As soon as school ended for the school year, both girls began Band camp at the area high school. Marissa had Beginner's band each morning at 8:00 a.m. and they learned how to put together their instrument and how to read music. Since she already knew much of that, it was fine that she missed an entire week to go to camp. She was still able to step back in the third and final week of camp and finish up quite nicely. They ended their camp by putting on a concert last Wednesday at 10:00 in the morning.
The band director likes to introduce them by individual sections to some fun upbeat music like they're playing in a sporting event and there were some fun slides playing in the background. Then they took about 20 minutes playing scales and showing off a few of the songs that they learned as a group. Marissa is looking forward to working through more of the book (and a few extras that I bought for her) over the summer and then she'll have band at the middle school three mornings a week this upcoming school year before her day begins.
Job well done!!
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Morgan just finished her first year of Beginner's Band at the middle school three mornings a week before our school day began. This upcoming year she'll play every day in the middle school band. She has done really well and continued to work on her skills the past three weeks by attending Advanced Band camp three mornings a week at 11:00. Just like Marissa's group, Morgan's group also had a band concert for us last Wednesday.
Since they are more advanced, they played the National Anthem to start off the show and then played a few more patriotic tunes and a few Disney songs. It was really a good concert and it's so neat to see how far they've come since their Beginning Band concert last summer!!
Morgan also had the opportunity to play in a Flute Ensemble. She said that it wasn't the best performance, but they did really well considering they only practiced together three times.
