Christine Stinchi

5th Grade Woodwind Class

Warm up: 5-7 minutes
Long tones
Check for tone quality, embouchure & body position (flutes: thumbs back,
clarinets: top teeth touching mouthpiece)
Repeated notes for articulation
Is the air moving while they tongue, is the chin still for clarinets

Note Review:
5 note scale:
Clarinets: C→ G
Flutes: Bb→ F
Add high note:
Clarinets: A
Flutes: G
Add low note:
Clarinets: B
Flutes: A
New low note:
Clarinets: A
Flutes: G

Rhythm: Count & Clap - instruments on the floor: 5 minutes

1. Beat Street review
2. Introducing pick up notes with “Beat Street ft. pick up notes”.
 Starts on a weak beat, instead of a strong beat such as beat 1.

Music: 15 minutes
1. New Song: A-tisket, A-tasket
 Analyze: Where are the pickup notes?
 Count & Clap
 Play through song
 Chunking: hear instrument sections separately, line by line. While one section is
playing, the other is practicing fingerings and saying note names.
 All playing together
2. New Song: "Oh Susanna"
 Analyze: Where are the pickup notes?
 Count & Clap
 Chunking
 Play