like 110). You can use this online metronome to find out how fast or slow the beat should be and also to use while you are playing to keep you steady at the correct tempo. [|Click here: Metronome] (online resource)
 * Online Metronome: **

[|Ricci Adams' musictheory.net] [|Studyladder] (you will need a password from Ms Hartley, or your class teacher if you already use studyladder, to access this at home)
 * Online theory (how to read and write music) lessons: **

Clarinet note placement finger helper Need to know where to put your fingers to play a certain note? Check this out! Clarinet finger trainer - link: [|Clarinet finger trainer]


 * KSHS (Kelmscott High) Junior Band (and Intermediate band!) **
 * **Students who play a** **brass or woodwind instrument** are invited to join the KSHS bands this term.

**Junior Band** - is after school and wind (brass and clarinet) Year 6 players are invited to join in term 3. It is held at Kelmscott senior High School int he Green Room. Please contact KSHS Arts Department (Music) for information.

//Personally (and professionally) I can not tell you how important being in a band is to helping you improve your playing, and also it gives you the motivation to keep practising at home and a sense of finally actually 'playing'!//


 * KELMSCOTT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL **
 * MUSIC PROGRAM APPLICATIONS **

Application closing date is usually early Term 2
 * Kelmscott Senior High School - Specialist Music Programme Applications **
 * Details and application forms can be found here: [|KSHS specialist music]
 * // If you would like a reference to support your application I am happy to do one, however I will need to know at least two weeks beforehand, and will need a list of school-based music activities and other school groups that you have been a part of by the same date so that I can create a reference quickly by the deadline! //