Independent Practice

Yesterday (Sunday, November 27) Sammy came over to my house so we could work on our Google project some more! We were finally able to make it through the whole piece! YAY! Even though there were a few squeaks here and there, and the occasional wrong note, the majority of the song ACTUALLY sounded like what it was supposed to!


-Jessica Lee

Google Day 6

Yesterday we had out sixth google day! Yay! As you know, Sammy and I have been learning "Jingle Bells", and it is beginning to sound somewhat like the actual song! We (slowly, but surely) have been learning and memorizing all of the notes and fingerings. I was actually beginning to get the hang of playing the clarinet until Sammy saw my embouchure and gasped in horror... :( So, I had to play it again with the "correct" embouchure and sure enough, I was back to squeaking... Oh well! I will soon get the hang of it! At least I have all of the notes memorized! :)

-Jessica Lee

Google Day 5

Hello! Yeah, we decided Silent Night was waaay too hard to memorized so we decided to pick a Christmas song from our old Red books!! So far we learn the notes, but then right after we tend to forget them. I learned that compared to the clarinet, the flute's keys feel random and not natural. And we decided that instead of playing infront of the class live when we perform our piece, we are going to make a powerpoint and record ourselves playing to show to the class. That way we won't mess up as much under the pressure of the the watchful eyes of our classmates and our band director!!

Google Day 5!

Sorry that this post is overdue! Today we decided to pick a new song because "Silent Night" was just too hard... But don't worry! Our new song still fits in with the whole Christmas theme that's going on! We've decided to play "Jingle Bells" (and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas if time permits...). We were able to learn the first couple of lines and my constant squeaking has gone down tremendously! Sammy is able to memorize all of the fingerings for the notes quickly as well! Overall, we made great progress! :)

~Jessica Lee